Zhuanxu(顓頊)
Alternative Names (異名):
顓頊, 颛顼, Zhuanxu
Zhuanxu (traditional Chinese: 顓頊; simplified Chinese: 颛顼; pinyin: Zhuānxū), also known as Gaoyang (高陽) is a legendary monarch of ancient China.
A grandson of the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu led the Shi clan in an eastward migration to present-day Shandong, where intermarriages with the Dongyi clan enlarged and augmented their tribal influences. At age twenty, he became their sovereign, going on to rule for seventy-eight years until his death.
He made contributions to a unified calendar, astrology, religion reforms to oppose shamanism, upheld the patriarchal (as opposed to the previous matriarchal) system, and forbade close-kin marriage. Zhuanxu is held by many to be one of the Five Emperors.
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