Dai Sheng (), also known as Xiao Dai, (), birth and death unknown, was the Scholar of Rituals to Emperor Xuan of the

Former Han Dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by th ...

. He was the son of

Dai Ren Dai may refer to: Names * Dai (given name), a Welsh or Japanese masculine given name * Dai (surname) (戴), a Chinese surname Places and regimes * Dai Commandery, a commandery of the state of Zhao and in early imperial China * Dai County, in Xinz ...

() and the nephew of

Dai De Dai De (), also known as Da Dai, (; more formally, "Dai the Greater"), birth and death unknown, was a Confucian scholar of the Former Han Dynasty. He was active during the reign of Emperor Yuan of Han (48–33 BC). He was the son of Dai Ren () an ...

. He was a native of Liang (now

Shangqiu Shangqiu (), alternately romanized as Shangkiu, is a city in eastern Henan province, Central China. It borders Kaifeng to the northwest, Zhoukou to the southwest, and the provinces of Shandong and Anhui to the northeast and southeast respectively ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

) and a founder of the

Jinwen Jingxue Jin Wen or Jinwen may refer to: *Chinese bronze inscriptions, Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes from around 1000 BC *Jinwen University of Science and Technology, a university in New Taipei, Taiwan *Jinhua–Wenzhou railway, colloquially known as Ji ...

(今文经学, School of Confucianism). He helped compile the ''

Book of Rites The ''Book of Rites'', also known as the ''Liji'', is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods. The ''Book o ...

'' (''Li Ji''), reducing the 85 books of Dai De's version down to 46. Three books were later added to make 49 that still exist. Dai Sheng's version is known as ''Xiao Dai Li Ji'' 小戴礼记.

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