Qu Gai (屈丐) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Qu Gai as a general. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Qu Gai	屈丐	Qu Gai
Personal name	Qu Gai	屈丐	Qu Gai
Personal name	Qu Gai	屈丐	Qū Gài

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:045:s0004
Sex: male
Explicit · shiji:084:s0034

Roles

General

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大破楚師於丹、淅 · Western Year: BC 312
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:084:s0034
Source Date: Text: 宣惠王二十一年 · Western Year: BC 312
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:045:s0109

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: captured-general · Action: captured · Place: Dan and Xi / 丹、淅
Explicit · shiji:084:s0034

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 45House of Han · 1 passage

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二十一年，與秦共攻楚，敗楚將屈丐，斬首八萬於丹陽。 In the twenty-first year, they joined Qin in attacking Chu, defeated the Chu general Qu Gai, and took eighty thousand heads at Danyang.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 84Biographies of Qu Yuan and Master Jia · 1 passage

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秦發兵擊之，大破楚師於丹、淅，斬首八萬，虜楚將屈丐，遂取楚之漢中地。 Qin sent its forces to meet them and dealt a crushing defeat to the Chu army at Dan and Xi, beheading eighty thousand soldiers and capturing the Chu general Qu Gai. Qin then seized the Hanzhong territories of Chu.