13 Facts About Shaohao

Shaohao or Shao Hao, known Jin Tian, was a legendary Chinese sovereign who reigned c 2600 BC.

Shaohao is usually identified as a son of the Yellow Emperor.

The Doubting Antiquity School of historians represented by Gu Jiegang posit that Shaohao was added to the orthodox legendary succession by Liu Xin as part of a political campaign of revisions to ancient texts around the 1st century AD.

Usually accepted version of his life, the provenance of which can only be reliably traced to the Han Dynasty from the 1st century AD onwards, posits that Shaohao is a son of the Yellow Emperor.

Shaohao was the leader of the Dongyi, whose capital he shifted to Qufu, Shandong.

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Shaohao is mentioned as a person living between the two who was fretting over an incompetent son, who was derided as Qiongji .

Different legend, in the Bamboo Annals, posits that Shaohao was not the Yellow Emperor's son but the son of a certain Lady Jie, who miraculously conceived him after seeing a rainbow-like star flowing downwards onto the Hua islet .

Shaohao's soon gave birth to Shaohao, who grew up to be a handsome young man with a lot of potential.

Myth says that Shaohao created a kingdom in the five mountains of the Eastern Paradise that was inhabited by different types of birds.

Shaohao chose the four seasons of the year to watch over the remaining birds.

Whether Shaohao actually existed, or was a sovereign, is controversial.

The Doubting Antiquity School of historians, represented by Gu Jiegang, posited that Shaohao was inserted into the orthodox legendary lineage of ancient rulers by Han Dynasty imperial librarian Liu Xin, as part of a wide-ranging campaign of editing ancient texts, in order to either justify the rule of the Han imperial house, or the brief Xin Dynasty that overthrew it.

Whether, and at what point, Shaohao was inserted into the narrative of ancient Chinese rulers remains controversial amongst historians.