Zhong Kuangshi (鍾匡時)

Overview

Zhong Kuangshi was a Successor and Military Leader.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 906 天祐三年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 67

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Zhong Chuan (鍾傳)
son 子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 65, 67

Career and standing

Installed as successor to Zhong Chuan
Succession
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 65, 67
Captured and presented after the city fell
Authority Qin Pei (秦裴)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 68-69

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 17Volume 17 Book of Later Liang 17: Biographies 7: Cheng Rui, Du Hong, Tian Yun, Zhao Kuangning, Zhang Ji, Lei Man · 4 passages

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先是，鍾傳卒於江西，其子繼之， Earlier Zhong Chuan had died in Jiangxi and his son succeeded him,

〈（《九國誌·秦裴傳》：天祐三年，洪州鍾傳卒，州人立其子匡時。 (The 《Nine States Chronicle》 says that in Tianyou 3 Zhong Chuan died at Hongzhou and the people set up his son Kuangshi.)

江州刺史延規，傳之養子，忿不得立，以其郡納款，因授裴西南面行營招討使，攻匡時。 Yan Gui, Chuan's adopted son and Jiangzhou prefect, resenting his exclusion, surrendered his prefecture; Qin Pei was sent to attack Kuangshi.

城陷，擒匡時以獻。）〉 The city fell and Kuangshi was captured and sent in.)〉