with his wife and daughter, where he starved to death. The Qi people made a sarcastic ballad to commemorate him. "Oh, pine trees! Oh, cypress trees! Making the king of Qi die in a common village–this was a guest who was good at adapting!" Later in the Han dynasty, the official Wang Mang usurped the emperor and took the throne. Wang Mang proclaimed to have descended from Jian of Qi (through from the Eighteen Kingdoms) and awarded him the posthumous name King Jing of Qi (齊敬王) and the temple name Emperor Shizu of Xin (新世祖). Ancestry References Monarchs of Qi (state) 3rd-century BC Chinese monarchs Chinese kings