Ancient China · Family Member

Stepmother of Shun 舜後母

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Stepmother of Shun was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 160

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Xiang (象)
bore 生
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 157
Spouse of Gu Sou (瞽叟)
remarried 更娶妻 · Marriage
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 157

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 160

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 1Annals of the Five Emperors · 3 passages

父頑，母嚚，弟傲，能和以孝，烝烝治，不至姦。」 The father is brutish, the mother spiteful, the half-brother overbearing, yet Shun has made peace in the house through filial duty and brotherly love, so that no evil takes root.”

順事父及後母與弟，日以篤謹，匪有解。 Yet he served father, stepmother, and brother with growing devotion and never slackened.

舜父瞽叟頑，母嚚，弟象傲，皆欲殺舜。 His father remained brutish, his stepmother spiteful, his brother Xiang arrogant; all three still schemed against his life.