Who are Sanhuang, wuhuang, Wudi and Wudi?

Three emperors and five emperors have different opinions in different works, namely:

First of all, Huang San:

1, aged, Fuxi, Shennong, from Biography of Shangshu.

2. Fuxi, Nuwa and Shennong came from the Spring and Autumn Period.

3. Fuxi, Zhu Rong and Shennong are from Custom Yi Tong.

4, Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi, from the three-character classics.

5. There are Chao's family, Sui's family and Zhisheng's family, which are quoted from Zhuangzi and Lu respectively.

Second, the five emperors:

1, Tai Hao, Yan Di, Huangdi, Shao Hao, Zhuan Xu, from Lv Chunqiu.

2. Huangdi, Zhuan Xu, Yao and Shun are from Dadai.

3. Huangdi, Zhuan Xu, Yao, from "The Collection of Building a Foreign Country with Capital and Tongzhi".

The origin of the emperor

"Emperor is the master of living things, and the one who shares the benefits", "Emperor is prolific because of it". "The emperor is up, the emperor is down". The "emperor" mentioned by the ancients refers to heaven and earth, while the word "emperor" tells people that heaven and earth are the masters of all things.

The earliest so-called "emperor" in China is a general term for "Three Emperors and Five Emperors". Huang San refers to the emperor, the Yellow Emperor and Ren Huang, and is the legendary ancient san huang. "Emperor" originally refers to the supreme master of all things in the universe, that is, the Emperor of Heaven. Later, many countries scuffled and proclaimed themselves emperors, and there appeared the Western Emperor, the Eastern Emperor, the Chinese Emperor and the Northern Emperor. , so that the "emperor" in the sky came to earth and became a human honorific title beyond the "king" (also known as Huangdi, Yandi, Chiyou, etc. During the tribal period).

After the reunification of China, Qin Shihuang thought that "Germany is both Huang San and five emperors", and he combined the two highest titles of "Emperor" and "Emperor" as his own title, from then on, the son of heaven was called the emperor. In the pre-Qin period, the supreme ruler of China was called "Wang", "Hou" or simply "Huang" and "Di".