钟皓 / Zhong Hao (Yingchuan, late Han)

Overview

钟皓 / Zhong Hao is a late-Han Yingchuan county-magistrate figure named in the current wiki through the 颍川四长 cohort. Hanji 842 groups him with 韩韶, 荀淑, and 陈寔 as magistrates remembered for virtuous local governance and benefit to the people.

Current Profile

Zhong Hao’s current page is intentionally narrow. Hanji 842 does not provide an individual anecdote comparable to Han Shao’s granary decision. It names Zhong Hao as one member of a four-person Yingchuan magistrate reputation field, where local office, 德政, and public benefit become the basis for praise.

The main profile value is therefore identity and cohort placement. Zhong Hao should be kept distinct from 种暠, the differently written frontier official attached to Hanji 844 and Duliao governance. This page preserves the 钟皓 route for the Yingchuan Four Magistrates figure until more source notes add individual detail.

Key Characteristics

• Yingchuan county-magistrate figure named as one of the Yingchuan Four Magistrates.
• Associated with 德政 and people-benefiting local administration in the source’s cohort description.
• Currently source-bounded to cohort evidence rather than a separate detailed biography.
• Canonically distinct from the existing 种暠 route because the Chinese character and source context differ.

Evidence

• Cohort membership: Hanji 842 names Zhong Hao with Han Shao, Xun Shu, and Chen Shi as the Yingchuan Four Magistrates.
• Governance reputation: Hanji 842 says the four had served as county heads and were praised for virtuous governance and benefit to the people.
• Identity boundary: Hanji 842 uses 钟皓, while the established Hanji 844 frontier page concerns 种暠.

Qualifications

The source note gives Zhong Hao’s reputation label but not an independent administrative episode, office location, or broader career. Claims about him should remain tied to the Yingchuan Four Magistrates cohort until additional source notes add detail.

What Changed

• Created a distinct Zhong Hao page for 钟皓 in the Yingchuan Four Magistrates context.
• Preserved the identity boundary between 钟皓 and the existing 种暠 page.

Relationships

• 颍川四长 - Zhong Hao is one of the four named county-magistrate exemplars.
• 韩韶 - cohort peer whose granary-relief anecdote anchors the episode’s good-official theme.
• 荀淑 - cohort peer in the same Yingchuan magistrate reputation field.
• 陈寔 - cohort peer who already has separate party-prohibition and moral-authority evidence.
• 仁厚地方治理 - broader concept for the virtuous local-administration reputation attached to the cohort.
• 种暠 - distinct same-pronunciation late-Han official route that should not be merged with 钟皓.