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Zhuanxu (Traditional Chinese: 顓頊; Simplified Chinese: 颛顼; Pinyin: Zhuānxū), also known as Gaoyang (高陽) is a legendary monarch of ancient China. Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: æ£é«å/ç¹é«å, Simplified Chinese: æ£ä½å/ç¹ä½å) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ...
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Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ...
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A grandson of the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu led the Shi clan in an eastward migration to present-day Shandong, where intermarriages with the Dongyi clan enlarged and augmented their tribal influences. At age twenty, he became their sovereign, going on to rule for seventy-eight years until his death. Yellow Emperor The Yellow Emperor or Huang Di (Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , pinyin: huángdì) is a legendary Chinese sovereign and cultural hero who is said to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese. ...
(Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ...
Dongyi (æ±å¤·) was a collective term for people in the east of China. ...
He made contributions to a unified calendar, astrology, religion reforms to oppose shamanism, upheld the patriarchal (as opposed to the previous matriarchal) system, and forbade close-kin marriage. Zhuanxu is held by many to be one of the Five Emperors. A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. ...
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A patriarch (from Greek: patria means father; arché means rule, beginning, origin) is a male head of an extended family exercising autocratic authority, or, by extension, a member of the ruling class or government of a society controlled by senior men. ...
The Three August Ones and Five Emperors (Chinese: ä¸çäºå¸; 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. ...
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