Qin and Han · Official

Wulu Chongzong 五鹿充宗

Attested BC 49 - BC 33

Passages: 7
Chapters: 4
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wulu Chongzong as a diplomat and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wulu Chongzong	五鹿充宗	Wulu Chongzong
Given	Chongzong	充宗	Chongzong
Personal name	Wulu Chongzong	五鹿充宗	Wulu Chongzong
Personal	Wulu Chongzong	五鹿充宗	Wǔlù Chōngzōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · hanshu:090:s0003
Sex: male
Explicit · hanshu:091:s0046
Value: male
Strongly inferred · hanshu:105:s0091

Roles

Diplomat
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:090:s0141
Source Date: Text: 元帝之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 49 · End: BC 33
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:091:s0046

Career and standing

Title: chamberlain for the national treasury
Explicit · hanshu:105:s0091
Title: governor of Xuantu
Explicit · hanshu:105:s0285

Events and relationships

Relation: political-rival-of · Person Id: Jing Fang (京房)
Explicit · hanshu:091:s0046

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 75Volume 64b: Yan, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, and Jia 2 · 2 passages

君房下筆，言語妙天下，使君房為尚書令，勝五鹿充宗遠甚。」 Your pen and tongue are the finest in the realm. Were you made palace secretary, you would put Wulu Chongzong to shame.'

捐之曰：「令我得代充宗，君蘭為京兆，京兆郡國首，尚書百官本，天下真大治，士則不隔矣。 Jia Juanzhi said, "If I replace Chongzong and you, Junlan, take the capital governorship—the premier local post—and I hold the secretariat—the spine of the bureaucracy—the empire would be truly well ruled and no talent would languish in obscurity.

Book of Han, Chapter 90Volume 79: Feng Fengshi · 1 passage

心辨善辭，可使四方，少府五鹿充宗是也。 Wulu Chongzong has a ready tongue for embassies;

Book of Han, Chapter 91Volume 80: The Six Sons of Emperors Xuan and Yuan · 1 passage

自謂為石顯、五鹿充宗所排，謀不得用，數為博道之。 He complained that Shi Xian and Wulu Chongzong had blocked him and that none of his policies were adopted, and he poured this out to Bo again and again.

Book of Han, Chapter 105Volume 93: Flatterers · 3 passages

顯與中書僕射牢梁、少府五鹿充宗結為黨友，諸附倚者皆得寵位。 Shi Xian allied with Lao Liang and Wulu Chongzong; hangers-on won fat offices.

民歌之曰：「牢邪石邪，五鹿客邪！ A ditty ran: "Lao or Shi, Wulu for company!

少府五鹿充宗左遷玄菟太守，御史中丞伊嘉為雁門都尉。 Wulu Chongzong was demoted from the treasury to governor of Xuantu; Yi Jia from vice censor-in-chief to commandant of Yanmen.