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Wen Qin | |
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| 文欽 | |
| Senior General Who Guards the North (鎮北大將軍) | |
| In office 255 (255) – February or March 258 | |
| Monarch | Sun Liang |
| Protector-General (都護) | |
| In office 255 (255) – February or March 258 | |
| Monarch | Sun Liang |
| Administrator of Lujiang (廬江太守) | |
| In office ? – 255 (255) | |
| Monarch | Cao Fang /Cao Mao[a] |
| Inspector ofYang Province (揚州刺史) | |
| In office 249 or after[b] – ? | |
| Monarch | Cao Fang |
| General of the Vanguard (前將軍) | |
| In office February 249 or after[c] – ? | |
| Monarch | Cao Fang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Unknown Bozhou,Anhui |
| Died | February or March 258[d] Shou County,Anhui |
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| Occupation | Military general, politician |
| Courtesy name | Zhongruo (仲若) |
| Peerage | Marquis of Qiao (譙侯) |
Wen Qin (died February or March 258),[d]courtesy nameZhongruo, was a Chinese military general and politician of the state ofCao Wei during theThree Kingdoms period of China.
Wen Qin was a son of Wen Ji (文稷), a general who served underCao Cao. In September or October 219, duringWei Feng's rebellion, Wen Qin was implicated and imprisoned. Wen Qin was flogged a few hundred times and was supposed to be executed, but Cao Cao spared him on his father's account.[2]
He served as the Inspector ofYang Province during the reign of the third Wei emperor,Cao Fang. In 254, when the Wei regentSima Shi, who effectively controlled the Wei government, deposed Cao Fang and replaced him withCao Mao, Wen Qin was deeply displeased because his loyalty was to the Wei emperor and not the Sima family. In the following year, he and another Wei general,Guanqiu Jian, starteda rebellion in Shouchun (present-dayShou County,Anhui) against Sima Shi. However, Sima Shi managed to suppress the rebellion within months; Guanqiu Jian was killed while Wen Qin and his family escaped and defected to Wei's rival state,Eastern Wu. In 257, when another Wei generalZhuge Dan starteda rebellion in Shouchun against the Wei regentSima Zhao (Sima Shi's brother and successor), Wen Qin and some Wu forces came to Shouchun to support Zhuge Dan. Sima Zhao led Wei forces to besiege Shouchun and the siege dragged on until early 258. As the situation became more dire, relations between Wen Qin and Zhuge Dan deteriorated, especially since they did not trust each other before. Zhuge Dan eventually had Wen Qin executed. Wen Qin's sons,Wen Yang and Wen Hu, fled from Shouchun and surrendered to Sima Zhao.[3]
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