Chen Heng (陳恒) | 24 Histories

Overview

Chen Heng was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 481 陳恒之惡
Strongly inferred · History of Liao 72, passage 44

Assessments and attributes

Assessment wicked (allusion to usurpation) · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Liao 72, passage 44

References in the histories

History of Liao, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 2: Imperial Family: Yi Zongbei, the Foreign Emperor Zhang Su, Shun Zongjun, Jin Wangaoluwo · 1 passage

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觀其始慕泰伯之賢而為遠適之謀，終疾陳恒之惡而有請討之舉，誌趣之卓，蓋已見於早歲先祀孔子之言歟。 See how early on he admired Taibo's virtue and planned exile abroad, and in the end loathed Chen Heng's crime and urged his ruler to punish it—his high purpose was already plain in youth, when he argued to honor Confucius first.