Dai Liang (戴良) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Dai Liang as a hermit. This record brings together 8 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	Dai Liang	戴良	Dai Liang
Surname	Dai	戴	Dai
Personal name	Dai Liang	戴良	Dai Liang
Given	Liang	良	Liang
Courtesy name	Shuluan	叔鸾	Shuluan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0299

Roles

Hermit

Life and dates

Death

Manner: natural lifespan
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0320

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 后汉戴良事迹 · Western Interval: Start: AD 9 · End: AD 220
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:094:s0299, houhanshu:094:s0301

Family

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Descendant of Dai Zun (戴遵)
Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖父 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖父 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
Sibling of Dai Boluan (伯鸾)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
Child of Father of Dai Liang (戴良父)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Line: paternal
Parentage: biological · Line: paternal
Child of Mother of Dai Liang (戴良母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
Spouse of Wife of Dai Liang (戴良妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻子 · Union Category: marriage
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage

Kinship Role: daughters · Count: 5 · Statement: 五女并贤
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0321, houhanshu:094:s0322
Kinship Role: children · Statement: 妻子同行出逃 · Quantity: unspecified
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0319

Career and standing

Status: never-took-office · Action: maintained
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0320

Places and affiliations

Place: Shenyang in Runan / 汝南慎阳
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0299
Place: Jiangxia mountains / 江夏山中 · Relation: hid-in
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0319

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xie Jixiao (谢季孝)
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0316
Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0308, houhanshu:094:s0309, houhanshu:094:s0310, houhanshu:094:s0311, houhanshu:094:s0312

Events and relationships

Kind: mourning · Role: mourner · Action: ate-meat-and-drank-wine-wept-when-grief-came
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0306
Kind: summons · Role: invitee · Action: fled-into-Jiangxia-mountains-with-family
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0319
Kind: recommendation · Role: nominee · Action: refused-filial-and-incorrupt
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0318

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: talent-lofty-discourse-prized-the-strange · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · houhanshu:094:s0314

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 94Volume 83: Biographies of Hermits · 8 passages

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戴良字叔鸾，汝南慎阳人也。 Dai Liang, styled Shuluan, came from Shenyang in Runan.

良少诞节，母憙驴鸣，良常学之，以娱乐焉。 Young Dai Liang flouted small rules: his mother loved donkeys' bray, so he brayed to cheer her.

及母卒，兄伯鸾居庐啜粥，非礼不行，良独食肉饮酒，哀至乃哭，而二人俱有毁容。 At her death his brother Boluan took the hut and thin gruel; Dai ate meat and drank wine, wept only when sorrow struck—yet both wasted their faces with grief.

或问良曰：“子之居丧，礼乎？” Critics asked, "Is this mourning by the book?"

良曰：“然。 Dai said, "Yes.

良才既高达，而论议尚奇，多骇流俗。 His genius was high, his talk outrageous—he shocked the crowd.

良曰：“我若仲尼长东鲁，大禹出西羌，独步天下，谁与为偶！” Dai answered, "Were I Confucius in eastern Lu or Yu rising from the western Qiang, I would walk the world alone—who could pair with me!"

初，良五女并贤，每有求姻，辄便许嫁，疏裳布被、竹笥木屐以遣之。 His five daughters were all virtuous; at every match he agreed at once, dowering them with homespun, bamboo boxes, and wooden clogs.