Ancient China · Strategist

Master Wei 衛先生

Wei Xiansheng

Attested BC 260

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Master Wei was a Strategist.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 260 長平
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 83, passage 158

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 83Biographies of Lu Zhonglian and Zou Yang · 2 passages

衛先生為秦畫長平之事，太白蝕昴，而昭王疑之。 Master Wei devised the strategy for the Battle of Changping on behalf of Qin, and Venus eclipsed the Pleiades as a celestial sign—yet King Zhao of Qin doubted him.

今臣盡忠竭誠，畢議願知，左右不明，卒從吏訊，為世所疑，是使荊軻、衛先生復起，而燕、秦不悟也。 Now your servant has exhausted his loyalty and poured out his sincerity, laying all his counsel before you, yet those around Your Majesty fail to understand. In the end I am subjected to interrogation by officials and doubted by the world. It is as though Jing Ke and Master Wei had risen from the dead, and yet Yan and Qin still remained blind.