entity Updated 2026-08-22 Tags: Person, Qin, Anti-Qin, Qi

田儋 / Tian Dan (Qin Rebel)

田儋 / Tian Dan (Qin Rebel) enters the wiki through Qinji 128-6 as one of the parallel rebel leaders who rise after 陈胜 and 吴广. The source says Tian Dan raises troops in old 齐国 territory during the same broader wave that includes 刘邦 in 沛县 and 项梁 in Wu County.

Qinji 128-8 gives that earlier notice its story. Tian Dan is in Di county with kinsmen Tian Rong and Tian Heng when 张楚政权 forces arrive outside the city. He uses a staged request about killing a household slave to bring the county magistrate out, kills him, gathers local youth, and claims Qi royal identity as the basis for becoming king.

This page is deliberately disambiguated from 田单 / Tian Dan, the Warring States Qi restoration general. The two names share pinyin in common transcription, but the source’s 田儋 belongs to the Qin-collapse rebellion context, not the earlier Jimo restoration branch.

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