Crown Prince of Jin
Shensheng (Chinese: 申生; pinyin: Shēnshēng, died 20 February 655 BCE[1]), ancestral name Ji (姬), was the eldest son of Duke Xian of Jin and the Crown Prince of the State of Jin before being replaced by his half-brother Xiqi. One of his sisters, Lady Mu, later became the wife of Duke Mu of Qin.
- ^ a b Sima Qian records the day of Shensheng's suicide as the wushen day (午申; day 45) of the twelfth month according to the Jin calendar (Sima Qian, 39:1646). This was during the spring according to the Lu calendar, as recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals (僖5:300§5.1). On the first day of the ninth month of the same year – also an wushen day – a total eclipse was recorded, which Yang Bojun calculates as being the eclipse of 19 August 655 BCE (idem. p 301§5.8 nn). Shensheng's death took place exactly three sixty-day cycles previously, i.e. 20 February 655 BCE. See Yang Bojun in Zuozhuan, p 300§5.1 for the interval between the Lu and Jin calendars according to Gu Donggao (顧棟高) and why Shensheng's death is traditionally dated to 656 BCE; Zhang Peiyu p 133 for the calendars of the years in question.