Ancient China · Legendary Royal Family Member

Son of Shun 舜子

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Son of Shun was a Legendary Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Chen 2, passage 44

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Shun (重華)
father 父
son 子
Sources vary in certainty · Book of Chen 2, passage 44

Places and affiliations

At Mount Ji 箕山 · Relation Withdrew to
Directly stated · Book of Chen 2, passage 44

Events and relationships

Avoided the throne on Mount Ji
Political · Exemplar
Directly stated · Book of Chen 2, passage 44

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Book of Chen 2, passage 44

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 2Volume 2: Emperor Wu 2 · 1 passage

梁氏以天祿斯改，期運永終，欽若唐、虞，推其鼎玉，朕東西退讓，拜手陳辭，避舜子於箕山之陽，求支伯於滄洲之野，而公卿敦逼，率土翹惶，天命難稽，遂享嘉祚。 The House of Liang, its mandate spent, its turn complete—like Tang and Yu they offered up the regalia. We yielded east and west, bowed with joined hands and pleaded our case, hiding like Shun's son on Mount Ji's sunny slope, seeking Zhibo on Cangzhou's wilds—but ministers pressed us and the realm looked up in dread. Heaven's mandate would not wait; thus We received the glorious throne.