Du You (杜佑) | 24 Histories

Overview

Du You was a Tang Statesman, Historian, and Fiscal Administrator.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 781 to AD 782 四鎮拒命時
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 53, passage 74
AD 782 度支杜佑
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 52, passage 20
AD 780 to AD 812 德宗憲宗間
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 175, passage 38
c. AD 805 憲宗立
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 32
AD 785 to AD 798 杜佑、李復相繼鎮淮南
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 150
AD 785 to AD 798 杜佑、李復相繼鎮淮南
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 177

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AD 801 杜佑《通典》
Strongly inferred · History of Liao 54, passage 94
AD 801 杜佑以為多幻術
Strongly inferred · History of Liao 54, passage 165
AD 803 to AD 805 淮南 Du You recruited Boqu
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 100
AD 803 to AD 812 淮南杜佑
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 72
AD 805 貞元末
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 213, passage 49
AD 805 順宗即位
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 127, passages 226-228

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Situ 司徒
AD 805 順宗即位 · Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 227
Director of Revenue 度支
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 20
finance, salt, iron, and transport commissioner 判度支鹽鐵轉運使
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 227
Huainan governor 鎮淮南
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 177
military governor of Huainan 鎮淮南
Held · At Huainan 淮南
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 150
Replaced
Replaced · replaced in revenue directorate by Zhao Zan
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 21

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 227
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 72, 150; Old Book of Tang 157, passages 100, 177
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 53, passage 74
At Huainan 淮南 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 72, 150; Old Book of Tang 157, passages 100, 177

Works and attributed material

Comprehensive Institutions 通典
Relation Author
Directly stated · History of Liao 54, passage 94
Consultation · Speaker · With Dezong (德宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 20

Events and relationships

Advised that merchant loan of five million strings could fund half a year
Administrative · Advisor
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 20
Appointed chief secretary
Administrative · Patron · With Duan Pingzhong (段平仲)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 150
Appointed staff officer
Political · Recruiter · With Boqu (伯芻)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 100
Declined heavy post
Office · Incumbent
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 228
Memorialized to appoint chief secretary
Appointment · Recommender · With Duan Pingzhong (段平仲)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 177
Proposed reopening an old Qin Han transport route around the blocked Huai corridor
Administrative · Official
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 53, passage 74

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Recruited as staff officer
Appointment · Patron · With Boqu (伯芻)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 72
Relation Predecessor of · Person Li Fu (李復) · At Huainan 淮南
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 150
Relation Recommender of · Person Li Xun (李巽)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 227
Relation Patron of · Person Boqu (伯芻)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 100
Relation Patron of · Person Duan Pingzhong (段平仲)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 177

Assessments and attributes

Assessment miscellaneous entertainments mostly illusion arts from the Western Regions · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Du You (杜佑)
Directly stated · History of Liao 54, passage 165

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 127, passage 227; Old Book of Tang 153, passage 150; New Book of Tang 172, passage 32
Value historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 177

References in the histories

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History

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 127Volume 123 Biographies 73: Liu Yan, Di Wuqi, Ban Hong, Ban Shao, Li Xun · 2 passages

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司徒杜佑判度支鹽鐵轉運使，以巽幹治，奏為副使。 Situ Du You headed the finance, salt, iron, and transport commission. Impressed by Li Xun's administrative skill, he recommended him as deputy commissioner.

佑辭重位，巽遂專領度支鹽鐵使。 When Du You stepped down from the heavy office, Li Xun took sole charge of the finance and salt commission.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 157Volume 153 Biographies 103: Yao Nanzhong, Liu Nai, Yuan Gao, Duan Pingzhong, Xue Cuncheng, Lu Tan · 2 passages

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淮南杜佑辟為從事，府罷，屏居吳中。 Du You of Huainan recruited him as staff officer. When the office closed, he lived in seclusion in the Wu region.

杜佑、李復相繼鎮淮南，皆表平仲為掌書記。 Du You and Li Fu governed Huainan in succession and both appointed Pingzhong chief secretary.

History of Liao, Chapter 54Volume 54 Treatises 24: Music · 2 passages

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杜佑《通典》已稱諸樂並亡。 Du You's Comprehensive Institutions already records that all these pieces were lost.

雜戲：自齊景公用倡優侏儒，至漢武帝設魚龍曼延之戲，後漢有繩舞、自刳之伎，杜佑以為多幻術，皆出西域。 Miscellaneous entertainments: from Duke Jing of Qi's actors and dwarfs to Emperor Wu of Han's fish-dragon pageant, and in Later Han rope dances and self-disemboweling acts—Du You regarded most of these as illusion arts originating in the Western Regions.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 2 passages

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初，太常博士韋都賓、陳京請借富商錢，德宗以問度支杜佑，以為軍費裁支數月，幸得商錢五百萬緡，可支半歲。 Erudites of the Imperial Ancestral Temple Wei Dubin and Chen Jing first proposed borrowing from rich merchants. Dezong consulted Du You, director of revenue, who replied that army funds would last only a few months but that five million strings from merchants could sustain the war for half a year.

乃以戶部侍郎趙贊判度支，代佑行借錢令，約罷兵乃償之。 Zhao Zan, vice minister of revenue, was assigned to the directorate of revenue to replace Du You and enforce the loan order, with repayment promised after the armies stood down.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 53Volume 53 Treatises 43: Finance and Economics 3 · 1 passage

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江淮水陸轉運使杜佑以秦、漢運路出浚儀十里入琵琶溝，絕蔡河，至陳州而合，自隋鑿汴河，官漕不通，若導流培岸，功用甚寡； Transport commissioner Du You argued that the Qin-Han route left Junyi, entered Pipa Ditch, crossed the Cai, and met at Chenzhou—a path abandoned since the Sui cut the Bian. Reopening it by modest dredging and bank work would be cheap;

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 2 passages

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請準杜佑，月三奉朝，詔可。 He asked to follow Du You's precedent of attending court three times a month, and the request was granted.

杜佑素善兼，終始倚為助力。 Du You had always favored Jian and counted on him as a steady ally throughout.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 175Volume 175 Biographies 100: Dou, Liu, Two Zhangs, Yang, Xiong, Bai · 1 passage

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杜佑鎮淮南，署為參謀。 Du You, as Huainan commissioner, made him a staff planner.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 213Volume 213 Biographies 138: Buffer Regions: the Black, Green, and Yellow Seas · 1 passage

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貞元末，與杜佑、李欒皆得封妾媵以國為夫人，進同中書門下平章事。 Late in the Zhenyuan era he joined Du You and Li Luan in the unprecedented privilege of ennobling concubines as state ladies, and was promoted to honorary Grand Councillor.