Qin and Han · Scholar

Greater Dai 大戴

Da Dai

Attested BC 74 - BC 49

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Greater Dai was a scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 73 to BC 49 大戴盛德之篇
Directly stated · Book of Wei 96, passage 117
BC 74 to BC 49 宣帝
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 126, passages 29, 33

Family

Kin of Lesser Dai (小戴)
Greater and Lesser Dai 大小戴
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 126, passage 29

Key source chapters

Book of Wei, Chapter 96 Volume 90: Retired Officals: Sui Kua, Feng Liang, Li Mi, Zheng Xiu 3 passages
Book of Later Han, Chapter 126 Volume 115: Officials Part Two 1 passage

Career and standing

classical school founder 经氏之师
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 126, passage 29

Works and attributed material

Elder Dai's Rites / Accomplished Virtue 大戴禮盛德篇
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Book of Wei 96, passages 88, 117

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 126Volume 115: Officials Part Two · 1 passage

《礼》二，大小戴氏。 The Rites survive in the elder and younger Dai recensions.

Book of Wei, Chapter 96Volume 90: Retired Officals: Sui Kua, Feng Liang, Li Mi, Zheng Xiu · 3 passages

覽考工記、大戴禮盛德篇，以明堂之制不同，遂著明堂制度論曰： Reading the Records of the Craftsman and the "Accomplished Virtue" chapter of Elder Dai's Rites, and finding the Mingtang regulations at odds, he wrote an essay On the Mingtang System, which says:

言九室者，則案大戴盛德之篇以為源，是伯喈之倫所持。 the nine-chamber school takes Elder Dai's "Accomplished Virtue" chapter as its source—the party of Cai Yong.

然竊以為戴氏聞三十六戶、七十二牖，弗見其制，靡知所置，便謂一室有四戶之窗，計其戶牖之數，即以為九室耳。 Yet I think the Dai clan heard of thirty-six doors and seventy-two windows, never saw the actual plan, and simply assumed four doors and windows per chamber—counting doors and windows, they called it nine chambers.