Ancient China · Strategist

Taigong 太公

Attested BC 1046

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Taigong was a Strategist.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 1046 太公
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 55, passage 268

Works and attributed material

Taigong's book 太公書
Relation Author
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 55, passage 268

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 55House of Marquis of Liu · 1 passage

子房始所見下邳圯上老父與太公書者，後十三年從高帝過濟北，果見穀城山下黃石，取而葆祠之。 The old man whom Zifang had met on the bridge at Xiapi, the one who gave him the book of Taigong — thirteen years later, while accompanying Emperor Gao through Jibei, Zhang Liang came upon a yellow stone at the foot of Mount Gucheng, just as the old man had foretold. He took it and enshrined it with reverence.