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- According to legends recounted in Sima Qian 's Records of the Grand Historian, the ruling family of Chu descended from the Yellow Emperor and his grandson and successor Zhuanxu. Zhuanxu's great-grandson Wuhui (吳回) was put in charge of fire by Emperor Ku and given the title Zhurong.
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Chu was one of the first states to break with the established custom and give its rulers the title of wang, or “king,” thus removing any pretense of overall Zhou suzerainty.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 10, 2020 · The early Chinese state of Chu likely organized as a polity in the middle reaches of the Han River Valley during late Shang times (thirteenth to eleventh centuries bce), as is suggested by the abundant finds of Shang bronzes in the south where the Chu capitals were later located.
- The Semi-Barbarian State of Chu Becomes Part of The Middle Kingdom
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The ruling house of Chu derived its descendancy from the mythical Emperor Zhuan Xu 顓頊, himself being a grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝. Zhuan Xu's great-grandson Zhong Li 重黎 was the minister for fire (huo zheng 火正) of the mythical Emperor Di Ku 帝嚳. For his merits earned in office, Zhong Li was bestowed the name of Zhu Rong 祝融. He was sent out to ...
King Ling was able to assemble the regional rulers and to take over the lead as a factual hegemon of the regional states. Minister Wu Ju warned the king to become over-confident in his superior role, yet King Ling commanded the regional states in a campaign against the state of Wu 吳. Qing Feng 慶封, the commander of the troops of Wu, was kept prisone...
When King Wei died, the state of Wei used this opportunity and conquered part of its northern territory. King Wei's successor was his son Prince Guai 槐, posthumously known as King Huai 楚懷王 (r. 329-299). In 323 BCE he took revenge and attacked the territory of Wei, seizing eight counties. The next military target was the state of Qi, yet at that tim...
Chu (Chinese: 楚; pinyin: Chǔ; Wade–Giles: Ch'u, [2] Old Chinese: *s-r̥aʔ[3]) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BC. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou heartland and lasted during the Spring and Autumn period.
Sep 4, 2017 · Most notably, Chu's assault on Zheng which led to the Bi battle is presented as a punitive expedition against Prince Guisheng 公子歸生 (aka Zijia 子家) of Zheng who assassinated his ruler, Lord Ling 鄭靈公, in 605 BCE. This presentation is obviously biased in favor of Chu.
- Yuri Pines
- 2018
After Liu Bang deposed the first king of Chu, Han Xin, who had ruled for only two years, and installed Liu Jiao (r.201-179BCE), the twelve successor kings of Chu were all descendants of the Liu clan, the ruling family of the Western Han.
of Zhou to Xiong Yi, an early Chu lord, in the late eleventh century B.C. (Shiji 40.5–6 (645)). This was an early example of the fengjian system by which territories were assigned to members of the extended family of the Zhou rulers for governance in perpetuity (Li F. 2003a, 2006: 110–116).
