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4 identifiers linking Yi across the web's reference databases
10 statements · 10% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
4 identifiers linking Yi across the web's reference databases
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Yi was a tribal leader of Longshan culture and a culture hero in Chinese mythology who helped Shun and Yu the Great control the Great Flood; he served afterwards as a government minister and a successor as ruler of the empire. Yi is also credited with the invention of digging wells. He was the ancestor of the ruling houses of the Zhao, Qin, Xu and Liang states.