Xuxuan (),
formerly romanized
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as Hsü-hsüan, was a
legendary figure of
Chinese history
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. He was a descendant of
Bo Yi according to traditional accounts.
In the ''
Records of the Grand Historian
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'',
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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omits Xuxuan, simply stating that
Zhongyan's great-great-grandson was
Zhongjue. However, he later relates the speech of one of the
marquesses of Shen, who states that "Xuxuan of the Rong" (, , ''Róng Xūxuān''), meaning that he was living with the Rong, was married to the daughter of one of his ancestors. This daughter of Shen was born at Mount Li (, , ''Lìshān'') and gave birth to
Zhongjue. He says this was the cause of peace between the
Zhou and the Rong, as well as the reason for the allegiance of Zhongjue to the Zhou kings.
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 ...
. ''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 ...
'' translated by William Nienhauser as '' '',
p. 89
Indiana University Press, 1994. Accessed 11 Dec 2013.
References
Shang dynasty people
Legendary Chinese people
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