Overview
Jie was a ruler.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- legendary antiquityDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 258, 272
Career and standing
- tyrant-king 桀Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 272
Events and relationships
- Advanced slanderers hid the worthy state fellPolitical · RulerDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 272
- Enjoyed the state more than ten years then perished graduallyPolitical · RulerDirectly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 273
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment to be mourned and feared as a warning · Mode quotation Speaker Emperor Wu of Han (漢武帝)Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 258, 270
- Assessment violent, contrary, inhumane, lost the Way · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Dong Zhongshu (董仲舒)Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 272-273
Source notes
- Historicity legendaryStrongly inferred · Book of Han 65, passage 258
References in the histories
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