Lü Dai
Lü Dai (161 – 21 October 256),
courtesy name Dinggong, was a military general of the state of
Eastern Wu during the
Three Kingdoms period of China. Born in the late
Eastern Han dynasty, Lü Dai started his career as a minor official in his home commandery in present-day
Taizhou, Jiangsu before migrating south to the
Jiangdong (or
Wu) region, where he became an assistant magistrate and later a county chief under the warlord
Sun Quan. He rose to prominence after his successes in suppressing some rebellions in Sun Quan's territories. Around the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan, who later became the founding emperor of Eastern Wu, appointed Lü Dai as the governor of the restive
Jiao Province in the south. During his ten-year-long tenure in Jiao Province, Lü Dai quelled a number of revolts, maintained peace in the area, and contacted some foreign kingdoms in
Mainland Southeast Asia and made them pay tribute to Eastern Wu. In 231, he was recalled to
Wuchang to oversee civil and military affairs in
Jing Province (present-day
Hubei and
Hunan) alongside his colleague
Lu Xun. Throughout the 230s, he suppressed a few rebellions in Wu territories. By 240, as he neared the age of 80, he was still in good physical health and competent enough to perform his duties. He rose to the position of Senior General-in-Chief in 246 and later Grand Marshal in 252 during the reign of Sun Quan's successor
Sun Liang. He died aged 95 and was one of the longest-living notable persons of the Three Kingdoms period.
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