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In the Classic of History, one of the Five Classics, the initial chapters deal with Yao, Shun and Yu. Of his many contributions, Yao is said to have invented the game of Weiqi (Go), reportedly to favorably influence his vicious playboy son Danzhu. [14] After the customary three-year mourning period after Yao's death, Shun named Danzhu as the ...
Shun's clan name (姓) is Yao (姚), his lineage name (氏) is Youyu (有虞).His given name was Chonghua (重華).Shun is sometimes referred to as the Great Shun (大舜) or as Yu Shun or Shun of Yu (虞舜), "Yu" being the name of his fief, which he received from Yao.
Emperor Shun, who reigned after Yao, was so impressed by Yu's engineering work and diligence that he passed the throne to Yu instead of to his own son. Yu is said to have initially declined the throne, but was so popular with other local lords and chiefs that he agreed to become the new emperor, at age 53.
Shun succeeded in obtaining royal favour married Yao's daughter, and became emperor. According to the ancient Chinese text Han Feizi ( 韓非子 ) it was said that after the death of Yao "When the princes went to an audience at court, they did not present themselves before Danzhu, but before Shun; litigants did not go before Danzhu, but Shun ...
According to received history, the period they existed in preceded the Xia dynasty, [3] although they were thought to exist in later periods to an extent [4] in incorporeal forms that aided the Chinese people, especially with the stories of Nüwa existing as a spirit in the Shang dynasty [5] and Shennong being identified as the godly form of ...
Yu 禹: 45 7 Chosen by the mythical Emperor Shun: Ji Awarded the throne after his institution of flood control. He is often known as "Yu the Great" and his passing of the throne to his son marked the beginning of China's hereditary succession [33] Qi 啟: 10 8 Son of Yu: Xiayi Prevented a rebellion led by his son Wuguan [34] (Tai) Kang （太 ...
Youyu-shi (Chinese: 有虞氏), also called Youyu clan or the Yu dynasty (Chinese: 虞朝), is a proposed dynasty of China that could have existed prior to the Xia dynasty. The territory controlled by the Yu dynasty is hypothesized to have been located southwest of Pinglu County, in Shanxi Province, China. Its last monarch is believed to be ...
Emperor Yao abdicated and chose Emperor Shun as his successor. [2] Chinese archaeologist Feng Shi (冯時; 馮時) argues Qi of Xia had violently seized power and established a hereditary system after the death of his father Yu the Great, he argues this with traces of violence discovered around that time. [3]