Qin and Han · Adept of Longevity Arts

Leng Shouguang 泠寿光

Attested AD 150 - AD 220

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Overview

Leng Shouguang was an Adept of Longevity Arts.

IdentityUncertain · Male

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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-judgment
  • 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 forty
    Physical description · Source Text 常屈颈鷮息,须发尽白,而色理如三四十时

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 93Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 · 2 passages