Fu Xi

Fu Xi (Chinese伏羲, Pinyin Fú Xī ) or Pao Xi (庖 牺, PAO Xī ), Tai Hao (太昊, Tài Hào ), also Fuxi Fuxi or should have been the first of the Chinese Urkaiser whose myths early in the Zhou era emerged. According to legend, he is also the ancestor of the people.

He is said to have invented the eight trigrams of the Yijing ( I Ching, Book of Changes ) by meditating on heaven and earth, and he shall have brought the people melody and music. The order of the eight trigrams and hexagrams 64 has been associated with his name in context and viewed in Europe as a formal analogy to the dual system. He is the man who taught to use nets for hunting and fishing and knotted cords to measure time and distances. He also is said to have invented the medicine. When his wife Nü Gua is often portrayed. Apparently he learned the art of writing by a learned dragon. This should be met him on the banks of the Yellow River.

In the Han period Fu Xi was the God of the East and of spring and its seat was the rectangular earth altar.

After Fu Xi, the city Fuxi in Anhui (China), the Temple of Fu Xi and a tunnel was named.

Life and reign

Although Fuxi undoubtedly belongs to the realm of legends, there are several proposals to date his reign. Documents can not be the rule of a monarch of that name.

  • According to calculations by James Legge Fu Xi was born in 3322 BC. Other sources go from the period 2800-2737 BC from.
  • In the Book of China by Hans- Wilm Schütte he ruled from 2852 for 115 years as Urkaiser.
  • His reign could have been for 116 years from 2952 to 2836 BC.

Fuxi and the trigrams

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