Overview
The translated histories identify Lu Zhong as a named individual, philosopher, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 28 passages from 6 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Lu Zhong | 魯連 | Lu Lian |
| Alternate | Lu Lian | 魯連 | Lu Lian |
| Alternate | Lu Lian | 魯連 | Lǔ Lián |
| Alternate name | Lu Lian | 魯連 | Lu Lian |
| Personal name | Lu Zhong | 魯連 | Lu Lian |
| Personal name | Lu Zhonglian | 魯連 | Lǔ Zhònglián |
| Personal | Lu Zhonglian | 魯連 | Lu Lian |
| Personal name | Lu Zhonglian | 魯連 | Lu Zhonglian |
| Personal name | Lu Zhonglian | 魯仲連 | Lu Zhonglian |
| Title | Master Lu Zhonglian | 魯仲連先生 | |
| Given | Zhonglian | 仲連 | Zhonglian |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · shiji:083:s0001
- Value: maleStrongly inferred · hanshu:022:s0021
Roles
- Named Individual
- Philosopher
- Scholar
- Statesman
- Strategist
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 其後二十餘年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 250 · End: BC 240Explicit event contextual date · shiji:083:s0095, shiji:083:s0097
- Source Date: Text: 詠詩引用 · Western Year: BC 284Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:003:s0126
- Source Date: Text: 趙孝成王時秦圍邯鄲 · Western Interval: Start: BC 259 · End: BC 257
- Source Date: Text: 魯連 · Western Interval: Start: BC 284 · End: BC 250Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:022:s0021
- Source Date: Text: 魯連 · Western Interval: Start: BC 284 · End: BC 250Explicit · liangshu:014:s0040
Career and standing
- Label: strategist without office / 好奇偉畫策而不肯仕宦Explicit · shiji:083:s0002
- Label: official post / 仕宦任職 · Action: refusedExplicit · shiji:083:s0002
- Status: refused-office · Action: maintainedExplicit · shiji:083:s0002
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Qi / 齊 · Relation: fromExplicit · shiji:083:s0001
- Place: Qi / 齊Explicit · shiji:083:s0001
- Place: Zhao / 趙 · Relation: traveled-toExplicit · shiji:083:s0003
Learning and skills
- Skill: broad learning / 博通 · Level: renownedExplicit · hanshu:022:s0021
Works and attributed material
- Work: Letter to the Yan general / 遺燕將書 · Relation: authorExplicit · shiji:083:s0097, shiji:083:s0098
- Kind: letter · Role: author · Other Person Id: Yan General at Liaocheng (燕將) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其後二十餘年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 250 · End: BC 240
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其後二十餘年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 250 · End: BC 240Explicit · shiji:083:s0148
Events and relationships
- Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: fled-into-seclusion-by-sea · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其後二十餘年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 250 · End: BC 240Explicit · shiji:083:s0148
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: persuader · Action: rebuked · Other Person Id: Xin Yuanyan (新垣衍) · Place: Handan / 邯鄲 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 趙孝成王時秦圍邯鄲 · Western Interval: Start: BC 259 · End: BC 257
- Kind: political · Role: recipient · Action: refused-fief-and-gold · Other Person Id: Lord Pingyuan (平原君) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 趙孝成王時秦圍邯鄲 · Western Interval: Start: BC 259 · End: BC 257
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: gentleman-of-the-realm · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Xin Yuanyan (新垣衍)Explicit · shiji:083:s0086
- Assessment: lofty-scholar-of-Qi · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Xin Yuanyan (新垣衍)Explicit · shiji:083:s0021
- Assessment: widely learned and indifferent to fame and gain; ranked fifth class · Provenance: Mode: commentator-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Zhang Yan (張晏)Explicit · hanshu:022:s0021
- Kind: character · Statement: dismissed fame and gain / 忽於榮利Explicit · hanshu:022:s0021
References in the histories
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