“山人”一词,见之于文献记载,当以《左传》为最早。“昭公四年”有载:“自命夫命妇,至于老疾,无不受冰,山人取之,县人传之,舆人纳之,隶人藏之。”这里的“山人”,又称虞、山虞、司木,是一种职官名,掌管山地政令,通俗点讲,就是管理山林的官吏,如果真的如学人所说:“‘士’在古代主要泛指各部门掌事的中下层官吏。”(参见余英时《士与中国文化· “Mountain”, see the literature, when the “Zuo Zhuan” as the earliest. “Zhao Gong four years” contains: “Since life and death of mom and dad, as for the old disease, all from the ice, mountain people, county people, the public who accept, possession of people possession.” Here the “mountain”, and Said Yu, Shan Yu, Secretary Mu, is a kind of official name, in charge of mountain ordinance, popular point, is the management of forest officials, if really as scholars said: “’Shih” in ancient times mainly refers to the various departments Middle and lower officials of the palm. "(See Yu Yingshi and Chinese culture