Zhuge Shuang (諸葛爽)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhuge Shuang as a general, military officer, official, and warlord. This record brings together 13 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhuge Shuang	諸葛爽	Zhuge Shuang
Alternate	Shuang	爽
Personal name	Zhuge Shuang	諸葛爽	Zhuge Shuang
Personal	Zhuge Shuang	諸葛爽
Personal	Zhuge Shuang	諸葛爽	Zhūgě Shuǎng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:181:s0091
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0093

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 中和三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 883
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0093, xinwudaishi:023:s0094, xinwudaishi:023:s0095
Source Date: Text: 中和前後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 884
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0091
Source Date: Text: 諸葛爽 · Western Year: AD 878
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0097

Career and standing

Label: military governor of Heyang / 河陽節度使 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Huang Chao (黃巢)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0094
Label: defense commissioner of Ru / 汝州防禦使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0093
Label: Military governor of Heyang / 河陽節度使 · Action: received-from-rebel
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0091

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0091

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked the Shatuo and Huang Chao, then surrendered to Huang Chao after defeat · Other Person Id: Huang Chao (黃巢)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0093, xinwudaishi:023:s0094
Kind: migration · Role: fleeing commander · Action: fled to Liang with Wang Qianyu when Sun Ru took Heyang · Other Person Ids: Wang Yuyu (王虔裕), Sun Ru (孫儒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中和三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 883
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0095

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan · 5 passages

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賊巢之亂，諸葛爽受其偽命河陽節度使。 During Huang Chao's rebellion, Zhuge Shuang accepted a bogus appointment from him as military governor of Heyang.

時僖宗在蜀，寇盜蜂起，簡據有六州，甲兵強盛，竊懷僭亂之志，且欲啟其封疆，乃舉兵攻河陽，爽棄城而走。 The emperor was then in Shu while rebels swarmed the land. Jian held six prefectures and a powerful army; nursing secret ambitions of rebellion and eager to enlarge his domain, he marched on Heyang, and Shuang abandoned the city and fled.

簡進攻其城，半年不下，河陽復爲諸葛爽所襲。 Jian besieged the city for half a year without success, while Heyang was seized again by Zhuge Shuang.

尋移軍復攻河陽，行及新鄕，爲爽軍逆擊，敗之。 He soon marched on Heyang again, but near Xinxiang, Shuang's troops met him head-on and routed him.

下河陽，走諸葛爽。 He captured Heyang and drove Zhuge Shuang from the field.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 5 passages

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賊巢之亂，諸葛爽受其偽命河陽節度使。 During Huang Chao's rebellion, Zhuge Shuang accepted a bogus appointment from him as military governor of Heyang.

時僖宗在蜀，寇盜蜂起，簡據有六州，甲兵強盛，竊懷僭亂之志，且欲啟其封疆，乃舉兵攻河陽，爽棄城而走。 The emperor was then in Shu while rebels swarmed the land. Jian held six prefectures and a powerful army; nursing secret ambitions of rebellion and eager to enlarge his domain, he marched on Heyang, and Shuang abandoned the city and fled.

簡進攻其城，半年不下，河陽復爲諸葛爽所襲。 Jian besieged the city for half a year without success, while Heyang was seized again by Zhuge Shuang.

尋移軍復攻河陽，行及新鄕，爲爽軍逆擊，敗之。 He soon marched on Heyang again, but near Xinxing Shuang's troops met him head-on and routed him.

下河陽，走諸葛爽。 He attacked Heyang and drove off Zhuge Shuang.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 3 passages

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少從諸葛爽起青、棣間，其後爽為汝州防禦使，率兵北擊沙陀，還入長安攻黃巢。 As a youth he followed Zhuge Shuang’s rise between Qing and Di. Later, when Shuang was defense commissioner of Ru, he led troops north against the Shatuo and returned into Chang’an to attack Huang Chao.

爽兵敗降巢，巢以爽為河陽節度使。 Shuang’s army was beaten and surrendered to Chao, who made him military governor of Heyang.

中和三年，孫儒陷河陽，虔裕隨爽奔於梁。 In the third year of Zhonghe Sun Ru took Heyang; Qianyu followed Shuang in flight to Liang.