Overview
Zhou Di was a warlord and Rebel.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
Attested activity
AD 548 to AD 552 侯景之亂
AD 562 to AD 565 迪眾潰
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Kinship Role children · Quantity unspecified · 妻子悉擒 — children captured with wife
Places and affiliations
- At Jin'an 晉安 · Relation Fled to
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Book of Chen, Chapter 35Volume 35: Xiong Tanlang; Zhou Di; Liu Yi; Chen Baoying · 12 passages
吳明徹至臨川，令眾軍作連城攻迪，相拒不能剋，世祖乃遣高宗總督討之，迪眾潰，妻子悉擒，乃脫身踰嶺之晉安，依于陳寶應。
Wu Mingche reached Linchuan and ordered linked siegeworks against Di; they faced each other without victory; Emperor Wen then sent Emperor Gaozong to command the campaign overall; Di's men collapsed, wife and children all taken; he alone fled over the ranges to Jin'an and clung to Chen Baoying.
寶應以兵資迪，留異又遣第二子忠臣隨之。
Baoying armed Di with troops and stores; Liu Yi also sent his second son Zhongchen to follow.
明年秋，復越東興嶺，東興、南城、永成縣民，皆迪故人，復共應之。
Next autumn he crossed Dongxing Pass again; people of Dongxing, Nancheng, and Yongcheng were all his old ties and rose for him once more.
世祖遣都督章昭達征迪，迪又散于山谷。
Emperor Wen sent commander Zhang Zhaoda against Di; Di again melted into the hills.
初，侯景之亂也，百姓皆棄本業，群聚為盜，唯迪所部，獨不侵擾，並分給田疇，督其耕作，民下肆業，各有贏儲，政教嚴明，徵斂必至，餘郡乏絕者，皆仰以取給。
In the Hou Jing turmoil commoners had abandoned their trades and banded as robbers; only under Di was there no looting—he parceled fields, oversaw farming, and folk worked their trades with surplus in every storehouse; rule was strict, levies sure, and needy commanderies lived on his grain.
迪性質朴，不事威儀，冬則短身布袍，夏則紫紗袜腹，居常徒跣，雖外列兵衛，內有女伎，挼繩破篾，傍若無人。
Di was plain by nature and cared nothing for display; in winter a short cloth coat, in summer a purple gauze belly-wrap; usually barefoot; though guards stood without, singers within, he twisted rope and split bamboo as if alone.
昭達仍度嶺，頓于建安，與陳寶應相抗，迪復收合出東興。
Zhaoda crossed the pass and camped at Jian'an against Chen Baoying; Di gathered men again and came out at Dongxing.
時宣城太守錢肅鎮東興，以城降迪。
Xuancheng administrator Qian Su then held Dongxing and surrendered the city to Di.
吳州刺史陳詳，率師攻迪，詳兵大敗，虔化侯陳訬、陳留太守張遂並戰死，於是迪眾復振。
Wu prefect Chen Xiang marched against Di and was routed. Marquis of Qianhua Chen Xu and Chenliu prefect Zhang Sui fell in battle, and Di's forces rallied again.
世祖遣都督程靈洗擊破之，迪又與十餘人竄于山穴中，日月轉久，相隨者亦稍苦之。
Emperor Wen sent area commander Cheng Lingxi to break them. Di fled into the hills with a dozen men. Time wore on, and even his companions began to suffer.
後遣人潛出臨川郡市魚鮭，足痛，舍於邑子，邑子告臨川太守駱牙，牙執之，令取迪自效。
Later he sent men secretly to buy fish at the Linchuan market. His feet pained him, and he stayed with a villager, who told Linchuan prefect Luo Ya. Ya seized him and ordered him to deliver Di alive.
因使腹心勇士隨入山中，誘迪出獵，伏兵於道傍，斬之，傳首京都，梟于朱雀觀三日。
He sent trusted warriors into the hills to lure Di out hunting, ambushed him on the road, and beheaded him. The head went to the capital and hung three days at Vermilion Bird Observatory.