Qin and Han · Ruler

Zhizhi 郅支

Attested BC 36

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhizhi was a ruler.

Life and dates

Death

Executed · Authority Gan Yanshou (甘延壽)
Directly stated · Book of Han 90, passage 106

Attested activity

BC 36 誅郅支單于
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 90, passage 106

Key source chapters

Book of Han, Chapter 90 Volume 79: Feng Fengshi 3 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 96 Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye 1 passage

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 90Volume 79: Feng Fengshi · 3 passages

奉世死後二年，西域都護甘延壽以誅郅支單于封為列侯。 Two years after Fengshi died, Gan Yanshou won a full marquisate for killing Zhizhi.

令匈奴郅支單于殺漢使者，亡保康居，都護延壽發城郭兵屯田吏士四萬餘人以誅斬之，封為列侯。 Yet Zhizhi murdered an envoy and fled to Kangju; Yanshou led forty thousand colonists and garrison troops to kill him—and took a full marquisate.

臣愚以為比罪則郅支薄，量敵則莎車眾，用師則奉世寡，計勝則奉世為功於邊境安，慮敗則延壽為禍於國家深。 Zhizhi's guilt was slighter, Shache's coalition larger, Fengshi's army smaller; success made Fengshi the border's shield, failure would have made Yanshou a heavier national disaster.

Book of Han, Chapter 96Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye · 1 passage

父吉，為衛司馬，使送郅支單于侍子，為郅支所殺，語在《陳湯傳》。 His father Ji served as guard marshal on the mission to escort Zhizhi's heir and died at Zhizhi's hands, as told in the biography of Chen Tang.