Dong Fu 董扶

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:093:s0093, sanguozhi:031:s0008, sanguozhi:031:s0142
• Sex: male
  Explicit · sanguozhi:031:s0123

Roles

• Diviner
• Military Officer
• Named Individual
• Official
• Scholar
• Teacher

Career and standing

• Label: teacher / 讲授 · Note: disciples came from afar to hear him
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0095
• Label: commandant of the dependent state of Shu commandery / 蜀郡属国都尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 求出为益州牧（去后一岁帝崩之前一年） · Western Year: AD 188
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0099
• Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Recommended By Person Id: He Jin (何进) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 灵帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 168 · End: AD 189
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0097
• Label: palace attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · sanguozhi:031:s0008, sanguozhi:031:s0150
• Label: commandant of the dependent state of Shu commandery / 蜀郡属国都尉 · Action: resigned · Cause: the emperor's death and the collapse of the realm · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 去後一歲，帝崩 · Western Year: AD 189
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0100
• Status: declined all summonses · Negated: true · Description: summoned ten times by the offices of the chief ministers and three times by the imperial coach, and twice recommended as Worthy and Good, Square and Upright, Erudite and Possessed of the Way; each time he pleaded illness and did not go · Source Text: 皆稱疾不就
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0096

Places and affiliations

• Place: Guanghan / 廣漢
  Explicit · sanguozhi:031:s0008
• Place: Mianzhu, Guanghan commandery / 广汉绵竹 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0093
• Place: Shu / 蜀 · Relation: moved-to · Description: entered Shu together with Liu Yan · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 求出为益州牧（去后一岁帝崩之前一年） · Western Year: AD 188
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0099

Learning and skills

• Institution: Imperial Academy / 太学 · Action: studied-at · Life Stage: youth · Teacher Person Id: Yang Hou (杨厚) · Subjects: charts and prophecies / 图谶
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0094

Works and attributed material

• Kind: prophecy · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Liu Yan (刘焉) · Status: quoted · Summary: privately told Liu Yan that the capital was about to fall into chaos and that the field division of Yi province held the aura of a Son of Heaven · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 灵帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 168 · End: AD 189
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0098
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Interlocutor Person Id: Liu Yan (刘焉)
  Explicit · sanguozhi:031:s0008

Events and relationships

• Relation: peer-of · Person Id: Ren An (任安) · Description: equally renowned with his fellow townsman Ren An, with whom he studied
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0094
• Relation: student-of · Person Id: Yang Hou (杨厚) · Description: served Yang Hou of the same commandery and studied charts and prophecies
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0094
• Relation: adviser-of · Person Id: Liu Yan (刘焉) · Note: Liu Yan heard Dong Fu's phrases
  Explicit · sanguozhi:031:s0123

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: greatly valued at court (甚見器重) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0097
• Assessment: praises good as fine as an autumn hair and condemns evil as small as a fibre · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Qin Mi (秦密) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 蜀丞相诸葛亮问广汉秦密（无纪年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 223 · End: AD 234
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0103, houhanshu:093:s0104

Source notes

• Kind: prophecy-fulfilment · Statement: when Liu Bei later declared himself Son of Heaven in Shu, everything happened as Dong Fu had said · Other Person Id: Liu Bei (刘备) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後劉備稱天子於蜀 · Western Year: AD 221
  Explicit · houhanshu:093:s0102