Zu Dashou

Zu Dashou
祖大壽
BornUnknown
Died1656
Other namesFuyu (復宇)
OccupationGeneral
Children
  • Zu Zerun (祖澤潤)
  • Zu Zefu (祖澤溥)
  • Zu Zehong (祖澤洪)
ParentZu Chengxun (祖承訓)
RelativesZu Dabi (祖大弼) (younger brother)
Zu Dacheng (祖大成) (younger brother)
Zu Dale (祖大樂) (younger cousin)
Wu Sangui (吳三桂) (nephew, a son of his sister)

Zu Dashou (Chinese: 祖大壽; d. 1656), courtesy name Fuyu (復宇), was a Chinese military general who served on the northern border of the Ming dynasty during the Ming–Qing transition period of Chinese history.[1] He fought against the Qing dynasty in several major engagements before ultimately surrendering to them in 1642. An alleged descendant of the Eastern Jin dynasty general Zu Ti, he was a son of Zu Chengxun, who had been dispatched to Korea as one of the Ming commanders during Imjin War(1592-1598). And he was the maternal uncle of the Ming general Wu Sangui, who surrendered Shanhai Pass to Qing forces and defected to the Qing side.[2] Zu's tomb was acquired by the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, and is considered one of the "iconic objects" of the museum.[3]

  1. ^ Wakeman 1985, pp. 130–131.
  2. ^ Wakeman 1985, p. 223.
  3. ^ Derksen 2009, p. 35.