Overview
The translated histories identify Tang Yu as a hermit and named individual. This record brings together 2 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 | Tang Yu | 唐虞 | Tang Yu |
| Personal name | Tang Yu | 唐虞 | Tang Yu |
Identity
- Historicity
- Uncertain
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · houhanshu:093:s0203
Roles
- Hermit
- Named Individual
Life and dates
Death
- Place: his home village in Buqi county / 乡里不其县 · Source Text: 死于乡里不其县Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0203
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 皆与华佗同时（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 150 · End: AD 220Derived · houhanshu:093:s0201
- Source Date: Text: 道赤眉、张步家居里落（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 18 · End: AD 32Derived · houhanshu:093:s0203
Events and relationships
- Relation: contemporary-of · Person Id: Hua Tuo (华佗) · Description: one of the three men said to be contemporaries of Hua TuoExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0201
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: chosen by the historian, out of the many practitioners of strange arts in the Han age, as one of the soundest cases worth appending at the end of the chapter · Source Text: 汉世异术之士甚众，虽云不经，而亦有不可诬，故简基美者列于传末 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0200, houhanshu:093:s0201
Source notes
- Kind: anachronistic-association · Other Person Id: Zhang Bu (张步) · Statement: was said to have kept company with the Red Eyebrows and with Zhang Bu in their home hamlets, as if he had had contact with them · Provenance: Mode: reportExplicit · houhanshu:093:s0203
References in the histories
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