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Lian Po 廉頗

Attested BC 283 - BC 243

Passages
21
Chapters
10
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Lian Po as a general and military officer. This record brings together 21 passages from 10 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Lian Po 廉頗 Lian Po
Title Duke of Lian 廉公
Personal name Lian Po 廉頗 Lián Pō
Personal Lian Po 廉頗 Lián Pō
Personal Lian Po 廉頗
Personal Lian Po 頗 Po
Given Po 頗 Pō

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 史臣追論（無紀年） · Western Interval: Start: BC 283 · End: BC 251
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0173
  • Source Date: Text: 四十七年 · Western Year: BC 260
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:073:s0036, shiji:073:s0040
  • Source Date: Text: 廉頗、李牧之為將 · Western Interval: Start: BC 283 · End: BC 244
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:102:s0095
  • Source Date: Text: 廉頗 · Western Interval: Start: BC 283 · End: BC 245
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:022:s0021
  • Source Date: Text: 廉頗為將時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 283 · End: BC 243
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:093:s0060
  • Source Date: Text: 戰國廉頗 · Western Year: c. BC 260
    Explicit · liangshu:020:s0198
  • Source Date: Text: 戰國時期 · Western Year: c. BC 260
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:048:s0170
  • Source Date: Text: 趙使廉頗擊之...廉頗亡入魏 · Western Interval: Start: BC 251 · End: BC 244
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:080:s0091, shiji:080:s0111
  • Source Date: Text: 頗、牧 · Western Interval: Start: BC 260 · End: BC 243
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0279

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 20Table of Ancient and Modern Persons · 1 passage
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張晏曰：「老子玄默，仲尼所師，雖不在聖，要為大賢，文伯之母達於禮典，動為聖人所歎，言為後世所則，而在第四。田單以即墨孤城復強齊之大，魯連之博通，忽於榮利，藺子申威秦王，退讓廉頗，乃在第五。大姬巫怪，好祭鬼神，陳人化之，國多淫祀，寺人孟子違於大雅，以保其身，旣被宮刑，怨刺而作，乃在第三。嫪毐上烝，昬亂禮度，惡不忍聞，乃在第七。其餘差違紛錯不少，略舉揚較，以起失謬。獨馳騖於數千歲之中，旁觀諸子，事業未究，而尋遇竇氏之難，使之然乎？」 Zhang Yan said, "Laozi was deep and silent, and Confucius regarded him as a teacher. Though not ranked among sages, he surely counts as a great worthy. Wenbo's mother mastered the ritual classics; the sage praised her conduct and later ages took her words as a model—yet she appears in the fourth grade. Tian Dan restored great Qi from the isolated city of Jimo; Lu Lian was broadly learned yet disdained fame and profit; Lord Lin awed the King of Qin and yielded to Lian Po—yet they are placed in the fifth grade. Great Ji practiced sorcery and loved sacrificing to ghosts and spirits; the people of Chen were transformed by her and the state was full of improper cults. The eunuch Mengzi, turning from the great elegant style to preserve himself—after castration, wrote in resentment—yet is placed in the third grade. Lao Ai committed incest at court and threw ritual order into chaos, in deeds too foul to bear hearing—yet he is placed in the seventh grade. Discrepancies and errors are many; I have cited a few to expose the faults. Did he gallop alone across thousands of years, looking on at the various masters while his work remained unfinished, then soon meet the Dou family's disaster—and did that make it turn out this way?"
Book of Han, Chapter 22Volume 20: Prominent People from the Past Until the Present · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 59Volume 50: Zhang, Feng, Ji and Zheng · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 93Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi · 1 passage
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Book of Liang, Chapter 20Volume 20: Liu Lijian; Chen Bozhi · 1 passage
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Book of Liang, Chapter 32Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin · 1 passage
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 48House of Chen She · 1 passage
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於是六國之士有甯越、徐尚、蘇秦、杜赫之屬為之謀，齊明、周聚、陳軫、邵滑、樓緩、翟景、蘇厲、樂毅之徒通其意，吳起、孫臏、帶他、兒良、王廖、田忌、廉頗、趙奢之倫制其兵。 The six states thus had men like Ning Yue, Xu Shang, Su Qin, and Du He to devise their strategies; Qi Ming, Zhou Ju, Chen Zhen, Shao Hua, Lou Huan, Di Jing, Su Li, and Yue Yi to serve as their intermediaries; and Wu Qi, Sun Bin, Dai Tuo, Ni Liang, Wang Liao, Tian Ji, Lian Po, and Zhao She to command their armies.
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 73Biographies of Bai Qi and Wang Jian · 4 passages
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 80Biography of Yue Yi · 4 passages
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 102Biographies of Zhang Shizhi and Feng Tang · 6 passages
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