Sun Chu

Sun Chu

Sun Chu (220-293), Zi Jing, was born in Zhongdu, Taiyuan (now Pingyao, Shanxi). He was an official and writer in the Western Jin Dynasty. He is the grandson of Sun Zi, the general of the cavalry in the Wei Dynasty, and the son of Sun Hong, the prefect of Nanyang.

Born in an official family, he is "brilliant in talent and outstanding in talent". Period. In his forties, he joined the army in Zhendong (Shibao), and moved to Zhuolang and Hushi. He took refuge in Sima Jun, the king of Fufeng, and joined the army in the West. At the beginning of Jin Dynasty, Emperor Hui was the prefect of Feng Yi.

In the third year of Yuankang (293), he died in office and wrote six volumes of his works.

Life of the characters

Shuangmai buqun

Sun Chucai's words are brilliant, straightforward, detached, unsociable, bullied and neglected, and lack of praise from his fellow countrymen. In his forties, he joined the Zhendong military. Sima Zhao sent Fu Shao and Sun Yu as envoys to the state of Wu. General Shi Bao asked sun Chu to write a letter to SUN Hao. Fu Shao, Sun Yu and others went to the state of Wu and did not dare to deliver the letter.

Sun Chu later moved to be Zuo zuolang and took part in the Hussars of Shibao. Depending on his talent, sun Chu despised Shi Bao. When he arrived at the beginning, he made a bow and said, "the emperor let me know your military." So there is a gap. Shi Bao, Chen Zuo, and sun Shishan, a native of Wu state, slandered the current politics together. Sun Chu also made a statement of self justification. After years of dispute, the matter was not decided, and he also argued with Guo Yi, a native of the township. Although Sima Yan didn't punish him publicly, he was also blamed for his humble deeds, so he abandoned him for years. At the beginning, the army did not respect the leader of the government, and sun Chu despised Shi Bao, so he made regulations to respect the leader of the government, which began after sun Chuzhi.

Admonish and support the wind

Sima Jun, the general of the western expedition and the king of Fufeng, was an old friend of sun Chu. He was transferred to Liang county magistrate and moved to Sima, the general of Wei.

At that time, the Dragon appeared in the well of the armory, and the officials were going to express their congratulations. Sun Chu said: "not long ago, I heard that there were two dragons in the well of the armory. Some of the officials thought it was auspicious omen and congratulated, while others thought it was ominous omen and should not congratulate. It can be said that the state of Chu was wrong, and the state of Qi was not necessarily right. Sometimes the dragon lurks in the abyss, sometimes it roams in the sky of Yunhan. Now it curls in the well, just like frogs and shrimps. Where is it that some of the taxi men in charge of the warehouse are hidden, and the wise men in the office are buried in the ranks? Therefore, the Dragon shows brilliance and makes people feel something. I hope that your majesty will forgive minor faults, recommend talents, dream of Fu Gongyan, hope for the Weishui River, cultivate academic officials, appoint those who are not promoted, order Gongqing to appoint noble gentlemen who can make the people honest and upright, and recommend outstanding talents who can govern the disturbing and upright world. Those who do not have family relations must first select the reclusive and humble people. The war, the annexation and unification, and the wubo were just the achievements of Han Xin. The time for the scholars to exert their strength was to make rites and music, to expound and carry forward the Enlightenment of Tao! I hope your majesty will choose the words of a madman. "

In the early years of emperor Huidi (290), he served as the prefect of Feng Yi.

Yuankang three years (293). Sun Chu died in his 70s.

Anecdotes and allusions

Sun Chu is friendly with Wang Ji, a native of the same county. Wang Ji is the founder of Dazhong in this prefecture. When a visitor assessed the classification of the local people, he asked sun Chu, "this person is not what you can see. I will determine it myself." Then sun Chu was rated as: "talented, brilliant, not crowd." When sun chunian was young, he wanted to live in seclusion and said to Wang Ji, "I want to wash my pillow with stone." It is wrongly called "wash the stone and pillow the flow". Wang Ji said: "water can not pillow, stones can not gargle." Sun Chu said: "the reason why we use running water as pillow is to wash our ears; the reason why we use stones to gargle our mouth is to sharpen our teeth." Only Wang Ji was respected and admired by sun chunian when he was a child. At the beginning, sun Chu finished his mourning for his wife and wrote a poem to Wang Ji. Wang Ji said: "I don't know that literature is born of love, and love is born of literature. After seeing it, I feel desolate and sad. I pay more attention to the love between husband and wife."

