Ruomu () 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 origins of the
House of Ying
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makes him the son of
Fei the Great and the brother of
Lian the Great
Lian or Lien the Great () was a figure in Chinese mythology. In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'', Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a ...
. His mother was said to be a 'jade lady of the
Yao. Ruomu was the great-great-grandfather of
Feichang.
Xia dynasty people
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