Ancient China · Ruler

King Wen 文王

Wen Wang

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

King Wen was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 99, passage 14

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of King Wu of Zhou (武王)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 99, passages 14-15

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 99, passage 15

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 99Biographies of Liu Jing and Shusun Tong · 1 passage

及文王為西伯，斷虞芮之訟，始受命，呂望、伯夷自海濱來歸之。 When Wen Wang became Western Bo, he adjudicated the dispute between Yu and Rui, began receiving the mandate, and Lü Wang and Bo Yi came from the seacoast to submit to him.