Overview
Wei Yao was a historian and Official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inRecords of the Three Kingdoms
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 242 to AD 273 吳時韋曜當世Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passages 356, 361
Career and standing
- historian-writer 記述之才Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passage 361
Places and affiliations
- Polity Eastern Wu 吳 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passages 356, 361
Learning and skills
- Skill historical recording 記述 · Level had talentDirectly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passage 361
Works and attributed material
- memorials on affairs discussed with Hua He 曜核所論事章疏Relation AuthorDirectly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passage 356
Events and relationships
- Violent death in a treacherous agePersonal · Subject · Mode historian-judgmentStrongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passage 365
- Writings transmitted in the worldDirectly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passage 356
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment earnest in learning, loved antiquity, widely read, had talent for recording and writing · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Xue Ying (薛瑩)Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passage 361
- Assessment surpassed by Hua He in fu, superior in edicts and directives · With Hua He (華核) · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Hu Chong (胡沖)Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passage 363
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 65, passages 356, 361
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