Ancient China · Sage King

Shun

Dates uncertain

Passages
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Chapters
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Histories
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Overview

The translated histories identify Shun as a ruler. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

RolesRuler
Found inBook of Han

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Shun Shun

Identity

Historicity
Legendary
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Events and relationships

  • Kind: moral-self-examination · Role: agent · Action: reviewed-oversights · Label: looked back and examined his oversights / 顧省厥遺
    Explicit · hanshu:067:s0256

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: reviewed his faults while occupying the great canons · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · hanshu:067:s0256

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 67Volume 57b: Sima Xiangru · 1 passage