House_of_Ying

Family tree of Chinese monarchs (Warring States period)

Family tree of Chinese monarchs (Warring States period)

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This is a family tree of Chinese monarchs during the Warring States period.

Family tree of Chinese monarchs

Warring States period

Main articles: ancient Chinese states, Warring States period, Chinese nobility, and Chinese king

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 the following Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the major states pursued independent policies and eventually declared full independence claiming the title 王 borne by Zhou rulers. All claimed descent from the Yellow Emperor through cadet lines of the royal houses above, although the historicity of such claims is usually doubted.

Qin

The kings of Qin claimed descent from the Lady Xiu, "the granddaughter" of "a remote descendant" of the Emperor Zhuanxu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor. Similarly, in the next generation, Lady Hua was said to be descended from Shaodian,[1] the legendary figure who is sometimes the father and sometimes the foster father of the Yellow and Flame Emperors. Although Nüfang (lit. "Lady Fang") is counted as Elai's son, some scholars have claimed the figure was Elai's daughter and, along with the numerous important women in the early pedigree, indicates that early Qin was matriarchal.[note 1] The surname Ying (lit."Abundance") was said to have been bestowed by Shun upon Dafei (the husbandman Yi). If it was ever held by any of his descendants, it had fallen out of use by the time of Feizi, who was granted the name anew by King Xiao of the Zhou.[1]

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The Three Jins

Han

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Wei

Main article: Rulers of Wei family tree
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Zhao

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Qi

House of Jiang

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House of Tian

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Chu

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Yue

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Yan

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    E.g., Lao Kan in his commentary on the Records of the Grand Historian,[2] although note Nienhauser's disagreement with that assessment.[1]
  2. [N 2]
    Sima Qian calls it a 玄鸟,[3] where 玄 can mean "black"[1] or "mysterious". Lao Kan identified the bird as a swallow.[1]
  3. [N 3]
    Not Zhongyu.[1]
  4. [N 4]
    Recorded as "Duke Ning of Qin" (秦寧公) in Sima Qian, but inscriptions on excavated bronzeware from the period has shown this to have been a mistranscription of the original "Xian".[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian translated by Nienhauser, William Jr. The Grand Scribe's Records: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China, pp. 87 ff. Indiana University Press, 1994. Accessed 4 December 2013.
  2. [2]
    Lao Kan. Shih Chih Chin-chu, p. 106. (in Chinese)
  3. [3]
    Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian, 《秦本纪第五》 ["The Qin Chronicles, Part Five"]. Guoxie, 2003. Accessed 7 Dec 2013. (in Chinese)
  4. [4]
    Han Zhaoqi. Annotated Shiji, "Annals of Qin", pp. 353–359. Zhonghua Book Company, 2010. ISBN 978-7-101-07272-3. (in Chinese)
  5. [5]
    Yap, Joseph. Wars with the Xiongnu: A Translation from Zhizhi Tongjian, p. 51. AuthorHouse, 2009. Accessed 8 Dec 2013.
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