Fu Hsi or Fuxi (伏羲; pinyin fúxī; aka Paoxi (庖犧 pinyin páoxī)) was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns (三皇 sānhuáng) of ancient China. He is a culture hero reputed to be the inventor of writing, fishing, and trapping. Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ... The Three August Ones and Five Emperors (Chinese: 三皇五帝; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: san-huang wu-ti) were mythological rulers of China during the period from c. ... A culture hero is a historical or mythological hero who changes the world through invention or discovery. ... see also Creative Writing Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other constructs that represent language or record information, and the creation of material to be conveyed through written language. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The Yi Jing (or Zhou Yi; Wade-Giles I Ching) is attributed to his reading of the He Map, also known as The Yellow River Map. According to tradition Fu Xi had the arrangement of the trigrams (八卦 bāgùa) of the Yi Jing revealed to him supernaturally. This arrangement precedes the compilation of the Yi Jing during the Zhou dynasty. Fu Xi is said to have discovered the arrangement in markings on the back of a mythical dragon-horse (sometimes said to be a turtle) that emerged from the river Luo. This discovery is also said to have been the origin of calligraphy. Alternative meaning: I Ching (monk) The I Ching (Simplified Chinese: 易经; Traditional Chinese: 易經, Hanyu Pinyin: Yì Jīng; Cantonese IPA: jɪk6gɪŋ1; Cantonese Jyutping: jik6ging1; alternative romanizations include I Jing, Yi Ching, Yi King) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. ... The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: pa kua; literally eight trigrams) is a fundamental philosophical concept in ancient China. ... The Zhou Dynasty (Chinese: 周朝; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: chou chao; 11th century BC to 256 BC) followed the Shang (Yin) Dynasty and preceded the Qin Dynasty in China. ... The Luo are a people of Kenya, they live on the shores and hinterland of Lake Victoria. ...

The following passage, describing Fu Xi's significance, is from the Báihǔ tōngyì (白虎通義) by Ban Gu (32 CE – 92 CE) at the beginning of the Later Han dynasty: Ban Gu (班固, Wade-Giles Pan Ku) was a 1st century Chinese historian. ... For alternate uses, see Number 32. ... For other uses, see number 92. ... The Han Dynasty (Traditional Chinese: 漢朝; Simplified Chinese: 汉朝; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Han Chau; 206 BC–AD 220) followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. ...

In the beginning there was as yet no moral or social order. Men knew their mothers only, not their fathers. When hungry, they searched for food; when satisfied, they threw away the remnants. They devoured their food hide and hair, drank the blood, and clad themselves in skins and rushes. Then came Fu Xi and looked upward and contemplated the images in the heavens, and looked downward and contemplated the occurrences on earth. He united man and wife, regulated the five stages of change, and laid down the laws of humanity. He devised the eight trigrams, in order to gain mastery over the world.

—Ban Gu. Baihu tongyi. Quoted, with modifications, from the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baines, translators (1967).

Fu Xi taught his subjects to cook, to fish with nets, and to hunt with weapons made of iron. He instituted marriage and offered the first open air sacrifices to heaven. A stone tablet, dated 160 CE shows Fu Xi with Nüwa, who was both his wife and his sister. In Chinese mythology, Nüwa (Traditional Chinese: 女媧 Simplified Chinese: 女娲 Pinyin: nÇšwā) is mythological character best known for reproducing people after a great calamity. ...

Fu Xi is also credited with the invention of the Guqin, together with Shennong and Huang Di. The Guqin (Chinese: 古琴; Hanyu Pinyin: gÇ”qín; Wade-Giles: ku-chin; literally ancient stringed-instrument) is the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family (中華絃樂噐). It has been played since ancient times, and has traditionally been favored by scholars and literati as... Shennong (Traditional: 神農; Simplified: 神农; Pinyin: Shen2 nong2) is a legendary emperor and culture hero of Chinese mythology who is believed to have lived some 5,000 years ago and who taught the ancient peoples of the practices of agriculture. ... Yellow Emperor The Yellow Emperor (黄帝 Hu ng D ) is a Chinese mythical character, a culture hero said in legend to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. ...

Contemporary references to Fu Xi

Fu Xi appears in the game, Dynasty Warriors as a man wielding a giant sword. His wife Nüwa also appears. They are both deleted from the game, and if you want to find the last one they are in, it is Dynasty Warriors 3. The Logo of Shin Sangoku Musou 4 (Dynasty Warriors 5) Dynasty Warriors ( 真・三國無双:Shin Sangokumusou in Japan and 真•三国无双: Zhen Sanguo Wushuang in China; literally meaning Real Three Kingdoms Hit and Miss/Unrivalled) is a series of video games created by Koei based loosely around the Romance of the Three Kingdoms epic... Dynasty Warriors (or 真・三國無双:Shin Sangoku Musou in Japan) is a series of video games created by Koei based loosely around the Romance of the Three Kingdoms epic, and is a spinoff series of ROTK ( Sangokushi/Sanguo Yanyi ) The games in this series are as follows: Dynasty Warriors [1997] Dynasty Warriors...

As with Nüwa, Fu Xi also made an appearance in a Hong Kong television series, My Date with a Vampire 3, albeit Nu Wa appearing in the second part whilst Fu Xi plays a major role in the third. In it, he is also called Ren Wang, or the King of Humanity, with a magical bow and arrow as his weapons. He was sent down from heaven and it is on him whom Nuwa based her creation, humanity. Within the show Nuwa and Fuxi are not spouses. In the show, Fu Xi is the same person as Hou Yi, as well as Genghis Khan. He is a vampire, or rather, a deity from Pan Gu (In the show, Pan Gu is not a single entity but an entire clan of people, who are incidentally vampires, albeit of a higher level than 'human' vampires in the show). In Chinese mythology, Nüwa (Traditional Chinese: 女媧 Simplified Chinese: 女娲 Pinyin: nÇšwā) is mythological character best known for reproducing people after a great calamity. ... Houyi (后羿) was a mythological Chinese archer. ... Genghis Khan (c. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having unnatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform. ... Pangu (Traditional: 盤古; Simplified: 盘古; pinyin: PángÇ”) was the first living being and the creator of all according to later Chinese mythology. ...

See also

• Chinese mythology
• Sanhuangwudi