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Dai Sheng (), also known as Xiao Dai, (), birth and death unknown, was the Scholar of Rituals to Emperor Xuan of the Former Han dynasty. He was the son of Dai Ren () and the nephew of Dai De. He was a native of Liang (now
Shangqiu Shangqiu ( zh, ), Postal romanization, 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 ...
,
Henan Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ...
) and a founder of the Former Han dynasty Jinwen Jingxue (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 '' ...
'' (''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. Dai Sheng and Dai De were at the shuqiu Pavilion meeting where the emperor invited scholars to debate key points of Confucian cannon the
Guliang zhuan The is considered one of the Chinese classics, classic books of ancient Chinese history. It is traditionally attributed to a writer with the surname of Guliang in the disciple tradition of Zixia, but versions of his name vary and there is no de ...
won over the
Gongyang Zhuan The ''Gongyang Zhuan'', also known as the ''Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals'' or the ''Commentary of Gongyang'', is a commentary on the '' Spring and Autumn Annals'', and is thus one of the Chinese classics. Along with the '' Z ...
regarding the spring and autumn annals commentaries and it inspired the Bai hu tong or the white tiger hall meeting. He and Dai de are mentioned in the three character classic as writing commentaries to the book of rites. Dai theorized that annual government expenditures should equal the average of annual government revenue over the previous thirty years.


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Han dynasty writers Han dynasty classicists People from Handan Writers from Hebei {{Confucianism-stub