杜仲 / Du Zhong (late Han)

Overview

杜仲 / Du Zhong enters the wiki through Hanji 850 as the Hongnong commandery official who voluntarily links his fate to 李云 after Li Yun is jailed for remonstrating against 汉桓帝. His source-bounded importance is solidarity under a captured court: he makes another official’s punishment a shared loyal-speech case and dies for it.

Current Profile

Hanji 850 says Du Zhong is a Hongnong wuguan yuan who sees Li Yun punished for loyal remonstrance and submits his own memorial asking to share Li Yun’s life and death. The act is not a policy proposal in itself. Its force is moral and public: if Li Yun is guilty for speaking loyally, Du Zhong declares himself willing to be treated as guilty too.

Huan reacts with greater anger and sends Du Zhong into the same criminal process as Li Yun. Du Zhong is tortured, judged with Li Yun, and dies in prison. The page therefore treats him as a compact late-Han example of 赴死式直谏 by solidarity rather than by original policy analysis.

Key Characteristics

• Hongnong commandery official whose source role is tied to Li Yun’s remonstrance case.
• Solidarity actor who voluntarily shares political liability rather than avoiding collateral danger.
• Death-facing speaker whose act turns individual punishment into a public moral test.
• Prison-death casualty of Huan’s refusal to tolerate Li Yun’s criticism and rescue network.

Evidence

• Office and trigger: Hanji 850 identifies Du Zhong as a Hongnong wuguan yuan and says he responds after Li Yun is jailed for loyal remonstrance.
• Shared-fate memorial: Hanji 850 says Du Zhong asks to live and die with Li Yun and to share the same punishment.
• Imperial escalation: Hanji 850 says Huan becomes angrier and orders Du Zhong sent with Li Yun to criminal review and torture.
• Death outcome: Hanji 850 says Li Yun and Du Zhong both die in prison after Huan rejects clemency.

Qualifications

This page is intentionally narrow. Hanji 850 gives Du Zhong as a solidarity remonstrant, not a full administrative biography. The source’s praise of his shared-fate choice is preserved as an interpretation of political courage, but the page does not infer wider factional membership beyond the Li Yun case.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 850’s shared-fate memorial and prison-death sequence.

Relationships

• 李云 - remonstrant whose punishment Du Zhong chooses to share.
• 汉桓帝 - ruler who treats Du Zhong’s solidarity as additional offense.
• 陈蕃 - intercessor whose plea fails to save Li Yun and Du Zhong.
• 管霸 - final mitigation actor whose argument fails before the execution order.
• 赴死式直谏 - broader pattern for death-facing speech and witness.
• 直谏入罪 - mechanism that turns Du Zhong’s solidarity into prison liability.