Overview
Dong Zhongshu was a scholar, Teacher, and Official.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- BC 157 to BC 141 孝景時Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 65, passage 3
- BC 141 武帝即位Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 65, passages 7, 27
Career and standing
- teacher 授業Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 4
- erudite 博士BC 157 to BC 141 孝景時 · AppointedDated from the passage context · Book of Han 65, passage 3
- worthy and cultivated 賢良BC 141 武帝即位 · Recommended worthy · SelectedDated from the passage context · Book of Han 65, passage 7
Places and affiliations
- Polity Han 漢 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · Book of Han 65, passages 3, 7
- At Guangchuan 廣川Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 2
- At Guangchuan 廣川 · Relation Native ofDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 2
Learning and skills
- Subject Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 · Stage youthDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 3
- Skill ritual deportment 禮 · Level strictDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 6
Works and attributed material
- Classic of Poetry 詩Relation CitedDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 35
- Documents 書Relation CitedDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 35
- Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋Relation StudiedDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 3, 29
- Policy response · Author · With Emperor Wu (武帝) · Direct quotationDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 28-51
Events and relationships
- Answered policy questionsDated from the passage context · Book of Han 65, passages 7, 27
- Did not look at garden for three yearsPersonal · Subject · Mode hearsayDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 5
- Lectured behind a curtainScholarly · Teacher · Detail disciples transmitted instruction by seniority; some never saw his faceDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 4
- Relation Respondent to · Person Emperor Wu (武帝)Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 7, 27
- Relation Served under · Person Emperor Jing (孝景)Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 3
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment scholars all took him as teacher and honored him · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 6
- Assessment such was the depth of his concentration · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 5
References in the histories
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