Overview
Leng Shouguang was an Adept of Longevity Arts.
Life and dates
Death
- At Jiangling 江陵 · Source Text 死于江陵Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 202
Age
- about 150 or 160Reckoning Chinese years (年可百五六十岁) · Mode reportDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 202
Attested activity
- AD 150 to AD 220 皆与华佗同时(无纪年)Derived from the source · Book of Later Han 93, passages 201-202
Learning and skills
- Skill Lord Rongcheng's method of controlling women in intercourse 容成公御妇人法 · Level practised · Source Person Id Lord Rongcheng (容成公)Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 202
Events and relationships
- one of the three men said to be contemporaries of Hua TuoDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 201
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment chosen by the historian, out of the many practitioners of strange arts in the Han age, as one of the soundest cases worth appending at the end of the chapter · Source Text 汉世异术之士甚众,虽云不经,而亦有不可诬,故简基美者列于传末 · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 200-201
- constantly bent his neck and breathed like a stork; his hair and whiskers were entirely white yet his complexion was that of a man of thirty or fortyPhysical description · Source Text 常屈颈鷮息,须发尽白,而色理如三四十时Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 202
References in the histories
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