{"id":826,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:39:56","slug":"huang-di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Huang-Di"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5MFA8OWwuc?si=WZZUTbSgZhXtM78q\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">HUANG-DI \u9ec3\u5e1d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Yellow Emperor \u9ec3\u7687\u5e1d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/huang-di.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"275\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">2700-2600 BC<br \/>\n\u8ed2\u8f45 Xuanyuan,<br \/>\nnamed after a dragon-shaped asterism:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2022%20pics\/Huang-di%20nameplate.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2023%20pics\/Pleiades-map-2400BC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Chinese star map from 2400 BC.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Before Huang-Di was born there occurred &#8220;a radiance from a star <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\">in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Dipper\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Big Dipper\/Bear<\/span><\/a> asterism&#8221; (Ursa Major).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Draco-Xuanyuan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"233\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Big Dipper between Draco and Xuanyuan (Lynx+Leo)<br \/>\nThe constellation Lynx is shaped like a Yellow Dragon<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Chinese word for &#8220;star, heavenly body&#8221; is \u661f x\u012bng. The term for &#8220;asterism&#8221; is \u661f\u7fa4 (x\u012bng q\u00fan, lit. &#8220;group of stars&#8221;). The modern term for &#8220;constellation&#8221;, as defined by the IAU system, is \u661f\u5ea7 (x\u012bng zu\u00f2).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/SuzhouStarChart_xuanyuan_asterism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"198\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/xuanyuan_asterism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"198\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Xuanyuan 17 star-asterism on<br \/>\ntwo different Chinese star maps,<br \/>\ncovering the<br \/>\nIAU constellation Lynx and part of Leo.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It is through Xuanyuan \u8ed2\u8f45 (dragon-shape\u00a0<a href=\"?p=1098\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">17<\/span><\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asterism_(astronomy)\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">asterism<\/span><\/a>, part of one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_(Chinese_constellation)\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">28 mansions<\/span><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_constellations\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Chinese constellations<\/span><\/a>) that Huang-Di arrived on Earth. One of these stars is <a href=\"?p=849\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Regulus<\/span><\/a> (in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IAU_designated_constellations\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">IAU<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constellation\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">constellation<\/span><\/a> Leo). A rare similarity between our Sun or Star and the double-twin <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regulus\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Regulus<\/span><\/a> Stars is that our planet Earth can receive harmonic radio signals in metric wave bands from these 2 pair of Binary Stars:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Huangdi_Temple_Xinzheng-Henan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"182\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di temple in Xinzheng, Henan,<br \/>\nplace where He became<br \/>\nleader of the Youxiong clan,<br \/>\nYouxiong means &#8220;possessor of bears&#8221;<br \/>\n(Bear\/Dipper Stars)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Said to be born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shou_Qiu\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Shou Qiu<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_Emperor\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Huang Di<\/span><\/a> is seen as the founder of the Chinese civilization. His legendary reign came at the tail end of the transition from a matriarchal (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Sovereigns_and_Five_Emperors\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">men serving women<\/span><\/a>) to a patriarchal society (women serving men).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">He is credited with the introduction of various governmental institutions, wooden houses, carts, boats, the bow &amp; arrow, characters, music and their instruments, daily utensils, and a writing system which is the script used on oracle bones. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">When men first learned to write, &#8220;all spirits cried in agony, as the innermost secrets of nature were thus revealed.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Chinese-wdwrk-lopix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The oldest books on <a href=\"?p=973\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">love<\/span><\/a> and sex, &#8220;The Su N\u00fc Ching&#8221; and &#8220;The Secrets of the Jade Chamber&#8221; were written by him and his closest advisers, such as P&#8217;eng Tzu, Ts&#8217;ai N\u00fc, and Su N\u00fc, the Immaculate, his most beloved courtesan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They explain the hidden, higher purpose of reproduction and love- &amp; joy-making, namely that sex is vital to someone\u2019s spiritual and physical health: &#8220;the Tao of Sex Wisdom&#8221;. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/Huangdi-note.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"101\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Chinese_Republic_Banknotes_1912.