Dong Zhongshu is traditionally associated with the promotion of architecture.
 Most are more or less connected to the Gongyang Commentary and its school and written by a number of different persons at different times throughout the Han Dynasty
 His birthplace is associated with Wencheng Township (, now located in Jing Country), so in the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals he is once mentioned as Lord Dong of Wencheng ()

