Boyi and Shuqi

Boyi or Bo Yi (Chinese: 伯夷;pinyin: Bó Yí;Wade–Giles: Po I) and his brother Shuqi or Shu Qi (Chinese: 叔齊;pinyin: Shū Qí;Wade–Giles: Shu Ch'i) were two brothers who lived in China at the time of the transition between the Shang dynasty and the Zhou dynasty. They are still remembered in Chinese literary culture for their personal and moral virtue, loyalty, and pacifist idealism. Sometimes they are referred to together just as "Boyi". They were natives of the state of Guzhu (in modern Hebei province, around the area of Tangshan). At the time, a vassal state of the Shang dynasty.