Zhào Shùnsūn 趙順孫 (1215–1277)
Zì Géān 格菴. Native of Kuòcāng 括蒼 (Chǔzhōu 處州, modern Lìshuǐ region, southern Zhèjiāng). Late-Southern-Sòng Confucian official-scholar.
His father Zhào Léi 趙雷 had been a disciple of Téng Lín 滕璘, who was a disciple of Zhū Xī 朱熹; Zhào Shùnsūn’s learning therefore stood securely within the orthodox Cheng-Zhu transmission, three generations from the master himself.
Career: rose through the official ranks of the Lǐzōng / Dùzōng court, holding senior positions in the late Southern Sòng administration. Posthumously honoured.
Surviving work in Kanripo:
- KR1h0028 Sìshū zuǎnshū 四書纂疏 (28 juàn, WYG) — a sub-commentary on Zhū Xī’s Sìshū jízhù, gathering the supplementary discussions of thirteen of Zhū Xī’s principal disciples and second-generation transmitters: Huáng Gàn 黃榦, Fǔ Guǎng 輔廣, Chén Chún 陳淳, Chén Kǒngshuò 陳孔碩, Cài Yuān 蔡淵, Cài Shěn 蔡沈, Yè Wèidào 葉味道, Hú Yǒng 胡泳, Chén Zhí 陳埴, Pān Bǐng 潘柄, Huáng Shìyì 黃士毅, Zhēn Déxiù 真德秀, and Cài Mó 蔡模. The work is a model of orthodox-Cheng-Zhu Sìshū sub-commentary and was widely used in late-Sòng / early-Yuán kējǔ training.
The Sìkù tíyào at KR1h0028 notes that the work has sometimes been criticised for its rǒnglàn 冗濫 (verbose-and-excessive) compilation, but defends it on the ground that “shū (sub-commentaries) by tradition prefer extended supporting citation, where zhù (commentaries) prefer brevity” — Zhào Shùnsūn’s own preface explicitly invokes Kǒng Yǐngdá 孔穎達 and Jiǎ Gōngyàn 賈公彥 as precedents.
(CBDB id 50974; CBDB does not record dates; conventional dates 1215–1277 are derived from secondary biographical sources.)