Du Shisheng (杜時升)

Overview

The translated histories identify Du Shisheng as an astronomer, hermit, named individual, and official. This record brings together 10 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Du Shisheng	杜時升	Du Shisheng
Surname	Du	杜	Du
Personal name	Du Shisheng	杜時升	Du Shisheng
Descriptive kinship	Father of Du Ying	杜瑛之父
Courtesy name	Jinzhi	進之	Jinzhi
Personal name	Shi Sheng	時昇	Shi Sheng
Given name	Shisheng	時升	Shisheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jinshi:127:s0091
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:199:s0009

Roles

Astronomer
Hermit
Named Individual
Official
Scholar
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正大末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1231 · End: AD 1232
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 承安、泰和間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1196 · End: AD 1208
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Source Date: Text: 正大末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1231 · End: AD 1232
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Source Date: Text: 正大間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1224 · End: AD 1232
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Source Date: Text: 金史有傳 / Jin period · Western Interval: Start: AD 1115 · End: AD 1234
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:199:s0009, yuanshi:199:s0011

Family

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Parent of Du Ying (杜瑛)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: teacher of Yi-Luo learning / 伊洛之學
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Status: refused-office · Action: maintained
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Jin / 金 · Relation: served
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Place: Xin'an in Bazhou / 霸州信安
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Place: Song and Luo mountains / 嵩、洛山中 · Relation: withdrew-to
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Learning and skills

Skill: astronomy / 天文 · Level: versed
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Works and attributed material

Work: History of Jin / 金史 · Relation: has-biography-in
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Du Shisheng (杜時升)
Explicit · jinshi:127:s0094, jinshi:127:s0095, jinshi:127:s0099

Events and relationships

Kind: prediction · Role: speaker · Action: predicted-disorder-and-unification
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Kind: prediction · Role: forecaster · Action: predicted-Yuan-route-and-Jin-collapse
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: 卓尔不群; first to teach Yi-Luo learning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 65: Xiao You, Wendihanwolubu, Chen Yan, Liu Yu, Meng Xing, Wang Zhen, Liu Zheng, Yin Yi, Chu Chengliang, Wang Qufei, Zhao Zhi, Du Shisheng, Hao Tianting, Xue Jiyuan, Gao Zhongzhen, Zhang Qian, Wang Rumei, Song Ke, Xin Yuan, Wang Yuke · 9 passages

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杜時升 Du Shisheng

杜時升，字進之，霸州信安人。 Du Shisheng, styled Jinzhi, came from Xin'an in Bazhou.

承安、泰和間，宰相數薦時升可大用。 During Chengan and Taihe, chief ministers repeatedly recommended Shisheng for high office.

時升謂所親曰：「吾觀正北赤氣如血，東西亙天，天下當大亂，亂而南北當合為一。 Shisheng told those close to him, "I see crimson vapor like blood in the far north, stretching east and west across the sky; the realm will fall into great disorder, and when the turmoil ends north and south will become one.

時升乃南渡河，隱居嵩、洛山中，從學者甚眾。 Shisheng then crossed the river south, withdrew to the Song and Luo mountains, and attracted a great many students.

大抵以「伊洛之學」教人自時升始。 Teaching the "learning of the Yi and Luo" broadly to others began with Shisheng.

正大間，大元兵攻潼關，拒守甚堅，眾皆相賀，時升曰：「大兵皆在秦、鞏間，若假道于宋，出襄、漢入宛、葉，鐵騎長驅勢如風雨，無高山大川為之阻，土崩之勢也。」 During Zhengda, when the Great Yuan army attacked Tong Pass and the defense held firm, all congratulated one another; Shisheng said, "The main force is all between Qin and Gong; if they borrow a route through Song, emerge from Xiang and Han into Wan and Ye, and iron cavalry drives straight ahead like wind and rain with no high mountains or great rivers to block them, the realm will collapse like a landslide."

頃之，大元兵果自饒峰關涉襄陽出南陽，金人敗績於三峰山，汴京不守，皆如時升所料雲。 Before long the Great Yuan army did cross Raofeng Pass through Xiangyang and emerge at Nanyang; the Jin were defeated at Sanfeng Mountain and Bianjing fell — all exactly as Shisheng had foreseen.

方金人重舉業，杜時升居山中，首以「伊洛之學」教後進。 Just when the Jin prized the examination curriculum, Du Shisheng dwelt in the mountains and was the first to teach the younger generation the "learning of the Yi and Luo."

History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 1 passage

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父時昇，《金史》有傳。 His father Shi Sheng is recorded in the History of Jin.