Yellow Emperor
| Yellow Emperor | |
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| Member of Wufang Shangdi | |
 Diagram of the Wufang Shangdi | |
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| Major cult centre | Mount Song |
| Predecessor | Chidi (Wuxing cycle, also political with the Flame Emperor) |
| Successor | Baidi (Wuxing cycle, also political with Shaohao) |
| Planet | Saturn |
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Huang-di, (黃帝/黄帝 huángdì) or the Yellow Emperor, is a legendary Chinese sovereign and cultural hero who is thought to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese. One of the legendary Five Emperors, it was written in the Shiji by historian Sima Qian (145 BC-90 BC) that Huangdi reigned from 2497 BC to 2398 BC. His personal name was said to be Gongsun Xuanyuan (公孙轩辕). He became the chief deity of Taoism during the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD).
Sources
[change | change source]- The Terracotta Warriors- <Cotterell, Maurice. The Terracotta Warriors. Rochester, Vermont: Bear and Company, 2004.>
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji 史記, c. 100 BC), Chapter 1, "Wudi benji" 五帝本紀 ("Annals of the Five Emperors"); on Chinese Text Project (retrieved on 2016-10-08).
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