Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Scholar and Teacher

Shen Chong 沈重

Attested AD 557 - AD 581

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Shen Chong was a scholar and Teacher.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 557 to AD 581 其後問《禮》于沈重
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 56, passage 270
AD 561 to AD 578 周武帝
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 56, passage 218

Key source chapters

Book of Sui, Chapter 56 Volume 56 Biographies 21: Lu Kai, Ling Huxi, Xue Zhou, Yu Wenbi, Zhang Heng, Yang Wang 2 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 145 Volume 145: Treatises 7 Music 2 1 passage

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Yang Wang (楊汪)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 56, passage 270

Events and relationships

Listed theories of sixty pitch laws
Scholarship · Summarizer
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 145, passage 102
Relation Teacher of · Person Zhang Heng (張衡) · Subject Three Rites 三禮
Directly stated · Book of Sui 56, passage 218
Relation Teacher of · Person Yang Wang (楊汪)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 56, passage 270

Assessments and attributes

Assessment praised Yang Wang as superior · With Yang Wang (楊汪) · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Shen Chong (沈重)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 56, passage 270

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 145Volume 145: Treatises 7 Music 2 · 1 passage

錢樂空記其名，沈重但條其說，六十律法，寂寥不傳。 Qian Yue recorded only names in vain; Shen Chong merely summarized the theories; the sixty pitch laws fell silent and were never transmitted.

Book of Sui, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 21: Lu Kai, Ling Huxi, Xue Zhou, Yu Wenbi, Zhang Heng, Yang Wang · 2 passages

衡又就沈重受《三禮》，略究大旨。 Heng also studied the 《Three Rites》 under Shen Chong and came to grasp their larger meaning.

其後問《禮》于沈重，受《漢書》于劉臻，二人推許之曰：「吾弗如也。」 Later he studied the 《Rites》 under Shen Chong and received the 《Book of Han》 under Liu Zhen. The two men praised him, saying, "We are not his equal."