Ancient China · Named Individual

Gonggong 共工氏

Dates uncertain

Passages
9
Chapters
7
Histories
6

Overview

The translated histories identify Gonggong as a named individual, official, rebel, and ruler. This record brings together 9 passages from 7 chapters across 6 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Gonggong 共工氏 Gonggong
Personal name Gong Gong
Personal Gong Gong 共工 Gong Gong
Personal Gong Gong 共工
Personal Gonggong 共工氏 Gonggong shi
Personal Gonggong 共工 Gonggong
Personal name Gonggong 共工 Gònggōng
Alternate name Gonggong 共工
Clan or house Gonggong clan 共工氏

Identity

Historicity
Legendary
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Rebel
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of Goulong (句龙)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Action: exiled · Authority Context: Yao-Shun government
    Explicit · hanshu:025:s0021

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 20Table of Ancient and Modern Persons · 2 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 25Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law · 2 passages
Book of Later Han, Chapter 110Volume 99: Rituals and Worship Part Three · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 14Volume 14: Jiang Yan; Ren Fang · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 111Volume 111 Biographies 41: Treacherous Ministers 2 · 1 passage
Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 62Volume 62: Book of Wu 17: Biographies of Shi Yi and Hu Zong · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 25Treatise on the Pitch-Pipes · 1 passage