Zhao Sizhan (趙思綰)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Sizhan as a general, military officer, and rebel. This record brings together 37 passages from 6 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhao Sizhan	趙思綰	Zhao Sizhan
Given name	Siwan	思綰	Siwan
Given	Siwan	思綰	Sīwǎn
Personal	Sixian	思綰	Sixian
Given	Sizhan	思綰
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhao
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhào
Personal name	Zhao Siwan	趙思綰	Zhao Siwan
Personal name	Zhao Siwan	趙思綰	Zhào Sīwǎn
Personal	Zhao Sixian	趙思綰	Zhao Sixian
Personal	Zhao Sizhen	趙思綰
Personal name	Zhao Sizhen	趙思綰	Zhào Sīwǎn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:102:s0012
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0009, xinwudaishi:011:s0019, xinwudaishi:053:s0016

Roles

General
Military Officer
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Authority Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威) · Place: Jingzhao / 京兆 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年七月 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0103
Manner: executed / 處置 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:102:s0079
Manner: beheaded / 斬 · Place: marketplace / 市
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0049

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年；降；被殺 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0099, xinwudaishi:010:s0103
Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:102:s0012
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0019
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年四月；叛附李守貞 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0075
Source Date: Text: 漢遣郭從義討趙思綰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:050:s0124
Source Date: Text: 漢隱帝時趙思綰亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 949 · End: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0009
Source Date: Text: 父子俱斬於市 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:053:s0049
Source Date: Text: 趙思綰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 949
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:053:s0016, xinwudaishi:053:s0114

Family

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Parent of Son of Zhao Siwan (趙思綰之子)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: acting governor of Zhenguo / 鎮國軍留後 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0043
Label: acting military governor of Hua / 華州節度留後 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:102:s0054
Label: military governor of Jinchang / 晉昌軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0035
Label: personal guard officer / 牙將 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0115
Status: rebel · Action: became
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0034
Status: rebel · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年四月 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0075
Status: rebel · Action: entered
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:102:s0012
Label: capture then execution / 擒…斬 · Action: executed · Authority Person Id: Guo Congyi (郭從義)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0045, xinwudaishi:053:s0049

Places and affiliations

Place: Weizhou / 魏州
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0114
Place: Yongxing / 永興 · Relation: based-at
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0116, xinwudaishi:053:s0034
Place: Yongxing / 永興 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:102:s0012

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Chang Yanqing (常彥卿)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0030
Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0032, xinwudaishi:053:s0038, xinwudaishi:053:s0046, xinwudaishi:053:s0048

Events and relationships

Kind: atrocity · Role: perpetrator · Action: cannibalism and drinking human gall during siege
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0037, xinwudaishi:053:s0038
Kind: military · Role: rebel · Action: rebelled · Place: Yongxing / 永興
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0019
Kind: military · Role: rebel · Action: seized Yongxing and rebelled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0034
Kind: military · Role: surrendered
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0029
Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Zhao Zan (趙贊)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0115

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 102Volume 102 Book of Later Jin 4: Emperor Yin Annals 2 · 7 passages

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河府李守貞、鳳翔王景崇、永興趙思綰等，比與國家素無讎釁，偶因疑懼，遂至叛違。 Li Shouzhen of Hezhong, Wang Jingchong of Fengxiang, Zhao Sizhan of Yongxing, and others have had no old enmity with the state, but through suspicion and fear came to rebel.

乙丑，永興趙思綰遣牙將劉成詣闕乞降，制授趙思綰華州節度留後、檢校太保，以永興城內都指揮使常彥卿為虢州刺史。 On yichou, Zhao Sizhan of Yongxing sent his staff general Liu Cheng to court to beg surrender. By edict Zhao Sizhan was made acting military governor of Hua and Acting Grand Guardian, and the Yongxing inner-city commander Chang Yanqing was appointed prefect of Guo.

