Chinese Mythology

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People in this family tree

• Pangu · ? — The first being, who hatched from the cosmic egg and separated sky and earth.
• Nüwa · ? — Creator goddess who shaped the first humans from yellow clay.
• Fuxi · ? — First of the sage-kings; gave humanity writing, fishing and the trigrams.
• Shennong · ? — The Divine Farmer; taught agriculture and herbal medicine.
• Huangdi · ? — The Yellow Emperor; legendary progenitor of the Chinese people.
• Leizu · ? — Wife of the Yellow Emperor; said to have discovered silk.
• Changyi · ? — Son of the Yellow Emperor and Leizu.
• Zhuanxu · ? — Grandson of the Yellow Emperor; one of the Five Emperors.
• Di Ku · ? — A descendant of the Yellow Emperor; one of the Five Emperors.
• Yao · ? — Sage-king of the golden age, who ceded the throne to the worthy Shun.
• Shun · ? — Sage-king raised from a commoner; passed the throne to Yu by merit.
• Yu the Great · ? — Sage-king who tamed the floods and founded the Xia dynasty.
• Xihe · ? — Goddess of the sun; mother of the ten suns.
• Chang’e · ? — Goddess of the moon, who drank the elixir of immortality.