Wuzhu (亡諸) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wuzhu as a ruler and tribal leader. This record brings together 7 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	Wuzhu	亡諸	Wuzhu
Title	King of Minyue	閩粵王	Minyue Wang
Title	King of Minyue	閩越王
Title	King of Yue	粵王	Yue Wang
Personal name	Wuzhu	亡諸	Wuzhu
Personal name	Wuzhu	無諸	Wúzhū
Surname	Zou	騶

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · shiji:114:s0001

Roles

Ruler
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 漢五年 · Western Year: BC 202
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Source Date: Text: 秦已并天下 · Western Interval: Start: BC 221 · End: BC 209
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:114:s0002, shiji:114:s0001
Source Date: Text: 諸侯畔秦 · Western Interval: Start: BC 209 · End: BC 206
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:114:s0003

Family

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Parent of Child of Wuzhu
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: parent · Object Role: child · Generation Distance: 1
Ancestor of Chou (丑)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Child of Wuzhu
Ancestor of Ju Gu (居股)
Kinship Term: descendant of the ancestral line / 苗裔 · Line: paternal
Descendant of Goujian (勾踐)
Kinship Term: descendant / 後 · Line: paternal

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Yue / 越
Explicit · shiji:114:s0001
Lineage: Zou clan / 騶氏
Explicit · shiji:114:s0001

Career and standing

Text: 以為閩粵王
Explicit · hanshu:002:s0054
Title: King of Minyue / 閩越王 · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢五年 · Western Year: BC 202
Explicit · shiji:114:s0006
Status: chieftain · Action: reduced-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 秦已并天下 · Western Interval: Start: BC 221 · End: BC 209
Explicit · shiji:114:s0002

Places and affiliations

Polity Name: Minyue / 閩越 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · shiji:114:s0001, shiji:114:s0006
Place: Dongye / 東冶 · Relation: capital-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢五年 · Western Year: BC 202
Explicit · shiji:114:s0006
Place: Minzhong / 閩中 · Relation: ruled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢五年 · Western Year: BC 202
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: ally · Action: assisted-Han-against-Xiang-Yu · Other Person Id: Xiang Yu (項羽) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢擊項籍 · Western Interval: Start: BC 206 · End: BC 202
Explicit · shiji:114:s0005
Kind: military · Role: ally · Action: joined-rebellion-against-Qin · Other Person Id: Wu Rui (吳芮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 諸侯畔秦 · Western Interval: Start: BC 209 · End: BC 206
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References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 2Volume 1: Annals of Emperor Gaozu 2 · 2 passages

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又曰：「故粵王亡諸世奉粵祀，秦侵奪其地，使其社稷不得血食。 He also said: "The former Yue king Wuzhu has for generations maintained the Yue sacrifices. Qin invaded and seized his territory, causing his altars of soil and grain to lack blood offerings.

諸侯伐秦，亡諸身帥閩中兵以佐滅秦，項羽廢而弗立。 When the feudal lords attacked Qin, Wuzhu personally led the Minzhong troops to assist in destroying Qin. Xiang Yu deposed him and did not establish him.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 114Treatise on the Eastern Yue · 5 passages

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閩越王無諸及越東海王搖者，其先皆越王句踐之後也，姓騶氏。 Wuzhu, the King of Minyue, and Yao, the King of Eastern Sea Yue, were both descendants of King Goujian of Yue and bore the clan name Zou.

及諸侯畔秦，無諸、搖率越歸鄱陽令吳芮，所謂鄱君者也，從諸侯滅秦。 When the lords rose against Qin, Wuzhu and Yao led their Yue followers to join Wu Rui, the magistrate of Poyang—known as Lord Po—and fought alongside the other lords to bring down the Qin dynasty.

漢擊項籍，無諸、搖率越人佐漢。 When the Han forces campaigned against Xiang Yu, Wuzhu and Yao led their Yue warriors to fight on the side of Han.

漢五年，復立無諸為閩越王，王閩中故地，都東冶。 In the fifth year of the Han dynasty, Wuzhu was restored as the King of Minyue, reigning over the old Minzhong territory from his capital at Dongye.

詔罷兩將兵，曰：「郢等首惡，獨無諸孫繇君丑不與謀焉。」 An imperial edict ordered both armies to stand down, declaring: 'Ying and his accomplices were the chief culprits. Only Chou, Lord Yao, a grandson of Wuzhu, had no part in the conspiracy.'