Guan Lu

Guan Lu (209–256),courtesy name Gongming, was a diviner who lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period.

Historical publications

Guan Yu was the author of:

All of these books were lost during the Three Kingdoms wars and are now known only by name.

Stories

At one time Governor Wang Ji of Anping heard of the fame of Guan Lu and invited him to come on a visit, in which he went. It so happened that another guest of the Governor was the magistrate of Xindu, whose wife was currently suffering from severe types of headaches while his son from pains in the heart. Guan Lu was then asked to discover the reason behind this. He followed in casting lots and said that at the west corner of the main hall there were buried two corpses, one of a man who held a spear, the other of a man who had a bow and arrows. The wall was built across them. The spearman's master had a certain gash in his head, and so his head pained through this fact. The archer's master had stabbed him in the heart, and so his heart suffered anguish. They then followed in digging where Guan Lu indicated and, about eight spans down they ended up finding two coffins, one with a spear inside and the other with that of a strung bow and wooden arrows. At the time they were all very decayed. Guan Lu bade them remove the bones and bury them three miles outside the walls. Following this, the woman and the boy had no such thing occur to them at any other time.