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Emperors Yan and Huang, Our Ancestors: Chinese Ancestor Myths

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Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang (the Yellow Emperor) are usually considered as Chinese people’s ancestors. Their names are “Shennong” and “Xuanyuan”, respectively, and they both are the earliest emperors in ancient legends. But from the perspective of history studies, the two emperors cannot be accepted by academia as real figures in historical texts. Shuxian Ye

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  1. School of Social Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Zhaoyuan Tian

  2. Center for Study of Literary Anthropology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Shuxian Ye

  3. College of Humanities and Communications, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Hang Qian

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Tian, Z., Ye, S., Qian, H. (2020). Emperors Yan and Huang, Our Ancestors: Chinese Ancestor Myths. In: Myths of the Creation of Chinese. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5928-0_4

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