King Wen of Zhou
Chinese · mortal · shang · Recorded classification
Wen and Wu, the civil founder and the martial one, are the template every later Chinese dynasty wrote its own founding against, and the Yijing's hexagram statements are traditionally ascribed to him — composed, the tradition says, while he was King Zhou's prisoner. The registry held no Zhou at all, which for a corpus carrying the Xia through Yu the Great and Qi is a strange place to have stopped.
Children
Domains
- kingship
Relations
- father of: King Wu of ZhouThe son who finished it.Reference treatment of King Wen and King Wu as the founders of the Zhou, Ji Fa being the eventual King of Zhou. (secondary)
- father of: Bo YikaoThe eldest son, killed by Daji.Reference treatment of Bo Yikao as the son whose flesh was baked into pies for his father. (secondary)
Sources
- King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, is with his son King Wu one of the two founders of the Zhou against whom the Fengshen Yanyi sets the last Shang king, and the father of Bo Yikao, whom Daji killed.: Reference treatments of the Fengshen Yanyi and of the Zhou founders. (secondary)