Chu Chengliang (褚承亮)

Overview

The translated histories identify Chu Chengliang as a hermit, official, and scholar. This record brings together 9 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	Chu Chengliang	褚承亮	Chu Chengliang
Given name	Chengliang	承亮	Chengliang
Personal name	Chu Chengliang	褚承亮	Chu Chengliang
Courtesy name	Maoxian	茂先	Maoxian
Posthumous name	Master Xuanzhen	玄貞先生	Xuanzhen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Hermit
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Age: 70
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Age

Age: 70 · Reckoning: sui · Context: at death
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天會六年 · Western Year: AD 1128
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Source Date: Text: 宣和五年 · Western Year: AD 1123
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Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1124
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Family

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Parent of Chu Xizhen (褚席珍)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: registrar of households in Yizhou / 易州戶曹 · Action: appointed-not-assumed
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Label: magistrate of Gaocheng / 知槁城縣 · Action: appointed-then-abandoned
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Places and affiliations

Label: Song / 宋 · Relation: subject-of
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Place: Zhending / 真定
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Learning and skills

Credential: first in provincial examination / 鄉試第一 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣和五年 · Western Year: AD 1123
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Credential: metropolitan graduate / 登第 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1124
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Chu Chengliang (褚承亮)
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Events and relationships

Kind: examination · Role: candidate · Action: forced-to-exam-then-walked-out · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天會六年 · Western Year: AD 1128
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Kind: literary · Role: presenter · Action: presented-writings · Other Person Id: Su Shi (蘇軾)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: 卓尔不群 among Jin recluses · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 65: Xiao You, Wendihanwolubu, Chen Yan, Liu Yu, Meng Xing, Wang Zhen, Liu Zheng, Yin Yi, Chu Chengliang, Wang Qufei, Zhao Zhi, Du Shisheng, Hao Tianting, Xue Jiyuan, Gao Zhongzhen, Zhang Qian, Wang Rumei, Song Ke, Xin Yuan, Wang Yuke · 9 passages

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褚承亮 Chu Chengliang

褚承亮，字茂先，真定人。 Chu Chengliang, styled Maoxian, came from Zhending.

宋蘇軾自定武謫官過真定，承亮以文謁之，大為稱賞。 When Su Shi of the Song, demoted from Dingwu, passed through Zhending, Chengliang presented his writings and won high praise.

宣和五年秋，應鄉試，同試者八百人，承亮為第一。 In the autumn of the fifth year of Xuanhe he took the provincial examination and ranked first among eight hundred candidates.

天會六年，斡離不既破真定，拘籍境內進士試安國寺，承亮名亦在籍中，匿而不出。 In the sixth year of Tianhui, after Wolibu captured Zhending, he registered local jinshi and held an examination at Anguo Temple; Chengliang's name was on the list, but he hid and refused to appear.

承亮詣主文劉侍中曰：「君父之罪，豈臣子所得言耶？」 Chengliang went to the chief examiner, Vice Minister Liu, and said, "The offenses of sovereign and father — how can a subject presume to speak of them?"

劉多承亮之誼，薦知槁城縣。 Out of deep regard for Chengliang, Liu recommended him as magistrate of Gaocheng County.

年七十終，門人私諡曰「玄貞先生。」 He died at seventy; his disciples gave him the posthumous title "Master Xuanzhen."

褚承亮宋人，勒試進士，主司發策問宋徽、欽之罪，承亮長揖而去之。 Chu Chengliang was a Song subject; compelled to take the jinshi examination, the chief examiner set a policy question on the offenses of emperors Hui and Qin of Song, and Chengliang bowed deeply and walked out.