jiāng 姜

Jiang Yuan Legend has it that she was the daughter of the You Tai family and the consort of Emperor Ku, as well as the mother of Hou Ji, the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty. She gave birth to Ji after stepping on the footprint of a giant in the wild. Refer to "Records of the Grand Historian, Volume 4, The Chronicles of the Zhou Dynasty". Also known as Jiang Yuan. Jiang Wei (202–264) Style name Boyue, a native of Jixian County, Tianshui in the Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms. He was originally a general of the Wei Dynasty and later defected to the Shu Han, where he was highly valued by Zhuge Liang and appointed as the General Who Conquers the West. After Zhuge Liang's death, he led Zhuge's army. When the Wei army attacked the Shu Han and Emperor Liu Shan of Shu surrendered to the Wei, Jiang Wei was forced to surrender. Later, he attempted to restore the Shu Han, but the plot failed and he was killed by a mob. Jiang Kui (1155–1221) Style name Yaozhang, self - titled Baishi Daoren, a native of Poyang in the Song Dynasty. He never held an official position throughout his life and often traveled between Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu. He later died of illness in Hangzhou. Mr. Jiang was proficient in music, often composed his own tunes, was good at poetry, and was especially excellent in ci - poetry. His ci - poetry was characterized by refined phrases and a clear and gentle style. In the six - volume Songs of Baishi Daoren, there were ancient Gongche notations beside seventeen ci - poems, which were important materials for studying ci - music. In the third year of the Guangyuan era of Emperor Ningzong, he submitted A Treatise on Grand Music in one volume and An Archaeological Diagram of Qin and Se in one volume, commenting on ancient and modern music systems and suggesting the reorganization of court music, but his suggestions were not adopted, and these works have now been lost. He also authored Collected Poems of Baishi Daoren, Collected Ci - poems of Baishi Daoren, and Songs of Baishi Daoren.