Zhongjue -- (), formerlyromanized as Chung Chüeh -- was a figure in the
legendary
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prehistory of China.
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 his ...
House of Ying
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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 ...
made Zhongjue the great-great-grandson of
Zhongyan
Zhongyan () was a figure in Shang dynasty of China.
In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'', Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying
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Warring States ...
and the father of
Feilian
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. In the same account, Sima records a speech from one of the marquesses of Shen that attested to Zhongjue having been born to Xuxuan "of the
Rong
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" and a lady of Shen from
Mount Li
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and that it was account of this marriage that the Rong were peaceful and Zhongjue served as a vassal of the Zhou kings. Zhongjue himself was said to live among the Rong and to guard the Zhou's "
Western March
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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 his ...
'' translated by William Nienhauser as '' '', pp. 88 ff Indiana University Press, 1994. Accessed 11 Dec 2013. Sima Qian. ''
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 his ...
'' Guoxue, 2003. Accessed 11 Dec 2013. a territory in modern Gansu controlling the access from the Xihan, a northern
Yangtze
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