Tao Qian | |||||||||||||||||
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| 陶謙 | |||||||||||||||||
| Governor of Xu Province (徐州牧) | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 190–194 | |||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Emperor Xian of Han | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Liu Bei | ||||||||||||||||
| General Who Stabilises the East (安東將軍) | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 190–194 | |||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Emperor Xian of Han | ||||||||||||||||
| Inspector of Xu Province (徐州刺史) | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 188–190 | |||||||||||||||||
| Monarchs | Emperor Ling of Han / Emperor Shao of Han / Emperor Xian of Han | ||||||||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 132[1] Dangtu County, Anhui | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 194 (aged 62)[1] Tancheng County, Shandong | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Lady Gan[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Children |
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| Occupation | Official, warlord | ||||||||||||||||
| Courtesy name | Gongzu (恭祖) | ||||||||||||||||
| Peerage | Marquis of Liyang (溧陽侯) | ||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陶謙 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陶谦 | ||||||||||||||||
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Tao Qian () (132–194),[1] courtesy name Gongzu, was a government official and warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He is best known for serving as the governor of Xu Province.[3]
- ^ a b c Tao Qian's biography in Records of the Three Kingdoms stated that Tao died in the first year of the Xingping era (194-195) in the reign of Emperor Xian of Han. (興平元年， ... 是歲，謙病死。) An annotation from the Wu Shu further mentioned that he was 63 years old (by East Asian age reckoning) when he died. (吳書曰：謙死時，年六十三， ...) By calculation, his birth year should be around 132.
- ^ Lady Gan's father was an Administrator of Cangwu. (《吴书》曰：...故苍梧太守同县甘公出遇之涂，见其容貌，异而呼之，住车与语，甚恱，因许妻以女。甘公夫人闻之，怒曰：“妾闻陶家儿敖戏无度，如何以女许之？”公曰：“彼有奇表，长必大成。”遂妻之。) Wu Shu annotation in Sanguozhi, vol.08
- ^ de Crespigny (2007), p. 788.