Qin and Han · Han official and omen interpreter

Xie Guang 解光

Attested BC 17

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xie Guang was a Han official and omen interpreter.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 17 鴻嘉四年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 38, passage 177

Places and affiliations

Polity Han 漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 38, passage 177

Works and attributed material

Joint omen interpretation · Co author · Mode direct-attribution Speaker Xie Guang (解光)
Directly stated · Book of Han 38, passages 177, 179-180

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 38Volume 29: Treatise on Rivers and Canals · 1 passage

是時李尋、解光亦言「陰氣盛則水為之長，故一日之間，晝減夜增，江河滿溢，所謂水不潤下，雖常於卑下之地，猶日月變見於朔望，明天道有因而作也。 At the same time, Li Xun and Xie Guang argued: "When yin energy grows too strong, the water rises with it. Within a single day its level falls by daylight and climbs at night until the rivers overflow. This is the portent called 'water failing to flow downward.' Water may normally seek low ground, but its changes still follow the sun and moon at the new and full moons, proof that Heaven's way acts through definite causes.