Shun (舜) | 24 Histories

Overview

Shun was a ruler.

PeriodAncient China

IdentityLegendary · Male

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Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 171

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 171

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 58Volume 58 Book of Later Tang 34: Biographies 10: Zhao Guangfeng, Zheng Jue, Cui Xie, Li Qi, Xiao Qing · 1 passage

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故當成、康之世，比堯、舜之朝，戶口更增二十餘萬，非他術也，蓋三代以前，皆量入以為出，計農以立軍，雖逢水旱之災，而有凶荒之備。 Thus in the age of Kings Cheng and Kang, compared with the reigns of Yao and Shun, registered households increased by more than two hundred thousand. This was no other art: before the Three Dynasties all states measured receipts to set expenditures and counted farmers to raise armies, so that even when flood or drought struck they still had stores against famine.