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Yellow Emperor
Legendary Chinese ruler, one of the Five Emperors, later worshipped as a god
- Child of Fubao and Shaodian
- Married to Nüjie, Leizu, Momu and 2 more
- Dated 2717 BCE – 2597 BCE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Yellow Emperor
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 14
Kinship in an account 2
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 12
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Fubao mother of Huangdi
- child of (father) Shaodian Chinese legend, tribal leader
- parent of (child) Changyi son of Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) and Leizu
- parent of (child) Nuba drought goddess from Chinese mythology
- parent of (child) Shaodian Chinese legend, tribal leader
- parent of (child) Shaohao ancient Chinese leader and culture hero, supposedly a son of the Yellow Emperor
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sibling of Yandi legendary ruler in prehistoric China, later venerated as a fire god - married to Feng Leishi Legendary Chinese empress
- married to Leizu Legendary Chinese empress, consort of the Yellow Emperor and inventor of silk and sericulture
- married to Momu goddess in Chinese mythology
- married to Nüjie
- married to Tongyushi legendary Chinese empress
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
Yellow Emperor Legendary Chinese ruler, one of the Five Emperors, later worshipped as a god Connections
How Yellow Emperor connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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14 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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