Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Diviner

Guan Lu 管輅

Attested AD 209 - AD 256

Passages: 5
Chapters: 5
Histories: 4

Overview

Guan Lu was a Diviner.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 240 to AD 256 管輅 (Cao Wei activity; comparative allusion)
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 5
AD 209 to AD 256 管輅
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 88, passage 136
AD 240 to AD 256 管輅嘗謂
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 41, passage 324
AD 240 to AD 256 雖京房、管輅不能過也
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 72, passage 10

Key source chapters

Places and affiliations

Polity Cao Wei 曹魏 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 72, passage 10
Polity Cao Wei 魏 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 41, passage 324
At Pingyuan 平原
Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 324
At Pingyuan 平原 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 324

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 324-325

Events and relationships

Relation Compared with · Person Bian Gang (邊岡)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 5

Source notes

Historicity historical
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 72, passage 10
Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 5
Value historical
Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 324

References in the histories

History of the Northern Dynasties, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 76: Recluses · 1 passage

若乃理高《象系》，管輅思而不解； As for reasoning that surpasses the Image and Attachment of the Changes, even Guan Lu would ponder without understanding;

Book of Jin, Chapter 41Volume 41 Biographies 11: Wei Shu; Li Xi; Liu Shi; Gao Guang · 1 passage

平原管輅嘗謂人曰：「吾與劉潁川兄弟語，使人神思清發，昏不假寐。 Guan Lu of Pingyuan once remarked, "Conversation with Governor Liu of Yingchuan and his brothers clears the mind so that even at dusk I need no nap.

Book of Jin, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 42: Guo Pu; Ge Hong · 1 passage

公以《青囊中書》九卷與之，由是遂洞五行、天文、卜筮之術，攘災轉禍，通致無方，雖京房、管輅不能過也。 The master handed him nine volumes of The Satchel of Azure Secrets; Guo Pu thereby mastered the Five Agents, astronomy, and milfoil divination, turning aside disasters with uncanny ease—skills said to eclipse Jing Fang and Guan Lu.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Book of Later Liang 3: Taizu Annals 3 · 1 passage

時有術士邊岡者，洞曉天文，博通陰陽曆數之妙，窮天下之奇秘，有先見之明，雖京房、管輅不能過也。 There was then a diviner named Bian Gang, master of the heavens and of yin-yang calendrics, who knew secrets none could match and saw what was coming—surpassing even Jing Fang and Guan Luo.

Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 1 passage

若乃理高《象》、《系》，管輅思而不解，事富《山海》，郭璞注而未詳。 Its reasoning rises above the Image and Judgment texts of the Changes—Guan Lu would have pondered in vain; its matter overflows the Classic of Mountains and Seas—even Guo Pu's commentary could not exhaust it.