Historical evaluation

Wang Ji: "the genius of Yingbo is not outstanding."

The book of Jin: "Sun Chu's body is gorgeous. He is detached from other people. He has no shame when he sees zhiwuzi. Read his Yihao's book, I'm sorry for his excellent writing. However, he is proud of his talent, despises his anger, disobeys the principle of abdication, and resents his anger. He has been abandoned for a long time. “

Praises said: "should yuan dance righteousness, son Jing more vulgar.". Jiang Shao regretted, sun Yibin dishonored. “

Literary achievements

Sun Chu's career was full of twists and turns, but with his outstanding talent, he left some poems and letters for later generations, which provided information for the study of literary creation in this period. When sun Chu's works reached Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, there was a collection of his works. According to the records of Sui book, there were six volumes of his collection at that time. In the Qing Dynasty, Yan Kejun compiled the whole ancient three dynasties, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties, which included 17 Fu, memorials, letters and so on. There is a collection of sun Fengyi in the collection of Bai San Jia of Han, Wei and six dynasties by Zhang Pu of Ming Dynasty.

From the preserved works, he cares about the reality, especially for the system of selecting people by rank. According to the biography of the book of Jin, when sun Chu was a Sima in the Imperial Army, it was once rumored that a dragon was found in a well in the armory. The court ministers talked about this matter in succession. Some thought it was auspicious omen and congratulated them. Others thought that the Dragon stung in the well was an ominous omen and kept silent. Sun Chu also wrote a memorial on this issue, which was a symbol of the failure of the Western Jin Dynasty. He said: "a man or a dragon can dive in the spring, or climb up to Yunhan, or swim in canghao. Now he is flat in kanjing. He is like a frog or shrimp. How can he manage the storehouse or hide himself? He is not good at military service. So when the Dragon sees the scene, he has a feeling. " He advised emperor puwu to "forgive minor faults and promote talents", just as king Wuding of Yin longed for erudite knowledge and King Wen of Zhou sought Jiang Shang, "to appoint a minister of state, to be a man of virtue, to be a man of virtue, to be a man of difference, to be a man of reason, to be a man of resistance, and to be a man of virtue, to be a man of virtue, to be a man of virtue, to be a man of virtue." He has great courage.

It can be said that this kind of thought runs through his whole activities. He also said in a Fu to Du that "if it is useless, it is precious; if it is useful, it is disabled, so it is *", which fiercely attacked the then patriarchal system. He thought that those high-ranking officials and dignitaries were useless, while those poor and useful people were mostly harmed. In another article on talent seeking, he said more bluntly: "if a scholar can answer five questions and a policy of filial piety and honesty can work, this is the path of carving insects. How can it be related to governance?"? If you want to be talented, you'll have to talk to others! " From these comments, it is not difficult to understand why his official career is so bumpy that he has not met for a long time.

Although sun Chu's official career was rough, he did not escape from reality and was still optimistic about reality. In his poems, there is little decadence and weariness of the world, but is full of a strong atmosphere of life and the spirit of striving. The description of the scene inside and outside Chang'an City in his ode to climbing a tower is an example. Among them, "the herdsmen sing in the fields, and the boat people sing with their drums.". This article describes the rural scenery outside Chang'an and the urban scene inside Chang'an vividly. It shows the passion for life and the pursuit of reality.

Sun Chu's farewell work is full of positive spirit to life. For example, this is the case with his "a poem written by the Marquis of Zhiyang sent by the officials of Zhengxi.". "Heaven and earth are my furnace, all things are small. It's not too early to admonish those who are good at it. " It shows no worries about life and death, and deep consolation to the recruiters.

Main works

member of family

grandfather

Sun Zi, general of the Wei Dynasty

father

Sun Hong, governor of Nanyang

son

Sun

Sun Sheng, a historian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Sun Tong

Sun Chuo

great-grandson

Sun Deng

Sun Teng

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