Zhai Gong

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Zhai Gong (Chinese: 翟公, fl. 2nd century BCE) was a Magistrate under the Emperor Wendi of the Han dynasty of China.

He was a native of Xiagui (下邽) in Shaanxi. He was a popular politician; yet when he was dismissed from his office, he was abandoned. Upon his reinstatement, his friends tried to come back; but he denied them, and posted a notice to the effect that true friendship endures even through poverty and disgrace.

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  • This article incorporates text from entry Chai Kung in A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert A. Giles (1898), a publication now in the public domain.


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