Overview
Fei Zhangfang was a Market Clerk and Seeker of the Way.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 25 to AD 220 费长房事（无纪年，东汉）Derived from the source · Book of Later Han 93, passages 224, 227
Family
- Kinship Role family members (家人) · Quantity an unspecified household · an unnamed household whom he worried about, who mistook the hung bamboo for his corpse, believed he had hanged himself and buried itDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 237, 239
Career and standing
- market clerk 市掾Held formerlyDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 225
- Sworn to secrecy about the gourd · Source Text 翁约不听与人言之Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 231
Places and affiliations
- At Runan commandery 汝南 · Relation Native ofDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 224
Learning and skills
- Belief the Way (pursuit of transcendence) 道 · Relation Sought · hindered by his concern for his familyDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 237
Events and relationships
- A green bamboo cut to his height was hung behind the house; his family took it for his body and buried it while he stood beside them unseenDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 238-240
- Alone saw from an upper storey the old apothecary leap into his hanging gourd when the market closed, thought it strange and went to bow twice and present wine and dried meatDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 226-227
- Followed the old man into the deep mountains, trod brambles among a pack of tigers and lay alone in an empty chamber under a ten thousand jin stone hung by a rotting rope gnawed by snakes, without movingAD 25 to AD 220 费长房事（无纪年，东汉） · Ordeal · Postulant · With Old Man of the Gourd (老翁) · Outcome The old man stroked him and said he could be taughtDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 241-243
- Returned at dawn and entered the gourd with the old man, where they feasted in a splendid jade hall before coming outDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 229-230
- Sent men, and then ten men with poles, to fetch the wine jar downstairs; none could raise it, until the old man lifted it on one fingerDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 234-236
- Was made to eat dung containing three worms of extreme foulness and could not stomach itAD 25 to AD 220 费长房事（无纪年，东汉） · Ordeal · Postulant · With Old Man of the Gourd (老翁) · Outcome The old man told him he had come within a little of obtaining the Way but had failed hereDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 244-245
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment came within a little of obtaining the Way but failed at the final test · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Old Man of the Gourd (老翁)Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 243, 245
References in the histories
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