Ancient China · Legendary Ancestress

Jiang Yuan 姜原

Attested AD 1195

Passages
5
Chapters
3
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Yuan as a consort, family member, named individual, and royal family member. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Jiang Yuan 姜原 Jiang Yuan
Personal Jiang Yuan 姜嫄 Jiāng Yuán
Personal Jiang Yuan 姜嫄 Jiang Yuan

Identity

Historicity
Legendary
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Family Member
  • Named Individual
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of Ji (稷)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: child

Events and relationships

  • Kind: personal · Role: actor · Action: abandoned-then-reclaimed-child
  • Kind: birth · Role: actor · Action: conceived-after-stepping-in-giant-footprint
    Explicit · shiji:013:s0054
  • Kind: ritual · Role: cult-recipient · Action: received-gaomei-sacrifice · Label: Gaomei sacrifice / 高禖之祀 · Place: second tier of the Gaomei altar / 壇之第二層 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 歲以春分日 · Note: annual spring-equinox rite instituted in Mingchang 6 · Western Year: AD 1195
    Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:029:s0249, jinshi:029:s0247

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 20Table of Ancient and Modern Persons · 1 passage
History of Jin, Chapter 29Volume 29 Treatises 10: Rites 2: Fang Qiu Ceremonies; Dawn, Sunset, and Lunar Ceremonies; Gaomei · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 13Genealogical Tables of the Three Dynasties · 3 passages