Zuo Ci

左慈
Courtesy name: Yuanfang (元放)
Ancestral home
Lujiang (Southwest of Lujiang County, Anhui)
Also known as
Black Horn
Book mentions
14
Roles:
fangshi taoist
Appears in 1 chapter:
  • Chapter 68 — Gan Ning's Hundred Horsemen Raid The Northern Camp; Zuo Ci's Flung-Down Cup Fools Cao Cao.
    'Black Horn' of Emei Mountain, with the three-volume Book of Concealing Method: empties Sun Quan's oranges on the road, eats a whole sheep at Cao Cao's table, sleeps through beatings while collar and chains fall away — then works the banquet (dragon's liver out of a wall-sketch, winter peonies, four-gilled River Song perch, the wine-cup that becomes a dove) and offers Cao Cao the deal he refuses: make way for Liu Bei or meet a flying sword. Four hundred beheaded look-alikes later, his black-vapor image rides off on a white crane: 'one morning the doer of evil shall be no more.'