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/society\/202002241078395998-road-to-immortality-medicinal-nature-of-ancient-chinese-sexual-arts-explained\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">The Yellow Emperor<\/span><\/a>\u00a0taught people how to grow crops and tame wild animals. <\/span><\/span>He helped establish the Chinese calendar, early Chinese astronomy, traditional Chinese medicine, and coining money.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">His ministers, Tai-Mao and Li-Shou devised a sexigesimal (60) based number system and corresponding arithmetic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They were convinced that numbers had philosophical and metaphysical properties in order &#8220;to achieve spiritual harmony with the cosmos.&#8221; They knew that man&#8217;s &#8220;&#8230;existence depended upon numerically specified actions and obligations:&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/China-pi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/77-shot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"57\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/phi-china.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"33\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">There was no use of algebraic notation. The digits\/numerals in their base-10 system were ciphered and they were written vertically on bark, bamboo, silk, and paper. Their system was multiplicative grouping.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/pig-dragon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"156\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/pig-dragon-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di Pig-Dragon totems<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Ancient Chinese writings confirm that the Yellow Emperor invented the Art of Warfare through the 4 useful branches of military knowledge concerned with (1) mountains, (2) rivers, (3) marshes, and (4) plains. Expanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T58L_5KpPJQ\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">3 millennia later<\/span><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belisarius\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Flavius Belisarius<\/span><\/a> in the Mediterranean under the name &#8220;The Byzantine Treatise on Strategy.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Huang-Di<\/span>\u00a0had to fight 70 battles in order to pacify the Empire. He led his men out of the fog of wars by the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South-pointing_chariot\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">compass chariot<\/span><\/a>&#8221; he had invented and won complete victory: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/compass_chariot_model).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">He instituted the feudal system of vassal princes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/userfiles\/file\/Yllw-rvr-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2019%20pics\/Ancient-sites-Ylw-rvr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">click map for more details<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Emperor Yan-Di may have introduced farming techniques among the tribes along the Yellow River in Shanxi Province. His dynasty lasted for about 500 years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2020%20pics\/Yandi-Dynasty-3000-2500BC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di is credited with defeating the Yan-Di Emperor and others. That won him the leadership of the tribes throughout the Huang He (Yellow River) plain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Huangdi-settlements.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"135\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di was called the Yellow Emperor. Yellow represents <a title=\"Earth (Wu Xing)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth_%28Wu_Xing%29\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">earth<\/span><\/a>, solar plexus chakra, <a href=\"?p=1002\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">dragons<\/span><\/a>, and the center. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2020%20pics\/HDi-SonofHaven-dragon-owl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"177\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Dragon-Owl totum<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di\u2019s first wife, Lei Zu, discovered silk, invented the silk loom, and taught women how to breed <a href=\"\/userfiles\/file\/Silkworm-GM.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">silkworms<\/span><\/a> and weave fabrics of silk. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leizu\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Lei Zu<\/span><\/a> was the first female inventor, scientist and politician in Chinese history. She helped the Emperor unify central China.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">His 2nd wife was Feng Lei, 3rd wife Tong Yu, and 4th wife Mo Mu, married for her virtue, not beauty.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/pig-dragon-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"156\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/pig-dragon-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di created an ideal kingdom whose tranquil inhabitants lived in harmonious accord with the stars and natural law and possessed virtues like those espoused by early <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taoism\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Daoism<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">He said &#8220;Harmony exists between Heaven and Earth. It can be felt by anyone, at anytime. Just follow the natural flow of personal events called the Tao or the Way.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Tao could not be spoken of, for words cannot describe the infinite Universe. Huang-Di tried to inculcate its virtues in his own kingdom, to ensure order and prosperity for all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Tomb_of_Emperor_Huangdi_in_Shaanxi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"166\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"\/userfiles\/file\/YellowEmp%20%20Palace%20complex.