Sui and Tang · Second Brother of Zhu Wen

Zhu Cun 朱存

Attested AD 875 - AD 884

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhu Cun was a Second Brother of Zhu Wen.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Zhu Second	朱二	Zhu Er

Life and dates

Death

Cause Killed by arrows and stones · At barbarian frontier 蠻徼 · Context in rebel ranks
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 11, passages 21, 24

Attested activity

AD 875 to AD 884 與仲兄存入黃巢軍作賊
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 11, passage 11

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Zhu Cheng (朱誠)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 11, passages 5, 11
Child of Empress Dowager Wenhui (文惠皇太后王氏)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 11, passages 6, 11
Sibling of Zhu Quanzhong (硃全忠)
second brother 仲兄 · Full siblings
second elder brother 仲兄 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 11, passages 11, 24

Kinship Role orphaned-children · 孤男稚女 destitute after his death · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 11, passage 24

Events and relationships

Joined Huang Chao with Wen
Military · Participant · With Huang Chao (黃巢)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 11, passage 11

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Book of Later Liang 11: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 3 passages

他日與仲兄存入黃巢軍作賊，伯兄昱與母王氏尚依劉家。 Later Wen and his second brother Cun went off with Huang Chao’s rebels; the eldest, Yu, and Mother Wang remained with the Lius.

仲兄存，於賊中為矢石所中而卒。 The second brother Cun died in the rebel ranks, killed by missile weapons.

朱二與汝同入賊軍，身死蠻徼，孤男稚女，艱食無告。 Your brother Zhu Second went into the rebels with you and died on the frontier; his widow and children are destitute, with no one to help them.