Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Diviner

Guan Lu 管輅

Attested AD 209 - AD 256

Passages: 3
Chapters: 3
Histories: 3

Overview

Guan Lu was a Diviner.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 240 to AD 256 管輅 (Cao Wei activity; comparative allusion)
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 5
AD 209 to AD 256 管輅
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 88, passage 136

Key source chapters

History of the Northern Dynasties, Chapter 88 Volume 88 Biographies 76: Recluses 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3 Volume 3 Book of Later Liang 3: Taizu Annals 3 1 passage
Book of Sui, Chapter 77 Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses 1 passage

Events and relationships

Relation Compared with · Person Bian Gang (邊岡)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 5

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 5

References in the histories

History of the Northern Dynasties, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 76: Recluses · 1 passage

若乃理高《象系》，管輅思而不解； As for reasoning that surpasses the Image and Attachment of the Changes, even Guan Lu would ponder without understanding;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Book of Later Liang 3: Taizu Annals 3 · 1 passage

時有術士邊岡者，洞曉天文，博通陰陽曆數之妙，窮天下之奇秘，有先見之明，雖京房、管輅不能過也。 There was then a diviner named Bian Gang, master of the heavens and of yin-yang calendrics, who knew secrets none could match and saw what was coming—surpassing even Jing Fang and Guan Luo.

Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 1 passage

若乃理高《象》、《系》，管輅思而不解，事富《山海》，郭璞注而未詳。 Its reasoning rises above the Image and Judgment texts of the Changes—Guan Lu would have pondered in vain; its matter overflows the Classic of Mountains and Seas—even Guo Pu's commentary could not exhaust it.