The East Emperor Taihao Fuxi belongs to Ju Mang; Shennong, Nandi Yan Di, belongs to Zhu Rong; Shao Hao Jintian, Emperor of the Western Heaven, belongs to God Ru Shou; Zhuan Xu Levin, Northern Heaven Emperor, belongs to the mysterious god; Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor of the Central Heaven, belongs to the afterlife of God.
The Three Emperors and Five Emperors are not real emperors, but tribal leaders or tribal alliance leaders who have made outstanding contributions to mankind in Archaean times. Later generations respectfully call them "emperors" or "emperors". The people respect them as gods and publicize their great achievements with all kinds of beautiful myths and legends.
Refers to the historical period. That is, the era of three emperors and five emperors, also known as ancient times, ancient times or mythological times. It can also be called "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" for short. The Three Emperors and Five Emperors led the people to create the ancient civilization of China, and modern archaeology found a large number of Longshan cultural sites corresponding to this period, which proved that the Three Emperors and Five Emperors period did exist.
As for the mythical gods, they were all called emperors in Shan Hai Jing, and later they were also called "Five Emperors". For example, there is a phrase in the Songs of the South, which refers to God together with "pointing to heaven" and "abstaining from six gods". There is a saying in the Spring and Autumn Annals of Yan Zi that "Chu witches seek the virtues of five emperors", which obviously refers to the Heaven Emperor. Therefore, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang said in Historical Records: "I heard that there are five emperors in the sky." That is to say, it became popular at the end of the Warring States period. At the same time, there is the theory of five-color emperors, offering sacrifices to the four gods of Bai, Qing, Huang and Yi, and Gao Han offering sacrifices to Hei Di Temple. To the spring and autumn latitude and Wen Yao hook, the five-color emperor famously said: "Cangdi said Lingwei, and the emperor also said red anger, Huangdi said hub, Baidi said white but refused, and Hei Di said juice light." Zheng Xuan's annotation on the sentence "Wang Tugu Na Xin" in the Book of Rites, that is, he quoted these names as "Five Emperors of Taiwei" and said that "the ancestors of Wang all thought that the essence of the Five Emperors was too small to make a living". The five emperors on the earth are said to be born of the five emperors in the sky, and put forward the fallacy of "feeling the emperor", which Wang Su has rejected.
Generally speaking, the people referred to in "Huang San Theory" are the symbols of China ancestors in different prehistoric cultural stages. Old people and Bao Xi respectively represent three stages of ignorance: low stage, intermediate stage and advanced stage. Shennong represents the lower stage of barbarism; On the other hand, Nu Wa is an earlier creator. In mythology, she and Fuxi combined to create human beings. The people referred to in the "Five Emperors Theory" are mainly some kings or military leaders in the heyday of the patriarchal clan alliance and in the period of military democracy when it disintegrated.