杜吾 / Du Wu (Wang Mang killer)

Overview

杜吾 / Du Wu enters the wiki through Hanji 667 as the soldier, framed by the episode as a Chang’an market butcher, who kills 王莽 inside Jian Terrace during the final collapse of the 新朝. His importance is symbolic as much as biographical: the source turns Wang Mang’s death by a butcher’s knife into a vivid status reversal.

Current Profile

Hanji 667 presents Du Wu as a low-ranking soldier who enters the inner room where Wang Mang is hiding. The episode says Wang Mang does not answer when questioned, while Du Wu identifies himself through his market-butcher background and knife skill, then kills him.

The current wiki does not treat Du Wu as a fully reconstructed historical actor. His page exists because he is the named killer in the source’s terminal Wang Mang scene and because his occupation-background framing helps the episode convert imperial collapse into social reversal: a ruler who built sacred and moralized legitimacy dies not through high ceremony but through the ordinary violence of a butcher-soldier.

Key Characteristics

• Named killer of Wang Mang in the Hanji 667 terminal scene.
• Low-status soldier framed by the source through Chang’an market butchery and knife skill.
• Symbolic agent of status reversal from sacred ruler to exposed body.
• Source-bounded figure whose broader biography is not established in the current wiki.

Evidence

• Identification and setting: Hanji 667 says Du Wu finds Wang Mang in the inner room of Jian Terrace.
• Butcher-soldier framing: Hanji 667 presents Du Wu as from the Chang’an market and skilled with a knife.
• Killing of Wang Mang: Hanji 667 says Du Wu kills Wang Mang before the later decapitation, dismemberment, and public head-display sequence.

Qualifications

Du Wu’s current page is one-source bounded. The source’s dialogue, psychology, occupational detail, and knife-skill characterization are retained as the episode’s narrative presentation, not as a complete independent biography.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 667’s named Wang Mang killing scene.

Relationships

• 王莽 - ruler killed by Du Wu in the Jian Terrace scene.
• 新朝 - collapsing regime whose final ruler Du Wu kills.
• 绿林 - uprising/endgame field in which Du Wu’s act occurs.
• 公开尸体羞辱 - downstream body-humiliation sequence begins after Du Wu’s killing.