Bǔ Shāng 卜商
Style name Zǐxià 子夏. Native of Wèi 衛 (or, in another tradition, Jìn 晉). One of the senior disciples of Confucius (Kǒngzǐ 孔子) and traditionally counted among the Shíěr zhé 十哲 (“Ten Wise Ones”). Known in the Lúnyǔ 論語 and the Lǐjì 禮記 for his interest in literary and ritual learning; later doxography credits him with a foundational role in the transmission of the Shī 詩 and Chūnqiū 春秋, and with the (almost certainly spurious) authorship of the Zǐxià Yìzhuàn 子夏易傳 (KR1a0002).
After Confucius’s death he is said to have settled in Wèi as tutor to Marquis Wén of Wèi 魏文侯, where he founded the so-called Xī Hé 西河 school. Birth and death years are conventional approximations; no contemporary record survives.