Ancient China · Royal Family Member

Changyi 昌意

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 8
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Changyi was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passages 2, 4; Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 234

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Ancestor of Yu the Great (大禹)
great-grandfather 曾大父 · paternal line · 3 generations
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 4
Child of Yellow Emperor (黃帝)
father 父
fathered 生 · paternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 2; Records of the Grand Historian 13, passages 234, 237-238
Parent of Emperor Zhuanxu Gaoyang (顓頊帝高陽氏)
father 父
fathered 生 · paternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 2; Records of the Grand Historian 13, passages 242, 245-246

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Held
Subject
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 2, passage 4

Source notes

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

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

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

禹之父曰鯀，鯀之父曰帝顓頊，顓頊之父曰昌意，昌意之父曰黃帝。 Yu's father was Gun; Gun's father was Emperor Zhuanxu; Zhuanxu's father was Changyi; Changyi's father was the Yellow Emperor.

禹之曾大父昌意及父鯀皆不得在帝位，為人臣。 Neither Yu's great-grandfather Changyi nor his father Gun ever held the throne; both served merely as ministers.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 13Genealogical Tables of the Three Dynasties · 6 passages

黃帝生昌意。 The Yellow Emperor fathered Changyi.

黃帝生昌意。 The Yellow Emperor fathered Changyi.

黃帝生昌意。 The Yellow Emperor fathered Changyi.

昌意生顓頊。為高陽氏。 Changyi fathered Zhuanxu, who took the Gaoyang clan name.

昌意生顓頊。顓頊生窮蟬。 Changyi fathered Zhuanxu. Zhuanxu fathered Qiongchan.

昌意生顓頊。 Changyi fathered Zhuanxu.