Zhongjue -- (Chinese:中潏;pinyin:Zhòngjué;lit. 'Jue the Younger'[1]),formerlyromanized asChung Chüeh -- was a figure in thelegendary prehistory of China.

In theRecords of the Grand Historian,Sima Qian's account of the origins of theHouse of Ying made Zhongjue the great-great-grandson ofZhongyan and the father ofFeilian. In the same account, Sima records a speech from one of themarquesses of Shen that attested to Zhongjue having been born toXuxuan "of theRong" and a lady of Shen fromMount Li and that it was account of this marriage that the Rong were peaceful and Zhongjue served as a vassal of theZhou kings. Zhongjue himself was said to live among the Rong and to guard the Zhou's "Western March",^[1][2] a territory in modernGansu controlling the access from theXihan, a northernYangtze tributary, to the Zhou heartland along theWei.