史记（二：表）

Shiji II: Tables

Shiji 史记 · 248 BC · 秦庄襄王二年

Introduction

The row of the Table of the Six States for this year: the entries for Qin and Chu.

Text and Translation

§1 史记（一：本纪）Shiji I: Basic Annals
§2 史记（二：表）Shiji II: Tables
§3 史记（三：世家）Shiji III: Hereditary Houses
§4 史记（四：列传）Shiji IV: Biographies
§5 史记（五：列传）Shiji V: Biographies
§6 无骨论点补充（以及辨析）一Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis I
§7 无骨论点补充（以及辨析）二Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis II

Text: Chinese source

Text: English Translation

Annotations

[§2] 史记（二：表）

[§2] Shiji II: Tables

秦：蒙驚擊趙榆次、新城、狼孟，

Qin: Meng Ao¹ struck Zhao's Yuci, Xincheng and Langmeng,

得三十七城。

and took thirty-seven Fortresses².

日蝕。

Eclipse of the sun.³

楚：春申君徙封於吳。

Chu: Lord Chunshen's fief was moved to Wu⁴.

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Terms

Fortress / 城

n. a walled place.

Persons

Meng Ao 蒙骜

General of Qin, a man of Qi by origin, who served King Zhaoxiang and rose to Senior Minister; grandfather of Meng Tian.

Lord Chunshen 春申君

Huang Xie 黄歇, Chancellor of Chu from 262 BC, enfeoffed as Lord Chunshen.

Places

Qin 秦

the state of Qin, with its capital at Xianyang, Shaanxi.

Zhao 赵

the state of Zhao, with its capital at Handan, Hebei; one of the three states formed from Jin.

Yuci 榆次

a city of Zhao in the Taiyuan region, south-east of Jinyang; modern Yuci, Jinzhong, Shanxi.

Xincheng 新城

a city of Zhao taken with Yuci and Langmeng; the commentaries do not place it.

Langmeng 狼孟

a city of Zhao north of Jinyang, later a County of Taiyuan Commandery (Jijie); modern Yangqu 阳曲, Shanxi.

Chu 楚

the state of Chu, with its seat at Juyang.

Wu 吴

the state of Wu and its capital; modern Suzhou, Jiangsu.

Notes

¹ Meng Ao

蒙驚: the three-commentary edition reads 蒙驁, Meng Ao, as the Basic Annals (§1).

² thirty seven Fortresses

The Zhengyi on the Basic Annals (案：取三十七城，并、代、朔三州之地矣): the thirty-seven Fortresses are the lands of the three States of Bingzhou, Daizhou and Shuozhou, in the names of the Tang; the Hereditary Houses (§3) count them as taken at Yuci.

³ Eclipse of the sun

日蝕: entered in the Table's Qin column for the year.

⁴ fief was moved to Wu

徙封於吳: from the twelve Counties north of the Huai to the old seat of Wu, as the Biography of Lord Chunshen (§4) tells.