Yellow Emperor
c. 400 BCE – 2026 CEattested
Xinzheng
- Chinese
Legendary ancestor of the Chinese, credited with the compass chariot, medicine, the calendar and silk. Han rulers dated themselves from him, which made a myth into a chronology the state ran on.
Known for
- the south-pointing chariot
- ancestor of a people
- myth used as a calendar
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.