Qin and Han · Diviner

Wang Shuo 王朔

Attested BC 121

Passages
3
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Shuo as a diviner. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

RolesDiviner

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Shuo 王朔 Wang Shuo
Given Shuo 朔

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diviner

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 後二歲 · Western Year: BC 121
    Explicit · shiji:109:s0108

Works and attributed material

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 109Biography of General Li · 3 passages
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廣嘗與望氣王朔燕語，曰：「自漢擊匈奴而廣未嘗不在其中，而諸部校尉以下，才能不及中人，然以擊胡軍功取侯者數十人，而廣不為後人，然無尺寸之功以得封邑者，何也？ Guang once conversed at leisure with the diviner Wang Shuo and said, "Since the Han began attacking the Xiongnu, I have never failed to be in the field. Yet among the colonels and commanders and those below them, men whose abilities do not reach the middling level have, through merit in fighting the barbarians, become marquises by the dozens. I am not behind others, yet I have not the slightest merit by which to receive a fief—why is this?