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叔虞成王母弟。王五年削桐葉為圭。戲曰。吾以此封若。史佚請擇日。王曰。吾與之戲耳。史佚曰。天子無戲言。周公成之。遂封叔虞於堯之故墟。曰唐侯。都翼。叔虞子燮改唐曰晉。都平晉縣（今冀寧路即大原路古并州也。冀州之域）。至昭侯。封文侯之弟成師於曲沃號桓叔。至景公遷新田（絳邑）謂曲沃。為故絳。晉自叔虞至厲侯福五世年不可考。厲侯子靖侯立而後可紀。始成王五年庚寅。終安王二十六年乙巳。三十八君合七百四十六年。魏韓趙共廢晉靖公為家人。三分其地。曲沃桓叔生莊伯。莊伯生武公。繼世為曲沃之君。強盛常有滅晉之志。惠王二年。武公伐晉而滅之。當是時天子之使適在晉。故大夫為之請命于天子之使。天子之使為之請命天子。王使號父。命曲沃武公以軍為晉侯。桓叔晉穆公之子也。

Shuyu was the younger uterine brother of King Cheng. In the king's fifth year, he cut a paulownia leaf into a jade sceptre and joked, "I enfeoff you with this." Scribe Yi asked to select an auspicious day. The king said, "I was only joking with him." Scribe Yi said, "The Son of Heaven does not speak in jest." The Duke of Zhou brought it to fruition, and so enfeoffed Shuyu at the ancient ruins of Yao, entitling him the Marquis of Tang, with his capital at Yi. Shuyu's son Xie changed the name Tang to Jin, with his capital in Pingjin County (present-day Jining Route, which is Taiyuan Route, ancient Bingzhou; territory of Jizhou). Coming down to Marquis Zhao, he enfeoffed Marquis Wen's younger brother Chengshi at Quwo, titling him Uncle Huan. Coming down to Duke Jing, he moved to Xintian (Jiangyi), referring to Quwo as Old Jiang. In Jin, the years across the five generations from Shuyu to Marquis Li (Fu) cannot be verified. They can only be recorded after the accession of Marquis Li's son, Marquis Jing. Beginning in the fifth year of King Cheng, a gengyin year, and ending in the twenty-sixth year of King An, a yisi year, there were thirty-eight rulers spanning a total of seven hundred and forty-six years. Wei, Han, and Zhao jointly deposed Duke Jing of Jin to commoner status and divided his territory into three parts. Uncle Huan of Quwo fathered Earl Zhuang; Earl Zhuang fathered Duke Wu. Successive generations served as rulers of Quwo; they grew powerful and constantly possessed the ambition to destroy Jin. In the second year of King Hui, Duke Wu attacked Jin and extinguished it. At that time, an envoy of the Son of Heaven happened to be in Jin. The grandees therefore requested a mandate on his behalf from the envoy of the Son of Heaven, and the envoy of the Son of Heaven requested a mandate from the Son of Heaven. The king sent Haofu to mandate Duke Wu of Quwo to become Marquis of Jin on account of his armies. Uncle Huan was the son of Duke Mu of Jin.