Overview
Xu Man was a Diviner.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 158 延熹元年Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 93, passage 52
- AD 162 至五年（延熹五年）Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 93, passage 52
- AD 146 to AD 168 桓帝时Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 49-50
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Descendant of Xu Jun (许峻)Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 45
- Child of Father of Xu Man (许曼之父)father 父 · paternal lineStrongly inferred · Book of Later Han 93, passage 45
Places and affiliations
- At Pingyu, Runan commandery 汝南平舆 · Relation Native ofDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 44
Learning and skills
- TransmittedLife Stage youth · Teacher Person Id Xu Jun (许峻) · Subjects his grandfather Xu Jun's divinatory learning 峻学Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 48
- Skill milfoil divination 筮 · Level practisedDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 50
Works and attributed material
- AD 146 to AD 168 桓帝时Prediction · Speaker · With Feng Gun (冯绲) · Quoted · Summary in three years Feng Gun would hold a border command with 'east' in its title and march three thousand li to the northeast; five years later he would again be a Grand General and campaign southDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 50-51
Events and relationships
- Cast milfoil for Feng Gun after two red snakes appeared from his seal cord caseDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 49-50
- His predictions about Feng Gun's border command and southern campaign were verifiedDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 52
- inherited and transmitted his grandfather's divinatory artDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 48
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment his other divinations were mostly of this successful sort · Source Text 其余多此类云 · Mode hearsayDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 53
References in the histories
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