Eastern Wu family trees

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A simplified look at the Eastern Wu Sun family trees shows how Sun Jian’s line grew into the ruling clan of Wu (229–280) during the Three Kingdoms era.

Origins
- Sun Jian was said to be descended from Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War. His exact father is not recorded, and his brothers Sun Qiang and Sun Jing are mentioned as twins.
- Sun Jian’s sister, Lady Sun, married Xu Zhen. Their son Xu Kun later had a daughter who married Sun Quan, Sun Jian’s son.

Sun Jian’s generations
- Sun Jian’s wife Lady Wu (Wu Jing’s elder sister) bore Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Sun Yi, Sun Kuang, and a daughter whose name is not recorded. They also had another daughter from Lady Chen (Sun Jian’s concubine) who married Pan Mi’s son Pan Mi. A fifth son Sun Lang and the last daughter have mothers not clearly known. The last daughter married Hong Zi.
- The true name of Sun Jian’s famous daughter Lady Sun is not recorded in early texts; she is known in later stories as Sun Ren or Sun Shangxiang.

Sun Ce and his line
- Sun Ce married Da Qiao; Zhou Yu married Xiao Qiao. Sun Ce’s notable children include Sun Shao (and Sun Shao’s son Sun Feng). Sun Ce also had daughters who married into prominent families, including Gu Yong’s son Gu Shao, Lu Xun, and Zhu Zhi’s son Zhu Ji. Some details about which daughters were his and who their exact mothers were are not fully clear.
- A later Tang-era note mentions a 13th-generation patrilineal descendant of Sun Ce serving as a Buddhist master.

Sun Quan and his line
- Sun Quan had ten wives/concubines. He produced seven sons: Sun Deng, Sun He, Sun Ba, Sun Fen, Sun Xiu, Sun Liang, and Sun Lü, plus three daughters (one of whom is unnamed). Mothers of Sun Lü and the third daughter are not recorded.
- Sun Deng was adopted and raised by Lady Xu (not his birth mother); he later married Zhou Yu’s daughter and had three sons: Sun Fan, Sun Xi, and Sun Ying.
- Sun Ba married the daughter of Liu Yao’s son Liu Ji and had two sons, Sun Ji and Sun Yi.
- Sun He had two wives and several sons, including Sun Jun, Sun Hao, Sun De, and Sun Qian; Sun He’s daughter married Lu Jing (son of Lu Kang).
- Sun Xiu married Empress Zhu and had four sons: Sun Wan, Sun Gong, Sun Mang, and Sun Bao.
- Sun Liang married Quan Huijie.
- Sun Yi married Lady Xu and had a son Sun Song.
- Sun Kuang married a daughter of Cao Cao’s younger brother and had a son Sun Tai, who led to a line including Sun Xiu and Sun Jian.
- Sun Hao, who became emperor, had multiple wives and many sons; his line includes Sun Jin (crown prince) and other princes named in imperial records, with some details uncertain or debated by historians.
- Sun Qiang and Sun Jing produced other branches: Sun Ben and Sun Fu; Sun Ben’s line produced many descendants, including marriages into Cao Zhang’s family. Sun Jing’s line produced several sons including Sun Hao, Sun Yu, Sun Jiao, Sun Huan, and Sun Qian, and their own descendants in turn.

Branches and marriages
- The Sun family’s many branches intermarried with other powerful clans and ruler families, producing a vast web of princes and princes’ sons across Wu and neighboring states. These marriages helped knit the Sun clan to other major families of the era.

In short, the Sun clan began with Sun Jian and grew into a sprawling, influential dynasty in Eastern Wu, producing several emperors and countless princes whose lines spread through many noble families and rivaling powers of the Three Kingdoms period.