Who are the Three emperors and five emperors
The three emperors in the original sense refers to the ancient three emperors, namely the emperor, the earth emperor and the Man Emperor; The five emperors refer to the five ancient gods, namely, the eastern Qing Emperor Ling Wei Yang, the southern Red Emperor Chignanger, the central Yellow Emperor Han hub, the Western White Emperor Bai Zhaobu, and the northern Black Emperor Ye Guangji.
Three emperors, emperor, Emperor of the earth, the name of the emperor, the earliest existing written records in the "Shi Ji Qin Shi Huang Benji". "River map includes the earth" : "Heaven and earth first established, there is the emperor, indifferent to nature, and (North) very same path." When heaven and earth first opened, there was an emperor, and the same way as the North Pole, whose status was extremely lofty. "History of the Road" : "The former emperor, the former earth emperor, the former emperor of the matter is too long, the so-called things can not be investigated, things can not be said." Later works in the original sense of the ancient three emperors on the basis of adding before and after the three emperors, so there are the first three emperors, three emperors, after the three emperors, combined into nine emperors.
"Emperor" originally refers to the five gods, after the Warring States (it is said that the two Han Dynasty) to attach the name of human historical figures into the replacement. The myth that the five heavenly gods are called the five emperors. "Zhou Li · Tianguan" "five emperors", for the eastern Qing Emperor Ling Wei Yang, the southern Red Emperor Chignanger, the central Yellow Emperor containing hub, the western white Emperor Bai Zhaobu, the northern black Emperor Ye Guangji. Wang Yi of the Eastern Han Dynasty notes "Chu Ci · Xi Chant" in the "five emperors" for the five Fang gods, that is, Taihao in the East, Yan Emperor in the South, Shaohobart in the West, Zhuanxu in the north, the central Yellow Emperor. The "Five emperors" added by later generations have the following different sayings:
The Yellow Emperor (Xuanyuan), the Qing Emperor (Fuxi), and the Red Emperor were also called the Yan Emperor (Shennong), the White Emperor (Shaohao), and the Black Emperor (Zhuanxu). As for the five ancient emperors, the views are also different, generally believed to be the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu, emperor à·, Yao, Shun.