Overview
Dong Daoxiu was a Diviner.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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Places and affiliations
- Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
Works and attributed material
- Divination · Speaker · With Pi (丕)
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Book of Wei, Chapter 19Volume 17: Emperor Mingyuan's Six Princes · 4 passages
丕之薨及日者董道秀之死也，高允遂著筮論曰：「昔明元末起白臺，其高二十餘丈，樂平王嘗夢登其上，四望無所見。
When Prince Pi died and the diviner Dong Daoxiu was put to death, Gao Yun wrote a treatise on divination, saying: "Near the end of Emperor Mingyuan's reign a White Terrace was built, more than twenty zhang tall. The Prince of Leping once dreamed that he climbed it and gazed in every direction, yet saw nothing at all.
王以問日者董道秀，筮之曰：『大吉。』
The prince consulted the diviner Dong Daoxiu, who cast the hexagram and declared, 'Great good fortune.'
後事發，王遂憂死，而道秀棄市。
When the matter later came to light, the prince died of anxiety, and Daoxiu was executed in the public marketplace.
道秀若推六爻以對王曰：『易稱「亢龍有悔」，窮高曰亢，高而無民，不為善也。』
Had Daoxiu worked through the six lines and answered the prince, saying, 'The Changes says, "The arrogant dragon will have cause for regret." To press height to the limit is arrogance; to stand aloft without the people beneath one is no blessing,'