Wu Guang 吳廣

Other names

Career and standing

• commandant 都尉
  Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 7, 42
• squad leader 屯長
  Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 7-8
• general 將
  Held
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 89, passage 44
• acting king 假王
  Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 7, 54
• Noted
  Commoner origin
  Directly stated · Book of Han 75, passage 37
• Selected
  Conscript for garrison duty
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 7-8

Places and affiliations

• Polity Qin 秦 · Relation Rebelled against
  Directly stated · Book of Han 75, passages 35-36; New Book of Tang 178, passage 172
• At Yangxia 陽夏
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passage 2

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Co speaker · Topic rallying the conscripts to revolt · Co Speaker Person Id Chen She (陳涉)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 35-37

Events and relationships

• Invoked as comparison
  Allusion · Historical exemplar
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 67
• Killed a commandant after provoking a confrontation
  BC 209 二世元年 · Killing · Attacker
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 7, 30-33
• Led troops west against Qin
  Military · Commander · With Zhou Wen (周文)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 89, passage 44
• Made the nocturnal fox cry proclamation
  BC 209 二世元年 · Omen making · Performer
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 7, 24, 27-29
• Planned uprising
  BC 209 二世元年 · Revolt · Co leader · With Chen She (陳涉)
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passages 7, 11, 20
• Raised chen
  Military · Leader · With Chen She (陳涉) · At Chen 陳
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 112, passage 184

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment habitually kind to people and supported by many soldiers · Mode historian-narrative
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passage 30

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 89, passage 44; Records of the Grand Historian 112, passage 184; New Book of Tang 178, passage 172