Sun Lang

Chinese
t=孫朗
s=孙朗

Sun Lang, styled Zaoan (早安), was an illegitimate son of Sun Jian, a military commander of the Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. He is mistakenly referred to as Sun Ren in some versions of the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Due to a military failure, his name was changed to Ding Lang (丁朗) and he was stripped of all military rank by his older brother and the king of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan.

Lang's misfortune occurred in the year 222, shortly after Wu's triumph over Liu Bei at the Battle of Xiaoting. The emperor of the Wei Dynasty, Cao Pi, launched a multi-pronged invasion against Wu. One prong was led by his kinsman Cao Xiu, who led his army to Dongkou (洞口), which was defended by the strategist and commander, Lü Fan. Sun Lang was acting in capacity as a guardsman of the palace at the time and thus was under Lü's authority. However, early in the battle, he accidentally set fire to his own camp, losing a great deal of supplies in the process. To compound Wu's difficulty, a freak storm struck at Lü's fleet, sending it crashing along the northern shore. Those troops in Lu Fan's fleet who did not drown were then in danger of either being attacked by Cao Xiu's troops or dying of starvation. Luckily for the Wu forces, the general Xu Sheng arrived, driving back Cao Xiu's forces long enough for Lu Fan to regroup, and in the end, Cao's fleet was driven back.

Despite the victory, Sun Quan was furious that his own half-brother had nearly brought destruction upon the entire kingdom and thus stripped Lang of all military rank, disavowed him from the Sun family, and had him sent to prison for the remainder of his life. Lang died in prison at a date unmentioned in historical records.

Family

* Father
** Sun Jian
* Mother (adoptive)
** Lady Wu (吳夫人) (d. 202)
* Brothers
** Sun Ce
** Sun Quan
** Sun Kuang
** Sun Yi
* Sister
** Sun Shang Xiang

References

*cite book|author=Chen Shou|title=San Guo Zhi|publisher=Yue Lu Shu She|year=2002|id=ISBN 7-80665-198-5
*cite book|author=Lo Kuan-chung; tr. C.H. Brewitt-Taylor|title=Romance of the Three Kingdoms|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|year=2002|id=ISBN 0-8048-3467-9
*cite book|author=de Crespigny, Rafe|title=Generals of the South: the foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu|publisher=The Australian National University, Canberra|year=1990|id = ISBN 0-7315-0901-3

ee also

*Three Kingdoms
*Personages of the Three Kingdoms
*"Records of Three Kingdoms"
*"Romance of the Three Kingdoms"