Overview
The translated histories identify Old Man of the Gourd as a merchant, pharmacist, religious leader, and teacher. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Old Man of the Gourd | 老翁 | |
| Epithet | a man among the immortals | 神仙之人 | |
| Title | the old man | 老翁 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Legendary
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0226
Roles
- Merchant
- Pharmacist
- Religious Leader
- Teacher
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 费长房事（无纪年，东汉） · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 220Derived · houhanshu:093:s0226, houhanshu:093:s0228
Career and standing
- Label: seller of medicine in the market / 市中卖药Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0226
- 我神仙之人，以过见责Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0232
Works and attributed material
- Kind: judgment · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Fei Zhangfang (费长房) · Status: quoted · Summary: declared that Zhangfang could be taught, and afterwards that he had come within a little of obtaining the Way but had failed at the last test · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 费长房事（无纪年，东汉） · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 220Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0243, houhanshu:093:s0245
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Fei Zhangfang (费长房) · Status: quoted · Summary: told Fei Zhangfang to come again the next day, forbade him to speak of the gourd, revealed that he was a banished immortal whose term was finished and asked whether Zhangfang could follow him, offering a farewell cup · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 费长房事（无纪年，东汉） · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 220
Events and relationships
- Kind: uncanny · Role: host · Other Person Id: Fei Zhangfang (费长房) · Action: took Fei Zhangfang into the gourd, where a splendid jade hall was filled with fine wine and delicacies, and lifted the immovable wine jar with one finger; the vessel looked to hold a sheng yet the two drank all day without exhausting it · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 费长房事（无纪年，东汉） · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 220
- Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Fei Zhangfang (费长房) · Description: tested Fei Zhangfang with the bamboo substitute, the tigers, the suspended stone and the dung, and judged him teachable
Assessments and attributes
- Item: a gourd hung at the head of his shop / 壶 · Relation: possessed · Note: he leapt into it when the market closed, unseen by the market peopleExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0226, houhanshu:093:s0227
References in the histories
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