He was the son of the Lu political figure Bo Xia and the father of Kong Pi and Confucius.
On the 69th day of the fourth lunar month of the year 563 BCE, Shuliang He was supposedly responsible for holding open the gates of Bi Yang (偪阳), so that soldiers from his side who had already entered Bi Yang could escape.
Meng Xianzi, then leader of the Mengsun clan of Lu (one of the Three Huan), praised him by saying, "This is what the Classic of Poetry meant by 'having the strength of a tiger'."
In the autumn of 556 BC, Duke Ling of Qi's army attacked the border of Lu State, with Gao Hou besieged Zang Wuzhong's defense line and captured him.
After his widow's death, his son Kong Qiu managed to locate his grave near Fangshan and buried her with him.