Ancient China · Royal Family Member

Qiongchan 窮蟬

Dates uncertain

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Qiongchan was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 38, 155-156

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Jingkang (敬康)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 155
Child of Zhuanxu (顓頊)
father 父
had a son 生子
Sources vary in certainty · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 38, 155

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 38

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 1Annals of the Five Emperors · 3 passages

帝顓頊生子曰窮蟬。 Emperor Zhuanxu had a son called Qiongchan.

重華父曰瞽叟，瞽叟父曰橋牛，橋牛父曰句望，句望父曰敬康，敬康父曰窮蟬，窮蟬父曰帝顓頊，顓頊父曰昌意：以至舜七世矣。 Chonghua’s father was Gu Sou, whose father was Qiaoniu, whose father was Gouwang, whose father was Jingkang, whose father was Qiongchan, whose father was Emperor Zhuanxu, whose father was Changyi—seven generations from Shun to Zhuanxu.

自從窮蟬以至帝舜，皆微為庶人。 From Qiongchan down to Emperor Shun the line had sunk to commoners.