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Pang Degong was a scholar and Hermit.
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- Speech · Speaker · Mode named-source-report Source Work Xiangyang Ji 襄陽記
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Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 37Volume 37: Book of Shu 7: Biographies of Pang Tong and Fa Zheng · 9 passages
〈《襄陽記》曰：諸葛孔明為臥龍，龐士元為鳳雛，司馬德操為水鏡，皆龐德公語也。
〈The Xiangyang Ji records that people called Zhuge Liang the Sleeping Dragon, Pang Tong the Fledgling Phoenix, and Sima Hui the Clear Mirror of Water—epithets attributed to Pang Degong.
德公，襄陽人。
Pang Degong was a native of Xiangyang.
孔明每至其家，獨拜床下，德公初不令止。
Whenever Zhuge Liang visited, he alone bowed low at the bedside; Degong did not at first tell him to rise.
德操嘗造德公，值其渡沔，上祀先人墓，德操徑入其室，呼德公妻子，使速作黍，「徐元直向雲有客當來就我與龐公譚。」
Once Sima Hui called on Degong while Degong was away—he had crossed the Han to tend his ancestors’ graves uphill. Hui walked straight in, told Degong’s wife and children to cook millet quickly, and said, “Xu Shu mentioned that a guest would come visit me and Master Pang.”
須臾，德公還，直入相就，不知何者是客也。
Soon Degong came home, walked straight in, and sat down with everyone—no one could tell who was the guest.
德操年小德公十歲，兄事之，呼作龐公，故世人遂謂龐公是德公名，非也。
Hui was ten years Degong’s junior yet honored him like an elder and called him “Lord Pang,” so folk mistook “Lord Pang” for Degong’s personal name—incorrectly.
德公子山民，亦有令名，娶諸葛孔明小姊，為魏黃門吏部郎，早卒。
Degong’s son Shanmin likewise enjoyed a good name; he married Zhuge Liang’s elder sister and served Wei as a Gentleman Attendant at the Yellow Gates and Director of the Bureau of Appointments, but died young.
統，德公從子也，少未有識者，惟德公重之，年十八，使往見德操。
Tong was Degong’s nephew. As a youth none praised him except Degong; at eighteen Degong sent him to meet Sima Hui.
德操與語，既而嘆曰：「德公誠知人，此實盛德也。」〉
After talking with him, Hui sighed, “Degong truly knows men—this is real moral discernment.”〉