Qin and Han · Prison Clerk

Jailor Who Refused Hua Tuo's Book 狱吏

Attested AD 196 - AD 220

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
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Overview

The translated histories identify Jailor Who Refused Hua Tuo's Book as an attendant and official. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Jailor Who Refused Hua Tuo's Book 狱吏
Title jailor 狱吏

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Title only
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Attendant
  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Career and standing

Events and relationships

  • Kind: personal · Role: recipient · Other Person Id: Hua Tuo (华佗) · Action: was offered Hua Tuo's scroll of medical writing but feared the law and did not dare accept it · Outcome: Hua Tuo burned the book · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 曹操闻而召佗(无纪年) · Western Interval: Start: AD 196 · End: AD 220

References in the histories

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