Ancient China · Legendary Culture Hero

Yiyi 伊耆

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yiyi was a Legendary Culture Hero.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name		伊耆氏	Yiyi shi
Alternate name	Yiyi clan

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passages 162, 224, 240, 288

Events and relationships

Prescribed offering silks
Ritual · Recipient · Item black silks 幣以黑
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 224
Prescribed offering vessels
Ritual · Recipient
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 240
Received libations
Ritual · Recipient · Occasion wax sacrifice 蜡祭
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 187
Received sacrifice
Ritual · Recipient · Occasion wax sacrifice 蜡祭
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 162
wax sacrifice with lesser victim set 蜡祭少牢
Ritual · Honoree · Received wax sacrifice
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 288

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passages 162, 224, 288
Yiyi clan and above all have vessel stands in the wax-sacrifice vessel schedule
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 192

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 12Volume 12 Treatises 2: Rites and Music 2 · 6 passages

蜡祭百神，大明、夜明在壇上，神農、伊耆各在其壇上，后稷在壇東，五官、田畯各在其方，五星、十二次、二十八宿、五方之岳鎮、海瀆、山林、川澤、丘陵、墳衍、原隰、井泉各在其方之壇，龍、麟、朱鳥、騶虞、玄武、鱗、羽、臝、毛、介、水墉、坊、郵表畷、於菟、貓各在其方壇之後。 At the wax sacrifice to the hundred spirits, the Bright Luminary and Night Luminary are on the altar; the Divine Farmer and Yiyi each on his altar; Houji east of the altar; the Five Officials and field directors each in his direction; the Five Stars, twelve chronograms, twenty-eight lodges, directional mountains and garrisons, seas and rivers, mountains, forests, rivers, marshes, hills, mounds, plains, wetlands, and wells and springs each on altars in his direction; dragon, unicorn, vermilion bird, zouyu, dark warrior, scaled, feathered, naked, furred, shelled, water embankments, wards, postal markers, watch huts, yutu (tiger), and cat each behind altars in his direction.

蜡祭，神農、伊耆氏，以著尊皆二實盎齊。 At the wax sacrifice, the Divine Farmer and Yiyi clan—two sacrificial vessels each filled with the third libation.

伊耆氏以上皆有坫。 Yiyi clan and above all have stands.

神農之幣以赤，伊耆以黑，五星以方色，先農之幣以青，先蠶之幣以黑，配坐皆如之。 Silks for the Divine Farmer are red, Yiyi black, Five Stars their directional colors, First Farmer green, First Silkworm black; associated seats follow the same rule.

神農、伊耆，籩、豆各四，簋、簠、㽅、俎各一。 Divine Farmer and Yiyi: four bian and four dou each, one gui, fu, xing, and zu each.

蜡祭：神農氏、伊耆氏、少牢； Wax sacrifice: Divine Farmer clan and Yiyi clan, lesser victim set;