postgres person_cn_q123670521 person kuai-liang-sanguo-q123670521-q1068320 蒯良

Kuai Liang as a character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, based on the historical Kuai Liang.

published category-literature tag-fictional-character tag-classics wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123670521 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 1 ## Portrayal Portrayal in [[work_cn_q70806|The Romance of the Three Kingdoms]] of the historical person [[person_cn_q1068320|Kuai Liang]][^wikidata]. /people/kuai-liang-sanguo-q123670521-q1068320.html en zh en Character in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms true literary character Kuai Liang, courtesy name Zirou, from Zhonglu in Xiangyang, Nan commandery in Jing province, was an important adviser to Liu Biao, governor of Jing province, at the end of the Eastern Han. Liu Biao praised his advice to calm the people through benevolence and righteousness as the argument of Yong Ji. His death is placed in 192 by Wikidata and before about 208 by Chinese Wikipedia. /en/people/kuai-liang-q1068320.html person_cn_q1068320 person kuai-liang-q1068320 蒯良

Kuai Liang, courtesy name Zirou, from Zhonglu in Xiangyang, Nan commandery in Jing province, was an important adviser to Liu Biao, governor of Jing province, at the end of the Eastern Han. Liu Biao praised his advice to calm the people through benevolence and righteousness as the argument of Yong Ji. His death is placed in 192 by Wikidata and before about 208 by Chinese Wikipedia.

published category-history tag-ancient-china wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1068320 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%92%AF%E8%89%AF 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 user:admin 3 Kuai Liang, courtesy name Zirou, came from Zhonglu in Xiangyang, Nan commandery of Jing province, at the end of the Eastern Han. He was an important adviser to Liu Biao, governor of Jing province, and is named together with Kuai Yue. Wikidata's label and the Chinese Wikipedia article both give the name as 蒯良, with the courtesy name Zirou, so the title is unchanged.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## The argument of Yong Ji Chinese Wikipedia says that in 190, when Liu Biao arrived to take over as governor of Jing province, he was worried about how to calm the unrest and consulted Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue at Yicheng. He said that powerful clan bandits were rampant, the people did not rally to him, Yuan Shu was stirring in Nanyang, and he wanted to raise troops but feared the people would refuse. Kuai Liang answered first. People do not rally because officials lack benevolence, he said, and they rally yet do not prosper because officials lack righteousness. If benevolence and righteousness go together, the people will come like water flowing downhill, so why worry or ask about conscription. Kuai Yue disagreed, holding that benevolence and righteousness suit peaceful times while troubled times need stratagems. Liu Biao liked Kuai Yue's plan very much and called it the scheme of Jiu Fan, but he also praised Kuai Liang's advice as the argument of Yong Ji, and made him chief secretary. The article notes that after Jing province was pacified, Kuai Liang's name no longer appears in the Records of the Three Kingdoms.[^zhwiki] ## Dispute over his life and death Wikidata records his death in 192. Chinese Wikipedia says that because Kuai Liang's name is absent from the list of officials who surrendered when Cao Cao took over Jing province, later historians hold that he died before about 208, and its opening line gives his dates as unknown. On the other hand, the Shishuo Xinyu, quoting the Jin Yangqiu in a note, says that Kuai Liang once served as minister of personnel and had a son, Kuai Jun, whose daughter married Sun Xiu, a grand-nephew of Sun Quan. The article suggests that he might have answered Cao Cao's summons in the Han court's name early and served as the minister of personnel in the imperial secretariat, or that the histories simply lack the record. These accounts do not agree and the sources give no verdict, so they are set out side by side. Wikidata also records his son as Kuai Jun.[^wikidata][^zhwiki] ## In the novel In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Kuai Liang is the elder brother of Kuai Yue, and in the battle of Xianshan between Sun Jian and Liu Biao he helps Liu Biao turn the defeat into a victory. He advises Huang Zu and Lu Gong to feign a retreat to Xianshan and set an ambush there, and the plan works, with Huang Zu shooting Sun Jian dead and the crisis of Liu Biao's new regime ended. In chapter 34 Kuai Yue mentions that Kuai Liang was skilled at judging horses and had died before the twelfth year of Jian'an, 207.[^zhwiki] ## Anecdote The article cites the Fuzi, which says that Kuai Yue was a descendant of Kuai Tong, a persuader of the early Western Han, and by the same reasoning Kuai Liang would be one also.[^zhwiki] ## Basic facts - Name: Kuai Liang, courtesy name Zirou[^wikidata][^zhwiki] - Origin: Zhonglu in Xiangyang, Nan commandery, Jing province[^zhwiki] - Died: 192 (Wikidata); another view puts it before about 208[^wikidata][^zhwiki] - Family: Kuai Yue (his younger brother in the novel), son Kuai Jun[^wikidata][^zhwiki] - Birthplace: Nan Commandery[^wikidata] - Portrayal: [[person_cn_q123670521|蒯良]] (character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms) /people/kuai-liang-q1068320.html en zh en 192 192 historical figure tag-ancient-china ancient-china 中国古代 先秦至清代的历史、人物与政区。 1056 relation_cnportray_q123670521 person_cn_q123670521 based_on person_cn_q1068320 作品中的人物形象，原型为该历史人物。 person_cn_q123670521 wikidata Portrayals person_cn_q123670521 Kuai Liang /en/people/kuai-liang-sanguo-q123670521-q1068320.html true person_cn_q123670521 蒯良 /en/people/kuai-liang-sanguo-q123670521-q1068320.html person 3 2026-10-25 当前版本 true /en/people/kuai-liang-q1068320/at/3.html en zh en death_date Death 192 person_category Person category historical figure 1 based_on true Portrayals 1 1