Ancient China · Royal Family Member

Shangjun 商均

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Shangjun was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 203; Book of Zhou 23, passage 139

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Shun (舜)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 203

Key source chapters

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 2 Annals of Xia 2 passages
Book of Zhou, Chapter 23 Volume 23 Biographies 15: Su Chuo 1 passage

Origins and identity

descendant of emperors and kings 帝王之胤
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 139

Events and relationships

Cited as model or warning
AD 544 大統十年 · Political · Exemplar · Mode document Source Person Id Su Chuo (蘇綽)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 139

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 2

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 2Annals of Xia · 2 passages

三年喪畢，禹辭辟舜之子商均於陽城。 When the three years' mourning ended, Yu withdrew to Yangcheng to yield to Shun's son Shangjun.

天下諸侯皆去商均而朝禹。 The lords of the realm forsook Shangjun and turned to Yu.

Book of Zhou, Chapter 23Volume 23 Biographies 15: Su Chuo · 1 passage

苟非其人，則丹朱、商均雖帝王之胤，不能守百里之封，而況於公卿之冑乎。 Get the wrong man and even Dan Zhu and Shang Jun, though sons of kings, could not hold a hundred-li fief—much less the offspring of great ministers.