Ancient China · Historian

Zuo Qiuming 丘明

Attested BC 500 - BC 400

Passages
1
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zuo Qiuming as a historian and scholar. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zuo Qiuming 丘明 Zuo Qiuming
Personal Zuo Qiuming 丘明 Qiū Míng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Historian
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 史臣引丘明為鑑 · Western Interval: Start: BC 500 · End: BC 400
    Strongly inferred · suishu:061:s0217

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: would have regarded such conduct with deep shame · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · suishu:061:s0217

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 61Volume 61 Biographies 26: Yu Wenshu, Guo Yan · 1 passage