Overview
Yang Heng was a scholar Teacher and Hermit.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|
| Courtesy name |
Benchu |
本初 |
Benchu |
| Alternate name |
Man of White Deer |
白鹿生 |
Bailu Sheng |
Life and dates
Attested activity
Places and affiliations
- At Zhuji 諸暨
- At Bailu Mountain 白鹿山 · Relation Retired to
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment sincere-and-scrupulous · Mode historian-judgment
References in the histories
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History of Ming, Chapter 298Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses · 10 passages
張介福 倪瓚 徐舫 楊恆 陳洄 楊引 吳海 劉閔 楊黼 孫一元 沈周 陳繼儒
Zhang Jiefu, Ni Zan, Xu Fang, Yang Heng, Chen Hui, Yang Yin, Wu Hai, Liu Min, Yang Fu, Sun Yiyuan, Shen Zhou, and Chen Jiru
楊恆，字本初，諸暨人。
Yang Heng, courtesy name Benchu, was a native of Zhuji.
外族方氏建義塾，館四方游學士，恆幼往受諸經，輒領其旨要。
His mother's clan, the Fang family, built a charity school and housed traveling scholars from every quarter. Heng went there as a boy to study the classics and always grasped their essentials at once.
浦江鄭氏延為師，閱十年退居白鹿山，戴棕冠，披羊裘，帶經耕煙雨間，嘯歌自樂，因自號白鹿生。
The Zheng family of Pujiang invited him to serve as their teacher. After ten years he retired to Bailu Mountain, wore a palm-fiber cap and sheepskin cloak, carried the classics while farming amid mist and rain, and sang for his own delight. He styled himself the Man of White Deer.
鳳請為州學師，恆固讓不起。
Feng asked him to serve as teacher of the prefectural school, but Heng firmly declined and would not accept.
鳳乃命州中子弟即家問道。
Feng then ordered the young men of the prefecture to come to Heng's home to study the Way.
後唐鐸知紹興，欲辟起之，復固辭。
Later, when Tang Duo governed Shaoxing, he wished to summon Heng to office, but Heng again firmly declined.
宋濂之為學士也，擬薦為國子師，聞不受州郡辟命，乃已。
When Song Lian became a Hanlin academician, he planned to recommend Heng as teacher of the National University, but hearing that he would accept no appointment from prefecture or district, he let the matter drop.
恆性醇篤，與人語，出肺肝相示。
Heng was by nature sincere and earnest; in conversation he laid bare his heart without reserve.
宋濂俱為之傳。
Song Lian wrote biographies for both Yang Heng and Chen Hui.