Yuan · Official

Ding Haoli 丁好禮

Dīng Hǎolǐ

Attested AD 1360 - AD 1368

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ding Haoli as an official and statesman. This record brings together 7 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	Ding Haoli	丁好禮	Dīng Hǎolǐ
Personal	Ding Haoli	丁好禮	Ding Haoli
Personal	Haoli	好禮	Haoli
Courtesy	Jingke	敬可	Jingke

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:196:s0153

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed after refusing to submit · Place: Qihua Gate / 齊化門
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0165

Age

Age: 75 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0165

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至正二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1367
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0163
Source Date: Text: 至正二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1368
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:196:s0164, yuanshi:196:s0089
Source Date: Text: 至正二十年 · Western Year: AD 1360
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0159

Career and standing

Label: associate administration councilor of the Central Secretariat / 中書參知政事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正二十年 · Western Year: AD 1360
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0159
Label: Minister of Revenue / 戶部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0156
Label: chief councillor of the Central Secretariat / 中書平章政事 · Action: recalled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1367
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0163
Title: Duke of Zhao / 趙國公 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1367
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0163

Places and affiliations

Label: Yuan / 元 · Relation: served
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0159
Place: Li County in Zhending / 真定蠡州
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0153

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0160, yuanshi:196:s0164

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: integrity and righteousness spoken of together with Guo Yong · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:196:s0169

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 196Volume 196 Biographies 83: Loyal and Righteous Acts 4 · 7 passages

丁好禮，字敬可，真定蠡州人。 Ding Haoli, whose style name was Jingke, was from Li County in Zhending.

時國家多故，財用空乏，好禮能撙節浮費，國家用度，賴之以給。 At a time when the state faced many troubles and finances were exhausted, Haoli curbed wasteful spending, and the state's expenditures relied on him to be met.

時京師大饑，天壽節，廟堂欲用故事大宴會，好禮言：「今民父子有相食者，君臣當修省，以弭大患，燕會宜減常度。」 At a time of great famine in the capital, on the Emperor's Birthday the court wished to hold a grand banquet by precedent. Haoli said, "Now fathers and sons among the people are eating one another. Ruler and ministers ought to examine themselves to quell this calamity; feasts should be scaled back below the usual level."

擴廓帖木兒扈從皇太子還京，輸山東粟以遺朝貴，饋好禮麥百石，好禮不受。 Köke Temür escorted the crown prince back to the capital and sent Shandong grain as gifts to court nobles. He presented Haoli with a hundred piculs of wheat, but Haoli refused it.

大明兵入京城，或勉其謁大將，好禮叱之曰：「我以小吏致位極品，爵上公，今老矣，恨無以報國，所欠惟一死耳。」 When Ming forces entered the capital, some urged him to call on the commander. Haoli rebuked them, saying, "I rose from a petty clerk to the highest rank and was enfeoffed as a grand duke. Now I am old and regret that I have nothing with which to repay the state—all that remains is one death."

後數日，大將召好禮，不肯行，舁至齊化門，抗辭不屈而死，年七十五。 Several days later the commander summoned Haoli. He refused to go and was carried to Qihua Gate, where he spoke defiantly without yielding and died, aged seventy-five.

其後也先帖木兒以罪黜，召拜監察御史，累轉參政中書，其節義與好禮並云。 Later Yesan Temur was dismissed for his crimes. Yong was recalled and appointed investigating censor, promoted by stages to participant in the Central Secretariat. His integrity and righteousness are spoken of together with Haoli's.