Their father wanted Shuqi to inherit the throne, so Boyi left Guzhu.
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伯 marks the eldest of brothers and 叔 a younger one, so the two names mean "eldest, Yi" and "younger, Qi". Together, 伯夷 and 叔齐 stand for integrity, and 鲁迅 retold their story in 《采薇》.
history
Their biography, 《伯夷列传》, is the first of the seventy biographies in the 《史记》, where Sima Qian asks why good men like them starve while the wicked live in comfort.
