Ancient China · Hermit

Wuguang 務光

Wù Guāng

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Wuguang was a Hermit.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 32, passage 134; Records of the Grand Historian 61, passages 6, 10

Key source chapters

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 61 Biographies: Biography of Bo Yi 2 passages
Book of Later Han, Chapter 32 Volume 28b: Biography of Feng Yan 1 passage

Places and affiliations

Xia 夏
Relation Lived under
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 61, passage 6

Assessments and attributes

Assessment righteousness extremely lofty · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Sima Qian (司馬遷)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 61, passage 10

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 61, passage 6

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 32Volume 28b: Biography of Feng Yan · 1 passage

就伯夷而折中兮，得務光而愈明。 I seek Boyi for balance and find Wuguang until my purpose shines clearer.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 61Biographies: Biography of Bo Yi · 2 passages

及夏之時，有卞隨、務光者。 By the time of Xia, there were men such as Bian Sui and Wu Guang.

余以所聞由、光義至高，其文辭不少概見，何哉？ The righteousness of men such as Xu You and Wu Guang, of which I have heard, is very lofty indeed; yet one cannot find even the slightest trace of them in the writings of the past—why is this?