# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yi-q4243879
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:31:51.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yi-q4243879"
name: "Yi"
slug: "yi-q4243879"
description: "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."
tagline: "Culture hero in Chinese mythology"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/%E4%BC%AF%E7%9B%8A%E5%83%8F.png/330px-%E4%BC%AF%E7%9B%8A%E5%83%8F.png"
gender: "male"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           47.99
  momentum:             1.221719457013575
  historical:           7.941474666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%AF%E7%9B%8A"
    title: "伯益"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Yi"
    title: "Bo Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1_%C3%8Dch"
    title: "Bá Ích"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Yi_(legendary_leader)"
    title: "Bo Yi (legendary leader)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(junak)"
    title: "Yi (junak)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(peternak)"
    title: "Yi (peternak)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%8A_(%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%A5%9E%E8%A9%B1)"
    title: "益 (中国神話)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%AF%E7%9B%8A"
    title: "伯益"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%AF%E7%9B%8A"
    title: "伯益"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4243879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump