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Fuxi伏羲
One of the Three Sovereigns (sages) of the Fire Cloud Cave.
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Fuxi, and the people around them.
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01THE UNSEENMythic acts
Transformation, aid and divine punishment
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Mythic acts
Transformation, aid and divine punishment
Lu Meng→Fuxireceive teaching
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In fiction · Extensive Records of the Taiping Era · Researches into Lost Records
Fuxi is one of the ancient sage kings and one of the Three Sovereigns of the Fire Cloud Cave, an object of Nüwa's homage. He ordered Shennong to bestow medicine.
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Researches into Lost Records
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Extensive Records of the Taiping Era
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梦见伏羲、文王、周公
receive teaching · Extensive Records of the Taiping Era, 梦一
History vs. fiction
The drawing of the Eight Trigrams is recorded in history, while the sibling marriage is a later fictional addition.
The Records of the Grand Historian, in the chapter 'The Grand Historian's Self-Preface', says: 'Fu Xi was extremely pure and kind, and created the Eight Trigrams of the Changes.' As the cultural ancestor of Chinese civilization, Fu Xi's achievement of drawing the Eight Trigrams is undisputed in pre-Qin and Han dynasty texts, with consistent records.
- novel inventionMarried his sister Nüwa to reproduce humanity
In later folk legends and popular literature, Fu Xi and Nüwa are often depicted as siblings who married after a great flood to reproduce humanity. However, a thorough search of early core texts such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Songs of Chu, Huainanzi, and Records of the Grand Historian reveals no indication of their sibling or marital relationship. This claim has no basis in early texts and was entirely fabricated by later generations.
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梦见伏羲、文王、周公