Ancient China · Ruler

Bujiang 不降

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 6
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Bujiang was a ruler.

Life and dates

Death

Natural
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 240

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 239; Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 361

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Xie (泄)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 239
Parent of Kong Jia (孔甲)
father 父
son 子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 242; Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 377
Sibling of Jiong (扃)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 361; Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 240

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Emperor Bujiang
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 239

Places and affiliations

Xia 夏
Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 239

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 2

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 2Annals of Xia · 3 passages

帝泄崩，子帝不降立。 Xie died and his son Bujiang ruled.

帝不降崩，弟帝扃立。 Bujiang died and his brother Jiong ruled.

帝廑崩，立帝不降之子孔甲，是為帝孔甲。 Jin died and Bujiang's son Kongjia took the throne as Emperor Kongjia.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 13Genealogical Tables of the Three Dynasties · 3 passages

帝不降 Emperor Bujiang

帝扃不降弟。 Emperor Jiong, Bujiang's younger brother.

帝孔甲，不降子。好鬼神，淫亂不好德，二龍去。 Emperor Kongjia, son of Bujiang, favored spirits and ghosts, was dissolute and did not cherish virtue, and the two dragons left.