Ren Mannu (任蠻奴) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ren Mannu as a general and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ren Mannu	任蠻奴	Rén Mánnú
Given	Mannu	蠻奴	Mánnú
Surname	Ren	任	Rèn
Personal name	Ren Man'nu	任蠻奴
Personal name	Ren Mannu	任蠻奴	Rèn Mánnú

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0119, suishu:052:s0014
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · chenshu:020:s0160

Roles

General
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 任蠻奴嘗有密啟於朝廷；由是並獲宥 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:020:s0160, chenshu:020:s0161
Source Date: Text: 光大元年 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:020:s0119
Source Date: Text: 開皇前後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 589
Explicit · suishu:052:s0014

Career and standing

Label: Interior Minister of Hengyang / 衡陽內史 · Action: held
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0119
Status: pardoned · Action: pardoned
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0139
Status: pardon · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 並獲宥 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0161

Places and affiliations

Label: Chen / 陳 · Relation: served
Explicit · suishu:052:s0014
Polity: Chen / 陳 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · chenshu:020:s0160, chenshu:020:s0161

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Label: secret memorial to the court / 密啟於朝廷
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0160
Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · suishu:052:s0026

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: pardoned-person · Action: pardoned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 並獲宥 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0161
Kind: political · Role: author · Action: sent-secret-memorial · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘗有密啟於朝廷 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0160
Kind: military · Role: surrenderer · Action: surrendered-to-Qinhu · Other Person Id: Han Qihu (韓擒虎) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 平陳 · Western Year: AD 589
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:052:s0024

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 20Volume 20: Dao Zhongju; Han Zigao; Hua Jiao · 3 passages

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蕭巋授皎司空，巴州刺史戴僧朔，衡陽內史任蠻奴，巴陵內史潘智虔，岳陽太守章昭裕， Xiao Kui made Jiao minister of works and set Dai Sengshuo over Ba, Ren Mannu over Hengyang, Pan Zhiquan over Baling, and Zhang Zhaoyu over Yueyang;

皎黨曹慶、錢明、潘智虔、魯閑、席慧略等四十餘人並誅，唯任蠻奴、章昭裕、曹宣、劉廣業獲免。 Jiao's followers Cao Qing, Qian Ming, Pan Zhiquan, Lu Xian, Xi Huilüe, and more than forty others were put to death; only Ren Mannu, Zhang Zhaoyu, Cao Xuan, and Liu Guangye were pardoned.

任蠻奴嘗有密啟於朝廷； Ren Mannu had once sent a secret memorial to the court;

Book of Sui, Chapter 52Volume 52 Biographies 17: Han Qinhu, He Ruobi · 5 passages

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陳將甄慶、任蠻奴、蕭摩訶等共為聲援，頻寇江北，前後入界。 The Chen generals Zhen Qing, Ren Man'nu, Xiao Mohe, and others backed one another and raided the north bank of the Yangzi repeatedly, crossing the frontier time after time.

任蠻奴為賀若弼所敗，棄軍降於擒虎。 Ren Man'nu, already beaten by He Ruobi, abandoned his troops and surrendered to Qinhu.

陳人欲戰，蠻奴捴之曰：「老夫尚降，諸君何事！」 The Chen soldiers were ready to fight, but Man'nu shouted them down: "If even I, an old man, have surrendered, what are you still fighting for!"

臣以輕騎五百，兵不血刃，直取金陵，降任蠻奴，執陳叔寶，據其府庫，傾其巢穴。 I took five hundred light cavalry, entered Jinling without shedding blood, received Ren Man'nu's surrender, seized Chen Shubao, and occupied the treasuries and the heart of their power.

進屯蔣山之白土岡，陳將魯達、周智安、任蠻奴、田瑞、樊毅、孔范、蕭摩訶等以勁兵拒戰。 He advanced to Baitu Hill on Mount Jiang, where Chen's generals Lu Da, Zhou Zhi'an, Ren Man'nu, Tian Rui, Fan Yi, Kong Fan, Xiao Mohe, and others barred his path with elite troops.