Ancient China · Royal Family Member

Changyi 昌意

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Changyi was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 29-30, 32-33, 155

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Leizu (嫘祖)
bore 生
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 29, 288
Parent of Emperor Zhuanxu Gaoyang (顓頊帝高陽氏)
father 父
fathered 生
son 子
Sources vary in certainty · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 30, 32-33, 155
Child of Yellow Emperor (黃帝)
fathered 生
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 29, 288
Spouse of Changpu (昌仆)
married 娶 · Marriage
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 30

Places and affiliations

At Ruo River 若水 · Relation Sent to dwell
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 29

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 29

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 1Annals of the Five Emperors · 5 passages

其二曰昌意，降居若水。 The younger was Changyi, who was sent to dwell beside the Ruo River.

昌意娶蜀山氏女，曰昌仆，生高陽，高陽有聖德焉。 Changyi married a Shu-shan woman called Changpu and fathered Gaoyang, who showed sage-like virtue.

其孫昌意之子高陽立，是為帝顓頊也。 His grandson Gaoyang, Changyi’s son, succeeded him—this is Emperor Zhuanxu.

帝顓頊高陽者，黃帝之孫而昌意之子也。 Emperor Zhuanxu, whose dynastic name was Gaoyang, was grandson to the Yellow Emperor and son of Changyi.

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.