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Figure Deity East Asian traditions

Prince Jin

太子晋 zh 王子喬 ja

Crown prince of King Ling of Zhou, mid 6th century BC, later venerated as a Taoist immortal

  • Child of Ling
  • Dated from c. 567 BCE

A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.

Accounts kept apart

Family

The family of Prince Jin

Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.

Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.

As the accounts tell it
The family as a list · 5

Kinship in an account 3

What this means

Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.

Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Family 2

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

3 statements on this record

  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

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Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞; b. 1786, d. 1865) · Public domain

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