Yuan · Scholar and Official

Wu Cheng 吳澄

Died AD 1331

Passages
30
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Cheng as an editor, official, philosopher, and scholar. This record brings together 30 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wu Cheng 吳澄 Wu Cheng
Given Cheng 澄 Cheng
Title Duke of Linchuan Commandery 臨川郡公
Nickname Master Thatched Hut 草廬先生
Alternate Master Wu 吳先生
Posthumous Wenzheng 文正 Wenzheng
Surname Wu 吳
Personal name Wu Cheng 吳澄 Wu Cheng
Courtesy Youqing 幼清 Youqing

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Editor
  • Official
  • Philosopher
  • Scholar
  • Teacher
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age

  • Age: 85 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天曆四年 · Western Year: AD 1331
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0127

Attested activity

Family

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  • Ancestor of Wu Dang (吳當)
    Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Wu Ye (曄)
    Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 高祖 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Wu Wen (吳文)
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
  • Child of Father of Wu Cheng (吳澄父)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Mother of Wu Cheng (吳澄母)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Wu Jing (吳京)
    Kinship Term: second son / 次子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2

Career and standing

  • Label: Grand Master for Fostering Goodness / 資善大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰定 · Western Year: AD 1324
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0108
  • Label: Classics Lecture lecturer / 講官 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰定元年 · Western Year: AD 1324
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0097
  • Label: Vice Director / 司業 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 皇慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1312
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0091
  • Label: Vice Director of the Directorate of Education / 國子監丞 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至大元年 · Western Year: AD 1308
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0087
  • Label: Grand Master for Splendid Happiness / 太中大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 英宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0132
  • Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 英宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0132
  • Label: Academician in Ordinary of the Hall of Gathered Worthies / 集賢直學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0096
  • Label: Associate Commissioner of Jiangxi Confucian Schools / 江西儒學副提舉 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0086
  • Label: Grand Master for Discussion of Governance / 奉議大夫 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0096
  • Label: Hanlin Drafting Attendant for Imperial Orders / 應奉翰林文字 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0084
  • Label: Jiangxi vice commissioner for Confucian learning / 江西儒學副提舉 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0137
  • Label: Commander of the Upper Army / 上護軍 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0128
  • Label: Left Assistant Minister of the Jiangxi Branch Secretariat / 江西行省左丞 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0128
  • Title: Duke of Linchuan Commandery / 臨川郡公 · Action: posthumously-enfeoffed
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0128
  • Label: gold-woven patterned silk and paper money / 金織文綺二及鈔五千貫 · Action: bestowed
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0108
  • Title: Wenzheng / 文正 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0128

Places and affiliations

  • Polity Id: yuan · Relation: served
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0076
  • Place: Chongren in Fuzhou / 撫州崇仁
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0069
  • Place: Bushui Valley / 布水穀 · Relation: resided-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十三年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 1276
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0076
  • Place: Thatched Hut / 草廬 · Relation: named-residence
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0125

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi examination / 進士 · Action: attempted · Negated: true
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0075

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 26 passages
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至元十三年，民初附，盜賊所在蜂起，樂安鄭松，招澄居布水穀，乃著《孝經章句》，校定《易》、《書》、《詩》、《春秋》 、《儀禮》及大、小《戴記》。 In the thirteenth year of Zhiyuan (1276), when the people had just submitted to Yuan rule, bandits swarmed everywhere. Zheng Song of Le'an invited Cheng to live at Bushui Valley, where he wrote Explications of the Filial Classic and collated the Changes, Documents, Odes, Spring and Autumn, Rites, and the Record of Rites of the Elder and Younger Dai.
History of Yuan, Chapter 196Volume 196 Biographies 83: Loyal and Righteous Acts 4 · 1 passage
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History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 3 passages
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