He is the leader of the tribal alliance, respected as the emperor by later generations, and included in the "Five Emperors".
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Shun: The legendary leader of tribal alliance in the late patriarchal society has been listed as the "Five Emperors" and regarded as the most sacred in China.
Given to the surname, Yao surname, Gui surname, Zhong Hua is the monarch and is called "Shun". Because of its name "Yu", it is also called Yu Shun. He is the sixth grandson of Emperor Zhuan Xu, and he has been a civilian since his fifth ancestor Qiong Chan. Shun Di was persecuted by his father Gu Sou, his stepmother and his stepmother's son elephant. After suffering again and again, he is still kind to each other, filial to his parents and caring for his half-brother, thus winning the praise of the people. Shun was born in Yao market, worked hard in Lishan (Lishan), fished and hunted in Heze (now Shandong), fired pottery on the banks of the Yellow River, made daily necessities in Shouqiu (now Qufu, Shandong), and did business in Dunqiu (now Xunxian, Henan) and Fuxi (now Yanzhou, Shandong). Because of his noble character, he enjoys high prestige among the people.
He plowed the fields in Lishan, and the local people no longer fought for farmland boundaries, and they were very humble to each other. People are willing to live near him, and they will gather into a village in two or three years. At that time, the leader of the tribal alliance, Emperor Yao, was old and wanted to choose an heir. The four Yue unanimously recommended Shun, so Yao married his two daughters, He and invited nine people to serve Shun's left and right to see his virtue. Let Shun be in charge of the Five Codes, the officials and the welcome etiquette, and see what he can do. All governance is to ask Shun to undertake government affairs.
Yao gave way to Shun and died 28 years later. Shun selected and appointed talents, managed the civil affairs with "eight open" and "eight yuan", exiled the "four murderers" and appointed Yu to control the water, thus completing Yao's unfinished prosperity. Legend has it that he traveled all over the world, rectified the etiquette system and reduced the punishment, unified measurement. The people are required to be "virtuous and far away from others", "straight and warm, broad and chestnut, just but not humiliating, simple but not arrogant", to honor their parents and live in harmony with their neighbors. Under his rule, politics and religion prevailed, entertaining guests in all directions, and the four seas praised and obeyed the public. Therefore, Historical Records of the Five Emperors says that "the virtue of the world begins in the ground". Confucius said in The Doctrine of the Mean: "The great knowledge of Shun is also related to it! Shun is good at asking questions and observing words, hiding evil and promoting good, holding both ends and using them for the people. His thoughts are fluent! " He died in the wilderness of Cangwu during his southern tour and was buried in Jiuyi Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River (now Yongzhou, Hunan).