Overview
The translated histories identify Lü Shang as a general, named individual, official, and statesman. This record brings together 21 passages from 14 chapters across 5 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Lü Shang | 呂尚 | Lü Shang |
| Title | Grand Duke | 太公 | Tài Gōng |
| Surname | Lü | 呂 | Lü |
| Personal name | Lü | 呂 | Lü |
| Personal | Lu Shang | 呂尚 | Lü Shang |
| Personal name | Lu Shang | 呂尚 | Lǚ Shàng |
| Personal name | Lü Shang | 呂尚 | |
| Personal name | Lü Shang | 呂尚 | Lǚ Shàng |
| Alternate name | Lü Shang | 呂尚 | Lü Shang |
| Alternate | Lu Wang | 呂望 | Lü Wang |
| Personal | Lü Wang | Lü Wang | |
| Alternate | Lü Wang | 呂望 | Lü Wang |
| Alternate name | Lü Wang | 呂望 | |
| Alternate name | Lü Wang | 呂望 | Lǚ Wàng |
| Personal | Lü Wang | 望 | Wang |
| Personal | Lü Wang | 周望 | Zhou Wang |
| Personal name | Lü Wang | 望 | Wang |
| Personal name | Lü Wang | 呂望 | Lǚ Wàng |
| Personal | Lü Wang | 呂望 | Lǚ Wàng |
| Personal name | Lü Wang | 呂望 | Lü Wang |
| Personal | Lü Wang | 呂望 | Lü Wang |
| Title | Taigong | 太公 | Taigong |
Identity
- Historicity
- Uncertain
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · hanshu:101:s0022, hanshu:103:s0052, houhanshu:031:s0157, houhanshu:032:s0105, shiji:083:s0228, shiji:124:s0009, zhoushu:023:s0294
- Sex: maleExplicit · liaoshi:089:s0080, zhoushu:023:s0164
- Value: maleExplicit · shiji:073:s0077
Roles
- General
- Named Individual
- Official
- Statesman
- Strategist
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 呂尚困於棘津 · Qualitative: legendary antiquityExplicit · shiji:124:s0009
- Qualitative: legendary antiquity
- Source Date: Text: 伊尹、呂尚之謀 · Western Year: BC 1046Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:103:s0052
- Source Date: Text: 周初 · Western Interval: Start: BC 1046 · End: BC 1000Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:031:s0157
- Source Date: Text: 周初 · Western Year: BC 1046Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:025:s0100
- Source Date: Text: 四十八年 · Western Year: BC 259Explicit event contextual date · shiji:073:s0069, shiji:073:s0077
- Source Date: Text: 大統十年 · Western Year: AD 544Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:023:s0042, zhoushu:023:s0164
- Source Date: Text: 載呂尚而歸，以王天下 · Western Interval: Start: BC 1100 · End: BC 1050Explicit · shiji:083:s0228
Family
- Kinship Role: descendants · Status: held states alongside Shang and Zhou · Quantity: unknownExplicit · hanshu:025:s0100
Places and affiliations
- Label: Zhou / 周 · Relation: servedExplicit · shiji:083:s0228
- Polity: Zhou · Unresolved: trueExplicit · hanshu:117:s0257
- Place: Jijin / 棘津 · Relation: stranded-atExplicit · shiji:124:s0009
Events and relationships
- Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: butchered-and-fished-before-advancement · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大統十年 · Western Year: AD 544 · Provenance: Mode: document · Source Person Id: Su Chuo (蘇綽)Explicit · zhoushu:023:s0164
- Kind: political · Role: exemplar · Action: cited-as-model-or-warning · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大統十年 · Western Year: AD 544 · Provenance: Mode: document · Source Person Id: Su Chuo (蘇綽)
- Kind: recruitment · Role: recruited-advisor · Action: returned-with · Other Person Id: King Wen of Zhou (周文王) · Place: Jing and Wei rivers / 涇、渭 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 載呂尚而歸，以王天下 · Western Interval: Start: BC 1100 · End: BC 1050Explicit · shiji:083:s0228
- Kind: military · Role: commanderExplicit · hanshu:025:s0100
- Relation: advisor-of · Person Id: King Wen of Zhou (周文王)Explicit · shiji:083:s0228
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: Lu Wang's achievements were invoked as an unsurpassed historical standard · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Su Dai (蘇代)Explicit · shiji:073:s0077
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · shiji:083:s0228
- Historicity: legendaryExplicit · shiji:099:s0015
References in the histories
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