Jingwei

Her parentage is given in the sources as Yandi, the Flame Emperor, who is identified with Shennong in the standard reckoning — the record uses the corpus's existing Shennong and says so rather than opening a second record for a second name. 'Jingwei fills the sea' is the Chinese idiom for a hopeless task pursued anyway, the companion piece to Kuafu chasing the sun, and between them they are the two commonest metaphors in the language for persistence. The registry held Shennong and not his daughter.

Parentage

• parent: Shennong

Domains

• perseverance
• birds

Sources

• Jingwei is the youngest daughter of Yandi Shennong, drowned in the Eastern Sea, who returned as a bird and carries pebbles and twigs one at a time to fill the sea in.: Reference treatments of Jingwei, her parentage and the myth of filling the sea. (secondary)