Chen Liang 陳亮

Other names

Family

• Child of Chen Ciyin (陳次尹)
  father 父
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 200, 202
• Sibling of Chen Chong (陳充)
  younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 245

• Kinship Role sons · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 251-252

Career and standing

• Confucian scholar-writer 學者
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 1, 3, 11
• memorialist and Confucian scholar-official 上書儒臣
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 79
• scholar-memorialist 儒士上書者
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 154, 163
• scholar 秀才
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 198
• Signing Clerk for Jianye Prefectural Commission affairs 僉書建康府判官廳公事
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 243
• Wenyi 文毅
  AD 1234 端平初 · Posthumously granted
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 252

Places and affiliations

• Polity Song 宋 · Relation Lived under
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 164
• Polity Song 宋 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 226
• Polity Southern Song 南宋 · Relation Lived under
  Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passages 1, 9, 14
• Polity Southern Song 南宋 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passages 79-80
• Polity Southern Song 南宋 · Relation Subject of
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 120, 153
• At Yongkang 永康 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 1

Learning and skills

• Subject Doctrine of the Mean and Great Learning 中庸、大學 · Relation Received from · Person Zhou Kui (周葵)
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 7-8
• Earned
  AD 1193 光宗策進士 · Credential Presented Scholar (first place) 進士第一
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 239-240
• Belief doctrines of nature and destiny 性命之說 · Relation Studied
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 7-8
• Belief Learning after Mencius through Wang Tong 自孟子後惟推王通 · Relation Adherent of
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 206
• Skill military discussion 談兵 · Level delighted-in
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 2
• Skill broad classical learning 所學益博 · Level increasing
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 205

Works and attributed material

• Discourses on Weighing Antiquity 酌古論
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 3
• Five Discourses on Restoration 中興五論
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 10
• Discourses on Weighing Antiquity 酌古論
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 3
• Five Discourses on Restoration 中興五論
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 10
• Spring and Autumn 春秋
  Relation Cited
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 186
• AD 1178 淳熙五年
  Memorial · Author · With Xiaozong (孝宗) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 16-57

Events and relationships

• About to be promoted on zhong fang precedent
  Political · Subject · With Zhong Fang (種放)
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 164
• Answered palace exam
  AD 1193 光宗策進士 · Examination · Candidate · With Guangzong (光宗)
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 235-237
• Circled Qiantang and remarked it could be flooded
  Personal · Observer · At Qiantang 錢塘
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 12-13
• Cited Two Sovereigns northern capture as unprecedented shame
  Political · Memorialist · 二聖北狩 refers collectively to the captured Song emperors without individuating them here
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 20
• Courtiers told to bow to him
  Political · Introduced figure · With Zhou Kui (周葵)
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 6
• Crossed river and returned
  Travel · Actor
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 193

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment blunt speech without reserve · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 167
• Assessment committed to statecraft; valued promises; open-hearted · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 248
• Assessment gifted, bold, and unmatched in talent and spirit; skilled in military talk, debate, and rapid composition · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 2
• Assessment one day will be a pillar of the state (国士) · Mode named-source-report Speaker Zhou Kui (周葵)
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 4
• Assessment reckless and strange · Mode named-source-report Witness courtiers
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 227
• Assessment recommended scholars zealously though a commoner · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 249

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passages 79, 165
• household of middling means; clothed and fed eccentric and poor scholars for years
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 250
• Refused to trade opening centuries of foundation for the altars for a single office
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 192
• Took himself for a bold chivalrous man who had repeatedly suffered great imprisonment
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 205
• AD 1178 淳熙五年
  From Liang 亮 · To Tong 同
  Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 15