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">HuangDi&#8217;s tomb: Mausoleum complex<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di did not enlighten people, did not demand worship. He and his helpers were amazingly rational beings, by teaching the natives all kinds of useful skills\/sciences. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Most important were their own affairs. These were dominated by the creation of complex, and incomprehensible (to us) apparatuses and contrivances.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Huangdi-temple-Jinyun,Zhejiang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"208\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di temple at Jinyun,<br \/>\nZhejiang province<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di manufactured &#8220;miraculous tripods&#8221; for very distant communications, because all were pointed at the star Regulus of the Xuanyuan asterism. These tripods were famous for their ability to receive and &#8216;store&#8217; knowledge and data. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&#8220;When the Yellow Emperor met the West Empress at the Mountains of Wangwu, 12 large sphere-shaped mirrors were wrought for tracking our Moon&#8217;s movements&#8221;, to beam back all <a href=\"?p=919\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Jupiter based<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">energy + information<\/span> coming in via our Moon:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/MPBC-Mirror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Emperor is said to have turned into the form of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_Dragon\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Yellow Dragon<\/span><\/a> at the end of his life. Since the Chinese consider him to be their ancestor, they sometimes refer to themselves as &#8220;children of the dragon&#8221;:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Dragon-on-stage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"112\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">56 meter long wingless yellow dragon<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Ylw-Dragon-on%20stage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Y-emperor-pay_respect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/huangdi%20statue%20indoors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/56m-Ylw-dragon-ascends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Since the yellow dragon is seen in China as the center of the cosmos, the Qing dynasty chose the use of the Yellow dragon as the symbol of their imperial power:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Yellow_dragon_mural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"2px;\">Mural near Yellow Emperor Mausoleum<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mausoleum_of_the_Yellow_Emperor\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Memorial mausoleum<\/span><\/a>, built next to the tomb of the legendary initiator of Chinese civilization, is the most important ancient grave site in China. The main sights include Mausoleum of Yellow Emperor and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xuanyuan_teaching\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Xuanyuan Temple<\/span><\/a>. There is also a stone tablet erected in 1776 by Qing Emperor QianLong \u4e7e\u9686, with the characters &#8220;Ancient Yellow Emperor&#8217;s Tomb on Qiaoshan&#8221;:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Yellow-Emperor-Mausoleum-Xian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xing.fmi.uni-jena.de\/mediawiki\/index.php\/Xuanyuan#Etymology_&amp;_History_of_the_term\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Xuanyuan Temple<\/span><\/a> (\u8ed2\u8f45\u5e99 Xu\u0101nyu\u00e1nmi\u00e0o), named after the Yellow Emperor&#8217;s personal name &#8220;Xuanyuan&#8221;, as recorded in the Shiji, is a temple dedicated to the religion of Huangdi in Huangling. It is the largest of such temples in China:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Laying%20wreaths%20at%20Ylw%20Emp%20temple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"146\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/wreaths%20at%20Xuanyuan-temple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"146\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Construction of the temple started in 1993. The shrine is about 8,000 sqm and is made entirely of granite. Its central building is called the Hall of Xuanyuan (\u8ed2\u8f45\u6bbf Xu\u0101nyu\u00e1ndi\u00e0n). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pX4Acq6Juls&amp;t=1071s\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Annual celebrations<\/span><\/a> are held\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">in April.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FaF5EBQkwXc\" width=\"195\" height=\"111\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Representatives from across China and overseas attend the ceremony, paying their respects to an emperor that inspires Chinese nationalism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">There are smaller Xuanyuanmiao in Henan, Hebei and Gansu provinces, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CS7IdbfoYL4&amp;ab_channel=CCTVVideoNewsAgency\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">holding annual celebrations,<\/span><\/a> called Qingming festival, and laying of wreaths as well:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OynmPCTzA9M\" width=\"195\" height=\"111\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">His tomb is surrounded by ancient cypresses; several planted by the emperor himself. Some are 19 meters high and a 10 meters girth at the base. