Qin and Han · Scholar

Zou Yang 鄒陽

Attested BC 157 - BC 144

Passages
8
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Zou Yang as a courtier, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 8 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zou Yang 鄒陽 Zou Yang
Personal name Zou Yang 鄒陽 Zōu Yáng
Personal name Zou Yang 鄒陽 Zou Yang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 其春後 · Western Year: BC 154
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:056:s0025
  • Source Date: Text: 書奏梁孝王，孝王使人出之 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Explicit · shiji:083:s0235
  • Source Date: Text: 梁孝王來朝，從遊說之士 · Western Interval: Start: BC 157 · End: BC 144
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:066:s0007
  • Source Date: Text: 梁孝王時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:083:s0150, shiji:083:s0155
  • Source Date: Text: 臣聞盛飾入朝者 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:083:s0233, shiji:083:s0235
  • Source Date: Text: 鄒陽辭雖不遜 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:083:s0237, shiji:083:s0235

Career and standing

  • Label: letter-writer and court guest / 上客
    Explicit · shiji:083:s0235, shiji:083:s0237
  • Status: honored-guest · Action: became · Label: honored guest / 上客 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁孝王 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Explicit · shiji:083:s0235
  • Status: imprisoned · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁孝王 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Strongly inferred · shiji:083:s0235
  • Status: imprisonment · Action: entered · Authority Person Id: Liu Wu (劉武) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁孝王時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Explicit · shiji:083:s0154, shiji:083:s0155
  • Label: release from prison / 出之 · Action: released · Authority Person Id: Liu Wu (劉武) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁孝王 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
    Explicit · shiji:083:s0235

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: language immoderate, yet analogies deeply moving; upright and unbending · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
    Explicit · shiji:083:s0237

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 56Volume 47: The Three Sons of Emperor Wen · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 66Volume 57a: Sima Xiangru · 1 passage
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會景帝不好辭賦，是時梁孝王來朝，從遊說之士齊人鄒陽、淮陰枚乘、吳嚴忌夫子之徒，相如見而說之，因病免，客遊梁，得與諸侯游士居，數歲，乃著《子虛之賦》。 Emperor Jing had little taste for fu rhapsody. Just then King Xiao of Liang was at court with a retinue of persuader-scholars—Zou Yang of Qi, Mei Sheng of Huaiyin, Master Yan Ji of Wu, and others. Sima Xiangru took to their company, pleaded illness, left his post, and went to Liang as a client. For several years he lived among the itinerant literati at the feudal courts, and there he wrote his “Sir Vacuity.”
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 83Biographies of Lu Zhonglian and Zou Yang · 6 passages
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