Cheng Hao (程顥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cheng Hao as a philosopher, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 7 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cheng Hao	程顥	Cheng Hao
Surname	Cheng	程	Cheng
Personal	Cheng Chun	程純公
Posthumous	Chun	純公
Posthumous name	Master Chungong	純公

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:483:s0121, yuanshi:171:s0091

Roles

Philosopher
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Western Year: AD 1851 · Source Date: Text: 文宗即位 memorial quotation
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0006, qingshigao:391:s0020
Source Date: Text: 皇慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1312
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:171:s0091
Source Date: Text: 純公 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1085
Explicit · qingshigao:483:s0121

Learning and skills

Belief: Cheng learning · Relation: teaching lineage studied by Li Tangjie
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0122

Works and attributed material

Kind: quoted saying · Role: speaker · Quote Summary: ancient rulers must have ministers who recite admonitions and remonstrate
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0020

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 391Volume 391 Biographies 178: Wo Ren, Li Tangjie, Wu Tingdong · 5 passages

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宋程顥雲，'古者人君必有誦訓箴諫之臣'。 Cheng Hao of the Song said, 'In ancient times every ruler had ministers who recited lessons and offered frank remonstrance.'

會通程、硃、陸、王學說，無所偏主，要以克己復禮、身體實行為歸。 He mastered the teachings of the Cheng brothers, Zhu Xi, Lu Xiangshan, and Wang Yangming without partisan bias, and aimed always at self-restraint, return to ritual, and practice in the flesh.

因詢廷棟讀何書，廷棟以程、硃對。 The emperor asked what he read; Wu Tingdong answered, the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi.

上曰：「學程、硃者每多迂拘。」 The emperor said, "Students of Cheng and Zhu are often stiff and narrow."

程、硃以明德為體，新民為用，天下未有有體而無用者。 Cheng and Zhu take illustrious virtue as root and renewing the people as use; nowhere is there root without use.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 483Volume 483 Biographies 270: Confucian Scholars 4: Kong Yinzhi Son: Xing Xie, Yu Qi Son: Chuan Duo, Guang Qi Son: Zhao Huan, Sun :Xianpei, Zeng Sun : Qing Rong, Zeng Sun : Fan Hao, Xuan Sun : Xiang Ke, Lai Sun : Ling Yi · 1 passage

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而程氏改純公後一人。 For the Cheng house the line was changed to a single heir of Master Chungong.

History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 1 passage

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皇慶元年，升司業，用程純公《學校奏疏》、胡文定公《六學教法》、朱文公《學校貢舉私議》，約之為教法四條：一曰經學，二曰行實，三曰文藝，四曰治事，未及行。 In the first year of Huangqing (1312) he was promoted to Vice Director. Drawing on Cheng Chun's Memorial on Schools, Hu Anguo's Six-Learning Teaching Method, and Zhu Xi's Private Discussion on School Recommendation and Examination, he distilled them into four articles of teaching method: classical learning, conduct, literary accomplishment, and administration of affairs—before they could be put into practice.