Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Diviner

Guan Lu 管輅

Attested AD 240 - AD 256

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Guan Lu was a Diviner.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 240 to AD 256 雖京房、管輅不能過也
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 72, passage 10

Places and affiliations

Polity Cao Wei 曹魏 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 72, passage 10

Source notes

Historicity historical
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 72, passage 10

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 42: Guo Pu; Ge Hong · 1 passage

公以《青囊中書》九卷與之，由是遂洞五行、天文、卜筮之術，攘災轉禍，通致無方，雖京房、管輅不能過也。 The master handed him nine volumes of The Satchel of Azure Secrets; Guo Pu thereby mastered the Five Agents, astronomy, and milfoil divination, turning aside disasters with uncanny ease—skills said to eclipse Jing Fang and Guan Lu.