鲍峻 / Bao Jun (Eastern Han)

Overview

鲍峻 / Bao Jun is an Eastern Han friend and recommender of Ding Hong in Hanji 738. His wiki role is to turn Ding’s attempted title-yielding away from private moral display and back toward state-assigned public responsibility.

Current Profile

Hanji 738 introduces Bao Jun after Ding Hong tries to avoid inheriting his father’s marquisate by claiming illness and yielding the title to his younger brother. After burial, Ding leaves quietly. Bao meets him in Donghai and challenges the moral premise of that withdrawal.

Bao’s argument uses old examples against Ding rather than simply praising them. He treats Bo Yi and Ji Zha as exceptional responses to disorder, not as a universal model for refusing assigned duty. In the current, ordered setting, he argues, personal affairs cannot override a responsibility conferred by the state. Ding is ashamed, returns, and inherits.

Bao then recommends Ding to the court as learned in the classics and morally sound. Mingdi appoints Ding as shizhong, so Bao’s intervention has both ethical and institutional results: he corrects a friend’s self-understanding and translates the correction into official service.

Key Characteristics

• Eastern Han friend whose current source role is bounded to Ding Hong’s inheritance case.
• Reframes historical yielding examples as disorder-era exceptions rather than timeless virtue.
• Treats inherited title responsibility as a public assignment rather than private preference.
• Produces practical change by persuading Ding Hong to return and inherit.
• Converts private correction into official recommendation for court service.

Evidence

• Persuasion setting: Hanji 738 says Bao Jun meets Ding Hong in Donghai after Ding leaves instead of inheriting his father’s title.
• Historical-counterexample argument: Hanji 738 says Bao uses Bo Yi and Ji Zha as context-bound examples from disorder rather than as license for ordinary withdrawal.
• Public-duty correction: Hanji 738 says Bao argues that personal affairs cannot abandon state-given responsibility.
• Recommendation outcome: Hanji 738 says Bao recommends Ding for classics learning and conduct, after which Mingdi appoints Ding as shizhong.

Qualifications

This page does not reconstruct Bao Jun’s wider career. It preserves the one source-bounded role that affects Ding Hong’s profile and the wiki’s public-duty concepts.

What Changed

• Created Bao Jun as the persuader and recommender in Ding Hong’s Hanji 738 branch.
• Bounded the page to his public-duty argument and recommendation outcome.

Relationships

• 丁鸿 - friend whose title refusal Bao Jun redirects into public duty.
• 汉明帝 - ruler who appoints Ding after Bao Jun’s recommendation.
• 封爵继承公共责任 - concept directly grounded by Bao Jun’s persuasion.
• 士大夫公共责任 - broader ethic of learned public service that Bao’s recommendation activates.
• 任官责任退出受限 - related office-duty pattern because both treat exit as constrained by public need.