- Sun Hsing-yen might have quoted Confucius again. See Lun Yu, XIII. 29, 30.
- Better known as Hsiang Yu [233-202 B.C.].
- Shih Chi, ch. 47.
- Shih Chi, ch. 38.
- See XIII. § 27, note. Further details on T’ai Kung will be found in the Shih Chi, ch. 32 ad init. Besides the tradition which makes him a former minister of Chou Hsin, two other accounts of him are there given, according to which he would appear to have been first raised from a humble private station by Wen Wang.