终带 / Zhong Dai (Xin defector)

Overview

终带 / Zhong Dai (Xin defector) enters the wiki through Hanji 640 as a Xin frontier figure who joins 陈良 in killing Wuyi Colonel Diao Hu and defecting to 匈奴.

Current Profile

Zhong Dai’s current profile is paired with Chen Liang. The episode does not give an independent biography; it presents him as one of the people who read the Western Regions and Xiongnu crisis as a survival threat. With Chen Liang, Han Xuan, Ren Shang, and others, he chooses defection by first eliminating the local commander.

The political significance of Zhong Dai comes from scale and aftermath. The mutineers take a large dependent group into Xiongnu territory and receive Xiongnu titles, which makes the event visible enough for 孙建 to connect it to Han-restoration danger in his memorial.

Key Characteristics

• Xin frontier defector whose role is source-bounded to one mutiny.
• Paired with Chen Liang as a named leader.
• Participates in killing Diao Hu and fleeing with more than two thousand people.
• Receives a Xiongnu-appointed Wuben commandant title.
• Becomes part of the evidence used for Xin anti-Han symbolic policy.

Evidence

• Joint planning: Hanji 640 names Zhong Dai with Chen Liang, Han Xuan, Ren Shang, and others in the plan to kill Diao Hu.
• Mutiny: Hanji 640 says the group kills Diao Hu and members of his family.
• Defection scale: Hanji 640 says more than two thousand officials, staff, families, and dependents are taken toward Xiongnu.
• Xiongnu appointment: Hanji 640 says the chanyu gives Zhong Dai and Chen Liang Wuben commandant titles.

Qualifications

The episode gives Zhong Dai as a paired defector, not a standalone career. His exact office, later fate, and personal motive remain source-scoped.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 640’s paired Chen Liang-Zhong Dai defection branch.

Relationships

• 陈良 - co-leader in the same defection branch.
• 匈奴 - receiving power that appoints Zhong Dai.
• 新朝 - regime whose frontier command he deserts.
• 西域都护府 - frontier institution destabilized by the mutiny.
• 孙建 - official who later cites the defection in an anti-Han memorial.