Dong Xuan (董宣) | 24 Histories

Overview

Dong Xuan was an Eastern Han Administrator.

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Shaoping	少平	Shaoping
Nickname	Crouching Tiger	卧虎	Wohu
Alternate name	Dong Shaoping	董少平	Dong Shaoping

Died in office · Age Years 74
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 56

Years 74 · Reckoning Source stated
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 56

AD 25 to AD 57 AD 25-57
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 85, passage 16

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

His wife and children wept beside his body.
Kinship Role children · Quantity unspecified plural
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 57

Prefect of Beihai 北海相
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 17
Prefect of Jiangxia 江夏太守
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 31
Magistrate of Huai 怀令
Demoted to
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 29
Magistrate of Luoyang 洛阳令
Served · Duration Years 5
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 55
Magistrate of Luoyang 洛阳令
Specially summoned and appointed
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 36
Nicknamed by emperor
Honor Stubborn-necked Magistrate 强项令 · Authority Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 49

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Posthumously granted
Honor mottled ribbon and burial with grandee rites 艾绶、大夫礼 · Authority Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 59
Arrested and executed
With Gongsun Dan (公孙丹), Son of Gongsun Dan (其子)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 20
Dismissed for slighting the commandant from the Yin consort clan
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 35
Summoned to the Commandant of Justice for excessive killing
With Shuiqiu Cen (水丘岑)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 23

Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 16
At Yu in Chenliu commandery 陈留圉 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 16

Recited in prison
Subject classical texts 讽诵
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 24
Earned
Credential highest-ranked recommendation 高第
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 17

Shuiqiu Cen acted on his orders; he asked to die so Cen could live.
Defense · Speaker · With Shuiqiu Cen (水丘岑) · Mode reported-speech Speaker Dong Xuan (董宣)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 28
He announced troops on the border and urged the Jiangxia bandits to choose safety.
Proclamation · Author · With Xia Xi (夏喜) · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Dong Xuan (董宣)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passages 32-33
A restored ruler could not govern if he allowed a slave to kill an innocent; Dong asked to kill himself.
Remonstrance · Speaker · With Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝) · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Dong Xuan (董宣)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passages 42-43
He asked leave to speak once before dying.
Speech · Speaker · With Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝) · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Dong Xuan (董宣)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 40
He had never eaten at another's expense, especially at the hour of death.
Speech · Speaker · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Dong Xuan (董宣)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 25

Imprisoned and ordered the killing of more than thirty of Gongsun Dan's kin and allies
Mass execution · Authority · With Shuiqiu Cen (水丘岑)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 22
Stopped the princess's carriage and killed her homicidal slave
Law enforcement · Magistrate · With Princess of Huyang (湖阳公主) · At Summer Gate watchpost 夏门亭
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 38
Struck his head against a pillar until his face bled
Self harm · Actor
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 44
Relation Recommended by · Person Hou Ba (侯霸)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 17

Assessment called the Crouching Tiger in the capital · Mode public-reputation
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 52
Assessment celebrated in a song for keeping the alarm drum silent · Mode popular-song
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 53
Assessment composed and incorruptible while facing execution · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passages 24-25
Assessment powerful families trembled when he attacked them · Mode public-reputation
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 51
Assessment refused to bow to the princess even when physically forced · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 45
Item three hundred thousand cash 钱三十万 · Relation Received and distributed among clerks · Authority Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 50

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Item cloth covering, several measures of barley, and one broken-down cart 布被、大麦数斛、敝车一乘 · Relation Estate at death
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 57