Ancient China · Musician

Music Master Kuang 師曠

Shi Kuang

Attested BC 557 - BC 532

Passages
4
Chapters
4
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Music Master Kuang as a musician and named individual. This record brings together 4 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Music Master Kuang 師曠 Shi Kuang
Personal name Master Kuang 師曠 Shi Kuang
Title Master Kuang 師曠
Title Music Master Kuang 師曠
Personal name Shi Kuang 師曠
Personal Shi Kuang Kuang

Identity

Historicity
Uncertain
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Musician
  • Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Qualitative: legendary antiquity
    Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0149
  • Source Date: Text: 師曠之調鐘 · Western Year: BC 550
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:099:s0148
  • Source Date: Text: 師曠雜事 · Western Interval: Start: BC 557 · End: BC 532
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:034:s0028

Works and attributed material

  • Work: Master Kuang's miscellaneous tales / 師曠雜事 · Relation: attributed-author

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 117Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 1 passage
Book of Later Han, Chapter 34Volume 30a: Biographies of Su Jing; Yang Hou · 1 passage