Guanqiu Dian 毌丘甸

His father Guanqiu Jian, courtesy name Zhonggong, was a native of Wenxi County in Hedong Commandery. During the Qinglong era he became Inspector of You Province and fought Gongsun Yuan of Liaodong; during the Zhengshi era he attacked Goguryeo; and later he became General Who Guards the East and commanded Yang Province. Records, Wei 28 §12 · 14–16 · 19

In the 1st month of the 2nd year of Zhengyuan (255), when a comet several dozen zhang long stretched across the sky to the northwest, Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin, Inspector of Yang Province, took it as an auspicious omen for themselves. The two forged an edict of the Empress Dowager, circulated an indictment of the General-in-Chief Sima Shi to the commanderies and kingdoms, and raised troops in rebellion. They made the officials and people of Huainan enter the city of Shouchun, built an altar west of the city and swore an oath, and then crossed the Huai with 50,000 or 60,000 men and reached Xiang County. Records, Wei 28 §20–21

When Sima Shi set out to suppress them at the head of the armies of the capital and the provinces, the officers and men of Huainan, whose families were in the north, surrendered one after another. When Wen Qin was badly defeated at Lejia and fled, Guanqiu Jian also fled by night, and on reaching Shen County he was killed by an arrow from Zhang Shu, a commoner under the Chief Commandant of Anfengjin. Guanqiu Jian's young brother Guanqiu Xiu and his grandson Guanqiu Zhong fled to Wu. Records, Wei 28 §22–24

Guanqiu Dian was then Attendant Secretary Who Handles Documents. Having known beforehand that Guanqiu Jian's plot was about to break out, he slipped away in secret and fled with his family up Mount Ling in Xin'an. A separate force was sent that attacked and took the place, and Guanqiu Jian's three sets of kin were exterminated. Chen Shou's main text does not record separately what became of Guanqiu Dian himself. Records, Wei 28 §25

In the assessment at the end of the volume, Chen Shou called Guanqiu Jian outstanding in talent and insight. He went on to say that Wang Ling, Guanqiu Jian, Zhuge Dan and Zhong Hui all made their names and rose to honored posts, but that their ambitions were great while their aims went astray and they failed to foresee calamity; their revolts sprang like a released crossbow and their clans were crushed into the earth — was this not error and delusion? Records, Wei 28 §140