Zhongjue

Zhongjue -- ({{zh|c=中潏|p=Zhòngjué|l=Jue the Younger}}), formerly romanized as Chung Chüeh -- was a figure in the legendary prehistory of China.

In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying made Zhongjue the great-great-grandson of Zhongyan and the father of Feilian. In the same account, Sima records a speech from one of the marquesses of Shen that attested to Zhongjue having been born to Xuxuan "of the Rong" and a lady of Shen from Mount Li and that it was account of this marriage that the Rong were peaceful and Zhongjue served as a vassal of the Zhou kings. Zhongjue himself was said to live among the Rong and to guard the Zhou's "Western March",Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian translated by William Nienhauser as {{nowrap|The Grand Scribe's Records:}} {{nowrap|The Basic Annals of}} {{nowrap|Pre-Han China}}, {{nowrap|"The Ch'in,}} {{nowrap|Basic Annals 5",}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=qDo3xBcsX-UC&pg=PA88 pp. 88 ff]. Indiana University Press, 1994. Accessed 11 Dec 2013. {{in lang|en}}Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian, [http://www.guoxue.com/shibu/24shi/shiji/sj_005.htm {{nowrap|{{lang|zh|《秦本纪第五》}}}}] {{nowrap|["Annals of Qin,}} {{nowrap|Part Five"].}} Guoxue, 2003. Accessed 11 Dec 2013. {{in lang|zh}} a territory in modern Gansu controlling the access from the Xihan, a northern Yangtze tributary, to the Zhou heartland along the Wei.

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