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Yellow Emperor
黃帝
Huang Di
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Yellow Emperor
黃帝
Huang Di
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 13 Genealogical Tables of the Three Dynasties · 9 passages
今案諸傳記咸言有父，父皆黃帝子也，得無與詩謬秋？」
Now when I examine the various biographies they all say they had fathers, and their fathers were all sons of the Yellow Emperor. Could this be at odds with the Poetry?"
舜、禹、契、后稷皆黃帝子孫也。
Shun, Yu, Qi, and Hou Ji were all descendants of the Yellow Emperor.
黃帝策天命而治天下，德澤深後世，故其子孫皆復立為天子，是天之報有德也。
The Yellow Emperor grasped the heavenly mandate, governed the world, and left virtue and grace that deeply benefited later generations; therefore his descendants all again became established as sons of heaven—this is heaven's reward for virtue.
「黃帝後世何王天下之久遠邪？」
"Why did the Yellow Emperor's descendants rule the world so long?"
黃帝是也。
The Yellow Emperor was such a one.
蜀王，黃帝後世也，至今在漢西南五千里，常來朝降，輸獻於漢，非以其先之有德，澤流後世邪？
The King of Shu was also a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. Even now, though he is five thousand li southwest of Han, he regularly comes to court, submits, and presents tribute to Han. Is this not because his ancestor possessed virtue and his grace flowed down to later generations?
漢大將軍霍子孟名光者，亦黃帝後世也。
Huo Zimeng, the Han General-in-Chief whose given name was Guang, was also a descendant of the Yellow Emperor.
高辛，黃帝曾孫。
Gaoxin was the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor.
黃帝終始傳曰：『漢興百有餘年，有人不短不長，出（自）［白］燕之鄉，持天下之政，時有嬰兒主，欲行車。』
The Yellow Emperor's Chronicles of Beginning and End says, "More than a hundred years after the Han arises, there will be a man neither short nor tall, from the region of Baiyan, who holds the government of all under Heaven at a time when there is an infant ruler who wishes to ride in a carriage."