Five Dynasties · Hermit

Chen Tuan 陳摶

Attested AD 954 - AD 959

Passages
5
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Tuan as a hermit, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Chen Tuan 陳摶 Chen Tuan
Surname Chen 陳
Personal Tuan 摶

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Hermit
  • Poet
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 世宗之在位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 954 · End: AD 959
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:119:s0152

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 119Volume 119 Book of Later Zhou 21: Shizong Annals 6 · 5 passages
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未幾，賜之書：「敕陳摶，朕以汝高謝人寰，棲心物外，養太浩自然之氣，應少微處士之星，既不屈於王侯，遂甘隱於巖壑，樂我中和之化，慶乎下武之期，而能遠涉山塗，暫來城闕，浹旬延遇，宏益居多，白雲暫駐於帝鄉，好爵難縻於達士。 Before long he granted him a letter: "To Chen Tuan: You have loftily withdrawn from the world and dwell beyond things, nurturing primordial breath and answering to the star of the recluse. Refusing princes, you hide in cliffs and ravines, delighting in our culture of harmony and rejoicing in this age of martial virtue; yet you crossed mountain paths to visit the capital. For more than ten days we received you, and the benefit was mostly ours. White clouds briefly rested at court; fine rank cannot bind the man of attainment.