The Xia Sovereign Qi was the son of Yu the Great, his mother was a girl of Muddy Mountain who later metamorphosed into a stone out of fright when Yu transformed himself into a bear, Yu demanded his son, and Qi was born from the stone’s north side when it opened up. Yu name him Qi, means “to open up.”
Qi was the second sovereign of the Xia dynasty, he stole the music from heaven and brought the divine music and dance to humankind. According the Guildways to the Mountain and Seas: the Xia Sovereign Qi danced “The Nine Dai Dances” on the Plain of the Grand Music. He rode on two dragons, and the clouds formed a canopy for him three layers high. In his left hand he held a feathered pennant, in his right, a jade ring, and he wore a jade semicircle from his belt.
The utilitarian philosopher Mo Di said, Qi was a decadent ruler who indulged himself in entertainment and lost heaven’s favor. In the “Questions of Heaven” in the Songs of Chu, the poet Qu Yuan wrote: Qi supplanted his father’s choice for a successor and provoked a rebellion.
Qi was the second sovereign of the Xia dynasty, he stole the music from heaven and brought the divine music and dance to humankind. According the Guildways to the Mountain and Seas: the Xia Sovereign Qi danced “The Nine Dai Dances” on the Plain of the Grand Music. He rode on two dragons, and the clouds formed a canopy for him three layers high. In his left hand he held a feathered pennant, in his right, a jade ring, and he wore a jade semicircle from his belt.
The utilitarian philosopher Mo Di said, Qi was a decadent ruler who indulged himself in entertainment and lost heaven’s favor. In the “Questions of Heaven” in the Songs of Chu, the poet Qu Yuan wrote: Qi supplanted his father’s choice for a successor and provoked a rebellion.
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