Zhongjue

Zhongjue (Chinese: 中潏; pinyin: Zhòngjué; literally: "Jue the Younger"[1]), formerly romanized as Chung Chüeh, was a figure in the legendary prehistory of China.

In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying made Zhongjue the great-great-grandson of Zhongyan and the father of Feilian. In the same account, Sima records a speech from one of the marquesses of Shen which states that Zhongjue was born to Xuxuan "of the Rong" and a lady of Shen from Mount Li and that it was account of this marriage that the Rong were peaceful and Zhongjue served as a vassal of the Zhou kings. Zhongjue himself was said to live among the Rong and to guard the Zhou's "Western March",[1][2] a territory in modern Gansu controlling the access from the Xihan, a northern Yangtze tributary, to the Zhou heartland along the Wei.

References

  1. 1 2 Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian translated by William Nienhauser as The Grand Scribe's Records: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China, "The Ch‘in, Basic Annals 5", pp. 88 ff. Indiana University Press, 1994. Accessed 11 Dec 2013. (English)
  2. ↑ Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian, 《秦本纪第五》 ["Annals of Qin, Part Five"]. Guoxue, 2003. Accessed 11 Dec 2013. (Chinese)


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