Ancient China · Royal Family Member

Jiang Yuan 姜嫄

Jiāng Yuán

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Jiang Yuan was a Royal Family Member.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Epithet	the primal mother	先妣

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 87

Places and affiliations

Polity Zhou 周 · Relation Belonged to
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 87

Works and attributed material

Zhou li 周禮
Relation Subject of
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 87

Source notes

identified with the closed palace (Bi gong) in the Odes
Field literary-identification · Mode named-source-report Speaker Zhang Mao (張懋)
Directly stated · History of Ming 52, passage 87

References in the histories

History of Ming, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 28: Rites 6 · 1 passage

稽之《周禮》，有祀先妣之文，《疏》雲『姜嫄也』，《詩》所謂『閟宮』是已。 Examining the Zhou li, there is text on sacrificing to the primal mother; the commentary says “Jiang Yuan,” and this is what the Odes call the “closed palace.”