Tag: Diku

Emperor Di Ku, the great-grandson of the Huang Di (the Yellow Emperor), whose grandfather was Shao Hao, assisted his uncle Zhuan Xu at the age of 15, succeeded to the throne at the age of 30, and became the common lord of the world. He set up the twenty-four solar terms, which greatly contributed to the development of social productive forces and the improvement of the people’s quality of life, and he was also highly accomplished in music. Emperor Çiçu was honored as one of the five emperors in later times, and was one of the humanistic patriarchs of the Chinese nation, and the ancestor of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In myths and legends, he was the husband of the goddess of the sun and the goddess of the moon.