陈寔 / Chen Shi (late Han)
陈寔 / Chen Shi (late Han) enters through Hanji 938 as the former Taiqiu magistrate whose death draws more than thirty thousand mourners in the episode’s account. The source uses him as a moral-order contrast to the same year’s rebellions, office churn, rank sale, and frontier disorder.
The episode highlights the “梁上君子” story. Chen Shi notices a thief hiding on a roof beam, gathers his descendants, and teaches that wrongdoing is often learned through accumulated habit rather than innate badness. When the thief descends and confesses, Chen Shi gives him cloth and preserves a path back into ordinary life; the source says local theft then decreases.
The same source says people trusted Chen Shi to resolve disputes because he judged fairly enough that parties did not complain afterward. His posthumous prestige therefore supports 道德名望政治资本 without making moral reputation a power grab: here reputation operates as local trust and social correction.