Informatie over 舜 shùn - Shun

ook genoemd: heer van Yu, You Yu? , heer van Yan?

Vertalingen:
Engels (Ziporyn, Mair): Shun
Duits (Kalinke): [König] Shun
Frans (Levi): Chouen, le roi.

Biografische informatie:

De legendarische koning Shun. Zijn ouders wilden hem doden, maar dat deed niets af aan zijn kinderlijke piëteit voor hen. (Schipper)

Het trio Mythische koningen Yao, Shun en Yu.

Robert Eno Emperor Shun -- Received the throne from Yao on the basis of his filiality. During his long service as Yao's chief minister, he defeated evil threats in battle. As emperor, he was humane and ceded his throne to the sage Yu.

Robert Eno: Shun appears originally to have been the hero of a moral legend about filiality: perfect dutifulness towards one’s parents. The virtue that brought him to the attention of Yao was this: although Shun was the son of two limitlessly evil parents, he never wavered in his unceasing devotion to them. Though his evil family hated him for his virtue and tried continually to kill him, Shun never allowed their actions to obscure his feelings of love for them or his blunt his efforts to act for their welfare. For this, he was made emperor – and it was enough: so fundamental was filiality in the eyes of Chinese legend-tellers, that the character that underlay perfect love and obedience to parents was the core of sagehood, and Shun, like Yao, was a perfectly wise and just ruler.
Shun accorded with Yao’s vision of the kingship by passing over his own son in designating a successor, instead appointing his Minister of Public Works, Yu, to be the next emperor.

Zie ook Mencius 5A1 -7 met zeven verhalen over Shun (Karel van der Leeuw (2008) Mencius p167-176)

Meer informatie wikipedia Shun

Het personage Shun komen we 27 keer tegen waarvan 4 keer in dialogen (of monologen) en 23 keer in anekdotes of overige vermeldingen. Hieronder ziet u een overzicht:

Overzicht dialogen

1. hst. 13-III, pag. 188: Shun en Yao
2. hst. 22-IV, pag. 284-285: Shun stelt vragen aan zijn minister
3. hst. 28-I, pag. 363-364: Yao en vadertje Zhi van Zizhou --> Shun en Zhi van Zizhou --> Shun en Shanjuan --> Shun en een boer uit Shihu
4. hst. 28-XIII, pag. 374: Shun en Wuzi

Overige vindplaatsen

Er zijn 23 paragrafen met vermeldingen van Shun:
1. hst. 1-III, pag. 49-51
2. hst. 2-VII, pag. 70-71
3. hst. 4-I, pag. 77-84
4. hst. 5-I, pag. 94-96
5. hst. 7-I, pag. 124
6. hst. 8-I, pag. 135-140
7. hst. 10-I, pag. 145-150
8. hst. 11-II, pag. 156-158
9. hst. 12-X, pag. 175-176
10. hst. 14-II, pag. 195-197
11. hst. 14-III, pag. 197-201
12. hst. 14-VI, pag. 206-209
13. hst. 17-I, pag. 220-228
14. hst. 17-III, pag. 230-31
15. hst. 18-V, pag. 240-242
16. hst. 20-V, pag. 262-263
17. hst. 21-VI, pag. 275
18. hst. 23-I, pag. 297-303
19. hst. 24-XIII, pag. 326-327
20. hst. 25-IV, pag. 334-336
21. hst. 29-I, pag. 378-385
22. hst. 29-II, pag. 386-389
23. hst. 29-III, pag. 389-392