King Wen of Zhou

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

• Bo Yikao
• King Wu of Zhou

Domains

• kingship

Relations

• father of: King Wu of Zhou
• father of: Bo Yikao

Sources

• Reference treatments of the Fengshen Yanyi and of the Zhou founders.