Zhongyan () was a figure in
Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou d ...
of China.
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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state that he was the great-great-grandson 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
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, son of
Fei the Great
Yi ( Chinese: , ''Yì''; millennium BCE) was a tribal leader of Longshan culture and a culture hero in Chinese mythology who helped Shun and Yu the Great control the Great Flood; he served afterwards as a government minister and a successo ...
(also known as Boyi). In turn, he was said to be the great-great-grandfather of
Zhongjue.
Shang dynasty people
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