The Earthly Sovereign () was the second legendary Chinese king after
Pangu
Pangu or Pan Gu (also sometimes spelled Peng Gu and P’an-ku)
( zh, t=盤古, ) is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology and in Taoism. According to legend, Pangu separated heaven and earth, and his body later became ge ...
's era. According to ''
Yiwen Leiju'', he was the second of the
Three Sovereigns
According to Chinese mythology and traditional Chinese historiography, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors () were a series of sage Chinese emperors, and the first Emperor of China, Emperors of China. Today, they are considered culture heroe ...
.
Biography
According to the "Basic Annals of the Three Sovereigns" (三皇本紀) in
Sima Zhen’s supplement to the ''
Records of the Grand Historian
The ''Shiji'', also known as ''Records of the Grand Historian'' or ''The Grand Scribe's Records'', is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written during the late 2nd and early 1st ce ...
'':
*Dìhuáng had eleven heads, was the king ruling under the influence (
de) of the
fire element (火德王).
*And, Dìhuáng was a king of many achievements, had eleven brothers, died aged eighteen thousand years old.
After he was born, the world was filled in chaos. That year, the sun and the moon born from two eyes of
Pangu
Pangu or Pan Gu (also sometimes spelled Peng Gu and P’an-ku)
( zh, t=盤古, ) is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology and in Taoism. According to legend, Pangu separated heaven and earth, and his body later became ge ...
, the stars from Pangu’s hairs couldn't move smoothly and correctly, which caused many days without sun, or many days with the sun shined throughout the whole day, or many dangerous fallen star accidents. With his power, Dìhuáng corrected the false. He made the sun and the moon move correctly, and stipulated the days of a month and the months of a year.
Dìhuáng's rule lasted eleven thousand years.
He created Mount Xiong'er (熊耳山 ''Xióng'ĕr Shān'' "bear ear mountain") and
Mount Longmen (龍門山 ''Lóngmén Shān'' "dragon gate mountain"). His successor was the
Human Sovereign.
See also
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Chinese mythology
Chinese mythology () is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural tradit ...
References
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Legendary monarchs
Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
Chinese monarchs