Cheng Hao (程顥) | 24 Histories

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Cheng Hao was a Northern Song philosopher and scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Cheng Chun	程純公
Courtesy name	Bochun	伯淳	Bochun
Posthumous name	Master Chungong	純公

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1032 to AD 1085 AD 1032-1085
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 292
AD 1032 to AD 1085 伯淳在澤州
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 77
AD 1069 熙寧二年八月辛酉
Directly stated · History of Song 14, passage 220
AD 1068 熙寧初
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 118, passages 49, 55
AD 1032 to AD 1085 純公
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 483, passage 121

Family

Sibling of Cheng Yi (程頤)
brother 兄弟 · Uncertain siblings
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 292

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Career and standing

crown prince attendant and acting investigating censor 太子中允、權監察御史裏行
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Song 14, passage 220
Investigating Censor-in-Training 監察御史裏行
Held
Directly stated · History of Song 118, passage 55
proposed for attendant sacrifice in Confucius temple 從祀孔子廟
AD 1208 to AD 1224 嘉定 · Proposed
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passage 292

Places and affiliations

Song 宋
Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 77
Song 宋
Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Song 118, passage 55
Polity Song 宋 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 292
At Zezhou 澤州 · Relation Sojourned at · Mode quotation Speaker Cheng Yi (程頤)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 77

Learning and skills

Belief Cheng learning · Relation Teaching lineage studied by Li Tangjie
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 391, passage 122

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Song 118, passages 55-57
Quoted saying · Speaker · Quote Summary ancient rulers must have ministers who recite admonitions and remonstrate
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 391, passage 20

Events and relationships

Ate chives at zezhou observing climate
Personal · Subject · At Zezhou 澤州 · Mode quotation Speaker Cheng Yi (程頤)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 77
Attendant sacrifice in Confucius temple proposed
AD 1208 to AD 1224 嘉定 · Ritual · Proposed honoree · With Confucius (孔子)
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passage 292

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 26Volume 26 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1, Celestial Phenomena, Earth Shape, and Terrestrial Distances · 1 passage

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伯淳在澤州，嘗三次食韭黃，始食懷州韭，次食澤州，次食并州，則知數百里間，氣候已爭三月矣。 At Zezhou, Bochun ate chives three times — from Huai, Ze, and Bing — and found climate three months apart within hundreds of li.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 391Volume 391 Biographies 178: Wo Ren, Li Tangjie, Wu Tingdong · 5 passages

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宋程顥雲，'古者人君必有誦訓箴諫之臣'。 Cheng Hao of the Song said, 'In ancient times every ruler had ministers who recited lessons and offered frank remonstrance.'

會通程、硃、陸、王學說，無所偏主，要以克己復禮、身體實行為歸。 He mastered the teachings of the Cheng brothers, Zhu Xi, Lu Xiangshan, and Wang Yangming without partisan bias, and aimed always at self-restraint, return to ritual, and practice in the flesh.

因詢廷棟讀何書，廷棟以程、硃對。 The emperor asked what he read; Wu Tingdong answered, the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi.

上曰：「學程、硃者每多迂拘。」 The emperor said, "Students of Cheng and Zhu are often stiff and narrow."

程、硃以明德為體，新民為用，天下未有有體而無用者。 Cheng and Zhu take illustrious virtue as root and renewing the people as use; nowhere is there root without use.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 483Volume 483 Biographies 270: Confucian Scholars 4: Kong Yinzhi Son: Xing Xie, Yu Qi Son: Chuan Duo, Guang Qi Son: Zhao Huan, Sun :Xianpei, Zeng Sun : Qing Rong, Zeng Sun : Fan Hao, Xuan Sun : Xiang Ke, Lai Sun : Ling Yi · 1 passage

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而程氏改純公後一人。 For the Cheng house the line was changed to a single heir of Master Chungong.

History of Song, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shenzong 1 · 1 passage

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辛酉，以秘書省著作佐郎程顥、王子韶並爲太子中允、權監察御史裏行。 On xinyou, Cheng Hao and Wang Zishao became acting censors.

History of Song, Chapter 118Volume 118 Treatises 71: Rites 21 · 1 passage

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監察御史裏行張戩、程顥言：「每欲奏事，必俟朝旨，或朝政有闕及聞外事而機速後時，則已無所及； Investigating Censor-in-Training Zhang Jian and Cheng Hao said: "Whenever we wish to report affairs we must await court instruction; if there is a defect in court governance or news from abroad and the moment for swift action passes, then nothing can be done;

History of Song, Chapter 436Volume 436 Biographies 195: Confucian Scholars 6: Chen Liang, Zheng Qiaolinting, Li Daochuan · 1 passage

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願下明詔，崇尚正學，取朱熹《論語》、《孟子集注》、《中庸大學章句》、《或問》四書，頒之太學，仍請以周惇頤、邵雍、程顥、程頤、張載五人從祀孔子廟。」 Issue a clear edict to honor true learning, distribute Zhu Xi's Four Books—the 《Analects》, 《Mencius》, 《Great Learning and Mean》, and 《Questions》—through the academy, and add Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, the two Chengs, and Zhang Zai to Confucius's temple.'

History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 1 passage

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皇慶元年，升司業，用程純公《學校奏疏》、胡文定公《六學教法》、朱文公《學校貢舉私議》，約之為教法四條：一曰經學，二曰行實，三曰文藝，四曰治事，未及行。 In the first year of Huangqing (1312) he was promoted to Vice Director. Drawing on Cheng Chun's Memorial on Schools, Hu Anguo's Six-Learning Teaching Method, and Zhu Xi's Private Discussion on School Recommendation and Examination, he distilled them into four articles of teaching method: classical learning, conduct, literary accomplishment, and administration of affairs—before they could be put into practice.