Ancient China · Ruler

Fuxi 宓犧

Dates uncertain

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Fuxi was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Han 99, passage 138

Works and attributed material

Changes 易
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Han 99, passage 138

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 1 passage

是以宓犧氏之作《易》也，綿絡天地，經以八卦，文王附六爻，孔子錯其象而彖其辭，然後發天地之臧，定萬物之基。 So Fuxi’s 《Changes》 laced heaven and earth, the eight trigrams forming its warp; King Wen added the six lines; Confucius aligned the images and wrote the judgments—only then could the hidden stores of nature be opened and the basis of the ten thousand things fixed.