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Zheng Anping郑安平

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Sworn brother of Fan Sui, hid Fan Sui and helped him escape to Qin.

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Zheng Anping, and the people around them.

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KINSHIP

Kinship

Blood, marriage and sworn bonds

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ALLEGIANCE

Allegiance

Rulers, appointments and allegiance

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THE UNSEEN

Mythic acts

Transformation, aid and divine punishment

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In history · Records of the Grand Historian

A general of Zhao, enfeoffed as Lord Wuyang, later died.

In fiction · Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms · Strategies of the Warring States

Sworn brother of Fan Sui, hid Fan Sui and helped him escape to Qin. Knew Fan Sui's true name and was warned not to reveal it. A Qin general, saved Fan Sui, later became a partial general.

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  1. 7 profile notes
    6 relations7 verified quotations
    • King of Qin→ appoint →Zheng Anping
    • Fan Sui→ inform →Zheng Anping
    • Fan Sui→ recommend →Zheng Anping
    • Zheng Anping→ hide →Fan Sui
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    1. 郑安平为偏将军

      appoint · Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, ch. 98

    2. 惟郑安平知之，睢戒以勿泄

      inform · Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, ch. 97

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  2. 4 profile notes
    2 relations2 verified quotations
    • Fan Sui→ inform →Zheng Anping
    • Zheng Anping→ hide →Fan Sui
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    1. 又任郑安平，昭王以为将军

      recommend · Records of the Grand Historian, 范睢蔡泽列传

    2. 郑安平闻之，乃遂操范睢亡

      aid · Records of the Grand Historian, 范睢蔡泽列传

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    • Ying Hou→ appoint people →Zheng Anping
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    1. 闻应侯任郑安平

      appoint people · Strategies of the Warring States, 秦／三

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History vs. fiction

Is Zheng Anping absent from historical records?

  • attestedIs Zheng Anping not yet recorded in historical records, and only described in novels as helping Fan Ju flee to Qin, later serving as a Qin general, surrendering to Wei, and causing his entire family to be executed?

    The candidate document's claim that 'the histories have yet to record him' is wrong -- and that phrase is the candidate list's own assertion, not a quotation from any classical text. The 'Records of the Grand Historian, Biographies of Fan Ju and Cai Ze' records Zheng Anping clearly: as a man of Wei he helped Fan Ju escape -- 'Zheng Anping of Wei heard of it and thereupon carried Fan Ju away in flight; they went into hiding, and he changed his name to Zhang Lu' -- and was later made a general on Fan Ju's recommendation: 'He appointed Zheng Anping to attack Zhao. Zheng Anping was surrounded by Zhao, and in extremity surrendered with twenty thousand men. The Marquis of Ying [Fan Ju] lay on straw to beg punishment.' The novel has him surrender to Wei rather than Zhao, and the execution of his family is an extrapolation from Qin's collective punishment law. He is by no means a fictional figure absent from the histories.

Relationship network

5 figures · 11 links
Zheng AnpingZheng AnpingKing of QinKing of QinFan SuiFan SuiYing HouYing HouKing Zhaoxiang of QinKing Zhaoxiang of Qin
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Sources: Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, ch. 97; Records of the Grand Historian, 六国年表; Strategies of the Warring States, 秦／三; Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, ch. 98; Records of the Grand Historian, 范睢蔡泽列传; Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, ch. 99; Records of the Grand Historian, 赵世家; Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, ch. 100

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