Dong Chao 董朝

Sun Xiu, as Prince of Langya, lived at Hulin and was moved by way of Danyang Commandery to Kuaiji, where he spent several years. When Sun Chen deposed Sun Liang on the day wuwu of the 9th month of the 3rd year of Taiping (258), the next day, jiwei, Sun Chen sent the Director of the Imperial Clan Sun Kai and the Gentleman of the Palace Secretariat Dong Chao to welcome Sun Xiu. Sun Xiu was suspicious when he first heard the news, but when Sun Kai and Dong Chao explained in detail the true intention of Sun Chen and the others in respectfully welcoming him, he stayed one day and two nights and then at last set out. Records, Wu 3 §19–21

Sun Xiu reached Qu'a on the day wuyin of the 10th month, and on the day jimao he arrived at the temporary hall set up at Yongchang Pavilion and received the obeisance of the officials, then that same day went to the main hall, proclaimed a great amnesty and changed the era name. On the day renwu of the 10th month of the 1st year of Yong'an (258) an edict rewarded the meritorious, making Sun Chen Chancellor and Governor of Jing Province among others, and declared that Dong Chao, having come in person to welcome him, was to be enfeoffed as a district marquis. Records, Wu 3 §21–25

When Lu Kai fell ill in the 1st year of Jianheng (269), Sun Hao sent the Prefect of the Palace Secretariat Dong Chao to ask what he wished to say. Lu Kai stated that He Ding should not be given office but sent to a post outside the capital, that Xi Xi's proposal should not be granted either, and that Yao Xin, Lou Xuan, He Shao, Zhang Ti, Guo Chuo, Xue Ying, Teng Xiu and his younger clansmen Lu Xi and Lu Kang were pillars of the state and fine aides to the realm whom the emperor should consult on the affairs of the time; then he died. Records, Wu 16 §28–29

Chen Shou copied out the twenty matters on which Lu Kai had remonstrated with Sun Hao and appended them to Lu Kai's biography, noting that most people of Wu said they had never heard of Lu Kai submitting such a memorial, and that some believed Lu Kai had hidden it away in a box without daring to submit it, and when he was gravely ill and Sun Hao sent Dong Chao to visit him and ask what he wished to say, he handed it over through him. Chen Shou said that since it was hard to tell whether this was true or false, he did not include it in the main text of the biography. Records, Wu 16 §34

In the 8th month of the 1st year of Tianxi (276), there was a hollow rock more than 10 zhang long on Mount Yangxian in Wuxing, called the Stone Chamber, and the local authorities submitted a memorial calling it a great omen. The Acting Minister over the Masses Dong Chao and the Acting Minister of Ceremonies Zhou Chu were accordingly sent to Yangxian County to perform the feng and shan sacrifices at Mount Guo, and the following year the era name was changed and a great amnesty proclaimed in accordance with the writing on the stone. This is the last passage in Chen Shou's main text in which Dong Chao appears. Records, Wu 3 §70–71