董宏 / Dong Hong (Western Han)

Overview

董宏 / Dong Hong enters the wiki through Hanji 562 as the Gaochang Hou who tries to turn 傅太后’s title desire into an apparently precedent-backed court proposal under 汉哀帝. He cites Qin Zhuangxiang Wang’s honoring of both birth and adoptive mothers to argue that Aidi can honor the Dingtao line, but 王莽 and 施丹 attack the proposal as improper and dangerous.

Current Profile

Dong Hong’s current role is narrow but structurally important. The source presents him as an official able to read Fu Taihou’s wishes and package them into a memorial that gives Aidi a plausible historical precedent. That makes him less an independent policy theorist in the wiki than an early example of how flattering title service can open a path for outer-relative status expansion.

The proposal fails in its first form because Wang Mang and Shi Dan argue that Qin precedent should not override the Han court’s ritual order and the existing dignity of 王政君 and 赵飞燕. Dong Hong is not executed, but he is removed to commoner status, making the case a warning that patron-aligned flattery can be rewarded by the patron’s side while still becoming punishable when senior ritual resistance holds.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han Gaochang Hou whose current wiki role is limited to the Aidi accession title dispute.
• Flattering proposal actor who converts Fu Taihou’s desired honor into a Qin-precedent argument.
• Trigger for Wang Mang and Shi Dan’s early ritual-order resistance against a second dowager-status center.
• Punished but spared official whose demotion shows the title proposal was dangerous without becoming a capital case in this episode.

Evidence

• Title proposal: Hanji 562 says Dong Hong cites Qin Zhuangxiang Wang’s birth and adoptive mother precedent to recommend honoring the Dingtao queen dowager as Di Taihou.
• Patron reading: Hanji 562 says Dong Hong is good at reading Fu Taihou’s wishes.
• Official resistance: Hanji 562 says Wang Mang and Shi Dan impeach him for using Qin precedent to mislead the court on an extremely dignified title.
• Punishment: Hanji 562 says Aidi spares Dong Hong’s life but removes him to commoner status.

Qualifications

Dong Hong is a one-source figure in the current wiki. Hanji 562 supports his title-proposal role, but not his full career, private motive, exact memorial text, later fate, or the complete legal basis for the impeachment.

What Changed

• Created Dong Hong as a narrow Western Han title-dispute actor rather than merging him with the unrelated modern 董宏光 page.

Relationships

• 傅太后 - patron-side figure whose title desire Dong Hong tries to serve.
• 汉哀帝 - ruler who initially forwards Dong Hong’s proposal for discussion but later removes him.
• 王莽 - senior official who joins the impeachment against Dong Hong’s title proposal.
• 施丹 - senior official who joins the impeachment and ritual-order resistance.
• 皇后谥号制度 - ritual-status field in which Dong Hong’s proposal becomes dangerous.