Qin and Han · King of Yao

Ju Gu 居股

Jū Gǔ

Attested BC 110

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ju Gu was a king of Yao.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 110 元封元年冬
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 114, passages 60, 66

Family

Descendant of Wuzhu (亡諸)
descendant of the ancestral line 苗裔 · paternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 114, passage 81

Career and standing

Marquis of Dongcheng 東成侯
BC 110 元封元年冬 · Enfeoffed · Households 10000
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 114, passage 68

Events and relationships

Plotted to kill Yu Shan
BC 110 元封元年冬 · Political · Conspirator · With Yu Shan (餘善)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 114, passages 66-67

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 114Treatise on the Eastern Yue · 3 passages

從建成侯敖，與其率，從繇王居股謀曰：「餘善首惡，劫守吾屬。 He joined with the Marquis of Jiancheng, Ao, and his officers, and together with the King of Yao, Ju Gu, they plotted, saying: 'Yu Shan is the chief offender; he has coerced and detained us and our dependents.

乃遂俱殺餘善，以其眾降橫海將軍，故封繇王居股為東成侯，萬戶； They killed Yu Shan and surrendered their forces to the General Who Crosses the Sea. For this, the King of Yao, Ju Gu, was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Dongcheng with a fief of ten thousand households;

然餘善至大逆，滅國遷眾，其先苗裔繇王居股等猶尚封為萬戶侯，由此知越世世為公侯矣。 Yet though Yu Shan committed the greatest treason, destroying the kingdom and relocating its people, descendants of the royal line such as the King of Yao, Ju Gu, were still enfeoffed as marquises with ten thousand households. From this we know that the Yue generation after generation held the rank of duke or marquis.