Chen Jiru (陳繼儒) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Jiru as a hermit, painter, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chen Jiru	陳繼儒	Chen Jiru
Courtesy	Zhongchun	仲醇	Zhongchun

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:298:s0180

Roles

Hermit
Painter
Poet
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age: 82
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0199

Age

Age: 82 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0199

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 年甫二十九 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1588 · End: AD 1639
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:298:s0185, mingshi:298:s0199

Family

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Child of Father of Chen Jiru
Kinship Term: parent / 親 · Parentage: biological
Child of Mother of Chen Jiru
Kinship Term: parent / 親 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Status: government-student · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0182

Places and affiliations

Place: Huating in Songjiang / 松江華亭
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0180
Place: East She Mountain / 東佘山 · Relation: resided
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0188
Place: south slope of Kunshan / 昆山之陽 · Relation: resided
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0186

Learning and skills

Skill: poetry prose and painting / 詩文繪事
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0189

Events and relationships

Kind: personal · Role: actor · Action: burned-Confucian-robes · Age: 29
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0185
Kind: political · Role: refuser · Action: declined-Donglin-invitation · Other Person Id: Gu Xiancheng (顧憲成)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0187
Kind: political · Role: refuser · Action: declined-repeated-imperial-summons
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0198
Relation: studied-with · Person Id: Wang Heng (王衡)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0183
Relation: invited-to-study-by · Person Id: Wang Xijue (王錫爵)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0183
Relation: esteemed-by · Person Id: Wang Shizhen (王世貞)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0184
Relation: esteemed-by · Person Id: Xu Jie (徐階)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0181
Relation: equally-famed-with · Person Id: Dong Qichang (董其昌)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0182

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: lofty-and-broadly-learned · Provenance: Mode: named-person · Source Person Id: Huang Daozhou (黃道周)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0196

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 298Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses · 7 passages

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張介福倪瓚徐舫楊恆陳洄楊引吳海劉閔楊黼孫一元沈周陳繼儒 Zhang Jiefu, Ni Zan, Xu Fang, Yang Heng, Chen Hui, Yang Yin, Wu Hai, Liu Min, Yang Fu, Sun Yiyuan, Shen Zhou, and Chen Jiru

陳繼儒 Chen Jiru

陳繼儒，字仲醇，松江華亭人。 Chen Jiru, courtesy name Zhongchun, was a native of Huating in Songjiang.

王世貞亦雅重繼儒，三吳名下士爭欲得為師友。 Wang Shizhen also greatly esteemed Jiru, and celebrated gentlemen of the Three Wu all vied to have him as teacher or friend.

繼儒通明高邁，年甫二十九，取儒衣冠焚棄之。 Jiru was clear-sighted and lofty in spirit. At only twenty-nine he took his Confucian cap and robes and burned them.

時錫山顧憲成講學東林，招之，謝弗往。 At the time Gu Xiancheng of Wuxi lectured at the Donglin Academy and invited him, but Jiru declined.

黃道周疏稱「志尚高雅，博學多通，不如繼儒」，其推重如此。 Huang Daozhou in a memorial praised him as having "lofty and elegant aspirations, broad learning and wide accomplishment—none equal to Jiru." Such was the esteem in which he was held.