Resumen de China and the Myth of Jam
The Iranian languages are divided into old, middle and new periods and the same classification can be applied to Persian texts. Such texts can be divided into three groups. The first group is purely mythological texts such as the Avesta. The second group contains historical-mythological texts such as Sasanian texts. The third group consists of historical texts. The myth of Jam is one of the most renowned Iranian myths in the Avesta as well as Sasanian and Islamic (especially Post-Sasanian) texts.
There is a major change in Jamshid's fate in Post-Sasanian sources. This change is, undoubtedly, rooted in the Arab invasion of Iran, the fall of the Sasanian dynasty and the fate of Yazdgird, the last Sasanian king. It seems that the oppression of the Arabs is a main reason that the Iranians identified Zahhak the rival of Jam, as an Arab. Jamshid is killed in China and his offspring lives there for a long time and is respected. This Jamshid is reminiscent of Piruz (maybe the same Yazdgird), or a Sasasian refugee prince, who lived and died in China.
