Ancient China · Official

Shuxiang 叔嚮

Attested BC 570 - BC 530

Passages: 5
Chapters: 4
Histories: 4

Overview

Shuxiang was an official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Shu Xiang	叔向	Shu Xiang

Life and dates

Attested activity

c. BC 550 下泣
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 14, passage 273
BC 570 to BC 530 叔向
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 29
BC 536 叔向譏子產
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 45, passage 147
BC 540 春秋之時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 25, passage 129

Key source chapters

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressed to Zichan (子產) · Topic critique of published penal statutes
Directly stated · Book of Han 25, passages 129-144

Events and relationships

Wept below bier
Ritual · Mourner
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 273
Intellectual · Critic · With Zichan (子產)
Directly stated · History of Jin 45, passage 147
Relation Critic of · Person Zichan (子產)
Directly stated · Book of Han 25, passages 129, 138

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 25Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law · 2 passages

晉叔嚮非之曰：「昔先王議事以制，不為刑辟。 Jin's Shuxiang criticized it: 'Former kings deliberated affairs and regulated, and did not make penal statutes public.

今吾子相鄭國，制參辟，鑄刑書，將以靖民，不亦難乎！ Shuxiang warned Zichan that legal codification would not easily produce social pacification.

History of Jin, Chapter 45Volume 45 Treatises 26: Punishment · 1 passage

平章張汝霖曰：「昔子產鑄刑書，叔向譏之者，蓋不欲預使民測其輕重也。 Grand Counselor Zhang Rulin argued: 'When Zichan cast the penal statutes on bronze, Shu Xiang criticized him because he did not wish to let the people anticipate the severity of punishments in advance.

Book of Liang, Chapter 14Volume 14: Jiang Yan; Ren Fang · 1 passage

自昔把臂之英，金蘭之友，曾無羊舌下泣之仁，寧慕郈成分宅之德。 Of all those arm-clasping heroes, those gold-and-orchid friends—not one wept Yangshe Xi's tears below the bier; who would emulate Hou Chengzi's virtue of dividing his house?

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 62Volume 62: Book of Wu 17: Biographies of Shi Yi and Hu Zong · 1 passage

〈徐众评曰：是仪以羁旅异方，客仕吴朝，值谗邪殄行，当严毅之威，命县漏刻，祸急危机，不雷同以害人，不苟免以伤义，可谓忠勇公正之士，虽祁奚之免叔向，庆忌之济硃云，何以尚之？〈Xu Zhong praises him as a stranger in Wu who, when slander threatened an innocent life, refused to parrot lies or save his skin at the cost of honor—loyal, brave, and just, rivaling the finest exemplars of old.