The Emperor Shun (舜) (2258-2211 BC) was a legendary leader of prehistoric China, among the Three August Ones and the Five Emperors. Born Yao Chonghua (姚重華). He was also known as Youyu-shi (有虞氏). He was given the leadership by Emperor Yao at 53 and died at 100, after giving his seat to Yu the Great. His capital was at Puban (蒲阪, today in Shanxi). The Three August Ones and Five Emperors (Chinese: 三皇五å¸; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: san-huang wu-ti) were mythological rulers of China during the period from 2500 BC to 2205 BC, which is the time preceding the Xia dynasty. ... Emperor Yao (Traditional Chinese:堯, Simplified Chinese:尧) (2337 - 2258 BC) was a semi-mythical Chinese ruler, one of the Three August Ones and the Five Emperors. ... Yu (禹, often called Da Yu 大禹 Yu the Great) was the legendary first Chinese monarch of the Xia Dynasty, considered as the founder of the dynasty. ...
Also known as the Great Shun (大舜) or Yu Shun (虞舜).
See also: Chinese mythology Chinese mythology is the mythology of Chinese civilization. ...
Liu Zhi 劉志, known posthumously as Emperor Huan of the Later Han dynasty 漢桓帝, was born in 132 and came to the throne in 146 under the regency of the Empress-Dowager Liang Na and her brother Liang Ji.
EmperorShun took the cap of manhood in 129, and by 132 the senior ministers were pressing for the appointment of an empress.
Emperor Huan took the cap of manhood at the beginning of 148, aged sixteen sui, but there was no real change to the political system of control: the Dowager justified her continued maintenance of power by emergencies of the frontier and internal rebellion, and Liang Ji controlled the troops and officials at the capital.
EmperorShun Zhi also saw in this towering structure, which would be the highest in the capital for many years to come, a vantage point with military significance.
A description by the Emperor of the scenery and the process of reconstruction was inscribed on a stone stele that is mounted in a pavilion at the foot of the hill (YinSheng Pavilion).
The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty was keen to live forever so he sent explorers to the islands to look for the longevity medicine, but they failed.
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