Ancient China · Ruler

Zhou Song 周誦

Attested BC 1042 - BC 1021

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Zhou Song was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 1042 to BC 1021 周初
Strongly inferred · Book of Chen 24, passage 30
BC 1042 to BC 1021 周誦
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 6, passage 160

Key source chapters

Book of Chen, Chapter 24 Volume 24: Zhou Hongzheng; Yuan Xian 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 6 Volume 6: Emperor Jing 1 passage

Places and affiliations

Polity Zhou 周 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 160

Assessments and attributes

Assessment cited as a positive model for holding the myriad states, unlike Taizong · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 160

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 24Volume 24: Zhou Hongzheng; Yuan Xian · 1 passage

雖復夏啟、周誦，漢儲、魏兩，此數君者，安足為大王道哉。 Even Xia Qi, Zhou Song, the Han heir, and the two Wei heirs—what are such men beside Your Highness?

Book of Liang, Chapter 6Volume 6: Emperor Jing · 1 passage

然文艷用寡，華而不實，體窮淫麗，義罕疏通，哀思之音，遂移風俗，以此而貞萬國，異乎周誦、漢庄矣。 Yet his writing was brilliant but thin, flowery but not solid; his style exhausted licentious beauty and his meaning rarely penetrated; mournful tones shifted custom—holding the myriad states thus differs from King Song of Zhou and Emperor Zhuang of Han.