The Three Emperors and Five Emperors are the "emperors" of China who appeared in the legend before the Xia Dynasty. In fact, they were all tribal leaders, and because of their strength, they became the leaders of the tribal alliance. Because of his great contributions, he was posthumously awarded the title of "Emperor" and "Emperor" by posterity, and there are many theories about who the three emperors are and who the five emperors are. Basically, whether according to the records of the history books or myths and legends, it is believed that the three emperors are in an earlier era than the era of the five emperors.
The Three Emperors in the original sense refer to the ancient Three Emperors (Emperor Clan, Di Huang Clan, Ren Huang Clan), and later added fu xi clan and so on as the "three emperors". The Five Emperors in the original sense refer to the ancient Five Gods, and later added five ancient tribal leaders such as the Yellow Emperor Gongsun Xuanyuan (also known as Ji Xuanyuan) as the "Five Emperors".
Different historians have different definitions and statements of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, with eight theories of the "Three Emperors" and six of the "Five Emperors".
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Fu Ren, Fu Xi, Shen Nong (Shang Shu Da Biography);
Fuxi, Nuwa, Shennong (Customs and Customs);
FuXi, Zhu Rong, Shennong (Customs and Customs);
Fuxi, Shennong, Gonggong ("Customs and Traditions");
Fuxi, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor (Gu Weishu).
From Xi Nong to the Yellow Emperor. The Three Emperors, living in the last life (The Three Character Classic);
Emperor, Emperor of the Earth, Emperor of Thailand (Chronicles).
Emperors, Earth Emperors, and Human Emperors (Folklore).
Five Emperors
The Yellow Emperor, Emperor Huan, Emperor Zhao, Yao, Shun (The Book of the Great Dai Li);
Cu Yan, Shen Nong, Yellow Emperor, Yao, Shun (Warring States Policy);
Taihao, Yandi, Yellow, Shaohao, and Huan (Lü's Spring and Autumn);
The Yellow Emperor, Shao Hao, Emperor Huan, Emperor Zhao, and Yao (Zizhi Tongjian Waiji).
Shao Hao, Zhao Hao, Di Jiao, Yao, and Shun (pseudo-Shang Shu Shu Preface); with their status as scriptures, later historical records have inherited this saying. Thus this Three Emperors and Five Emperors is said to be regarded as the ancient history of faith;
Yellow Emperor (Xuanyuan), Qing Emperor (Fuxi), Red Emperor also known as Yan Emperor (Shennong), White Emperor (Shaohao), Black Emperor (颛顼) (Five Gods)
Although the three emperors and five emperors have different theories according to different historical theories, they generally take the Furen clan, the Fuxi clan, and the Shennong clan as the three emperors, and the Yellow Emperor, The Emperor, the Emperor, the Yao, and the Shun as the Five Emperors. Refers to ancient times.
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The Fu ren clan, a Paleolithic Ming dynasty native. He was listed as the head of the "Three Emperors" and was enshrined as the "Emperor" and honored as the "Emperor of Fu". In Shangqiu, the Fu ren clan invented drilling wood for fire, became the inventor of artificial fire in ancient China, taught people cooked food, ended the history of ancient human beings drinking blood, distinguished the living habits of humans and animals, and created Chinese civilization, which was regarded as the "fire ancestor" by later generations. "Shang Shu Da Biography" Yun: "Sui ren is Sui Huang, Fu Xi is the Drama Emperor, and Shennong is the Nong Emperor." The Fu people were born of the Fuxi clan and the Nüwa clan. So people take fire, fire, and the sun also. Yang Zun, so entrust the emperor to the heavens. "He is a mythical hero who benefits the people with wisdom, bravery and perseverance."
Fuxi
Fu Xi, the ancestor of the Chinese nation and humanities, one of the three emperors, is also the same as Nuwa as the god of blessing society. It is the earliest documented creator god in China. The Wind Surname, the Book of Chu records him as the Creator God, and is the earliest documented Creator God in China. According to the changes in heaven and earth, he invented divination gossip and created words to end the history of "knotted rope chronicles". He also knotted ropes into nets for birds hunting, and taught people how to fish and hunt, invented Ser, and composed songs. Fuxi died one hundred and eleven years later, leaving behind a large number of myths and legends about Fuxi.
Shen nong
Shennong, that is, Yandi, is the honorific title of the leader of the Jiang tribe in ancient China, the name Shennong, the story of Shennong tasting hundreds of grasses We also know from mythological stories, according to legend, Yandi Niushou, he personally tasted hundreds of herbs, developed the use of herbs to cure diseases; he invented slash-and-burn cultivation to create two kinds of ploughing agricultural tools, taught the people to reclaim the land to grow grain crops; he also led the tribal people to create pottery and cooking utensils for eating.
