Overview
The translated histories identify Leng Shouguang as a healer and hermit. 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
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Leng Shouguang | 泠寿光 | Leng Shouguang |
| Personal name | Leng Shouguang | 泠寿光 | Leng Shouguang |
Identity
- Historicity
- Uncertain
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · houhanshu:093:s0202
Roles
- Healer
- Hermit
Life and dates
Death
- Place: Jiangling / 江陵 · Source Text: 死于江陵Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0202
Age
- Age: about 150 or 160 · Reckoning: Chinese years (年可百五六十岁) · Provenance: Mode: reportExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0202
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 皆与华佗同时（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 150 · End: AD 220Derived · houhanshu:093:s0201, houhanshu:093:s0202
Learning and skills
- Skill: Lord Rongcheng's method of controlling women in intercourse / 容成公御妇人法 · Level: practised · Source Person Id: Lord Rongcheng (容成公)Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0202
Events and relationships
- Relation: contemporary-of · Person Id: Hua Tuo (华佗) · Description: one of the three men said to be contemporaries of Hua TuoExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0201
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: chosen by the historian, out of the many practitioners of strange arts in the Han age, as one of the soundest cases worth appending at the end of the chapter · Source Text: 汉世异术之士甚众，虽云不经，而亦有不可诬，故简基美者列于传末 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0200, houhanshu:093:s0201
- Kind: physical-description · Statement: constantly bent his neck and breathed like a stork; his hair and whiskers were entirely white yet his complexion was that of a man of thirty or forty · Source Text: 常屈颈鷮息，须发尽白，而色理如三四十时Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0202
References in the histories
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