Ancient China · Legendary Ruler

Zhuanxu 顓頊

Dates uncertain

Passages: 8
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

Zhuanxu was a Legendary Ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Han 25, passage 20; Book of Han 99, passage 119; Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 241

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Yellow Emperor (黃帝)
grandson 孫 · paternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 241
Parent of Qiongchan (窮蟬)
fathered 生 · paternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 245
Parent of Gun (鯀)
fathered 生 · paternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 13, passage 270
Child of Changyi (昌意)
fathered 生 · paternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 13, passages 242, 245-246

Key source chapters

Events and relationships

Campaigned against Gonggong
Military · Ruler · With Gonggong (共工)
Directly stated · Book of Han 25, passage 20

References in the histories

Search passages

History

8 passages

Book of Han, Chapter 25Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law · 1 passage

自黃帝有涿鹿之戰以定火災，顓頊有共工之陳以定水害。 From the Yellow Emperor there was the battle of Zhuolu to settle the calamity of fire, and Zhuanxu had the campaign against Gonggong to settle the harm of water.

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

故《玄》三方、九州、二十七部、八十一家、二百四十三表、七百二十九贊，分為三卷，曰一二三，與《泰初歷》相慶，亦有顓頊之歷焉。 So the work maps three realms, nine domains, twenty-seven parts, eighty-one lineages, two hundred forty-three charts, and seven hundred twenty-nine appraisals in three books titled One, Two, Three—harmonizing with the 《Grand Inception》 calendar and echoing Zhuanxu’s old reckoning.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 13Genealogical Tables of the Three Dynasties · 6 passages

顓頊屬 Line of Zhuanxu

帝顓頊，黃帝孫。起黃帝，至顓頊三世，號高陽。 Emperor Zhuanxu, the Yellow Emperor's grandson. From the Yellow Emperor to Zhuanxu: three generations, with the style Gaoyang.

昌意生顓頊。為高陽氏。 Changyi fathered Zhuanxu, who took the Gaoyang clan name.

昌意生顓頊。顓頊生窮蟬。 Changyi fathered Zhuanxu. Zhuanxu fathered Qiongchan.

昌意生顓頊。 Changyi fathered Zhuanxu.

顓頊生鯀。鯀生文命。 Zhuanxu fathered Gun. Gun fathered Wenming.