Kudie Gan (厙狄干) | 24 Histories

Overview

Kudie Gan was a general and Aristocrat.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Jinglie	景烈	Jǐngliè

Life and dates

Death

Unspecified
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 165

Attested activity

AD 525 孝昌元年
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 147
AD 550 天保初
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 161
AD 560 皇建初
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 168
AD 532 破四胡於韓陵
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 149
AD 520 魏正光初
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 145

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Yuedoujuan (越豆眷)
great-grandfather 曾祖 · paternal line · 3 generations · Through Grandfather of Kudie Gan (厙狄干之祖), Father of Kudie Gan (厙狄干之父)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 143
Child of Father of Kudie Gan (厙狄干之父)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 143
Spouse of Princess of Leling (樂陵長公主)
married 尚 · Marriage
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 162
Parent of Jingfu (敬伏)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 169
Parent of Shiwen (士文)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 170

descendants 子孫
Kinship Role descendants · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 167

Career and standing

Grand Minister 太宰
AD 550 天保初 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 161
Governor of Ding Province 定州刺史
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 158
grand commander of the vanguard 大都督前驅
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 153
Grand Preceptor 太保
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 152
Grand Preceptor 太師
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 160
Grand Tutor 太傅
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 152

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inner palace guard 宿衛於內
Assigned
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 145
general 將軍
AD 520 魏正光初 · Granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 145
army commander 軍主
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 148
commandery duke 郡公
Advanced
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 149
Duke of Guangping County 廣平縣公
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 149
posthumous sacrifice in Gao Huan's temple 配享神武廟庭
AD 560 皇建初 · Granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 168
Acting Yellow Battle-Axe 假黃鉞
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 165
Grand Minister 太宰
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 165
Prince of Zhangwu Commandery 章武郡王
AD 550 天保初 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 161
Tianping founding minister 天平元勳佐命
AD 550 天保初 · Founding minister
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 161
treated with favor as kin by marriage 以親地見待
Imperial affine
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 162

Places and affiliations

Relation Served · Polity Eastern Wei 東魏
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 149
Relation Served · Polity Northern Qi 齊
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 161
Relation Served · Polity Northern Wei 魏
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 145
At Shanwu 善無
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 142
At Ding Province 定州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 158
At Luoyang 洛陽 · Relation Entered
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 148

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At Shuofang 朔方 · Relation Ancestral home
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 143
At Yunzhong 雲中 · Relation Fled to
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 147

Learning and skills

Skill martial arts 武藝 · Level possessed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 144

Events and relationships

Appointed to sweep rebels
AD 520 魏正光初 · Military · Officer
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 145
Entered luoyang
Military · Follower · With Erzhu Rong (尒朱榮) · At Luoyang 洛陽
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 148
Fled north disorder
AD 525 孝昌元年 · Military · Fugitive · At Yunzhong 雲中
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 147
Followed gao huan raised arms
Military · Commander · With Gao Huan (高歡)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 149
Resolved to ford river
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 156
Routed four hus
Military · Commander · At Hanling 韓陵
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 149

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Routed western wei with gao huan
Military · Commander · With Gao Huan (高歡)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 157
Set out without stopping home
Military · Vanguard commander · With Gao Zhongmi (高仲密)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 154
Sternly reproached
Political · Rebuker · With Yuan Xiaoyou (元孝友)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 164
Troops retreated
Military · Commander · At Heyin 河陰 · Outcome Retreat
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 150
Relation Served under · Person Erzhu Rong (尒朱榮)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passages 147-148
Relation Served under · Person Gao Huan (高歡)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 149

Assessments and attributes

Assessment often commanded main armies; prestige bowed other generals; sternest and fiercest · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 163
Assessment praised by contemporaries for rebuking Yuan Xiaoyou · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 164
Assessment unskilled in administration but frugal; clerks and people did not resent him · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 159
blunt, upright, sparing of speech, skilled in arms
Character
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 144
could not read; signed the character gan upside down; called piercing the awl
Literacy
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 166
Item imperial carriage 轀輬車 · Relation Bestowed posthumously
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 165

Source notes

Because his home was in a cold region, he spent winters in the capital and summers at home
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 15, passage 146

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 15Volume 15 Biographies 7: Dou Tai; Wei Jing; Lou Zhao; His Nephew Rui; Kudie Gan; His Son Shiwen; Han Gui; Pan Le · 11 passages

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厙狄干，善無人也。 Kudie Gan was from Shanwu.

干梗直少言，有武藝。 Gan was blunt and upright, sparing of speech, and skilled in arms.

河陰之役，諸將大捷，唯干兵退。 At Heyin the other generals won great victories — only Gan's troops fell back.

及高仲密以武牢叛，神武討之，以干為大都督前驅。 When Gao Zhongmi rebelled at Wulao, Gao Huan marched against him and made Gan grand commander of the vanguard.

干上道不過家，見侯景不遑食，景使騎追饋之。 Gan took the road without stopping at home. He met Hou Jing and had no time to eat — Jing sent riders racing after him with provisions.

諸將未欲南度，干決計濟河。 The generals shrank from crossing south; Gan resolved to ford the river.

干尚神武妹樂陵長公主，以親地見待。 Gan married Gao Huan's sister, Princess of Leling — as kin by marriage, he was treated with singular favor.

會詣京師，魏譙王元孝友於公門言戲過度，諸公無能面折者，干正色責之，孝友大慚，時人稱之。 Once at the capital, Yuan Xiaoyou, Prince Qiao of Wei, carried on with excessive ribaldry at court — and none of the nobles dared rebuke him to his face. Gan sternly reproached him. Xiaoyou was deeply shamed; men praised Gan for it.

薨，贈假黃鉞，太宰，給轀輬車，諡曰景烈。 He died. Posthumously he was granted the acting yellow battle-axe and grand minister rank, given an imperial carriage — posthumous name Jinglie.

干不知書，署名為「干」字，逆上畫之，時人謂之穿錐。 Gan could not read. To sign his name he drew the character for Gan upside down — people called it "piercing the awl."

干，皇建初配享神武廟庭。 At the beginning of Huangjian, Gan was granted posthumous sacrifice in Gao Huan's temple hall.