Overview
Zhao Yan was a Military Diviner and Strategist.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 160 延熹三年Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 93, passages 56, 59
Places and affiliations
- At Langye commandery 琅邪 · Relation Native ofDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 54
Learning and skills
- StudiedLife Stage youth · Subjects the occult arts 术学Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 55
- Skill the 'solitary and void' method and the Dunjia cycle 孤虚、遁甲 · Level expertDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 59, 61
Works and attributed material
- AD 160 延熹三年Military advice · Author · With Zong Zi (宗资) · Paraphrased · Summary expounded the 'solitary and void' method: since the bandits were encamped at Ju, in the territory of the five yangs, troops from the five yang commanderies should strike from solitude into voidDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 59
Events and relationships
- Worked the Dunjia cycle and taught the army when to advanceAD 160 延熹三年 · Military · Strategist and diviner · Outcome One battle broke the bandits, their stockades were burned and Xu and Yan provinces were pacified at a strokeDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 61
- supplied Zong Zi with the divinatory plan and the timing of the attackDirectly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 59, 61
References in the histories
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