Deng Ai (鄧艾) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Deng Ai as a general, named individual, and official. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Deng Ai	鄧艾	Dèng Ài
Given name	Ai	艾
Surname	Deng	鄧
Personal name	Deng Ai	鄧艾	Dèng Ài
Personal name	Deng Ai	鄧艾	Deng Ai

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jinshi:050:s0181, jiuwudaishi:074:s0056, suishu:077:s0068

Roles

General
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三國魏 · Western Year: AD 263
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:074:s0056
Source Date: Text: 佛家變受異形之謂 · Western Year: AD 588
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0068
Source Date: Text: 鄧艾 · Western Interval: Start: AD 220 · End: AD 264
Strongly inferred · jinshi:050:s0181

Events and relationships

Kind: engineering · Role: builder · Action: repaired-canals-and-irrigated-20000-qing
Explicit · jinshi:050:s0181

Source notes

Historicity: historical · Note: Three Kingdoms general invoked as comparison
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:074:s0056

References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 50Volume 50 Treatises 31: Finance and Economics 5: Monopoly Markets, State Purchase of Grain, Rice Fields, Agricultural Land Administration, Buying of Titles or Pardons With Grain and Selling of Ordination Certificates · 1 passage

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鄧艾修淮陽、百尺二渠，通淮、潁、大治諸陂于潁之南，穿渠三百餘裏，溉田二萬頃。 Deng Ai repaired the Huaiyang and Baichi canals, linking the Huai and Ying and major reservoirs south of the Ying with canals over 300 li long, irrigating 20,000 qing.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 74Volume 74 Book of Later Tang 50: Biographies 126: Kang Yanxiao, Zhu Shouyin, Yang Li, Dou Tingwan, Zhang Qianzhao, Yang Yanwen · 1 passage

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奈何躁憤，自毀功庸，入此檻車，還為鄧艾，深可痛惜，誰肯湣之！」 Why then let rash anger destroy everything you had won, and end in this cage like Deng Ai of old? It is a bitter waste. Who could pity you now?"

Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 1 passage

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至若鯀為黃熊，杜宇為鶗鴂，褒君為龍，牛哀為獸，君子為鵠，小人為猿，彭生為豕，如意為犬，黃母為黿，宣武為鱉，鄧艾為牛，徐伯為魚，鈴下為烏，書生為蛇，羊祜前身，李氏之子，此非佛家變受異形之謂邪？」 Consider Gun becoming a yellow bear, Du Yu becoming a cuckoo, Lord Bao becoming a dragon, Niu Ai becoming a beast, the gentleman becoming a swan, the petty man becoming an ape, Peng Sheng becoming a pig, Ruyi becoming a dog, Lady Huang becoming a soft-shelled turtle, Xuan Wu becoming a river turtle, Deng Ai becoming an ox, Xu Bo becoming a fish, the bell-ringer becoming a crow, the scholar becoming a snake, Yang Hu's former incarnation, the son of the Li clan—are these not what Buddhism calls transformation into different forms?"