Tumidu (突董) | 24 Histories

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Tumidu was an Uighur Chieftain.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Attested activity

AD 780 建中元年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 48

Family

Kin of Martial-Righteous Qaghan (武義可汗)
paternal uncle 叔父 · paternal line · Through Father of the Martial-Righteous Qaghan (武義可汗之父)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 74
Sibling of Father of the Martial-Righteous Qaghan (武義可汗之父)
paternal uncle 叔父 · Uncertain siblings
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 74

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 131Volume 127 Biographies 77: Yao Lingyan, Zhang Guangcheng, Yuan Xiu, Qiao Lin, Zhang She, Jiang Zhen, Hong Jinglun, Peng Yan · 8 passages

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建中元年，回紇突董梅錄領眾並雜種胡等自京師還國，輿載金帛，相屬於道。 In the first year of Jianzhong, the Uighur chieftain Tumidu led his followers together with various Turkic peoples homeward from the capital; their carts laden with gold and silk stretched along the road.

遂給突董及所領徒悉令赴宴，酒酣，光晟伏甲盡拘而殺之，死者千余人，唯留二胡歸國復命。 He then invited Tumidu and all his followers to a banquet; when the wine had gone deep he concealed armed men who seized and killed them all—more than a thousand dead. Only two barbarians were left alive and sent home to report.

休至振武，軍使張光晟已殺回紇突董等，上初欲遂絕其使，令休還，待命於太原。 When Xiu reached Zhenwu, Military Commissioner Zhang Guangcheng had already killed Tumidu and others. The emperor at first wished to break off relations entirely and ordered Xiu to return, to await orders at Taiyuan.

久之方遣，仍令休歸其突董、翳密施大小梅錄等四屍。 Only after a long delay was he sent on, and he was still ordered to return the bodies of Tumidu, Yimishi, and the greater and lesser Meilu.

突董者，即武義可汗之叔父也。 Tumidu was the uncle of the Martial-Righteous qaghan.

其宰相頡於思迦坐大帳，立休等於帳外雪中，詰殺突董等故。 His chief minister Esen Sijia sat in a great tent and made Xiu and the others stand in the snow outside the tent, questioning them on the reason for killing Tumidu and the rest.

休曰：「突董等自與張光晟忿鬥而死，非天子命也。」 Xiu said: "Tumidu and the others died in private quarrel with Zhang Guangcheng—it was not by the Son of Heaven's command."

汝國已殺突董等，吾又殺汝，猶以血洗血，汙益甚爾。 Your state has already killed Tumidu and the others; if I kill you too, it would still be washing blood with blood—the defilement would only grow worse.