Shun (Chinese Leader)
Shun (Chinese: 舜; pinyin: Shùn) or Di Shun (帝舜) was a 23rd-22nd century BC legendary leader of ancient China, among the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, whose half-century of rule was said to be one of the longest in Chinese history.
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“Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)