Overview
The translated histories identify Emperor Taihao Fuxi as a named individual and ruler. This record brings together 14 passages from 13 chapters across 7 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Emperor Taihao Fuxi | 太昊帝宓羲氏 | Taihao Fuxi |
| Personal name | Baoxi | 庖犧 | Páoxī |
| Personal | Emperor Taihao Fuxi | 太昊帝宓羲氏 | Taihao di Fuxi |
| Personal name | Fu Xi | 戲 | |
| Personal | Fu Xi | 羲 | Xi |
| Alternate name | Fu Xi | 犧 | |
| Personal name | Fu Xi | 羲 | Xi |
| Personal | Fuxi | 宓羲 | Fuxi |
| Personal name | Fuxi | 宓犧氏 | |
| Personal | Fuxi | 伏羲氏 | Fúxī |
| Personal name | Fuxi | 伏犧 | |
| Personal name | Fuxi | 庖犧 | Páoxī |
| Personal | Fuxi | 伏羲 | Fúxī |
| Personal | Fuxi | 羲 | |
| Personal name | Fuxi | 羲 | Xi |
| Alternate name | Paoxi | 庖犧 | Páoxī |
| Title | Taihao | 太昊 | Taihao |
| Personal name | Xi | 羲 | Xi |
| Alternate | 伏羲 | Fúxī |
Identity
- Historicity
- Legendary
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · hanshu:098:s0178, jinshi:029:s0248, jinshi:035:s0062, jinshi:046:s0003, shiji:127:s0063, zhoushu:046:s0256
- Sex: male
Roles
- Named Individual
- Ruler
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 庖犧氏之王天下也 · Qualitative: legendary antiquityExplicit · houhanshu:131:s0007
- Qualitative: legendary antiquity
- Source Date: Text: 明昌六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1195Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:029:s0248, jinshi:029:s0247
- Source Date: Text: 泰和三年 · Western Year: AD 1203Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:035:s0062, jinshi:035:s0063
Works and attributed material
- Work: Changes / 易 · Relation: authorExplicit · hanshu:099:s0138
- Kind: historian-appraisal · Role: exemplar-invoked · Quoted: falseExplicit · zhoushu:046:s0256
Events and relationships
- Kind: cultural · Role: creator · Action: created-eight-trigramsExplicit · houhanshu:131:s0007, shiji:127:s0063
- Kind: ritual · Role: cult-recipient · Action: received-gaomei-sacrifice · Label: Gaomei sacrifice / 高禖之祀 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 歲以春分日 · Note: annual spring-equinox rite instituted in Mingchang 6 · Western Year: AD 1195Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:029:s0248, jinshi:029:s0247
- Kind: cultural · Role: teacher · Action: taught-food-and-drink-methodsExplicit · jinshi:046:s0003
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: ideal of a world like Jing Ke and Qin Zu would not be far from Fu Xi and Shen Nong · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · zhoushu:046:s0256
Source notes
- Historicity: legendary
References in the histories
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