Historical Records: Biographies of the Five Emperors-The Life of the Yellow Emperor

When I was young, Huangdi Huangdi was a descendant of Shaodian tribe. His surname is Gongsun and his first name is Xuanyuan. When he was born, he was very spiritual. You can talk in infancy, be smart and alert when you are young, be honest and diligent when you grow up, and be knowledgeable when you grow up. Fighting everywhere replaced the Xuanyuan era of Shennong, and Shennong's rule gradually weakened. The princes invaded each other and harmed the people, but Shennong was unable to conquer. So Xuanyuan used force to punish those who didn't obey the discipline and didn't come to worship Shennong, so the governors all obeyed and followed him. Chiyou is the most violent, and no one can subdue him. Emperor Yan bullied others, so the governors all supported Xuanyuan. So Xuanyuan Xiu De reorganized the army, studied the changes of the four seasons, planted grains, comforted the people, measured the land on all sides, and trained bears, scorpions (pí, Pi), scorpions (xiū, Hugh) and corpses (chū, Chu). Yan Di Chiyou rebelled and disobeyed the orders of the Yellow Emperor. So the Yellow Emperor summoned the troops of the governors to fight Chiyou in the hometown of Zhuolu, and finally captured and killed him. In this way, the governors of all walks of life respected Xuanyuan as the emperor, replacing Shennong, and this was the Yellow Emperor. When there was rebellion in the world, the Yellow Emperor went to conquer and pacify a place, and then left, cutting mountains to clear the way along the way, and never had peace there. The capital is an official. The so-called Huangdi Huangdi has been to the East China Sea and climbed Maruyama Mountain and Mount Tai. I went west to Kongtong and climbed Jitou Mountain. Go south to the Yangtze River and board Woong San and Xiangshan. The tribe of Hunzhou (Xū nù, Xun Yu) was expelled to the north, and came to Busan to check the deeds with the officials, and built the Du Yi at the foot of Zhulu Mountain. Huangdi lived without a fixed place and moved around. Wherever he led his army, he built barracks to protect himself. The official positions of the Yellow Emperor were all named after the cloud, and the army was called the cloud division. He set up the left and right prisons, which supervised the vassal States. At this time, all countries are very stable. Therefore, since ancient times, when the Yellow Emperor came, most people sacrificed to ghosts and gods and mountains and rivers. The Yellow Emperor was given a treasure tripod by heaven, so he observed the movement of the sun, calculated the calendar with the grass used for divination, and predicted the date of saving the sky. He appointed Hou Feng, Li Mu, Chang Xian and Da Hong to manage the people. Huangdi followed the laws of the four seasons of heaven and earth, speculated on the changes of yin and yang, explained the truth of life and death, and explored the reasons for existence and death. He sowed hundreds of crops according to seasons, domesticated birds, beasts and silkworms, measured the sun, moon and stars to determine the calendar, collected earth, stones and jade for the people, worked hard and saved water, fire, wood and all kinds of property. He is an auspicious symbol of the property that the son of heaven has soil. The color of soil is yellow, so it is called the Yellow Emperor. Huangdi's son Huangdi has twenty-five sons, fourteen of whom have established their own surnames. The Yellow Emperor lived in Xuanyuan Mountain and married the daughter of Xiling State. This is Rezu. Lei Zu is the imperial concubine of the Yellow Emperor. She has two sons, and their descendants all own the world: one is Xiao Xuan, that is, Qingyang, who was made a vassal and settled in the river; The other is called Changyi, who was also named a vassal and settled in Ruoshui. Changyi married the daughter of Shushan, named Changfu, and gave birth to Levin. Levin has the virtue of a saint. The Yellow Emperor was buried in Qiao Shan after his death, and Levin, the son of Sun Changyi, was Emperor Zhuan Xu.