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official who served as the " Taichang (太常)" and a

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author of the "Three Five Historic Records" (, literally: "Three Five Calendar") and ''Wuyun Linian Ji''. The "3-5" refers to the "

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" (三皇五帝). Xu Zheng relates two different variants of the creation myth of

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