Zheng Dangshi 鄭當時

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · hanshu:059:s0152
• Sex: male
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0242, hanshu:068:s0258, liangshu:014:s0262, shiji:029:s0026, shiji:120:s0124

Roles

• Administrator
• Official
• Statesman

Family

• Descendant of Lord Zheng (鄭君)
  Kinship Term: forebear / 先
  Kinship Term: his forebear / 其先 · Parentage: biological

• Kinship Role: brothers, sons, and grandsons · Count: 6 · Count Max: 7 · Note: six or seven to two-thousand-bushel rank
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0158
• Kinship Role: cousins and brothers · Count: 7 · Count Qualifier: six or seven · Note: reached two-thousand-picul rank because of him
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0270

Career and standing

• Label: knight-errant / 任俠
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0247
• Label: Gentleman of the Crown Prince's Household / 太子舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝景時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 157 · End: BC 141
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0131
• Label: gentleman-attendant to the crown prince / 太子舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝景時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 157 · End: BC 141
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0248
• Label: chancellor of Jiangdu / 江都相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝即位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0286
• Label: commandant of Lu / 魯中尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝即位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0286
• Label: governor of Jinan / 濟南太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝即位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0286
• Label: right interior secretary / 右內史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝即位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0286
• Label: Commandant of Lu / 魯中尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝立 · Western Year: BC 141
  Explicit event contextual date · shiji:120:s0135
• Label: acting chief clerk / 守長史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0268
• Label: Acting Chief Clerk / 守長史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0152
• Label: Chancellor of Jiangdu / 江都相 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0135
• Label: Governor of Jinan / 濟南太守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0135
• Label: governor of Runan / 汝南太守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0269
• Label: Governor of Runan / 汝南太守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0153
• Label: Right Prefect of the Capital / 右內史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0135
• Label: chamberlain of the heir apparent / 詹事 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武安魏其時議 · Western Interval: Start: BC 140 · End: BC 131
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0287
• Label: Superintendent of the Imperial Household / 詹事 · Action: demoted
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0136
• Label: superintendent of agriculture / 大農 · Action: held
  Explicit · shiji:029:s0032
• Label: grand minister of agriculture / 大司農 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武安魏其時議 · Western Interval: Start: BC 140 · End: BC 131
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0287, hanshu:059:s0266
• Label: Grand Director of Agriculture / 大農令 · Action: transferred
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0136
• Name: Grand Minister of Agriculture / 大司農
  Explicit · hanshu:038:s0039
• Status: commoner · Action: reduced-to · Via: ransom
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0267
• Status: nine-ministers · Label: Nine Ministers / 九卿
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0286, hanshu:059:s0271
• Status: reduced-to-commoner · Action: convicted · Note: redeemed as commoner after associates defaulted
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0151
• Label: ransomed to commoner status after exposure of hire-contract arrears / 贖為庶人 · Action: punished · Authority Person Id: Sima An (司馬安)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0267

Places and affiliations

• Label: Western Han / 漢 · Relation: served
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0243, hanshu:059:s0286, hanshu:068:s0258
• Polity: Han / 漢 · Relation: served
  Explicit · shiji:029:s0026, shiji:120:s0131
• Place: Chen commandery / 陳
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0242
• Place: Chen / 陳
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0124
• Place: Chang'an / 長安 · Relation: active-in
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0249
• Place: Liang and Chu / 梁楚 · Relation: reputation-spread-through
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0247
• Place: Runan / 汝南 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0269, shiji:120:s0153

Learning and skills

• Belief: Huang-Lao / 黃老 · Relation: adherent-of
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0250, shiji:120:s0133
• Skill: recommending gentlemen / 推轂士 · Level: renowned
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0257, hanshu:059:s0278

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: 客至，亡貴賤亡留門下者。
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0252
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · shiji:029:s0032, shiji:029:s0033, shiji:029:s0034, shiji:120:s0137

Events and relationships

• Kind: disaster-response · Role: commissioner · Action: blocked-Huzi-breach-unsuccessfully · Place: Huzi / 瓠子
  Explicit · shiji:029:s0026
• Kind: political · Role: official · Action: demoted in Wu'an–Weiqi factional disputes · Other Person Ids: Wu'an (武安), Weiqi (魏其)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0287
• Kind: legal · Role: accused · Action: fell into crime over hire-contract arrears as grand minister of agriculture · Other Person Id: Sima An (司馬安)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0266, hanshu:059:s0267
• Kind: social · Role: host · Action: hosted guests with relay horses around Chang'an on leave days · Place: Chang'an / 長安
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0249
• Kind: administrative · Role: inspector · Action: inspected-breach · Place: Yellow River / 河
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0146
• Kind: reputation · Role: subject · Action: praised by great lords east of the mountains as Zheng Zhuang
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0261
• Kind: policy · Role: proposer · Action: proposed-Wei-transport-canal
  Explicit · shiji:029:s0032, shiji:029:s0033, shiji:029:s0034
• Kind: personal · Role: rescuer · Action: rescued · Other Person Id: Zhang Yu (張羽)
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0130
• Kind: inspection · Role: inspector · Action: sent to inspect Yellow River breach; requested five days to pack
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0262, hanshu:059:s0263
• Type: recommended · Other: Dongguo Xianyang (東郭咸陽), Kong Jin (孔僅)
  Explicit · hanshu:027:s0136
• Relation: rescued · Person Id: Zhang Yu (張羽)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0247
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Ji An (汲黯)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0271, hanshu:059:s0272
• Relation: implicated-with · Person Id: Weiqi (魏其)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0287
• Relation: implicated-with · Person Id: Wu'an (武安)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0287

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: advancing the worthy (推賢) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:068:s0258
• Assessment: at court hurried to agree with the emperor and dared not sharply judge right and wrong · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0264
• Assessment: incorruptible; humble toward guests; praised by scholars east of the mountains · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0139, shiji:120:s0145
• Assessment: recommended gentlemen with conviction; praised them as worthier than himself · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0257, hanshu:059:s0258, hanshu:059:s0278
• Kind: character · Statement: incorrupt; did not manage estates; spent salary and gifts on gentlemen
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0254, hanshu:059:s0255
• Item: no surplus household property / 家亡余財 · Relation: lacked · Negated: true
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0273, hanshu:059:s0254
• Item: official salary and imperial gifts / 奉賜 · Relation: relied-on
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0139

Source notes

• Statement: After mid-career fall and death in commandery post, household left without surplus wealth
  Explicit · shiji:120:s0156, shiji:120:s0157