Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Rebel

Lu Xun 盧循

Attested AD 410 - AD 411

Passages: 17
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Lu Xun as a rebel. This record brings together 17 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Lu Xun	盧循	Lu Xun
Personal name	Lu Xun	盧循	Lu Xun
Given		循
Surname		盧

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshu:049:s0008

Roles

Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 盧循之難 · Western Year: AD 410
Explicit event contextual date · songshu:049:s0008
Source Date: Text: 義熙七年 · Western Year: AD 411
Explicit event contextual date · songshu:049:s0019

Family

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Child of Lu Gu (盧嘏)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: eastern-jin · Relation: rebelled-against
Explicit · songshu:049:s0008

References in the histories

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Book of Song, Chapter 49Volume 49 Biographies 9: Sun Chu, Kuai En, Liu Zhong, Yu Qiujin · 17 passages

盧循之難，於石頭捍柵，戍越城、查浦，破賊於新亭。 During Lu Xun's rebellion he held the palisade at Shitou, garrisoned Yuecheng and Zhapu, and routed the rebels at Xinting.

循守戰士猶有數千人，城池甚固。 Xun still had several thousand defenders, and the city was strongly fortified.

循於左里奔走，而眾力猶盛，自嶺道還襲廣州。 Xun was in flight at Zuoli, but his army was still formidable, and he came back over the mountain passes to strike Guangzhou.

季高距戰二十餘日，循乃破走，所殺萬餘人。 Jigao fought him off for more than twenty days until Xun was routed and fled; more than ten thousand were killed.

追奔至鬱林，會病，不得窮討，循遂得走向交州。 He pursued the fugitives as far as Yulin, but fell ill and could not finish the hunt, and Xun escaped toward Jiaozhou.

臣更思惟盧循稔惡一紀，據有全域。 Yet I further consider that Lu Xun had grown wicked over a full twelve-year cycle and held an entire region.

而季高汎海萬里，投命洪流，波激電邁，指日遄至，遂奄定南海，覆其巢窟，使循進退靡依，輕舟遠迸。 Instead Jigao crossed ten thousand li of open sea, staking his life on the raging waters; riding wind and wave he arrived within days, swiftly secured Nanhai, and destroyed their stronghold, leaving Xun with nowhere to turn and driving him to flee in light boats.

盧循逼京邑，恩戰於查浦，賊退走。 When Lu Xun threatened the capital, En fought at Zhapu and drove the rebels back.

與王仲德等追破循別將范崇民於南陵。 With Wang Zhongde and others he pursued and defeated Lu Xun's deputy commander Fan Chongmin at Nanling.

循既走還廣州，恩又領千餘人隨劉藩追徐道覆於始興，斬之。 After Xun fled back to Guangzhou, En led more than a thousand men under Liu Fan to pursue Xu Daofu at Shixing and killed him.

盧循逼京邑，徐赤軍違處分，敗於南岸。 When Lu Xun threatened the capital, Xu Chite's army disobeyed orders and was defeated on the south bank.

循南走，鍾與輔國將軍王仲德追之。 Xun fled south, and Zhong with General Who Assists the State Wang Zhongde pursued him.

循先留別帥范崇民以精兵高艦據南陵，夾屯兩岸。 Xun had earlier left his deputy Fan Chongmin with elite troops and tall warships to hold Nanling, with camps on both banks of the river.

元興元年，又從高祖東征臨海，於石步固與盧循相守二十餘日。 In the first year of Yuanxing he again followed the Founding Emperor east against Linhai and at Shibu fortress held Lu Xun at bay for more than twenty days.

盧循逼京邑，孟昶、諸葛長民等建議奉天子過江，進廷議不可，面折昶等，高祖甚嘉之。 When Lu Xun threatened the capital, Meng Chang, Zhuge Changmin, and others proposed moving the emperor south across the Yangzi. Qiujin argued before the court that this was unacceptable and openly refuted Chang and his allies; the Founding Emperor was greatly pleased.

循遣將英紏為上饒令。 Xun sent the general Ying Gou to serve as magistrate of Shangrao.

循又遣童敏之為鄱陽太守，據郡，進從餘干步道趣鄱陽，敏之退走，追破之，斬首數百。 Xun then sent Tong Minzhi as Administrator of Poyang to hold the commandery. Qiujin advanced overland from Yugan toward Poyang; Minzhi fled, and Qiujin pursued, defeated him, and took several hundred heads.