Overview
Dong Zhongshu was a scholar and Official.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- BC 134 今漢繼大亂之後Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 65, passages 275, 291, 294
Career and standing
- servant-respondent at court 臣Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 294
- the charge of the three dukes and nine ministers 三公九卿之任Not held · Negated true · not what Zhongshu can reachDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 294
Places and affiliations
- Polity Han 漢 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 291, 294
Learning and skills
- narrates what he has heard and recites what he has studied; conveys teachers' words · Relation StudiedDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 293
- Belief the Six Arts and the arts of Confucius 六藝之科孔子之術 · Relation Adherent ofDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 328
Works and attributed material
- Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋Relation InterpreterDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 325
- Memorial · Author · With Your Majesty (陛下) · Direct quotationDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 275-329
Events and relationships
- Answered policy questionsDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 292-294
- Urged suppression of heterodox schoolsPolitical · AdviserDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 328-329
- Relation Respondent to · Person Your Majesty (陛下)Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 274, 292, 294
Assessments and attributes
- 臣愚不肖Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 293, 328
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 294
References in the histories
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