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Overview The translated histories identify Dong Gong as an official. This record brings together 11 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
Dong Gong
董恭
Dǒng Gōng
Surname
Dong
董
Dong
Personal
Dong Gong
董恭
Dong Gong
Given
Gong
恭
Gong
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Career and standing 御史
Title: chamberlain for palace revenues and defender of the capital
Title: grand counsellor of the household
Title: imperial secretary
Title: magistrate of Baling and grand counsellor of the household
Title: marquis of Yunzhong
Title: marquis within the passes
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Book of Han, Chapter 105 Volume 93: Flatterers · 11 passages
父恭，為御史，任賢為太子舍人。
His father Dong Gong served as imperial secretary and used his privilege to appoint Xian gentleman of the household to the crown prince.
問及其父為雲中侯，即日徵為霸陵令，遷光祿大夫。
Learning that his father held the Yunzhong marquisate, Ai summoned the elder Dong the same day to be magistrate of Baling, then promoted him to grand counsellor of the household.
遷賢父為少府，賜爵關內侯，食邑，復徙為衛尉。
Dong Gong was raised to chamberlain for the palace revenues, given a marquis-within-the-passes title with income, then shifted to defender of the capital.
以父恭不宜在卿位，徙為光祿大夫，秩中二千石。
His father Dong Gong was judged unfit for a nine-minister post and shifted to grand counsellor of the household at the top two-thousand-picul rate.
初，丞相孔光為御史大夫，時賢父恭為御史，事光。
Long before, when Kong Guang was imperial counsellor, Dong Gong had been his subordinate secretary.
兄弟並列，賢父恭慕之，欲與結婚姻。
With both brothers prominent, Dong Gong courted an alliance by marriage.
閎性有知略，聞咸言，心亦悟，乃還報恭，深達咸自謙薄之意。
Wang Hong took the point, went back to Dong Gong, and relayed Xiao Xian's polite refusal in full.
恭歎曰：「我家何用負天下，而為人所畏如是！」
Dong Gong sighed, "What crime have we committed against the empire to be dreaded so?"
賢自殺伏辜，死後父恭等不悔過，乃復以沙畫棺四時之色，左蒼龍，右白虎，上著金銀日月，玉衣珠璧以棺，至尊無以加。
Dong Xian killed himself and submitted to guilt, yet after his death his father Gong and the others showed no repentance. They painted the coffin with the colors of the four seasons, set the azure dragon on the left and the white tiger on the right, placed gold and silver sun and moon above, and put jade garments, pearls, and disks inside the coffin. Even the highest sovereign could add nothing more.
恭等幸得免於誅，不宜在中土。
Dong Gong should not be left in the heartland after such mercy.
父恭、弟寬信與家屬徙合浦，母別歸故郡巨鹿。
Dong Gong and Dong Kuanxin went to Hepu with the clan; the mother was sent home to Julu.