陈良 / Chen Liang (Xin defector)

Overview

陈良 / Chen Liang (Xin defector) enters the wiki through Hanji 640 as a Western Regions subordinate who joins 终带 and others in killing Wuyi Colonel Diao Hu and defecting to 匈奴 during the early 新朝 frontier crisis.

Current Profile

The source presents Chen Liang as a fear-driven frontier defector rather than an independent rebel founder. In a setting where Xiongnu pressure and Western Regions instability make Xin authority look fragile, Chen Liang, Zhong Dai, Han Xuan, Ren Shang, and others decide that killing their commander and fleeing to Xiongnu offers survival.

The mutiny is politically amplified after the fact. The group takes more than two thousand officials, families, and dependents toward Xiongnu, and the chanyu gives Chen Liang and Zhong Dai titles. 孙建 then uses the case as evidence for stronger anti-Han symbolic measures inside the Xin court.

Key Characteristics

• Xin frontier subordinate whose current role is a mutiny and defection case.
• Acts with Zhong Dai and other officials rather than alone.
• Participates in killing Wuyi Colonel Diao Hu and members of Diao Hu’s family.
• Helps move a large mixed group of officials, staff, relatives, and dependents into Xiongnu territory.
• Becomes evidence in Sun Jian’s argument for anti-Han symbolic purge.

Evidence

• Conspiracy: Hanji 640 says Chen Liang, Zhong Dai, Han Xuan, Ren Shang, and others secretly discuss killing the sick Wuyi Colonel Diao Hu and fleeing.
• Killing and flight: Hanji 640 says they kill Diao Hu, his son, and brothers, then take more than two thousand people to Xiongnu.
• Xiongnu title: Hanji 640 says the chanyu appoints Chen Liang and Zhong Dai as Wuben commandants.
• Xin political use: Hanji 640 says Sun Jian cites their case while proposing anti-Han measures.

Qualifications

The source does not give Chen Liang’s full career, personal motives, or later fate. It frames the defection as part of frontier command trust breakdown under Xiongnu pressure, but the exact balance between fear, opportunism, and ideology remains source-scoped.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 640’s Western Regions defection branch.

Relationships

• 终带 - co-leader in the same mutiny and defection branch.
• 匈奴 - receiving frontier power that grants Chen Liang a title.
• 新朝 - regime whose frontier command structure Chen Liang abandons.
• 西域都护府 - frontier institutional field where the mutiny occurs.
• 孙建 - Xin general who uses Chen Liang’s case in an anti-Han memorial.