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Dong Xian (董賢) (23 BC(?) – 1 BC) was a Han Dynasty politician who quickly rose from obscurity as a minor official to being the most powerful official in the imperial administration of Emperor Ai within a span of a few years.〔Hinsch, Bret. (1990). Passions of the Cut Sleeve. University of California Press. 〕 Most scholars agree that Dong's quick career advancement came mostly because of his personal relationship with Emperor Ai, likely a homosexual one, rather than a demonstration of abilities.〔 Both men were married, but Emperor Ai, at least, was childless. An idiomatic term for homosexuality in Chinese is ''duanxiu zhi pi'' (斷袖之癖, literally, "passion of the cut sleeve"), derived from an episode involving Dong and Emperor Ai.〔 They often slept together on the same bed, which in ancient China was not necessarily an indication of a sexual relationship. One afternoon, after Emperor Ai woke up from a nap, Dong was still sleeping, and Emperor Ai's sleeve was stuck under Dong's head. Rather than waking Dong up, Emperor Ai cut off his sleeve to allow Dong to continue to sleep without disturbance.〔 ==Early career== It is unclear when Dong became a court official, but it is known that early in Emperor Ai's reign (which lasted from 7 BC to 1 BC), Dong was a minor imperial secretary (郎, ''lang''), and he was a colleague of the later-posthumously famous Confucian scholar Yang Xiong. By 4 BC, at the age of 19, he was an imperial attendant (侍中, ''shizhong'') and the director of imperial equine operations (駙馬都尉), ''fuma duwei''. (In later dynasties, this became a title for princesses' husbands. That was not true during the Han Dynasty, and it is, in any case, clear that Dong did not marry a princess.) His relationship with Emperor Ai would allow him to suddenly increase his power and prestige. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dong Xian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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