Qin and Han · Han chancellery clerk and river-policy adviser

Sun Jin 孫禁

Attested BC 17

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sun Jin was a Han chancellery clerk and river-policy adviser.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 17 鴻嘉四年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 38, passage 166

Career and standing

Chancellery Clerk 丞相史
Held
Directly stated · Book of Han 38, passage 166

Places and affiliations

Polity Han 漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 38, passage 166

Works and attributed material

Hydraulic proposal · Author · Mode direct-attribution Speaker Sun Jin (孫禁)
Directly stated · Book of Han 38, passages 167-169

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 38Volume 29: Treatise on Rivers and Canals · 3 passages

河隄都尉許商與丞相史孫禁共行視，圖方略。 Dike commandant Xu Shang and chancellery clerk Sun Jin conducted a joint inspection and drew up response plans.

禁以為「今河溢之害數倍於前決平原時。 Sun Jin argued, "Current flood damage is several times what it was at the earlier Pingyuan breach.

孫禁所欲開者，在九河南篤馬河，失水之跡，處勢平夷，旱則淤絕，水則為敗，不可許。」 Sun Jin's proposal opens south of the Nine River zone, at the Duma line, away from the river's natural trace and across flat terrain. In drought it silts up; in flood it collapses. It should not be approved."