Ancient China · Official

Bo Yi 伯夷

Dates uncertain

Passages
1
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Bo Yi as a named individual and official. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Bo Yi 伯夷 Bo Yi

Identity

Historicity
Legendary
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Named Individual
  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Works and attributed material

  • Work: canons / statutes / 典 · Relation: issuer · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Documents / 書
    Explicit · hanshu:025:s0254

Events and relationships

  • Kind: institutional · Role: agent · Action: issued-canons · Label: brought down the canons / 降典 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Documents / 書
    Explicit · hanshu:025:s0254

Source notes

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

Book of Han, Chapter 25Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law · 1 passage