Ancient China · Ancient Ancestor of the Ban Line

Gaoxuan 高頊

Gāoxū

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Gaoxuan was an Ancient Ancestor of the Ban Line.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Zhuanxu	顓頊	Zhuānxū

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 160

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 160

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 117Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 1 passage

系高頊之玄冑兮，氏中葉之炳靈，繇凱風而蟬蛻兮，雄朔野以颺聲。 I am sprung from Zhuanxu's line; at mid-house a bright spirit woke; borne on a victorious wind I shed my shell like a cicada and sent a hero's cry across the northern wastes.