Qin and Han · Hermit and Scholar

Zhou Dang 周党

Zhōu Dǎng

Attested AD 9 - AD 56

Passages: 15
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhou Dang as a hermit and scholar. This record brings together 15 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	Zhou Dang	周党	Zhōu Dǎng
Courtesy name	Bokuang	伯况	Bókùang
Personal name	Zhou Dang	周党	Zhōu Dǎng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Hermit
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Place: Mianchi / 黾池
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建武中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 56
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Source Date: Text: 王莽窃位 · Western Year: AD 9
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Family

Kinship Role: wife and children · Count: 2 · Unknown Count: true
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Career and standing

Label: remonstrance official / 议郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 56
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Places and affiliations

Place: Guangwu in Taiyuan / 太原广武
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Place: Mianchi / 黾池 · Relation: resided-at
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Works and attributed material

Work: a book in two fascicles / 书上下篇 · Relation: author
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Events and relationships

Relation: associate-of · Person Id: Tan Xian (谭贤)
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Relation: associate-of · Person Id: Yin Mo (殷谟)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: worthy · Provenance: Mode: community-judgment
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References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 94Volume 83: Biographies of Hermits · 15 passages

严光、周党、王霸，至而不能屈。 Yan Guang, Zhou Dang, and Wang Ba came yet could not be bowed.

周党字伯况，太原广武人也。 Zhou Dang, styled Bokuang, came from Guangwu in Taiyuan.

党诣乡县讼，主乃归之。 He sued in county and commandery until the chief kin relented and restored his share.

初，乡佐尝众中辱党，党久怀之。 A village aide had once shamed him in public, and Zhou nursed the grudge.

既交刃，而党为乡佐所伤，困顿。 In the fight Zhou fell badly wounded.

乡佐服其义，舆归养之，数日方苏，既悟而去。 The aide, awed, carried him home, nursed him until he woke, then Zhou slipped away.

及王莽窃位，托疾杜门。 When Wang Mang seized the throne, Zhou feigned sickness and barred his gate.

及光武引见，党伏而不谒，自陈愿守所志，帝乃许焉。 Before Guangwu he lay flat and refused the court bow, begging to keep his reclusive vow; the emperor allowed it.

博士范升奏毁党曰：“臣闻尧不须许由、巢父，而建号天下； Erudite Fan Sheng attacked him: "Yao needed neither Xu You nor Chao Father to rule the world;

伏见太原周党、东海王良、山阳王成等，蒙受厚恩，使者三聘，乃肯就车。 Yet Taiyuan's Zhou Dang, Donghai's Wang Liang, and Shanyang's Wang Cheng soaked up imperial grace and only mounted the coach after three embassies.

及陛见帝廷，党不以礼屈，伏而不谒，偃蹇骄悍，同时俱逝。 At court they sprawled without bowing—proud, rude, and gone together.

党等文不能演义，武不能死君，钓采华名，庶几三公之位。 They wield neither brush nor blade for the throne—only angle for empty fame and dream of the three excellencies.

伯夷、叔齐不食周粟，太原周党不受朕禄，亦各有志焉。 Bo Yi and Shu Qi spurned Zhou grain; Taiyuan's Zhou Dang spurns our stipend—each follows his star.

党遂隐居黾池，著书上下篇而终。 Zhou Dang hid at Mianchi, wrote a two-part book, and died.

初，党与同郡谭贤伯升、雁门殷谟君长，俱守节不仕王莽世。 Zhou, together with Tan Xian, styled Bosheng, of his commandery and Yin Mo, styled Junzhang, of Yanmen, all kept their integrity and refused office under Wang Mang.