丁巳，永興都部署郭從義奏：「新除華州留後趙思綰，自今月三日授華州留後，準詔赴任，三移行期，仍要鎧甲以給牙兵，及與之，竟不遵路。 On dingsi, the Yongxing commander-in-chief Guo Congyi memorialized: "The newly appointed acting military governor of Hua, Zhao Sizhan, was appointed on the third of this month and should by edict proceed to his post. Three times the departure date was moved, yet he still demanded armor to supply his personal guard. When it was given him, in the end he did not take the road.

至九日夕，有部曲曹彥進告，思綰欲於十一日夜與同惡五百人奔南山入蜀。 By the evening of the ninth a subordinate, Cao Yanjin, reported that Sizhan intended on the night of the eleventh, with five hundred fellow villains, to flee south into the mountains and enter Shu.

臣尋與王峻入城，分兵守四門，其趙思綰部下軍，各已執帶，遂至牙署，令趙思綰至則執之，與一行徒黨，並處置訖。」 Your servant then entered the city with Wang Jun and divided troops to guard the four gates. Sizhan's subordinate troops had all already belted on their arms. We then reached the headquarters office, seized Zhao Sizhan when he arrived, and dealt with him and his whole party of followers."

守溫受高祖命巡檢京兆，會王益自鳳翔押送趙思綰等赴闕，行至京兆，守溫迎益於郊外，思綰等突然作亂，遂據其城。 Shouwen had received Gaozu's order to inspect Jingzhao. Wang Yi was escorting Zhao Sizhan and others from Fengxiang to the capital. When they reached Jingzhao, Shouwen welcomed Yi in the suburbs, but Sizhan and the others suddenly rose in revolt and seized the city.

守溫有愛姬陷在賊城，為思綰所錄，及收城，從義盡得思綰之婢仆，守溫求其愛姬，從義雖與之，意有所慊，遂發前罪，密啟於郭威，請除之，與王益等並誅焉。 Shouwen had a beloved concubine trapped in the rebel city who had been taken by Sizhan. When the city was recovered, Congyi obtained all of Sizhan's maids and servants. Shouwen asked for his beloved concubine. Though Congyi gave her to him, he was not satisfied and exposed Shouwen's former crime, secretly reporting to Guo Wei and requesting his removal. Shouwen and Wang Yi and the others were all put to death.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 1 passage

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及趙思綰作亂於永興，漢隱帝命郭從義討之，以峻為兵馬都監。 When Zhao Siwan rose in rebellion at Yongxing, Emperor Yindi of Later Han ordered Guo Congyi to crush him and appointed Jun director of armies and cavalry.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu, Emperor Yin · 4 passages

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壬午，永興軍將趙思綰叛附於李守貞，客省使王峻帥師屯於關西。 On renwu Zhao Sizhen of Yongxing mutinied to Li Shouzhen’s side, and Wang Jun, guest commissioner, encamped with an army west of the Pass.

九月，西面行營都虞候尚弘遷及趙思綰戰，敗績。 In the ninth month Shang Hongqian, deputy of the Western Campaign, met Zhao Sizhen and suffered defeat.

乙丑，趙思綰降。 On yichou Zhao Sizhen surrendered.

秋七月丁巳，郭威殺華州留後趙思綰於京兆。 On dingsi in the seventh month of autumn Guo Wei executed Zhao Sizhen, rear commander of Huazhou, at Jingzhao.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 2 passages

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是歲三月，河中李守貞、永興趙思綰、鳳翔王景崇相次反，隱帝遣白文珂、郭從義、常思等分討之，久皆無功。 In the third month of that year Li Shouzhen at Hezhong, Zhao Sixian at Yongxing, and Wang Jingchong at Fengxiang rose one after another. The Hidden Emperor dispatched Bai Wenke, Guo Congyi, Chang Si, and others on separate campaigns, yet month after month they could not break the rebels.

乃治攻具，為期日，四面攻之，破其羅城，守貞與妻子自焚死，思綰、景崇相次降。 He readied assault machines, fixed the assault for a set day, and stormed from every quarter until the outer wall fell. Shouzhen perished with his family in the flames; Sixian and Jingchong submitted one after the other.