Du Zheng (度正) | 24 Histories

Overview

Du Zheng was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1231 理宗紹定四年
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 107, passage 211
AD 1234 端平初
Directly stated · History of Song 430, passage 218

Key source chapters

History of Song, Chapter 430 Volume 430 Biographies 189: Taoist Scholars 4: Zhu Shimenren, Huang Gan, Li Fan, Zhang Qia, Chen Chun, Li Fangzi, Huang Hao 2 passages
History of Song, Chapter 107 Volume 107 Treatises 60: Rites 10 1 passage

Career and standing

classics mat lecturer 經幄
AD 1234 端平初 · Held
Directly stated · History of Song 430, passage 218
Vice Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices 太常少卿
Held
Directly stated · History of Song 107, passage 211

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Song 107, passages 211-236

Events and relationships

Relation Followed theory of · Person Zhu Xi (朱熹)
Directly stated · History of Song 107, passages 211, 215

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 107Volume 107 Treatises 60: Rites 10 · 1 passage

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太常少卿度正言：「伏見近世大儒侍講朱熹詳考古禮，尚論宗廟之制，畫而為圖，其說甚備。 Vice Director Du Zheng stated: "The great Ru scholar Zhu Xi, lecturer of recent times, examined ancient ritual in detail, discussed ancestral temple institutions, illustrated them in diagrams, and his exposition was very complete.

History of Song, Chapter 430Volume 430 Biographies 189: Taoist Scholars 4: Zhu Shimenren, Huang Gan, Li Fan, Zhang Qia, Chen Chun, Li Fangzi, Huang Hao · 2 passages

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度正、葉味道在經幄，帝數問張洽何時可到，將以說書待洽，洽固辭，遂除直秘閣，主管建康崇禧觀。 Du Zheng and Ye Weidao served the classics mat; the emperor asked when Qia would come to make him expositor; Qia declined and was made direct gentleman keeping Chongxi Abbey in Jiankang.

所交皆名士，如呂祖儉、黃榦、趙崇憲、蔡淵、吳必大、輔廣、李道傳、李燔、葉味道、李閎祖、李方子、柴中行、真德秀、魏了翁、李埴、趙汝讜、陳貴誼、杜孝嚴、度正、張嗣古，皆敬慕之。 His friends were famous men—Lü Zujian, Huang Gan, Zhao Chongxian, Cai Yuan, Wu Bida, Fu Guang, Li Daochuan, Li Fan, Ye Weidao, Li Hongzu, Li Fangzi, Chai Zhongxing, Zhen Dexiu, Wei Liaoweng, Li Zhi, Zhao Rujing, Chen Guiyi, Du Xiaoyan, Du Zheng, Zhang Sigu—all revered him.