Dan Yang 单飏

Other names

Career and standing

• Grand Administrator of Hanzhong 汉中太守
  Appointed · Jurisdiction Hanzhong commandery 汉中
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 75
• Master of Writing / secretary 尚书
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 76
• Grand Administrator of Hanzhong 汉中太守
  Dismissed · Cause An affair of public business (公事)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 75
• Grand Astrologer 太史令
  Promoted
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 74
• Palace Attendant 侍中
  Promoted
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 74
• Orphaned and solitary, establishing himself through austerity · 以孤特清苦自立
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 73

Places and affiliations

• At Hulu, Shanyang commandery 山阳湖陆 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 72

Learning and skills

• Nominated
  Credential Filial and Incorrupt 孝廉
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 74
• Skill celestial patterns and computation 天官、算术 · Level expert
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 73

Works and attributed material

• AD 178 熹平末
  Prophecy · Speaker · With Qiao Xuan (桥玄) · Quoted · Summary a kingly man would arise in that domain, and within fifty years the dragon would appear again as proof
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 78-79

Events and relationships

• Questioned by Qiao Xuan about the yellow dragon that appeared at Qiao
  AD 178 熹平末 · Omen interpretation · Expert consulted · With Qiao Xuan (桥玄)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 77

Source notes

• the yellow dragon reappeared at Qiao in the spring of Jian'an 25 and Wei received the Han abdication that winter, verifying his prophecy
  AD 220 建安二十五年春 · Prophecy fulfilment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 81