Shao Yong (邵雍) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Shao Yong as a philosopher and scholar. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Shao Yong	邵雍	Shao Yong
Personal	Master Shao	邵子
Title	Master Shao	邵子	Shaozi
Personal	Shao Yong	邵	Shao
Personal name	Shao Yong	邵雍	Shao Yong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0015
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:199:s0039

Roles

Philosopher
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宋代學者 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1011 · End: AD 1200
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0015
Source Date: Text: 邵子 calendar theory (Northern Song) · Western Interval: Start: AD 1011 · End: AD 1077
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:199:s0039

Learning and skills

Skill: calendrics / 曆 · Level: authority
Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0039

Works and attributed material

Work: Classic of the Supreme Ultimate Governing the Age / 皇極經世書 · Relation: author
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:171:s0124, yuanshi:171:s0123

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 4 passages

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及得周、程、張、邵、朱、呂之書，一見能發其微，曰：「我固謂當有是也。」 When he came upon the works of Zhou Dunyi, the Cheng brothers, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, Zhu Xi, and Lü Zuqian, he grasped their subtleties at once and said, "I always knew such teaching must exist."

及評其學之所長，而曰：「邵，至大也； Appraising the strengths of each master's learning, he said, "Shao Yong attained the greatest breadth;

作《學基》、《學統》二篇，使人知學之本與為學之序，尤有得於邵子之學。 He wrote the two treatises Foundations of Learning and Succession of Learning, to show people the root of learning and the proper order of pursuing it, drawing especially on Shao Yong's teachings.

校定《皇極經世書》，又校正《老子》、《莊子》、《太玄經》、《樂律》，及《八陣圖》、郭璞《葬書》。 He collated Shao Yong's Classic of the Supreme Ultimate Governing the Age, and also corrected the Laozi, Zhuangzi, Yang Xiong's Classic of the Supreme Mystery, treatises on music and pitch standards, the Eight-Formation Diagram, and Guo Pu's Book of Burial.

History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 1 passage

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其於歷，則謂造歷者皆從十一月甲子朔夜半冬至為曆元，獨邵子以為天開於子，取日甲月子、星甲辰子，為元會運世之數，無朔虛，無閏餘，率以三百六十為歲，而天地之盈虛，百物之消長，不能出乎其中矣。 On calendrics he noted that calendar-makers generally took the winter solstice at midnight on the jiazi day of the eleventh month's new moon as the epoch, whereas Master Shao Yong held that Heaven opens at zi and used jiazi for day, month, and star to derive the cycles of origin, meeting, movement, and age—without intercalary gaps, treating 360 as a standard year—yet the waxing and waning of heaven, earth, and all things could not escape this framework.