Han Shizhong

Also known as Zi Liangchen · Qingliang Jushi · Qi Wang · Zhong Wu

Han Shizhong, courtesy name Liangchen, was from Yan'an according to the History of Song (Songshi) and enlisted as a youth for his daring. In the Xuanhe years he marched against Fang La's rising and seized Fang in the Qingxi hills. In 1129 he put down the mutiny of Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan. In 1130 his river fleet blocked the Jin commander Wuzhu near Zhenjiang and held him at Huangtiandang for forty-eight days, his wife Lady Liang beating the war drums herself, and in 1134 he ambushed a Jin force at Dayi. In 1141 he and Zhang Jun were made military commissioners, a promotion that took away their armies, and after Yue Fei was jailed he challenged Qin Hui over the flimsy charge. Soon dismissed, he called himself the Recluse of Coolness and rode about West Lake on a donkey with wine. He died in 1151 and under Emperor Xiaozong was made Prince of Qi with the posthumous name Zhongwu.