Flame Emperor (炎帝) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Flame Emperor as a ruler. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Flame Emperor	炎帝	Yandi
Title	Flame Emperor	炎
Title	Flame Emperor	炎帝	Yándì

Identity

Historicity: Legendary
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0197
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:031:s0003

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Qualitative: legendary antiquity
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0007, liaoshi:002:s0197, liaoshi:031:s0003

Family

Ancestor of Qishou (奇首)
Kinship Term: ancestor / 先
Kinship Term: sprang from / 出自

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: legendary ruler · Action: resorted to battle when unavoidable · Provenance: Mode: edict-historical-exemplum · Speaker Person Id: Later Liang Last Emperor (末帝)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0005, jiuwudaishi:010:s0007

Source notes

Historicity: legendary
Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0003

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Book of Later Liang 10: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 1 passage

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而炎、黃有戰伐之師，堯、舜有干戈之用，諒不獲已，其猶病諸。 Even the Yellow and Flame emperors and Yao and Shun resorted to arms when they had no choice, though war grieved them.

History of Liao, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage

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贊曰：遼之先，出自炎帝，世為審吉國，其可知者蓋自奇首雲。 Thus the historian praises them: Liao's ancestors sprang from the Flame Emperor; for ages they were the Shenji people; the record becomes clear, it seems, with Qishou.

History of Liao, Chapter 31Volume 31 Treatises 1: Management of Guards 1 · 1 passage

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爰自炎帝政衰，蚩尤作亂，始制干戈，以毒天下。 From when the reign of the Flame Emperor declined and Chiyou raised disorder, weapons were first fashioned to poison the realm.