Han Qinhu 韓擒虎

Other names

Family

• Child of Han Xiong (韓雄)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 4
• Child of Mother of Han Qinhu (韓擒虎母)
  mother 母
  Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 52, passage 75
• Parent of Han Shi'e (韓世諤)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 67
• Sibling of Han Sengshou (韓僧壽)
  younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
  younger uterine brother 母弟 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passages 2, 75
• Sibling of Han Hong (韓洪)
  youngest brother 季弟 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passages 2, 95

• sons and younger relatives 子弟
  Kinship Role sons and junior relatives · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 65

Career and standing

• Area Commander of Luzhou 廬州總管
  AD 581 to AD 589 開皇初 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 16
• Area Commander and Administrator of Xin'an 都督、新安太守
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 8
• Area Commander of Liangzhou 涼州總管
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 57
• Inspector of Yongzhou 永州刺史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 10
• Yitong Third Rank 儀同三司
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 8
• Shang Yitong 上儀同
  Granted
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 10

Places and affiliations

• Northern Zhou 周
  Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passages 7-8
• Sui 隋
  Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passages 13, 16
• At Dongyuan in Henan 河南東垣
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 3
• At Xin'an 新安 · Relation Moved to
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 3

Learning and skills

• Skill learning in classics and histories 經史百家 · Level working knowledge
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 6

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Speaker · With Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passages 40-44
• Speech · Speaker
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 65

Events and relationships

• Captured Jinling and Chen Shubao
  AD 589 平陳 · Military · Commander · With Later Lord of Chen (陳後主)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 52, passages 25, 28
• Conquered Chen
  AD 589 開皇九年 · Military · Vanguard
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 52, passages 17-18, 28, 101
• Defeated Chen at Guang Prefecture
  Military · Commander
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 11
• Secured surrender
  AD 577 武帝伐齊 · Military · Persuader · With Dugu Yongye (獨孤永業) · At Jinyong 金墉城
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 52, passage 9
• Seized Jiangshan
  Military · Commander · At Jiangshan 蔣山
  Directly stated · Book of Chen 15, passage 64
• Took Caishi by night
  AD 589 平陳 · Military · Commander
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 52, passage 18

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment combined civil and military talent; daring and resourceful · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passages 5, 16
• Assessment duelist not a commander · Mode named-speech Speaker He Ruobi (賀若弼)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 197
• Assessment imposing presence that awed Turkish envoys · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 55
• Assessment martial resolve and commanding presence; fortunate to keep fame and life · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passages 218, 222
• imposing stature and heroic bearing
  Physical description
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 5
• Item gray/blue-gray horse 青驄馬 · Relation Rode
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 51

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Chen 15, passage 12
• From Bao 豹 · To Qinhu 擒虎
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 51