Dates uncertain · Scholar Teacher and Hermit

Yang Heng 楊恆

Attested AD 1367 - AD 1370

Passages: 10
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Heng as a hermit, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 10 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Heng	楊恆	Yang Heng
Courtesy	Benchu	本初	Benchu
Alternate	Man of White Deer	白鹿生	Bailu Sheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:298:s0061

Roles

Hermit
Scholar
Teacher

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太祖既下浙東 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1367 · End: AD 1370
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:298:s0065, mingshi:298:s0066

Career and standing

Label: teacher / 師
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0064

Places and affiliations

Place: Zhuji / 諸暨
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0061
Place: Bailu Mountain / 白鹿山 · Relation: retired-to
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0064

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: refuser · Action: declined-prefectural-school-post · Other Person Id: Luan Feng (欒鳳)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0066
Kind: political · Role: refuser · Action: declined-summons · Other Person Id: Tang Duo (唐鐸)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0069

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: sincere-and-scrupulous · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0071, mingshi:298:s0073

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 298Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses · 10 passages

張介福倪瓚徐舫楊恆陳洄楊引吳海劉閔楊黼孫一元沈周陳繼儒 Zhang Jiefu, Ni Zan, Xu Fang, Yang Heng, Chen Hui, Yang Yin, Wu Hai, Liu Min, Yang Fu, Sun Yiyuan, Shen Zhou, and Chen Jiru

楊恆，字本初，諸暨人。 Yang Heng, courtesy name Benchu, was a native of Zhuji.

外族方氏建義塾，館四方游學士，恆幼往受諸經，輒領其旨要。 His mother's clan, the Fang family, built a charity school and housed traveling scholars from every quarter. Heng went there as a boy to study the classics and always grasped their essentials at once.

浦江鄭氏延為師，閱十年退居白鹿山，戴棕冠，披羊裘，帶經耕煙雨間，嘯歌自樂，因自號白鹿生。 The Zheng family of Pujiang invited him to serve as their teacher. After ten years he retired to Bailu Mountain, wore a palm-fiber cap and sheepskin cloak, carried the classics while farming amid mist and rain, and sang for his own delight. He styled himself the Man of White Deer.

鳳請為州學師，恆固讓不起。 Feng asked him to serve as teacher of the prefectural school, but Heng firmly declined and would not accept.

鳳乃命州中子弟即家問道。 Feng then ordered the young men of the prefecture to come to Heng's home to study the Way.

後唐鐸知紹興，欲辟起之，復固辭。 Later, when Tang Duo governed Shaoxing, he wished to summon Heng to office, but Heng again firmly declined.

宋濂之為學士也，擬薦為國子師，聞不受州郡辟命，乃已。 When Song Lian became a Hanlin academician, he planned to recommend Heng as teacher of the National University, but hearing that he would accept no appointment from prefecture or district, he let the matter drop.

恆性醇篤，與人語，出肺肝相示。 Heng was by nature sincere and earnest; in conversation he laid bare his heart without reserve.

宋濂俱為之傳。 Song Lian wrote biographies for both Yang Heng and Chen Hui.