{{Short description|Early 5th century Kingdom of Chu general and minister}} {{family name hatnote|Shen (沈) or Ye (葉)|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox person | name = Shen Zhuliang | native_name = 沈諸梁 | native_name_lang = zh | birth_date = circa 529 BCE | death_date = after 478 BCE | monuments = Mausoleum and Temple of Duke of Ye, Ye County, Henan | other_names = Zigao (子高) | known_for = Founding ancestor of the Ye surname | title = Duke of Ye<br/>''Lingyin'' (Prime Minister)<br/>''Sima'' (Chief Military Commander) | parents = Shen Yin Shu }} '''Shen Zhuliang''' ({{lang-zh|t=沈諸梁|p=Shěn Zhūliáng}}), '''Duke of Ye''' ({{lang|zh|葉公}}) or '''Gao, Duke of Ye''' ({{lang|zh|葉公高}}) (c. 529 BCE &ndash; after 478 BCE), was a general and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.

Shen Zhuliang's father, Shen Yin Shu, was a great-grandson of King Zhuang of Chu and died in the historic Battle of Boju in 506 BCE. After his father's death, King Zhao of Chu enfeoffed Shen Zhuliang with the city of Ye (in present-day Ye County, Henan) at the northern frontier of the Chu kingdom. He was known as ''Ye Gong'' (Duke of Ye), and became the founding ancestor of the Ye surname,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://big51.chinataiwan.org/zppd/XSDG/XSYL/200805/t20080530_651997.htm |title=葉姓來源及郡望堂號 (Origin of the Ye surname) |language=Chinese |date=30 May 2008 |accessdate=11 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425150646/http://big51.chinataiwan.org/zppd/XSDG/XSYL/200805/t20080530_651997.htm |archive-date=25 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which is today the 42nd most common surname in China.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://culture.163.com/06/0110/09/273JO40F00280003.html |title=新百家姓 (Top 100 Surnames) |language=Chinese |date=10 January 2006 |accessdate=1 December 2011 |archive-date=20 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520182757/http://culture.163.com/06/0110/09/273JO40F00280003.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 489 BCE, Confucius visited Shen Zhuliang in Ye,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pds.gov.cn/sofpro/cms/previewjspfile/zgpds/cms_0000000000000000126_tpl.jsp?requestCode=19025&CategoryID=133 |title=叶公简介 (Duke of Ye) |publisher=Government of Pingdingshan |language=Chinese |accessdate=1 December 2011}}</ref> and their conversations were recorded in the ''Analects of Confucius''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ctext.org/analects/zi-lu |title=Zi Lu |work=The Analects |language=Chinese, English| accessdate=1 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ctext.org/analects/shu-er |title=Shu Er |work=The Analects |language=Chinese, English| accessdate=1 December 2011}}</ref>

In 478 BCE, during the reign of King Hui of Chu, {{ill|Baigong Sheng|zh|白公勝}}, a grandson of King Ping, rebelled against King Hui, killed Prime Minister {{ill|Zixi (Chu)|lt=Zixi|zh|子西 (令尹)}} and Chief Military Commander {{ill|Gongzi Jie (Chu)|lt=Ziqi|zh|公子结 (楚国)}}, making the top two government posts of Chu vacant,<ref name="zuozhuan">{{cite web |url=http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/saxon/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=xwomen/texts/chunqiu.xml&style=xwomen/xsl/dynaxml.xsl&chunk.id=d2.18&toc.depth=1&toc.id=0&doc.lang=bilingual |title=BOOK XII. DUKE AI |work=Zuo Zhuan |author=Zuo Qiuming |language=Chinese, English| accessdate=1 December 2011}}</ref> and kidnapped the king. Shen Zhuliang put down the rebellion of Baigong Sheng and restored the king's rule. Shen Zhuliang became the Prime Minister and Chief Military Commander.

He did not keep both posts for long. At the same year, he appointed the grandsons of King Ping, {{ill|Ziguo (Chu)|lt=Gongsun Ning|zh|子国 (楚国)}} (son of Zixi) and {{ill|Gongsun Kuan (Chu)|lt=Gongsun Kuan|zh|公孙宽}} (son of Ziqi), as his successors as the Prime Minister and the Chief Military Commander respectively.

==Legend== In Liu Xiang's ''New Prefaces'' ({{lang|zh-hant|新序}}), there was a story saying that the Duke of Ye loved dragons so much that the walls of his house were decorated with dragons. The real dragons in the heaven heard that and decided to visit him. But when he saw them, he fled in terror instead. The idiom “{{lang|zh-hant|葉公好龍}}” was derived from this story, meaning that someone is pretending to like something which one actually dislikes or fears.

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