Song, Liao, and Jin · Jin General

Wanyan Heda 完顏合達

Wányán Hédá

First attested AD 1213; died AD 1232

Passages
57
Chapters
5
Histories
2

Overview

Wanyan Heda was a Jin General.

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Jingshan 景山 Jǐngshān

Life and dates

Death

  • AD 1232 九年正月丁酉
    Killed after the city fell when northern troops dug him out of a cave room · At Jun Prefecture 鈞州
    Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 112, passages 114, 124

Attested activity

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Key source chapters

  1. History of Jin, Chapter 112 Volume 112 Biographies 50: Wanyan Heda, Yi Lapua 47 passages
  2. History of Yuan, Chapter 115 Volume 115 Biographies 2: Ruizong, Yuzong, Xianzong, Shunzong 7 passages
  3. History of Jin, Chapter 131 Volume 131 Biographies 69: Huan Zhe, Liang Chong, Song Gui, Pan Shouheng, Fang Ji, Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Qingsi, Ji Tianxi, Zhang Yuansu, Ma Guizhong, Wu Zhen Son: Kang, Li Mao, Hu Dexin 1 passage
  4. History of Yuan, Chapter 2 Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizong, Dingzong 1 passage
  5. History of Yuan, Chapter 193 Volume 193 Biographies 80: Loyal and Righteous Acts 1 1 passage

Origins and identity

Career and standing

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Places and affiliations

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Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

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Events and relationships

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Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment could inspire men to fight to the death for him · Mode historian-judgment
  • Assessment entrusted because of talent and ability · Mode quoted-speech Speaker
  • Assessment fine general but unequal to the Celestial Dynasty's campaign · Mode historian-judgment
  • Assessment has spent years in the field; placing him in the Secretariat at a time of crisis misuses his strengths · Mode named-source-report Speaker Pu'a (蒲阿)
  • Assessment knew the enemy well, skilled in formations, valued honor over wealth, shared hardship with his men, distributed captives or booty at once, led from the front; troops gladly served him · Mode historian-judgment
  • Assessment northern army proclaimed Jin relied only on the Yellow River and Heda, that Heda had been killed, and that Jin should surrender · Mode quoted-speech
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Source notes

References in the histories

57 passages

History of Jin, Chapter 112Volume 112 Biographies 50: Wanyan Heda, Yi Lapua · 47 passages
四月,夏人犯通秦寨,合達出兵安塞堡,抵隆州,夏人自城中出步騎二千逆戰,進兵擊之,斬首數十級,俘十人,遂攻隆州,陷其西南隅,會日暮乃還。 In the fourth month the Tangut forces attacked Tongqin Stockade; Heda marched from Ansaibao to Long Prefecture. The Tanguts sent two thousand foot and horse soldiers out to meet him; he attacked, took several dozen heads and ten prisoners, then assaulted Long Prefecture and broke through its southwest corner before withdrawing at dusk.
History of Jin, Chapter 131Volume 131 Biographies 69: Huan Zhe, Liang Chong, Song Gui, Pan Shouheng, Fang Ji, Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Qingsi, Ji Tianxi, Zhang Yuansu, Ma Guizhong, Wu Zhen Son: Kang, Li Mao, Hu Dexin · 1 passage
History of Yuan, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizong, Dingzong · 1 passage
History of Yuan, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 2: Ruizong, Yuzong, Xianzong, Shunzong · 7 passages
History of Yuan, Chapter 193Volume 193 Biographies 80: Loyal and Righteous Acts 1 · 1 passage