Zhao Guo (趙過) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Guo as an administrator, inventor, named individual, and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhao Guo	趙過	Zhao Guo
Personal	Guo	過	Guo
Given name	Guo	過
Surname	Zhao	趙
Personal name	Zhao Guo	趙過	Zhào Guò

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · hanshu:026:s0247, jinshi:050:s0187

Roles

Administrator
Inventor
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 武帝末年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 90 · End: BC 87
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:026:s0244, hanshu:026:s0247
Source Date: Text: 趙過 · Western Interval: Start: BC 140 · End: BC 87
Explicit · jinshi:050:s0187

Career and standing

Label: Commandant for Grain Collection / 搜粟都尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝末年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 90 · End: BC 87
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0247

Places and affiliations

Polity: Western Han · Relation: served
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0247

Learning and skills

Skill: plot / alternate-furrow farming method / 一畝三甽之法 · Level: innovator
Explicit · jinshi:050:s0187

Events and relationships

Kind: agricultural · Role: innovator · Action: devised-three-furrow-per-mu-method
Explicit · jinshi:050:s0187
Kind: agricultural · Role: reformer · Action: introduced-alternating-fields
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0248, hanshu:026:s0249
Kind: administrative · Role: recommender · Action: recommended-as-assistant · Other Person Id: Guang (光)
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0262
Kind: agricultural · Role: instructor · Action: taught-alternating-fields
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0259, hanshu:026:s0260, hanshu:026:s0265, hanshu:026:s0266
Relation: recommended · Person Id: Guang (光)
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0262

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 26Volume 24a: Treatise on Trade 1 · 6 passages

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以趙過為搜粟都尉。 He appointed Zhao Guo as Commandant for Grain Collection.

過能為代田，一畝三甽。 Zhao Guo introduced the three-furrow alternating-field technique.

過使教田太常、三輔，大農置工巧奴與從事，為作田器。 Zhao Guo coordinated central and regional agencies to mass-produce appropriate agricultural implements.

民或苦少牛，亡以趨澤，故平都令光教過以人輓犁。 Some people suffered from too few oxen and had no way to hurry cultivation, so Pingdu magistrate Guang taught Guo human-drawn plowing.

過奏光以為丞，教民相與庸輓犁。 Guo recommended Guang as assistant and taught the people to hire one another to pull plows.

過試以離宮卒田其宮壖地，課得穀皆多其旁田畝一斛以上。 Controlled trials on palace lands showed consistent yield advantage over adjacent plots.

History of Jin, Chapter 50Volume 50 Treatises 31: Finance and Economics 5: Monopoly Markets, State Purchase of Grain, Rice Fields, Agricultural Land Administration, Buying of Titles or Pardons With Grain and Selling of Ordination Certificates · 1 passage

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見嵇康《養生論》，自是歷代未有天下通用如趙過一畝三甽之法者。 See Ji Kang's Treatise on Nourishing Life; no method since has been applied empire-wide like Zhao Guo's three-furrow-per-mu system.