Feng Gun (冯绲) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Feng Gun as an administrator, general, and official. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Feng Gun	冯绲	Feng Gun
Personal name	Feng Gun	冯绲	Feng Gun

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:093:s0049

Roles

Administrator
General
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 延熹元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Reign Name: 延熹 · Western Year: AD 158
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Source Date: Text: 至五年（延熹五年） · Regnal Year: 5 · Reign Name: 延熹 · Western Year: AD 162
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Source Date: Text: 桓帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 146 · End: AD 168
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Career and standing

Label: Grand Administrator of Liaodong / 辽东太守 · Action: appointed · Jurisdiction: Liaodong commandery / 辽东 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延熹元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Reign Name: 延熹 · Western Year: AD 158
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Label: General of Chariots and Cavalry / 车骑将军 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至五年（延熹五年） · Regnal Year: 5 · Reign Name: 延熹 · Western Year: AD 162
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Label: Grand Administrator of Longxi / 陇西太守 · Action: appointed · Jurisdiction: Longxi commandery / 陇西 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 桓帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 146 · End: AD 168
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned against the Xianbei · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延熹元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Reign Name: 延熹 · Western Year: AD 158
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Kind: omen · Role: subject · Action: on first opening his seal-cord case two red snakes ran out, one south and one north · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 桓帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 146 · End: AD 168
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Kind: divination · Role: client · Other Person Id: Xu Man (许曼) · Action: ordered Xu Man to cast milfoil about the snake omen · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 桓帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 146 · End: AD 168
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: struck the Wuling Man rebels · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至五年（延熹五年） · Regnal Year: 5 · Reign Name: 延熹 · Western Year: AD 162
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References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 93Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 · 3 passages

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桓帝时，陇西太守冯绲始拜郡，开绶笥，有两赤蛇分南北走。 When Emperor Huan's Longxi prefect Feng Gun first took office and opened his seal box, two crimson snakes shot out, one south, one north.

绲令曼筮之，封成，曼曰：“三岁之后，君当为边将，官有东名，当东北行三千里。 Gun had Man cast the stalks. When the pattern formed, Man said, "Three years hence you will hold a border command; your title will contain the word 'east,' and you will campaign three thousand li toward the northeast.

延熹元年，绲出为辽东太守，讨鲜卑，至五年，复拜车骑将军，击武陵蛮贼，皆如占。 In Yanxi 1 he left for Liaodong to fight the Xianbei; by year five he was named chariots-and-cavalry general and crushed the Wuling Man rebels—each step matched the oracle.