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The Yellow Emperor or Hu??ng D?? (黄帝) is a legendary Chinese sovereign and cultural hero who is said to be the ancestor of all Chinese. One of The Three August Ones and the Five Emperors#The_Five_Emperors|the Five Emperors, the Yellow Emperor is said by tradition to have reigned from 2696 - 2598 B.C. The legend of his retreat to west in the war against the eastern Emperor Chi You|Chī Y??u at the Battle of Zhuōl?? (涿鹿) is seen as the establishment of the Han Chinese nationality. Among his other accomplishments, the Yellow Emperor has been credited with the invention of the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. N??ijīng (内經, The Medical Canon of the Yellow Emperor), was supposedly composed in collaboration with his physician Q?? B?? (岐伯). However, modern historiographers generally consider it to have been compiled from ancient sources by a scholar living between the Zhou Dynasty|Zhou and Han Dynasty|Han dynasties, more than 2000 years later. In the legend, his wife Lu??zǔ (螺祖) taught the Chinese how to weave silk from silkworms, and his historian Cang Jie|Cāng Ji?? created the first Chinese characters. Category:Chinese mythology fr:Empereur Jaune ja:黄帝 zh-cn:黄帝 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Yellow Emperor".
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