Ancient China · Legendary Ruler

Great Bright One 太皥

Taihao

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Great Bright One was a Legendary Ruler.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name		太皥氏	Taihao shi
Posthumous name	Human Emperor	人帝

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 157

Places and affiliations

Organization Five Human Emperors 五人帝 · Relation Member of
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 12, passages 157, 178, 181

Events and relationships

Paired with
Ritual · Associated deity · Other Green Emperor 青帝 · Occasion beginning of spring 立春
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 157
Shared sacrifice
Ritual · Recipient · At Bright Hall 明堂 · Organization Five Human Emperors 五人帝
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 12, passage 181

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 12, passage 157

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 12Volume 12 Treatises 2: Rites and Music 2 · 1 passage

立春祀青帝，以太皥氏配，歲星、三辰在壇下之東北，七宿在西北，句芒在東南。 At the beginning of spring, sacrifice to the Green Emperor, with the Great Bright One as associated deity; the Year Star and three chronograms below the altar in the northeast, seven lodges in the northwest, Goumang in the southeast.