Wu Yi (毋乙) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Yi as a rebel and religious leader. This record brings together 6 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	Wu Yi	毋乙	Wu Yi
Title	emperor	天子
Personal	Wu Yi	毋乙
Personal name	Wu Yi	毋乙	Wu Yi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:003:s0062

Roles

Rebel
Religious Leader

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed by beheading · Place: capital marketplace / 都市 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貞明六年冬十月 · Regnal Year: 6 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 920
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0048, jiuwudaishi:010:s0057
Manner: executed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 贞明六年冬十月 · Western Year: AD 920
Explicit · xinwudaishi:003:s0064

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 貞明六年冬十月 · Regnal Year: 6 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 920
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:010:s0048, jiuwudaishi:010:s0057
Source Date: Text: 贞明六年冬十月 · Western Year: AD 920
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:003:s0064
Source Date: Text: 贞明六年秋七月 · Western Year: AD 920
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:003:s0062

Career and standing

Status: proclaimed emperor by his followers · Title: Son of Heaven / 天子
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0056
Action: captured, fettered, sent to the capital, and beheaded in the marketplace · Co Captives: Count: more than eighty leaders
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0057

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: rebel-claimant · Action: declared-himself-emperor · Place: Chenzhou / 陳州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 贞明六年秋七月 · Western Year: AD 920
Explicit · xinwudaishi:003:s0062
Kind: rebellion · Role: leader · Actions: led a band that grew to about one thousand, pillaged villages, linked with Huai groups, defeated prefectural forces · Places: Chen, Ying, Cai
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0053, jiuwudaishi:010:s0054, jiuwudaishi:010:s0055, jiuwudaishi:010:s0056

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Book of Later Liang 10: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 4 passages

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冬十月，陳州妖賊毋乙、董乙伏誅。 In the tenth month of winter the Chenzhou rebels Wu Yi and Dong Yi were put to death.

毋乙數輩，漸及千人，攻掠鄉社，長吏不能詰。 Wu Yi’s band grew to a thousand, pillaging the countryside while magistrates dared not act.

群賊乃立毋乙為天子，其餘豪首，各有樹置。 They proclaimed Wu Yi emperor and installed their other leaders in offices.

至是，發禁軍及數郡兵合勢追擊，賊潰，生擒毋乙等首領八十餘人，械送闕下，並斬於都市。 Imperial Guards and allied prefectural troops then crushed them, took eighty-odd chiefs including Wu Yi, and beheaded them in the capital market.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Later Liang Annals 3: Later Emperors · 2 passages

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秋七月，陳州妖賊毋乙自稱天子。 In the seventh month of autumn, the Chenzhou sorcerer-rebel Wu Yi declared himself emperor.

冬十月，毋乙伏誅。 In the tenth month of winter, Wu Yi was put to death.