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Jiang Yuan was the mother of Qi (also known as Houji), credited in Chinese mythology with founding the Ji clan who went on to establish the Zhou dynasty. She was said historically to have been a consort of Emperor Ku. In mythology, she gave virgin birth to a miracle child.
Lee, Yuan-Yuan; Shen, Sinyan (1999), Chinese Musical Instruments, Chinese Music Monograph Series, Chinese Music Society of North America Press, ISBN 978-1-880-46403-8 Li, Feng (2006), Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-85272-2
Yuan Jiang (Chinese: 袁江; pinyin: Yuán Jiāng; Wade–Giles: Yüan Chiang, c. 1671–c. 1746 [1]); was a Chinese landscape painter who lived in the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). He served at the imperial palace during the Yongzheng era (1722–1735). [2] Yuan was born in Yangzhou in coastal Jiangsu province. [3]
Jiang Yuan, legendary ancestress of the dynastic rulers of the Zhou dynasty Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jiangyuan .
The best-known of his consorts are four ladies: Jiang Yuan, Jiandi, Changyi (常宜), and Qingdu (庆都). [8] [10] Once each of these ladies had given birth to a son (Houji, Xie, Zhi, and Yao, respectively) Ku had a diviner foretell for him which of the sons was destined to rule the empire, and he received the answer that all four would. [1]
The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets. London, England: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-044375-2. Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1947). The Chinese: Their History and Culture (3rd Revised ed.). New York: Macmillan. Legge, James (1963) [1899]. The I Ching: The Book of Changes Second Edition. New York ...
Legends say that Ku's wife Jiang Yuan stepped in a magic footprint and conceived. She gave birth to Hou Ji, who is considered the first Zhou ancestor. The narrative implies Zhou and Shang's familial relations, as Shang's legendary ancestor Xie was the brother of Hou Ji.
When he turned 16 years old, his biological mother Jiang Yuan remarried. Her new husband is a high-ranking military official, Gu Weiting. Because of his mother's death, Gu Weiting's son, Gu Hai (Huang Jingyu), has been harboring a deep grudge towards his father. By the random hand of fate, the two step-brothers with wildly conflicting emotional ...