Zhuanxu

Gaoyang is also a county in Hebei and the Chinese name pieces of music, known as The Answer to the Clouds
of Koyang in North Korea.
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Zhuanxu was succeeded by his cousin, Shaohao's son,
Zhuanxu (Chinese: trad. , simp. , pinyin Ku. In the Shiji, he criticized one of his sons for being
Zhunx), also known as Gaoyang (t , s , p a dullard. Since only two sons were named, it might have
Goyng), was a mythological emperor of ancient China. been Gun, father of Yu the Great or Qiongchan, the anIn the traditional account recorded by Sima Qian, cestor of Shun. Yao had also criticized Gun for being inZhuanxu was a grandson of the Yellow Emperor who competent and ruinous. The Shiji labelled Qiongchan an
led the Shi clan in an eastward migration to present-day insignicant commoner though it does not mention how
Shandong, where intermarriages with the Dongyi clan he fell from grace. He also had eight unnamed sons of
enlarged and augmented their tribal inuences. At age good repute that later worked for Shun.
twenty, he became their sovereign, going on to rule for
seventy-eight years until his death.

3 Calendar

Family

The Bamboo Annals record that in his 13th year of reign,

Zhuanxu invented calendric calculations and delineations of the heavenly bodies.

Zhuanxu was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor and

his wife Leizu by way of his father Changyi. His mother Since Zhuanxu was claimed as a founder of the Qin dywas named Changtsu according to Sima Qian, Niuqu ac- nasty, his name was taken for inauguration of the new
calendar system by Shi Huangdi.
cording to the Bamboo Annals.
Zhuanxu was subsequently claimed as an ancestor by
many of the dynasties of Chinese history, including the
Mi of Chu and Yue, the Yng of Qin, and the Cao of
Wei.* [1]

4 Mythology
Zhuanxu is also mentioned as a god of the Pole Star and
as the father of Taowu.

Reign
5 References

Zhuanxu was held by many sources to be one of the Five

Emperors.

[1] This last claim was made by the Wei Shu and Tung Pa but
attacked by Chiang Chi, who claimed the Tian () were
descended from Zhuanxu instead.* [2]* [3]

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian,

upon the passing of the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu's uncle Shaohao never actually reigned as king, as in other
reports. Rather, Gaoyang was chosen as the tribe's new
leader, with the regnal name Zhuanxu, in preference to
his father and all his uncles.* [4] Zhuanxu defeated Gonggong, a descendant of the Emperor Yan.

[2] Howard L. Goodman (1998). Ts'ao P'i Transcendent: the

Political Culture of Dynasty-Founding in China at the End
of the Han (illustrated ed.). Psychology Press. p. 70.
ISBN 0966630009. Retrieved 1 Apr 2012.
[3] House of Chinn. "History".

However, the account in the Bamboo Annals states that

Zhuanxu became an assistant to his uncle, Emperor Shaohao, at the age of ten, and became king in his own right
at age 20.

[4] Asiapac Editorial (2006). Great Chinese emperors: tales

of wise and benevolent rule (revised ed.). Asiapac Books
Pte Ltd. p. 9. ISBN 9812294511. Retrieved 4-1-2012.
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He made contributions to a unied calendar, astrology,

religion reforms to oppose shamanism, upheld the
patriarchal (as opposed to the previous matriarchal) system, and forbade close-kin marriage. The Bamboo Annals also credit him with composing one of the earliest
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