Feichang

Feichang
費昌
RelativesBo Yi (founding ancestor)
Lian the Great (great grandfather)
Ruomu (great grandfather)
Military career
AllegianceShang dynasty
Known forDescendant of Bo Yi
Serving Tang of Shang
Conflicts
Battle of Mingtiao

Feichang (simplified Chinese: 费昌; traditional Chinese: 費昌; pinyin: Fèichāng) was a figure in traditional Chinese historiography.

In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying state that Feichang was the great-great-grandson of Ruomu, one of the sons of Bo Yi.

Feichang served in the Battle of Mingtiao in Tang of Shang's army. He is recorded as having driven a chariot for Tang, allowing him to defeat Jie of Xia. After his defeat, Jie of Xia was exiled to Nanchao, bringing about the beginning of the Shang dynasty. Taiping Yulan notes Feichang as going to Shang and unifying it prior to the war, after merely asking which was Xia and which was

References

  1. ↑ Whitfield, Roderick (1993). The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7286-0203-8.
  2. ↑ Sima, Qian. "秦本紀". 史記 [Records of the Grand Historian] (in Literary Chinese). Chinese Text Project. Retrieved 15 April 2026. 大費生子二人：一曰大廉，實鳥俗氏；二曰若木，實費氏。其玄孫曰費昌，子孫或在中國，或在夷狄。費昌當夏桀之時，去夏歸商，為湯御，以敗桀於鳴條。
  3. ↑ Government of Emperor Taizong of Song. "天部四". 太平御覽 [Taiping Yulan] (in Literary Chinese). Chinese Text Project. Retrieved 20 April 2026. 又曰：桀無道，兩日并照，在東者將起，在西者將滅。費昌問馮夷曰：「何者為殷，何者為夏？」馮夷曰：「西，夏也；東，殷也。」於是費昌徙族歸殷，殷果克隆。又曰：儒者論：日出扶桑，暮入細柳。扶桑，東方之地，細柳，西方之野。又曰：日晝行千里，夜行千里，騏驥晝日亦千里，然則日行舒疾，與騏驥步相類。