Qin and Han · Long-lived Adept

Lu Nüsheng 鲁女生

Attested AD 150 - AD 220

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Lu Nüsheng as a hermit and named individual. 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 Lu Nüsheng 鲁女生 Lu Nüsheng
Personal name Lu Nüsheng 鲁女生 Lu Nüsheng

Identity

Historicity
Uncertain
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Hermit
  • Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 皆与华佗同时(无纪年) · Western Interval: Start: AD 150 · End: AD 220
  • Source Date: Text: 董卓乱后,莫知所在 · Western Interval: Start: AD 189 · End: AD 192

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: narration · Role: speaker · Status: paraphrased · Summary: several times narrated the events of Emperor Ming's reign with great clarity · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 显宗时事 · Western Interval: Start: AD 57 · End: AD 75

Events and relationships

  • Kind: disappearance · Role: subject · Other Person Id: Dong Zhuo (董卓) · Action: after Dong Zhuo's rebellion no one knew where he had gone · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 董卓乱后 · Western Interval: Start: AD 189 · End: AD 192
  • Relation: contemporary-of · Person Id: Hua Tuo (华佗) · Description: one of the three men said to be contemporaries of Hua Tuo

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-judgment

Source notes

  • Field: period of life · Statement: debaters suspected from the clarity of his narration that he had actually been a man of Emperor Ming's time · Witness: 议者 · Provenance: Mode: report

References in the histories

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