Ancient China · Legendary War Leader

Chiyou 蚩尤

Chi You

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Chiyou was a Legendary War Leader.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 97, passage 69

Assessments and attributes

Assessment invoked as the type of a heaven-blessed army, not as a contemporary commander · Mode quotation Speaker Li Sheng (酈生)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 97, passage 69

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 97, passage 69

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 97Biographies of Li Yiji and Lu Jia · 1 passage

破北魏，舉三十二城：此蚩尤之兵也，非人之力也，天之福也。 he defeated the Wei of the north and captured thirty-two cities. This was the army of Chiyou, not achieved through human effort but through heaven's blessing.