Qin and Han · Diviner

Wang Heping 王和平

Attested AD 25 - AD 220

Passages
4
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Heping as a diviner and teacher. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Heping 王和平 Wang Heping
Personal name Heping 和平 Heping
Alternate name Liu Heping 刘和平 Liu Heping
Personal name Wang Heping 王和平 Wang Heping

Identity

Historicity
Uncertain
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diviner
  • Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 北海王和平 · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 220
    Uncertain · houhanshu:093:s0366

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Belief: Daoist arts / expecting immortality / 道术 · Relation: adherent-of

Assessments and attributes

  • Item: writings over a hundred scrolls and several bags of drugs / 书百余卷,药数囊 · Relation: buried-with

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 93Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 · 4 passages