邓鸿 / Deng Hong (late Han)

Overview

邓鸿 / Deng Hong is a Deng-family figure in Hanji 788 whose death becomes a test of posthumous honor management under Empress Dowager Deng. The source presents him as frugal, interested in the Ouyang interpretation of the Shangshu, and once involved in teaching 汉安帝 inside the palace.

Current Profile

Hanji 788 identifies Deng Hong as a former huben zhonglangjiang. His profile in the source is brief but pointed: he is remembered for frugality, classical study, and teaching Emperor An. After he dies, officials propose high posthumous military honor and an added Xiping marquisate.

Empress Dowager Deng does not follow the maximal honor proposal. The source says she respects Deng Hong’s usual preference and refuses added office, title, and clothing, while still granting substantial money and cloth. Deng Zhi and other brothers refuse the grant, and Deng Hong’s son is later enfeoffed as Xiping Hou with a more restrained funeral arrangement than officials had sought.

Key Characteristics

• Deng-family member whose source profile emphasizes frugality rather than conspicuous privilege.
• Former palace military official connected to Emperor An’s education.
• Classical-study figure associated with the Ouyang interpretation of the Shangshu.
• Posthumous honor case where Deng-family status, restraint, grants, and refusal appear together.
• Source-bounded figure whose son-enfeoffment is recorded without creating a separate durable child page.

Evidence

• Office and learning: Hanji 788 describes Deng Hong as a former huben zhonglangjiang who studied Ouyang Shangshu and taught Emperor An.
• Personal style: Hanji 788 says Deng Hong was frugal in life.
• Proposed honor and restraint: Hanji 788 says officials propose posthumous general rank and Xiping Hou, but Empress Dowager Deng declines added office, title, and clothing.
• Grants and refusal: Hanji 788 records money and cloth grants, brotherly refusal, later son-enfeoffment, and a simplified burial arrangement.

Qualifications

This page does not attempt a full Deng-family genealogy or biography. It records Deng Hong only as Hanji 788 presents him: a frugal scholar-official relative whose death lets the source show restraint and privilege operating in the same Deng-regency household field.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 788’s Deng Hong death, grant, refusal, and son-enfeoffment sequence.

Relationships

• 和熹邓皇后 - regent who restrains the posthumous honor proposal while still granting wealth and later title continuity.
• 邓氏 - family network to which Deng Hong belongs.
• 邓骘 - elder brother named in the refusal of the grant.
• 汉安帝 - ruler whom Deng Hong is said to have taught in the palace.
• 复合危机下的摄政 - broader context in which family honor management occurs beside frontier and disaster pressure.