Overview
The translated histories identify Shennong as a farmer, healer, named individual, and pharmacist. This record brings together 18 passages from 15 chapters across 8 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Shennong | 神農 | Shennong |
| Title | Divine Farmer | 神農 | Shénnóng |
| Title | Emperor Shennong of Yan | 炎帝神農氏 | Yandi Shennong shi |
| Title | Flame Emperor | 炎帝 | Yandi |
| Personal name | Nong | 農 | Nong |
| Personal name | Shen Nong | 農 | |
| Personal | Shen Nong | 農 | Nong |
| Personal name | Shen Nong | 神農 | |
| Personal name | Shen Nong | 農 | Nong |
| Personal name | Shennong | 神農 | Shénnóng |
| Personal name | Shennong | 神農 | |
| Personal name | Shennong | 農 | Nong |
| Alternate name | Shennong | 神農 | |
| Personal name | Shennong | 神農 | Shennong |
| Personal | Shennong | 神農 | Shénnóng |
| Personal name | Shennong | 神農 | Shén nóng |
Identity
- Historicity
- Legendary
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · hanshu:098:s0178, houhanshu:032:s0083, jinshi:035:s0062, zhoushu:003:s0033, zhoushu:046:s0256
Roles
- Farmer
- Healer
- Named Individual
- Pharmacist
- Ruler
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Qualitative: legendary antiquityExplicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0003
- Qualitative: legendary antiquityExplicit · hanshu:026:s0003, hanshu:026:s0189, hanshu:098:s0178, houhanshu:032:s0083, jinshi:035:s0062, jiutangshu:027:s0069, sanguozhi:062:s0061, sanguozhi:062:s0062, shiji:001:s0003, shiji:001:s0004, shiji:001:s0012, shiji:026:s0013, shiji:061:s0032, zhoushu:003:s0033, zhoushu:004:s0178, zhoushu:046:s0256
Learning and skills
- Skill: pharmacology / 藥性Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0003
Works and attributed material
- Kind: historian-appraisal · Role: exemplar-invoked · Quoted: falseExplicit · zhoushu:046:s0256
- Kind: teaching · Role: author · Quoted: trueExplicit · hanshu:026:s0189
Events and relationships
- Kind: cultural · Role: innovator · Action: taught plow and markets
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
- Value: legendaryExplicit · shiji:026:s0013
References in the histories
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