Ren Gu 任穀

Other names

Career and standing

• farmer 耕者
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 86
• Became
  Eunuch
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 88
• housed inside the palace 留于宮中
  Detained · Authority Yuan Emperor (元帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 90
• banish to wild frontier lands 投畀裔土
  Recommended banishment · Authority Guo Pu (璞) · Guo Pu urges banishment; the chapter does not say it was carried out before flight
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 99, 102

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id eastern-jin · Relation Subject of
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 86, 90
• At Jiyang 暨陽
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 86
• At Jiyang 暨陽 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 86
• At palace 宮中 · Relation Detained at
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 90, 92

Learning and skills

• Belief Daoist arts 道術 · Relation Claimed adherent of · Mode self-report Speaker Ren Gu (任穀)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 89
• Skill arcane arts 道術 · Level self-claimed · Mode self-report Speaker Ren Gu (任穀)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 89

Events and relationships

• Became eunuch
  Bodily · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 88
• Fled
  AD 323 其后元帝崩 · Flight · Fugitive
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passage 104
• Petitioned court
  Political · Petitioner
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 89
• Serpent extracted from groin
  Anomaly · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 87
• Violated and conceived
  Anomaly · Victim
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 86

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment demon-anomaly without cause · Mode quotation Speaker Guo Pu (璞)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 91
• Assessment freakish man who should not enter the palace · Mode quotation Speaker Guo Pu (璞)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 96
• conceived after assault by a feather-robed stranger and later had a snake-child cut from his groin
  Physical description
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 86-87

Source notes

• the chapter writes both 穀 and 谷 for the same man
  Field given-name · Readings 穀, 谷
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 86, 88, 90-91
• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 86