The Human Sovereign (), otherwise called the Sovereign of Man, was the third 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 third and last 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 ...
'':
[ Sima Zhen. 補史記 (Supplement to the ''Records'') (second-to-last paragraph)]
The legends says that he subdivided the land of China into
nine provinces
The term Nine Provinces or Nine Regions (), is used in ancient Chinese histories to refer to territorial divisions or islands during the Xia dynasty, Xia and Shang dynasty, Shang dynasties and has now come to symbolically represent China. "Pro ...
, which were united during a 45,600-year dynasty.
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 ...
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Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
According to Chinese mythology and traditional Chinese historiography, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors () were a series of sage Chinese emperors, and the first Emperors of China. Today, they are considered culture heroes, but they wer ...
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