Talk:Fu Hao

Tu people and Tu-Fang

The Shang oracle bone inscriptions mention campaigns against the neighbouring Tu-Fang tribes. These battles occured at least a thousand years before the XianBei, identified in the Tu people article, occuring around the 2nd Century BC.If the Tu people were decendents of the Xianbei, then the "Tu" mentioned in the previous edits is incorrect, since there is a time gap of nearly a millenia. Please note that Shang oracle bone inscriptions mention the Tu-Fang people as 土方. Dylanwhs (talk) 20:53, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

She was a good warrior. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.138.99 (talk) 22:40, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Baifu Discovery

Probably merits mentionin: another tomb of a female general, discovered 1975 near Beijing, W.Zhou. Either a commander of Yan kingdom, or a di chieftain. Keywords: 昌平白浮M2墓, Baifu belongs to zh:马池口地区. --Shanghainese.ua (talk) 21:11, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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This article previously had a B class rating, but it is only a stub. It needs major expansion to reach higher classes. --Danaman5 19:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 19:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 15:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Fu Hao Text Improvements

Some improvements I believe that could be made would be to possibly add more information. I know this may be hard because of the fact that there is not much information on this person but I do hope you could do so. I am currently a student researching Fu Hao for an assignment but am finding it a bit difficult to write anything because of the lack on information. It may just be me. Thank you! -Anonymous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.161.132.193 (talk) 06:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

"Fu Hao" just a title and not a name?

Looking at the characters for Fu Hao 婦好 it potentially just means "loved/favored wife' and not that Hao was ever her surname. Women's names being lost to history is no new thing, but I wanted to see if any Chinese speakers had a better take on this. Currently the article claims 'Hao' is her surname but looking at the characters that just doesn't seem likely- otherwise her surname was just incredibly convenient for her future role of 'favorite wife'. It would be good to make that distinction and, if truly just a title, to recognize that her actual name has been lost to time and only her title has survived. Thanks in advance for any help! Tsukiakari (talk) 16:30, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Tsukiakari. There are a couple of things to consider here. Looking at graphical consistency, all Shang queens have names written as "wife clan name". Why should Fu Hao be an exception? Secondly, our article claims her husband Wu Ding cultivated the allegiance of neighbouring tribes by marrying one woman from each of them. Is it safe for someone making so many marriage-based alliances to declare a particular wife to be "favourite"? Our article also states that Fu Jing was the primary wife, while Fu Hao was the secondary wife, which does not align with the idea of Fu Hao being the favourite, although I acknowledge this was only one of two of your proposed translations.

Having said that, I claim without sourcing or research that Shang queens do all seem to have the "woman" determinant in their surnames, and based on how royal names were written in the early Zhou dynasty (a different textual tradition in many senses), with the "king" character written next to the name of the king identically to how a determinant would be written, it seems possible that the surname of Fu Hao could be understood not as 好 but as 子 (although this was the surname of the male lineage of the Shang dynasts, and taboos against same-surname marriages go back quite a ways). However this is just a hypothesis, like your idea, and would not warrant inclusion in a Wikipedia article until it was published in a reliable secondary source. Folly Mox (talk) 18:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Fixing ping for @Tsukiakari:. Folly Mox (talk) 18:51, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

fu hao family

she was wife of wu ding and was treated very good. 86.24.88.168 (talk) 15:02, 3 May 2024 (UTC)