The Yellow Emperor
The Yellow Emperor, the leader of the ancient Chinese tribal alliance, the head of the Five Emperors. The Yellow Emperor was revered as the "First Ancestor of Humanity". The son of Shaodian, whose original surname was Gongsun, lived in Jishui, because he changed his surname to Ji, ju Xuanyuan's hill, so he was called Xuanyuan, born, started and built the capital yu youxiong, so he was also called Xiongshi, because of the Rui of Tude, so he was called the Yellow Emperor. He first recorded in history the great achievements of unifying the Chinese nation. He sowed hundreds of grains of grass and trees, vigorously developed production, began to make clothes and crowns, built boat cars, invented guide cars, fixed arithmetic, made music rhythms, and created medicine, etc., during which time he had writing. The Yellow Emperor was the first of the five emperors, with four wives, including Changzu and His Mother. There are many life deeds of the Yellow Emperor, so whether it is film and television or novels, games, and animations, they like to use the Yellow Emperor as one of the reference materials, and even adapt it slightly according to the life of the Yellow Emperor as the main character.
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As one of the Five Emperors, the Grandson of the Yellow Emperor, He was surnamed Ji. His father was Changyi, the second son of the Yellow Emperor, who was enfeoffed in Ruoshui and married Chang Shu, the daughter of the Shushan clan, and had a son. He has a deep and strategic personality. At the age of fifteen, he assisted Shao Hao in governing the Jiuli region and was enfeoffed in Gaoyang, so he was also called Gaoyang. After the death of the Yellow Emperor, he was made emperor because of his holy virtues, and he was made emperor at the age of twenty. His name was Gao Yang (高阳氏), listed as one of the Five Emperors, and was an emperor with the merits of Wenzhi. During his reign, Kyushu was created, which gave China its first territorial boundaries; established ruling institutions, fixed marriages, made marriages, studied the difference between men and women, and orderly growth and childhood; reformed the A calendar, set the four seasons and twenty-four solar terms, and posterity recommended him as "Lizong".
Emperor
Emperor Zhao (帝喾), surname Ji (姬), courtesy name Jun. One of the Five Emperors. Born in Gaoxin, hence the name Gaoxin. Sima Qian said he was the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor. When Ji Jun was 5 years old (2270 BC), he was given the title of Marquis of Xin, at the age of 15 (2260 BC) he assisted his uncle Huan Huan (颛顼), and after the death of Ji Jun in 2245 BC (78 BC), Ji Jun, who was 30 years old at the time, succeeded to the throne and became the co-lord of the world, with Bo as the capital, Mu De as the emperor, and the gaoxin clan, which was changed to the first year of the emperor in that year, and was deeply loved by the people. He died at the age of 100 and was buried in his hometown of Gaoxin, where he built the Emperor's Mausoleum.
Yao
His surname was Yi Qi (伊祁), his name was Fangxun (放勋), and his historical name was Tang Yao (唐尧). Yao (尧) was born in the Yellow Emperor's family and was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor's 12 sons with the surname Qi (also known as Qi Qi and Yi Qi due to their migration to the fiefdom). In 2377 BC, on the second day of the second lunar month of the lunar calendar, he was born in the Tang Dynasty Yiqi Mountain, and spent his childhood with his mother in the Area of Qingdu Mountain. At the age of 15, he was given the title of Marquis of Tang under the fengshan of Tang County. At the age of 20, his brother Emperor Zhi was forced by the situation to give way to him and became the head of the tribal alliance at the end of the primitive society of our country. After he ascended the throne, he reinstated his brother Tang As the Marquis of Tang, and he also built the first capital in the area of Fucheng in Tang County, and later gradually moved west to Shanxi due to flooding, and set the capital at Pingyang. Tang Yao reigned for 70 years, and at the age of 90 Zen gave way to Yu Shun, about 2259 BC, Yao died at the age of 118.
Shun
Shun, the legendary leader of the tribal confederation in the late patrilineal clan society. Yao surname, a concubine surname, has the name of Yu Shi, the name Chonghua, the historical name "Yu Shun", the eighth grandson of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan, one of the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors". Shun is the representative of the Dongyi ethnic group.
Born with heavy pupils, filial piety and friendship, good at making pottery. He was recommended by The Four Mountains, passed many tests, and was recognized by Tang Yao and the Zen position, all of which were established in Kasaka and established the Kingdom of Youyu. After taking the throne, he humbly accepted advice, punished the traitors, exiled the four murderers (Gonggong, Badger, Sanmiao, and Cang); Ren Xian enabled, and Baiye flourished (Gao Tao managed the five punishments, Dayu managed water conservancy, Hou ji was in charge of agriculture, and Qi was in charge of the five religions), creating a situation of political communication and people, and became the most powerful tribal alliance leader in the Central Plains. In his later years, following the arrangements and suggestions of Siyue, Zen was located in Dayu, traveled the world by car, died in Cangwu County, and was buried in Jiuling Mountain, with the nickname Shun, also known as Emperor Shun, Yu Shun, and Shun Emperor. Emperor Shun was the originator of Chinese moral culture. The "Records of History" contains: "The Mingde of the world began with Yu Shun." The spiritual soul of Emperor Shun's culture, which can be called "morality first, re-education", has become an important promoter in the period of historical transformation from barbarism to civilization, and has become one of the three milestones of Chinese culture.
The Three Emperors and Five Emperors have made great contributions to the civilized life of mankind in the ancient historical process, whether it is mythological stories or real events, they have recorded certain historical facts, and their contributions are undeniable.