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/YEmp-Cypresses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"268\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">His trees<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Today, Huang-Di is most known for authoring the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huangdi_Neijing\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Neijing<\/span><\/a>, of which the essence can be summed up as:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> &#8220;Health and well-being can be achieved only by remaining centered in Spirit, guarding against the squandering of energy, promoting a constant flow of <a href=\"\/userfiles\/file\/Qi_in_China.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Qi<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"?p=771\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">blood<\/span><\/a>, keeping a harmonious balance of <a href=\"?p=793\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">yin &amp; yang<\/span><\/a>, adapting to the changing seasonal and annual macrocosmic influences, and nourishing one&#8217;s self properly. This is the way to a long and happy life.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Neijing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"219\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=882\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Acupuncture points<\/span><\/a>\u00a0created in 2500 BC:<br \/>\nthe first <a href=\"?p=818\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Bio-Resonance<\/span><\/a> Technology<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> The Neijing offers a framework by which modern medicine, technology, and science can integrate with the principles of natural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PZJGmbfbLMs\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Traditional Chinese Medicine<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(TCM). This is the true Integral Way &#8230; integrating our microcosm and macrocosm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Many <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taoism\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Taoists<\/span><\/a> claim the Yellow Emperor formulated many of their precepts (commands), incl. the quest for &#8220;long life&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/YllwE-tomb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"101\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">His tomb stone<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The deliberate death by poison of his pregnant &#8220;most beloved&#8221; concubine made it impossible for him to continue offering his people a &#8220;Garden of Eden&#8221; type of social environment. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Huang-Di&#8217;s soul, &#8220;having possessed the essence of thunder&#8221; could move through space at enormous speeds. His &#8220;<a href=\"?p=1002\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">yellow dragon<\/span><\/a>, &#8221; Changhuan, helped him race back to his star.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">After Huang-Di&#8217;s soul ascended Earth, his palace+town of Huangling was destroyed by <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\" href=\"?p=1112\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">7 streaming meteors (&#8216;dragons&#8217;)<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">All sons of Huang-Di were bypassed and Zhuanxu, Lei Zu&#8217;s grandson, was selected as heir to Huang-Di.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"text-align: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FVNJFBI0b-g\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The core of his heart &amp; solar plexus went both into lockdown for \u22484500 years, until his soul descended and re-united with his &#8220;most beloved&#8221; in 2002, in order to release any <a href=\"?p=371\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">pain-catchers<\/span><\/a>, any karma-remnants, resolve any floating issues from \u22484500 years ago, and then call back his power.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huangdi_Sijing\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Huang-Di Sijing<\/span><\/a> philosophy as &#8220;a syncretism (combining different beliefs, thoughts, and faiths), to find the underlying element of unity, that is grounded in a cosmology of the Way and an ethos of self-cultivation&#8221;:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/phi-eyes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/pi-ay.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A bronze pot containing the \u201celixir of immortality\u201d was found near Luoyang. The 2,000-year-old liquid is mainly comprised of potassium nitrate (KNO<sub>3<\/sub>) and alunite, the main ingredients of an immortality mix recorded in an ancient Taoist text:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2019%20pics\/Elixir-Immortality-Bronze-pot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"144\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2020%20pics\/3-leg-vase.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2019%20pics\/Ylw-rvr-name.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>&#8220;I dreamed I was a butterfly dreaming<br \/>\nI was an emperor&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Huangdi-mausoleum-cmplx-aerial-vw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Circle in <a href=\"?p=801\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">square in square in square<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/pi-blck-bril.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=973\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUANG-DI \u9ec3\u5e1d Yellow Emperor \u9ec3\u7687\u5e1d 2700-2600 BC \u8ed2\u8f45 Xuanyuan, named after a dragon-shaped asterism: Chinese star map from 2400 BC. 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Big Dipper between Draco and Xuanyuan (Lynx+Leo) The constellation Lynx is shaped like a Yellow Dragon The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9665,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/9665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}