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Traditional Chinese
  
諸葛尚

Name
  
Zhuge Shang

Grandparents
  
Zhuge Liang

Wade–Giles
  
Chu-ko Shang

Parents
  
Zhuge Zhan


Pinyin
  
Zhuge Shang

Died
  
263 AD

Simplified Chinese
  
诸葛尚

Role
  
Zhuge Zhan's son

Great-grandparents
  
Zhuge Gui

Zhuge Shang

Zhuge Shang (died 263) was a military officer of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period. He was the eldest son of the Shu general Zhuge Zhan and a grandson of Zhuge Liang, the first Chancellor of Shu.

In 263, Deng Ai, a general from Shu's rival state Cao Wei, led an army to attack Shu and showed up in Fu (涪; in present-day Mianyang, Sichuan) after taking a shortcut from Yinping (陰平; present-day Wen County, Longnan, Gansu). Zhuge Zhan led the Shu forces to Fu to resist the enemy but retreated to Mianzhu (緜竹) when he heard that the Shu vanguard had been defeated. Deng Ai sent a messenger to ask Zhuge Zhan to surrender, but Zhuge refused and executed the messenger. In the ensuing battle at Mianzhu, the Shu forces were defeated and both Zhuge Zhan and Zhuge Shang were killed in action. Before joining his father in battle, Zhuge Shang sighed, "My father and I received grace from the State. Our failure to eliminate Huang Hao earlier on resulted in our State being stuck in this disastrous situation now. What can we do with our lives?"

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