Ancient China · Official

Long 龍

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Long was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 211, 237, 243

Career and standing

chief of reception 納言
Appointed · Authority Emperor Shun (帝舜)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 243

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 211

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 1Annals of the Five Emperors · 4 passages

昔帝鴻氏有不才子，掩義隱賊，好行凶慝，天下謂之渾沌。 Long ago the Hong clan bred a villain who smothered right and nursed evil, delighting in cruelty—men named him Chaos.

而禹、皋陶、契、后稷、伯夷、夔、龍、倕、益、彭祖自堯時而皆舉用，未有分職。 Yu, Gao Yao, Qi, Hou Ji, Boyi, Kui, Long, Chui, Yi, and Peng Zu had served since Yao’s day without fixed portfolios.

伯夷讓夔、龍。 Boyi tried to yield to Kui and Long.

舜曰：「龍，朕畏忌讒說殄偽，振驚朕眾，命汝為納言，夙夜出入朕命，惟信。」 Shun told Long, “Slander and deceit would shake my people—you shall be chief of reception; issue and record my orders day and night with perfect good faith.”