Xiong Qu (? -877 BC), also known as Chuxiong Qu, surnamed Mi, a great teacher, a famous song, the son of Chu, the ninth monarch of Chu in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and reigned from 886 BC to 877 BC. In the fifty-ninth year of Chu (887 BC), Chu died and Xiong went to the throne.
After Xiong died of illness and ascended the throne, he took advantage of the weakness of the Zhou royal family and the turmoil in the Central Plains to expand his territory. He successively attacked Guo Yong (now Zhushan County, Hubei Province), Yang Yue (now central Hubei Province) and Hubei (now Ezhou, Hubei Province, Wuhan), pushing the forces of Chu to Jianghan Plain, making Chu gradually strong.
It was even more deviant for the bear to go sick. He arrogated the eldest son Xiong Wu Kang as the king of Qi, the second son Xiong Zhihong as the king of Hubei, and the youngest son Xiong Zhici as the king, guarding three important places in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. After Zhou Liwang ascended the throne, he was famous for his tyranny. Bears went sick and worried about being punished by the Zhou Dynasty, so they cancelled their knighthood.
In 877 BC, the bear died of illness. At this time, Xiong Wu Kang died young, and his second son Xiong Zhihong succeeded to the throne. Soon, Xiong Zhici staged a coup, and Mi Di became the monarch and changed his name to Xiong Yan.