Dou Mengzheng (竇夢徵)

Overview

The translated histories identify Dou Mengzheng as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 11 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Dou Mengzheng	竇夢徵	Dou Mengzheng
Surname	Dou	竇	Dou
Personal	Dou Mengzheng	竇夢徵
Personal name	Dou Mengzheng	竇夢徵	Dou Mengzheng
Given name	Mengzheng	夢徵	Mengzheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0095
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0137

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0108

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成初 · Western Year: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 梁貞明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 915 · End: AD 921
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Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0137

Career and standing

Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
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Label: Hanlin academician; Works Vice Minister / 翰林學士、工部侍郎 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Label: demotion to provincial post / 左授外任 · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Youzhen (友貞)
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Places and affiliations

Place: Tongzhou / 同州 · Relation: native
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
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Works and attributed material

Work: A Eulogy for the Former Lord / 祭故君文 · Relation: author
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Work: Eastern Hall Collection / 東堂集 · Relation: author
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Kind: eulogy · Role: author · Other Person Id: Youzhen (友貞) · Quoted: true
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Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Qian Liu (錢鏐)
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Events and relationships

Kind: omen · Role: dreamer · Action: dreamed-warning · Provenance: Mode: dream · Source Work: Jade Hall Idle Talk / 玉堂閑話
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0109, jiuwudaishi:068:s0110, jiuwudaishi:068:s0114

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: upright norms; model for gentry · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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乙亥，翰林學士、工部侍郎竇夢徵卒。 On yihai Hanlin scholar and works vice minister Dou Mengzheng died.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 10 passages

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竇夢徵，同州人。 Dou Mengzheng was a native of Tongzhou.

夢徵以鏐無功於中原，兵柄不宜虛授，其言切直。 Mengzheng argued that Liu had done nothing for the central realm and that military command should not be handed out lightly. His memorial was blunt and uncompromising.

〈（《玉堂閑話》：竇以錢公無功於本朝，僻在一方，坐邀恩澤，不稱是命，乃抱麻哭於朝。 (Jade Hall Idle Talk records that Dou argued Lord Qian had done nothing for the dynasty yet sat in a remote corner receiving favors unearned by merit. Deeming the commission unfitting, he embraced the mourning hemp and wept in open court.

翌日，竇謫掾於東州。）〉 The next day Dou was banished to serve as an aide in an eastern prefecture.)〉

及莊宗入汴，夢徵以例貶沂州，居嘗感梁末帝舊恩，因為《祭故君文》云：「嗚呼！ When Zhuangzong took Bian, Mengzheng was demoted under the usual purge to Yizhou. Grateful still for the Last Liang Emperor's past kindness, he wrote A Eulogy for the Former Lord, which begins: "Alas!

〈（《玉堂閑話》：竇失意被謫，嘗鬱鬱不樂，曾夢有人謂曰：「君無自苦，不久當復故職。 (Jade Hall Idle Talk adds that Dou, disheartened in exile, grew despondent. In a dream someone told him, "Do not torment yourself — you will soon return to your former post.

其後竇復居禁職。 He later returned to a palace post.

竇忽憶夢中所言，深惡其事。 Dou suddenly remembered the dream and dreaded what it foretold.

夢徵隨計之秋，文稱甚高，尤長於箋啟，編為十卷，目曰《東堂集》，行於世。 At the time of his civil-service examination his writing won high praise. He excelled especially at letters and memorials, which were collected in ten fascicles as Eastern Hall Collection and circulated widely.

與學士竇夢徵同年登第，鄰居友善，夢徵卒，讚與同年楊凝式緦麻為位而哭，其家無嫡長，與視喪事，恤其孀稚，人士稱之。 He had passed the jinshi in the same year as Hanlin academician Dou Mengzheng, and they were friendly neighbors. When Mengzheng died, Zan and his year-mate Yang Ningshi donned hemp mourning and wept at the bier. The family had no eldest son, so Zan helped manage the funeral and cared for the widow and children — conduct widely praised.