Overview
Master Nanguo was a Musician.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- BC 319 to BC 301 齊王Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 41, passages 212-213, 216
Career and standing
- yu piper (feigned) 吹竽Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 213
Places and affiliations
- Polity Qi 齊 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 213
Learning and skills
- Skill blowing the yu 吹竽 · Level none · Negated trueDirectly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 213
Events and relationships
- Fled when asked to play aloneDirectly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 215-216
- Requested to blow yu without skillDirectly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 213
- Relation Served · Person King of Qi (齊王)Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 213
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment did not know how to blow the yu; type of indiscriminate nominee · Mode named-source-report Speaker Liu Shi (劉寔)Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 213, 217
- Item stipends of several men 數人之俸 · Relation Drew unearnedDirectly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 213
Source notes
- Value literaryDirectly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 213
References in the histories
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