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The Jiang River (, p ''Jiāng Shuǐ'') is the ancient name of a river in China. According to Sima Qian's '' Records of the Grand Historian'', the river gave its name to
Shennong Shennong (), variously translated as "Divine Farmer" or "Divine Husbandman", born Jiang Shinian (), was a mythological Chinese ruler known as the first Yan Emperor who has become a deity in Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion. He is venera ...
's family. According to the '' Guoyu'', it was the birthplace of the
Yan emperor The Yan Emperor () or the Flame Emperor was a legendary ancient Chinese ruler in pre-dynastic times. Modern scholarship has identified the Sheep's Head Mountains (''Yángtóu Shān'') just north of Baoji in Shaanxi Province as his homeland and ...
. It may be identical to the modern Wei River in Shaanxi.Pulleybank, Edwin G.
Ji 姬 and Jiang 姜: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organization of the Zhou Polity
. ''Early China'', 25. 2000.


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