Su Shuang

Su Shuang
Traditional Chinese 蘇雙
Simplified Chinese 苏双
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Su.

Su Shuang was a merchant from Zhongshan during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history. Around 180, he and Zhang Shiping went to Zhuo commandery (present day Zhuozhou, Baoding, Hebei) to trade horses. There they saw Liu Bei's potential and decided to supply him with gold and other valuables. With these, Liu could recruit troops for himself.[1]

In fiction

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Su and Zhang Shiping supplied Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei with horses, money, and steel for making weapons. Liu's forces were preparing to fight the Yellow Turban rebels at the time.

See also

References

  1. ↑ de Crespigny, Rafe (2007). A biographical dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD). Brill. p. 760. ISBN 978-90-04-15605-0.
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