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Dictionary - results for 五帝

SimplifiedTraditionalPinyinEnglish
- Five Emperors from legendary times
- possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them
- usually taken to be Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 顓頊|颛顼[Zhuan1 Xu1], Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4], Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧[Tang2 Yao2], Yu Shun 虞舜[Yu2 Shun4]
sānhuáng- three sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2] and five emperors 五帝[wu3 di4] of myth and legend
- the earliest system of Chinese historiography

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