Dou Yi (竇儀) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Dou Yi as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 5 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Dou Yi	竇儀	Dou Yi
Alternate	Dou Yi	竇儀	Dou Yi
Personal name	Dou Yi	竇儀	Dòu Yí
Title	Vice Minister of Rites	禮部侍郎
Given		儀	Yi
Surname		竇	Dou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:148:s0067, songshi:120:s0029
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:031:s0041

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗之時 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:031:s0041
Source Date: Text: 乾德二年 · Western Year: AD 964
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:120:s0017, songshi:120:s0029, songshi:120:s0037
Source Date: Text: 顯德二年 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:115:s0056
Source Date: Text: 顯德二年三月 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0067
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:120:s0066

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: held · Source Date: Text: 顯德二年三月 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0067
Description: appointed Vice Minister of Rites while remaining a Hanlin academician / 授禮部侍郎仍充翰林學士 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0056

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0067
Polity: Song / 宋 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · songshi:120:s0029

Works and attributed material

Description: submitted policy essays advocating a southern military campaign / 撰論策主張用兵江淮 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0064
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德二年三月 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0067, jiuwudaishi:148:s0068
Description: proposed abolishing the Child Prodigy and Clarified Classics examinations / 請廢童子明經二科 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0104
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · songshi:120:s0029, songshi:120:s0030, songshi:120:s0031, songshi:120:s0032, songshi:120:s0033, songshi:120:s0034, songshi:120:s0035, songshi:120:s0036

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: argued-for-war
Explicit · xinwudaishi:031:s0041
Kind: deliberation · Role: participant · Action: argued-memorial-precedence
Explicit · songshi:120:s0029, songshi:120:s0037
Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: proposed-penalties-for-improper-credentialling-and-ghostwriting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德二年三月 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0067, jiuwudaishi:148:s0068

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: view accepted by the throne · Provenance: Mode: narrative
Explicit · songshi:120:s0037

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0067

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 115Volume 115 Book of Later Zhou 17: Shizong Annals 2 · 3 passages

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戊午，以翰林學士、給事中竇儀為禮部侍郎，依前充職； On wuwu Hanlin academician and supervising secretary Dou Yi was named Vice Minister of Rites while retaining his existing posts;

其略率以修文德、來遠人為意，惟蒨與竇儀、楊昭儉、王樸以封疆密邇江、淮，當用師取之。 Most argued for civil virtue and winning distant peoples; only Tao Qian, with Dou Yi, Yang Zhaojian, and Wang Pu, urged military action because the frontier lay close to the Yangzi and Huai.

丙申，禮部侍郎竇儀奏，請廢童子、明經二科及條貫考試次第，從之。 On bingshen Vice Minister of Rites Dou Yi asked to abolish the Child Prodigy and Clarified Classics examinations and their examination regulations; the request was approved.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 120Volume 120 Book of Later Zhou 22: Emperor Gong Annals · 1 passage

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甲子，以端明殿學士、禮部侍郎竇儀為兵部侍郎充職； On jiazi Dou Yi, academician of the Hall of Brilliant Clarity and vice minister of rites, became vice minister of war;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 148Volume 148: Treatises 10 Selection of Officials · 1 passage

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顯德二年三月，禮部侍郎竇儀奏：「請諸科舉人，若合解不解、不合解而解者，監試官為首罪，勒停見任，舉送長官，奏聞取裁。 In the third month of Xiande 2, Dou Yi, Vice Minister of Rites, memorialized: "For candidates of all categories, if those who should be credentialed are not or those who should not are, the supervising testing official bears primary guilt, is ordered to cease current office, and the recommending chief is memorialized for decision.

History of Song, Chapter 120Volume 120 Treatises 73: Rites 23 · 2 passages

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竇儀等曰：「東宮三師為表首，論討故典，實皆無據。 Dou Yi and others replied: 'Making the Eastern Palace Three Preceptors lead the memorial has no real support in precedent when one examines the ancient regulations.

詔從儀等議，以僕射為表首焉。 The throne accepted Dou Yi and his colleagues' view and decreed that the Vice Director should lead memorials.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 31Volume 31 Later Zhou Biographies 11: Wang Pu, Zheng Renhui, Hu Zai · 1 passage

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惟翰林學士陶谷竇儀、御史中丞楊昭儉與朴皆言用兵之策，朴謂江淮為可先取。 Only Hanlin Academician Tao Gu, Dou Yi, Censor-in-Chief Yang Zhaojian, and Pu argued for war—and Pu said take the Jianghuai first.