田和 / Tian He
《资治通鉴·周纪》07丨两起刺杀（3） gives Tian He the active displacement role behind 田氏代齐. The source says he moves 齐康公 to a coastal city, leaves him tax revenue for ancestral offerings, and then meets 魏文侯 and other lords’ representatives at Zhuoze to seek help becoming a recognized lord.
The same source frames Tian He as the beneficiary of a precedent. After 三晋受封, the Zhou court has already accepted one formal break with older polity hierarchy, making Tian He’s recognition easier to request and easier for 周安王 to approve.
田和 / Tian He appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（2） as the 齐国 grandee whom the Zhou court formally recognizes as a ruler in 386 BCE, 周安王’s sixteenth year. The host notes that the decision had already been accepted earlier and that Tian He had already died by the time this formal notice appears, so the point is less personal action than completed recognition.
The page is source-scoped. It anchors the episode’s claim that annalistic recognition can matter even when the practical power shift and the actor’s life no longer line up neatly.
《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（3） returns to the immediate succession problem after Tian He. The episode says the received line is easy to misread: Tian He’s son 田衍 should come before 田氏齐桓公 / 田武, and Tian Wu reaches power through killing Tian Yan, installing 公子喜, then killing Gongzi Xi. This makes Tian He a hinge between formal recognition and the still-violent consolidation of Tian-family rule.
《资治通鉴·周纪》09丨战国时代的世界大战 continues the result of that transition. With 齐康公’s death, the source treats Jiang-line Qi as ended, while the Tian line continues through Tian-family Qi Huan Gong and 田英齐.
Connections
- 齐国 - state context.
- 周王室 and 周安王 - authority and reign frame for the recognition notice.
- 齐康公, 田氏代齐, and 三晋受封 - displacement and precedent branch added by Zhouji 07 part 3.
- 《资治通鉴》 - chronicle source whose purpose in recording the notice is discussed.
- 战国时期 - period setting.
- 田衍, Tian-family Qi Huan Gong, 公子喜, and 田英齐 - continuation and disputed succession branch.