Overview
The translated histories identify Xu Zun as a diviner and official. This record brings together 9 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 | Xu Zun | 許遵 | Xu Zun |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Uncertain
Roles
- Diviner
- Official
Life and dates
Death
- Source Date: Text: 顯祖十月崩前九月 · Western Year: c. AD 559 · Circumstance: died in the ninth month before Xianzu's tenth-month deathExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0086
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 武定初 · Western Year: AD 543Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0072
Career and standing
- Office: Recorder in the opening staff's field bureau / 開府田曹記室 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0077
Places and affiliations
- Place: Gaoyang / 高陽Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0072
Learning and skills
- Skill: astronomy and physiognomy / 天文、占相Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0073
- Skill: milfoil divination / 筮Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0073
Works and attributed material
- Kind: prophecy · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Events and relationships
- Kind: military-prophecy · Role: prognosticator · Event: Mang campaign · Prediction: defeat because fire overcame wood · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武定初 · Western Year: AD 543Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0075, beiqishu:049:s0076
- Kind: prophecy · Role: prognosticator · Prediction: Yue's Jiangling expedition would bring calamityExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0079, beiqishu:049:s0083
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: divinations verified as if spirit-like · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0073
References in the histories
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