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Qi Wu 祁午, also written 祈午, personal name Ji Wu 姬午, was a nobleman in the state of Jin 晉 during the Spring and Autumn period 春秋 (770-5th cent. BCE) and a member of the house of Qi 祁.

He was a son of Qi Xi 祁奚 and in 570 BCE succeeded his father in the office of commander in the Central Army (zhongjun wei 中軍尉).

Sources:

Cang Xiuliang 倉修良, ed. (1991). Shiji cidian 史記辭典 (Jinan: Shandong jiaoyu chubanshe), 238.

Zhang Huizhi 張撝之, Shen Qiwei 沈起煒, Liu Dezhong 劉德重, ed. (1999). Zhongguo lidai renming da cidian 中國歷代人名大辭典 (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe), Vol. 1, 737.