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The Jiang were closely involved with the Ji before and after their rise to empire: [1] Jiang Yuan was mother of Zhou dynasty's founder Hou Ji, [4] Tai Jiang (or Jiang Nü) was wife of Gugong Danfu and mother of his son Jili, [5] Tai Ren - born in Zhi (摯) and connected to the Shang dynasty - was wife of Jili and mother of King Wen. [5]
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]
Portrait of Houji (National Palace Museum)Hou Ji's original name was Qi (), meaning "abandoned".. Two separate versions of his origin were common. In one version of Chinese mythology, he was said to have been supernaturally conceived when his mother Jiang Yuan, a previously barren wife of the Emperor Ku, stepped into a footprint left by Shangdi, the supreme sky god of the early Chinese pantheon.
Until recently, the earliest known Jiangxi pottery was dated to around 11000 BC,; [2] however, recent finds show that the absolutely earliest known pottery, from ca. 18,000 BC, comes from Xianren Cave in Jiangxi. [3]
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It has been suggested that the clan of Jiang Yuan, mother of Houji, a figure of Chinese legends and mythology and an ancestor of the Zhou dynasty, was possibly related or identical to the Qiang. [ 1 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Some of the ancient groups were called the "Horse-Qiang" or "Many-Horse-Qiang" (Ma Qiang or Duo Ma Qiang), suggesting they may have ...