Wu Kang (武亢) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Kang as an astrologer, diviner, and official. This record brings together 6 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	Wu Kang	武亢	Wu Kang
Descriptive kinship	His son Kang	子亢
Given	Kang	亢	Kang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jinshi:131:s0138

Roles

Astrologer
Diviner
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: drowned himself · Place: Cai Prefecture / 蔡州
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天興二年九月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1233
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Source Date: Text: 哀宗至蔡州 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1233 · End: AD 1234
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Source Date: Text: 明年甲午正月 · Western Year: AD 1234
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Family

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Child of Wu Zhen (武禎)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: senior director of astronomy / 司天長行 · Action: appointed
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Jin / 金 · Relation: served
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Emperor Aizong (哀宗)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Emperor Aizong (哀宗)
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Events and relationships

Kind: divination · Role: diviner · Action: predicted twelfth-month attack and Yuan withdrawal
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: rather arrogant; criticized by court officials · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 131Volume 131 Biographies 69: Huan Zhe, Liang Chong, Song Gui, Pan Shouheng, Fang Ji, Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Qingsi, Ji Tianxi, Zhang Yuansu, Ma Guizhong, Wu Zhen Son: Kang, Li Mao, Hu Dexin · 6 passages

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金世，如武禎、武亢之信而不誣，劉完素、張元素之治療通變，學其術者皆師尊之，不可不記雲。 Under the Jin, men such as Wu Zhen and Wu Kang proved trustworthy and true, while Liu Wansu and Zhang Yuansu were masters of adaptive treatment. All who learned from them revered them as teachers — and they must be recorded.

子亢 His son Kang

子亢，寡言笑，不妄交。 His son Kang spoke little, laughed little, and made friends cautiously.

召至，屏人與語，大悅，除司天長行，賞賚甚厚。 Kang was summoned. The emperor dismissed his attendants and spoke with him alone, was greatly pleased, appointed him senior director of astronomy, and lavished rewards upon him.

天興二年九月，蔡州被圍，亢奏曰：「十二月三日必攻城。」 In the ninth month of the second year of Tianxing, when Cai Prefecture was under siege, Kang memorialized, "On the third day of the twelfth month the enemy will attack the city."

是日，亢赴水死雲。 On that day Kang drowned himself.