Chu Chengliang (褚承亮)

Overview

Chu Chengliang was a Song-Jin Recluse Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Maoxian	茂先	Maoxian
Posthumous name	Master Xuanzhen	玄貞先生	Xuanzhen

Life and dates

Death

Age 70
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 73

Age

70
Reckoning Sui · Context at death
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 73

Attested activity

AD 1128 天會六年
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 62
AD 1123 宣和五年
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 59
AD 1124 明年
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 60

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Chu Xizhen (褚席珍)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 74

Career and standing

registrar of households in Yizhou 易州戶曹
Appointed not assumed
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 61
magistrate of Gaocheng 知槁城縣
Appointed then abandoned
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passages 71-72

Places and affiliations

Song 宋
Relation Subject of
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 200
At Zhending 真定
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 57

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1123 宣和五年 · Credential first in provincial examination 鄉試第一
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 59
Earned
AD 1124 明年 · Credential metropolitan graduate 登第
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 60

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Mode named-source-report Speaker Chu Chengliang (褚承亮)
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 66

Events and relationships

Forced to exam then walked out
AD 1128 天會六年 · Examination · Candidate
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passages 62-63, 66-67
Presented writings
Literary · Presenter · With Su Shi (蘇軾)
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 58

Assessments and attributes

Assessment 卓尔不群 among Jin recluses · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passages 199-200

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

History of Jin, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 65: Xiao You, Wendihanwolubu, Chen Yan, Liu Yu, Meng Xing, Wang Zhen, Liu Zheng, Yin Yi, Chu Chengliang, Wang Qufei, Zhao Zhi, Du Shisheng, Hao Tianting, Xue Jiyuan, Gao Zhongzhen, Zhang Qian, Wang Rumei, Song Ke, Xin Yuan, Wang Yuke · 9 passages

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褚承亮 Chu Chengliang

褚承亮，字茂先，真定人。 Chu Chengliang, styled Maoxian, came from Zhending.

宋蘇軾自定武謫官過真定，承亮以文謁之，大為稱賞。 When Su Shi of the Song, demoted from Dingwu, passed through Zhending, Chengliang presented his writings and won high praise.

宣和五年秋，應鄉試，同試者八百人，承亮為第一。 In the autumn of the fifth year of Xuanhe he took the provincial examination and ranked first among eight hundred candidates.

天會六年，斡離不既破真定，拘籍境內進士試安國寺，承亮名亦在籍中，匿而不出。 In the sixth year of Tianhui, after Wolibu captured Zhending, he registered local jinshi and held an examination at Anguo Temple; Chengliang's name was on the list, but he hid and refused to appear.

承亮詣主文劉侍中曰：「君父之罪，豈臣子所得言耶？」 Chengliang went to the chief examiner, Vice Minister Liu, and said, "The offenses of sovereign and father — how can a subject presume to speak of them?"

劉多承亮之誼，薦知槁城縣。 Out of deep regard for Chengliang, Liu recommended him as magistrate of Gaocheng County.

年七十終，門人私諡曰「玄貞先生。」 He died at seventy; his disciples gave him the posthumous title "Master Xuanzhen."

褚承亮宋人，勒試進士，主司發策問宋徽、欽之罪，承亮長揖而去之。 Chu Chengliang was a Song subject; compelled to take the jinshi examination, the chief examiner set a policy question on the offenses of emperors Hui and Qin of Song, and Chengliang bowed deeply and walked out.