Du Shisheng (杜時升)

Overview

Du Shisheng was a Jin Recluse Astronomer and Teacher.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Shi Sheng	時昇	Shi Sheng
Courtesy name	Jinzhi	進之	Jinzhi

Life and dates

Death

AD 1231 to AD 1232 正大末
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 101

Attested activity

AD 1196 to AD 1208 承安、泰和間
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 93
AD 1231 to AD 1232 正大末
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 101
AD 1224 to AD 1232 正大間
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 99
AD 1115 to AD 1234 金史有傳 / Jin period
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 199, passages 9, 11

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Du Ying (杜瑛)
father 父
Directly stated · History of Yuan 199, passage 9

Key source chapters

Career and standing

teacher of Yi-Luo learning 伊洛之學
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 98
Maintained
Refused office
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 92

Places and affiliations

Polity Jin 金 · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 199, passage 9
At Xin'an in Bazhou 霸州信安
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 91
At Song and Luo mountains 嵩、洛山中 · Relation Withdrew to
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 97

Learning and skills

Skill astronomy 天文 · Level versed
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 92

Works and attributed material

History of Jin 金史
Relation Has biography in
Directly stated · History of Yuan 199, passage 9
Speech · Speaker · Mode named-source-report Speaker Du Shisheng (杜時升)
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passages 94-95, 99

Events and relationships

Predicted disorder and unification
Prediction · Speaker
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passages 94-95
Predicted Yuan route and Jin collapse
Prediction · Forecaster
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passages 99-100

Assessments and attributes

Assessment 卓尔不群; first to teach Yi-Luo learning · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passages 199, 201

References in the histories

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History

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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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杜時升 Du Shisheng

杜時升，字進之，霸州信安人。 Du Shisheng, styled Jinzhi, came from Xin'an in Bazhou.

承安、泰和間，宰相數薦時升可大用。 During Chengan and Taihe, chief ministers repeatedly recommended Shisheng for high office.

時升謂所親曰：「吾觀正北赤氣如血，東西亙天，天下當大亂，亂而南北當合為一。 Shisheng told those close to him, "I see crimson vapor like blood in the far north, stretching east and west across the sky; the realm will fall into great disorder, and when the turmoil ends north and south will become one.

時升乃南渡河，隱居嵩、洛山中，從學者甚眾。 Shisheng then crossed the river south, withdrew to the Song and Luo mountains, and attracted a great many students.

大抵以「伊洛之學」教人自時升始。 Teaching the "learning of the Yi and Luo" broadly to others began with Shisheng.

正大間，大元兵攻潼關，拒守甚堅，眾皆相賀，時升曰：「大兵皆在秦、鞏間，若假道于宋，出襄、漢入宛、葉，鐵騎長驅勢如風雨，無高山大川為之阻，土崩之勢也。」 During Zhengda, when the Great Yuan army attacked Tong Pass and the defense held firm, all congratulated one another; Shisheng said, "The main force is all between Qin and Gong; if they borrow a route through Song, emerge from Xiang and Han into Wan and Ye, and iron cavalry drives straight ahead like wind and rain with no high mountains or great rivers to block them, the realm will collapse like a landslide."

頃之，大元兵果自饒峰關涉襄陽出南陽，金人敗績於三峰山，汴京不守，皆如時升所料雲。 Before long the Great Yuan army did cross Raofeng Pass through Xiangyang and emerge at Nanyang; the Jin were defeated at Sanfeng Mountain and Bianjing fell — all exactly as Shisheng had foreseen.

方金人重舉業，杜時升居山中，首以「伊洛之學」教後進。 Just when the Jin prized the examination curriculum, Du Shisheng dwelt in the mountains and was the first to teach the younger generation the "learning of the Yi and Luo."

History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 1 passage

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父時昇，《金史》有傳。 His father Shi Sheng is recorded in the History of Jin.