Cao Cao 曹操

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:093:s0157

Roles

• General
• Statesman
• Warlord

Career and standing

• Action: ordered arrest and interrogation · Object Person Id: Hua Tuo (华佗) · Description: had Hua Tuo investigated, learned that his wife's illness was feigned, arrested him and handed him to the jailors · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 曹操闻而召佗（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 196 · End: AD 220
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0174

Events and relationships

• Kind: legal · Role: authority · Other Person Id: Xun Yu (荀彧) · Action: rejected Xun Yu's plea that Hua Tuo be pardoned and in the end had him killed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 曹操闻而召佗（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 196 · End: AD 220
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0175, houhanshu:093:s0176
• Kind: administrative · Role: patron · Other Person Id: Hua Tuo (华佗) · Action: repeatedly wrote summoning Hua Tuo and ordered the commanderies and counties to send him back · Outcome: Hua Tuo refused to come · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 曹操闻而召佗（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 196 · End: AD 220
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0173
• Kind: medical · Role: patient · Other Person Id: Hua Tuo (华佗) · Action: summoned Hua Tuo, kept him constantly at his side and was relieved of his headaches as soon as the needle was applied · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 曹操闻而召佗（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 196 · End: AD 220
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0157

Assessments and attributes

• Kind: illness · Statement: long suffered from splitting headaches with dizziness (头风眩) · Source Text: 操积苦头风眩
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0157