Lady Hua () was a figure in
Chinese mythology. In the ''
Records of the Grand Historian'',
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 origin of the
House of Ying says that she was the wife of
Ye the Great and the mother of
Fei the Great, who was later known as Boyi. She is sometimes said to have been the daughter of
Shaodian, although her husband and son were very far removed from his generation; it is more likely she was meant as his descendant or the daughter of his people.
Women in Chinese mythology
Zhou dynasty people
Ancient Chinese women
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