Wu Liuqi
| Wu Liuqi | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 吳六奇 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 吴六奇 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wú Lìuqí |
Wu Liuqi (1607–1665), courtesy names Jianbo (鑒伯) and Geru (葛如), was a general of the Qing dynasty. He was born in Fengshun County, Meizhou, Guangdong, but his ancestral home was in Chaoyang, Shantou, Guangdong.
Wu Liuqi was born during the reign of the Wanli Emperor in the late Ming dynasty. In his younger days, he was addicted to gambling and squandered away his family fortune. During the chaotic period leading to the collapse of the Ming dynasty, Wu Liuqi became a beggar in the Wuyue region and later came to serve the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty, a state formed by remnants of the fallen Ming dynasty.
When the forces of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty invaded Chaozhou, Wu Liuqi surrendered to Shang Kexi and was appointed as the chief military commander in Chaozhou. He was subsequently promoted to the position of tidu (提督, equivalent to captain-general) of Guangdong.
The scholar Wang Shizhen (王士禛) wrote about Wu Liuqi in Wu Shunke Liuqi Biezhuan (吳順恪六奇別傳), claiming that when Wu was a teenager, he met Zha Jizuo, who commented that Wu was "an extraordinary man" (海內奇男子). In 1663, during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor in the Qing dynasty, Zha Jizuo was implicated in a case of literary inquisition and was nearly executed. However, Wu Liuqi intervened and defended Zha Jizuo and eventually saved Zha's life.
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