Du Qiong (c. 160s – 250),[1] courtesy name Boyu, was an official, astronomer and diviner of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Sometime between 194 and 214, Liu Zhang, the Governor of Yi Province (covering present-day Sichuan and Chongqing), recruited Du Qiong to serve under him as an Assistant Officer (從事).
Jiang Wan and Fei Yi, who consecutively served as the heads of the Shu central government between 234 and 253, respected and regarded him highly.
Du Qiong replied, "Wei (魏) also refers to either of the two viewing towers at each gate of the imperial palace.
When Qiao Zhou sought clarification, Du Qiong further explained, "The term cao (曹) was never used to refer to the positions held by government officials in ancient times.
Although both of them were emperors at some point of time in their lives, they ultimately ended up being removed from the throne and reduced to the status of lesser nobles.
[14]In 262, when the eunuch Huang Hao was in power in Shu, a big tree in the imperial palace suddenly collapsed.
Qiao Zhou became worried but he could not find someone to talk to, so he wrote a 12-character mantra on a pillar which foreshadowed the conquest of Shu by Wei a year later.
After the fall of Shu, when people praised Qiao Zhou for making an accurate prediction, he said, "I may have thought about this myself, but I only came up with it after expanding and deriving from the sayings of Du Qiong.