Dong Xuan 董宣

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0016

Roles

• Administrator
• Judge
• Official

Family

• Parent of Dong Bing (并)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Spouse of Wife of Dong Xuan (妻)
  Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: widowed

• Kinship Role: children · Quantity: unspecified plural · Statement: His wife and children wept beside his body.
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0057

Career and standing

• Label: Prefect of Beihai / 北海相 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0017
• Label: Prefect of Jiangxia / 江夏太守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0031
• Label: Magistrate of Huai / 怀令 · Action: demoted-to
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0029
• Label: Magistrate of Luoyang / 洛阳令 · Action: served · Duration Years: 5
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0055
• Label: Magistrate of Luoyang / 洛阳令 · Action: specially-summoned-and-appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0036
• Honor: Stubborn-necked Magistrate / 强项令 · Action: nicknamed-by-emperor · Authority Person Id: Emperor Guangwu (光武)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0049
• Honor: mottled ribbon and burial with grandee rites / 艾绶、大夫礼 · Action: posthumously-granted · Authority Person Id: Emperor Guangwu (光武)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0059
• Action: arrested and executed · Other Person Ids: Gongsun Dan (公孙丹), Son of Gongsun Dan (其子)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0020
• Action: dismissed for slighting the commandant from the Yin consort clan
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0035
• Action: summoned to the Commandant of Justice for excessive killing · Other Person Id: Shuiqiu Cen (水丘岑)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0023

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Eastern Han / 東漢 · Relation: served
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0016
• Place: Yu in Chenliu commandery / 陈留圉 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0016

Learning and skills

• Subject: classical texts / 讽诵 · Action: recited in prison
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0024
• Credential: highest-ranked recommendation / 高第 · Action: earned
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0017

Works and attributed material

• Kind: defense · Role: speaker · Statement: Shuiqiu Cen acted on his orders; he asked to die so Cen could live. · Other Person Id: Shuiqiu Cen (水丘岑) · Provenance: Mode: reported-speech · Speaker Person Id: Dong Xuan (董宣)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0028
• Kind: proclamation · Role: author · Statement: He announced troops on the border and urged the Jiangxia bandits to choose safety. · Other Person Id: Xia Xi (夏喜) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Dong Xuan (董宣)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0032, houhanshu:085:s0033
• Kind: remonstrance · Role: speaker · Statement: A restored ruler could not govern if he allowed a slave to kill an innocent; Dong asked to kill himself. · Other Person Id: Emperor Guangwu (光武) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Dong Xuan (董宣)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0042, houhanshu:085:s0043
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: He asked leave to speak once before dying. · Other Person Id: Emperor Guangwu (光武) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Dong Xuan (董宣)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0040
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: He had never eaten at another's expense, especially at the hour of death. · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Dong Xuan (董宣)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0025

Events and relationships

• Kind: mass-execution · Role: authority · Action: imprisoned and ordered the killing of more than thirty of Gongsun Dan's kin and allies · Other Person Id: Shuiqiu Cen (水丘岑)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0022
• Kind: law-enforcement · Role: magistrate · Action: stopped the princess's carriage and killed her homicidal slave · Other Person Id: Princess of Huyang (湖阳公主) · Place: Summer Gate watchpost / 夏门亭
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0038
• Kind: self-harm · Role: actor · Action: struck his head against a pillar until his face bled
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0044
• Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Hou Ba (侯霸)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0017

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: called the Crouching Tiger in the capital · Provenance: Mode: public-reputation
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0052
• Assessment: celebrated in a song for keeping the alarm drum silent · Provenance: Mode: popular-song
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0053
• Assessment: composed and incorruptible while facing execution · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0024, houhanshu:085:s0025
• Assessment: powerful families trembled when he attacked them · Provenance: Mode: public-reputation
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0051
• Assessment: refused to bow to the princess even when physically forced · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0045
• Item: three hundred thousand cash / 钱三十万 · Relation: received and distributed among clerks · Authority Person Id: Emperor Guangwu (光武)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0050
• Item: cloth covering, several measures of barley, and one broken-down cart / 布被、大麦数斛、敝车一乘 · Relation: estate-at-death
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0057

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0016