Ancient China · Named Individual

Boyi 伯夷

Bo Yi

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Boyi was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 114, passage 301

Works and attributed material

Stele for Boyi and Shuqi 伯夷叔齊碑
Relation Subject of
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 114, passage 301

Events and relationships

Commemoration · Honoree
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 114, passage 301

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 114, passage 301

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 114Volume 103: Five Elements Part One · 1 passage

蔡邕作伯夷叔齊碑曰「熹平五年，天下大旱，禱請名山，求獲荅應。 Cai Yong's Stele for Boyi and Shuqi records: "In Xiping 5 the realm suffered drought; the court prayed at sacred peaks for an answer.