Lady Hua () was a figure in
Chinese mythology
Chinese mythology () is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural tradit ...
. In the ''
Records of the Grand Historian
The ''Shiji'', also known as ''Records of the Grand Historian'' or ''The Grand Scribe's Records'', is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written during the late 2nd and early 1st ce ...
'',
Sima Qian
Sima Qian () was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for the ''Shiji'' (sometimes translated into English as ''Records of the Grand Historian''), a general history of China cov ...
's account of the origin of the
House of Ying
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says that she was the wife of
Ye the Great
Ye or Yeh the Great () was a figure in Chinese mythology.
In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'', Sima Qian's account of the origin of the House of Ying made him the son of Lady Xiu and the egg of a black bird. He was said to have been the ...
and the mother of
Fei the Great, who was later known as Boyi. She is sometimes said to have been the daughter of
Shaodian, although her husband and son were very far removed from his generation; it is more likely she was meant as his descendant or the daughter of his people.
Women in Chinese mythology
Ancient Chinese women
Pre-Xia Chinese people
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