Qin and Han · Diviner and Classicist

Jing Fang 京房

Attested BC 77 - BC 37

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Chapters
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Histories
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Overview

The translated histories identify Jing Fang as a diviner and scholar. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Jing Fang 京房 Jing Fang
Personal name Jing Fang 京房 Jing Fang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diviner
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 前世京房 · Western Interval: Start: BC 77 · End: BC 37

Career and standing

Source notes

  • Kind: comparison · Statement: invoked as the standard of divinatory skill from an earlier age, to whom contemporaries likened Xu Jun · Other Person Id: Xu Jun (许峻) · Source Text: 时人方之前世京房 · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-opinion

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 93Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 · 1 passage