Ancient China · Legendary Official

Yi 益

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yi was a Legendary Official.

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legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 34, passage 102

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 34House of Yan Shaogong · 4 passages

或曰：「禹薦益，已而以啟人為吏。 Someone said: "Yu recommended Yi, but then made Qi's followers into the officials.

及老，而以啟人為不足任乎天下，傳之於益。 When he grew old, he considered Qi's followers insufficient to take charge of the world and transmitted it to Yi.

已而啟與交黨攻益，奪之。 Then Qi and his associates attacked Yi and seized the throne from him.

天下謂禹名傳天下於益，已而實令啟自取之。 The world says that Yu in name transmitted the world to Yi, but in reality had Qi take it for himself.