Guan Zhong
管仲
Courtesy name: Yiwu (夷吾)
Source:
wikipedia.com
- Born
- 720 BC
- Died
- 645 BC
- Book mentions
- 11
Roles:
philosopher
politician
Factions:
Qi State (Spring+Autumn)
(primary)
Links:
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Wikipedia entry Bio
Appears in 8 chapters:
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Chapter 36
— Shan Fu's Strategy: Fankou Is Captured; Xu Shu's Affection: Zhuge Liang Is Recommended.
The ancient chancellor of Qi to whom Zhuge Liang 'often compares himself' - and whom, in Xu Shu's opinion, he far surpasses.
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Chapter 37
— Sima Hui Recommends A Scholar To Liu Bei; Liu Bei Pays Three Visits To The Sleeping Dragon Ridge.
The self-comparison Guan Yu finds excessive - and Water Mirror finds insufficient: Zhuge Liang should be measured not against Guan Zhong but against Lu Wang and Zhang Liang.
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Chapter 38
— Zhuge Liang Plans For The Three Kingdoms; Sun Quan Attacks Xiakou To Take Revenges.
The minister worth five princely visits in Liu Bei's retort - if Prince Huan could wait on Guan Zhong, a third call on the Sleeping Dragon is no humiliation.
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Chapter 43
— Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
Zhang Zhao's measuring stick: the minister who made Prince Huan head of the feudal lords - can the man who lost Jingzhou claim his equal?
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Chapter 57
— Sleeping Dragon Mourns In Chaisang; Young Phoenix Intervenes At Leiyang.
Lu Su's yardstick for Pang Tong - 'not inferior to the old Guan Zhong or Yue Yi.'
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Chapter 93
— Jiang Wei Goes Over To Zhuge Liang; Zhuge Liang Reviles Wang Lang.
Invoked by Wang Lang as the measure Zhuge Liang sets for himself — 'worthy, you say yourself, to be compared with Guan Zhong and Yue Yi' — and used to sharpen the charge that such a man should know better than to oppose Heaven.
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Chapter 104
— A Falling Star: The Prime Minister Ascends To Heaven; A Wooden Statue: The Commander-In-Chief Is Terrified.
Alluded to in Yuan Weizhi's elegy as one of the two statesmen Zhuge Liang is said to have surpassed: 'In state-craft he excelled Guan Zhong, Yue Yi.' The same pair Zhuge Liang compared himself to in ch35, closing the arc.
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Chapter 118
— Weeping At The Ancestral Temple, A Filial Prince Dies; Marching To The West River Land, Two Leaders Competes.
Named in the elegy for Zhuge Liang at the fall of Shu, as one of the two statesmen he was the peer of - the same comparison he made for himself in the thatched cottage, closing the arc a hundred chapters later.