Feichang () was a figure in

Chinese mythology Chinese mythology () is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature in the geographic area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology includes many varied myths from regional and cultural traditions. Much of t ...

. In the ''

Records of the Grand Historian ''Records of the Grand Historian'', also known by its Chinese name ''Shiji'', is a monumental history of China that is the first of China's 24 dynastic histories. The ''Records'' was written in the early 1st century by the ancient Chinese hist ...

'',

Sima Qian Sima Qian (; ; ) was a Chinese historian of the early Han dynasty (206AD220). He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his ''Records of the Grand Historian'', a general history of China covering more than two thousand years b ...

's account of the origins of the

House of Ying This is a family tree of Chinese monarchs during the Warring States period. Warring States period In 771 BC, a coalition of feudal lords and the Western Rong tribes overthrew King You and drove the Zhou out of the Wei valley. During ...

state that Feichang was the great-great-grandson of

Ruomu Ruomu () 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 makes him the son of Fei the Great and the brother of Lian the Great Lian or Lien the Great () was a ...

, one of the sons of

Fei the Great Yi (Chinese language, Chinese: , ''Yì''; millennium BCE) was a tribal leader of Longshan culture and a culture hero in Chinese mythology who helped Shun (Chinese leader), Shun and Yu the Great control the Great Flood (China), Great Flood; ...

(also known as Boyi).

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