Song, Liao, and Jin · Northern Song philosopher, cosmologist, and poet

Shao Yong 邵雍

Attested AD 1011 - AD 1200

Passages: 9
Chapters: 5
Histories: 4

Overview

Shao Yong was a Northern Song philosopher, cosmologist, and poet.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Master Shao	邵子	Shaozi
Posthumous name	Lord Kangjie	康節公	Kangjie Gong

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1011 to AD 1077 AD 1011-1077
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 292
AD 1011 to AD 1077 先賢康節公邵子
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 284, passage 234
AD 1011 to AD 1200 宋代學者
Directly stated · History of Yuan 171, passage 15
AD 1011 to AD 1077 宋儒邵子
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 64
AD 1011 to AD 1077 邵子 calendar theory (Northern Song)
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 199, passage 39

Family

Ancestor of Shao Jizu (邵繼祖)
twenty-seventh-generation descendant 二十七代孫 · paternal line · 27 generations
Directly stated · History of Ming 284, passage 234

Key source chapters

Career and standing

proposed for attendant sacrifice in Confucius temple 從祀孔子廟
AD 1208 to AD 1224 嘉定 · Proposed
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passage 292

Places and affiliations

Song 宋
Relation Lived under
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 64
Polity Song 宋 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 292

Learning and skills

Skill calendrics 曆 · Level authority
Directly stated · History of Yuan 199, passage 39

Works and attributed material

Classic of the Supreme Ultimate Governing the Age 皇極經世書
Relation Author
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 171, passages 123-124
Saying · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Shao Yong (邵雍)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 26, passages 64-70

Events and relationships

Attendant sacrifice in Confucius temple proposed
AD 1208 to AD 1224 嘉定 · Ritual · Proposed honoree · With Confucius (孔子)
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passage 292

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

History of Ming, Chapter 284Volume 284 Biographies 172: Confucian Scholars 3 · 2 passages

邵繼祖，洛陽人，先賢康節公邵子二十七代孫也。 Shao Jizu, from Luoyang, was a twenty-seventh-generation descendant of Shao Yong, the former worthy Lord Kangjie.

崇禎三年，河南巡按吳甡請以繼祖為翰林院《五經》博士，子孫世襲，以奉邵子祀事。 In Chongzhen 3 Henan touring censor Wu Shen asked that Jizu be made Hanlin Doctor of the Five Classics, hereditary for his line, to oversee sacrifices to Shao Yong.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 26Volume 26 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1, Celestial Phenomena, Earth Shape, and Terrestrial Distances · 1 passage

宋儒邵子曰：「天何依？ Shao Yong of the Song asked, "On what does heaven rely? On earth.

History of Song, Chapter 436Volume 436 Biographies 195: Confucian Scholars 6: Chen Liang, Zheng Qiaolinting, Li Daochuan · 1 passage

願下明詔，崇尚正學，取朱熹《論語》、《孟子集注》、《中庸大學章句》、《或問》四書，頒之太學，仍請以周惇頤、邵雍、程顥、程頤、張載五人從祀孔子廟。」 Issue a clear edict to honor true learning, distribute Zhu Xi's Four Books—the 《Analects》, 《Mencius》, 《Great Learning and Mean》, and 《Questions》—through the academy, and add Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, the two Chengs, and Zhang Zai to Confucius's temple.'

History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 4 passages

及得周、程、張、邵、朱、呂之書，一見能發其微，曰：「我固謂當有是也。」 When he came upon the works of Zhou Dunyi, the Cheng brothers, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, Zhu Xi, and Lü Zuqian, he grasped their subtleties at once and said, "I always knew such teaching must exist."

及評其學之所長，而曰：「邵，至大也； Appraising the strengths of each master's learning, he said, "Shao Yong attained the greatest breadth;

作《學基》、《學統》二篇，使人知學之本與為學之序，尤有得於邵子之學。 He wrote the two treatises Foundations of Learning and Succession of Learning, to show people the root of learning and the proper order of pursuing it, drawing especially on Shao Yong's teachings.

校定《皇極經世書》，又校正《老子》、《莊子》、《太玄經》、《樂律》，及《八陣圖》、郭璞《葬書》。 He collated Shao Yong's Classic of the Supreme Ultimate Governing the Age, and also corrected the Laozi, Zhuangzi, Yang Xiong's Classic of the Supreme Mystery, treatises on music and pitch standards, the Eight-Formation Diagram, and Guo Pu's Book of Burial.

History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 1 passage

其於歷，則謂造歷者皆從十一月甲子朔夜半冬至為曆元，獨邵子以為天開於子，取日甲月子、星甲辰子，為元會運世之數，無朔虛，無閏餘，率以三百六十為歲，而天地之盈虛，百物之消長，不能出乎其中矣。 On calendrics he noted that calendar-makers generally took the winter solstice at midnight on the jiazi day of the eleventh month's new moon as the epoch, whereas Master Shao Yong held that Heaven opens at zi and used jiazi for day, month, and star to derive the cycles of origin, meeting, movement, and age—without intercalary gaps, treating 360 as a standard year—yet the waxing and waning of heaven, earth, and all things could not escape this framework.