叔孙通 / Shusun Tong
叔孙通 / Shusun Tong enters the wiki through Hanji 169 as the doctor-scholar who prepares 刘邦’s accession ceremony by drawing on Qin ritual precedent.
The episode’s point is not a full ritual biography. Shusun Tong marks the moment when military victory needs formal language: Liu Bang can be urged by kings to become emperor, but the new title still needs a ceremony that makes the transition visible to officials and the realm.
Liu Bang’s response also matters. He accepts the ritual function but rejects excessive complexity, asking for a simplified form. Shusun Tong therefore belongs to the source’s practical founding sequence: ceremony is useful, but the founder still trims it to fit political temperament and timing.