Ye the Great
Appearance
Da Ye | |
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Predecessor | Lady Xiu |
Successor | Fei the Great |
Issue | Fei the Great |
Mother | Lady Xiu |
Ye or Yeh the Great (simplified Chinese:
In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian's account of the origin of the House of Ying made him the son of Lady Xiu and the egg of a black bird. He was said to have been the father of Fei the Great, who later became known as Boyi, by the Lady Hua.[1]
Some Chinese scholars have argued that his name was a title or epithet of Gao Yao, who served under Emperor Shun and was counted as the ancestor of some Li and Zhou families.