Emperor Ku
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Kù, usually referred to as Dì Kù, also known as Gaoxin or Gāoxīn Shì or Qūn, was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. He went by the name Gaoxin until receiving imperial authority, when he took the nam
Emperor Ku as depicted in Wu Family Shrines in Jiaxiang, Shandong, from the mid 2nd century AD.
As depicted in the album Portraits of Famous Men c. 1900, housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Emperor Yao
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Emperor Yao was a legendary Chinese ruler. He is considered by some sources as one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
Emperor Ku
…consorts are four ladies: Jiang Yuan, Jiandi, Changyi (常宜), and Qingdu (庆都). Once each of these ladies had given birth to a son (Houji, Xie, Zhi, and Yao, respectively) Ku had a diviner foretell for him which of the sons was destined to rule the empire, and he received the answer that all four would…
Song dynasty painting of Yao by Ma Lin
Emperor Yao as depicted in Wu Family Shrines in Jiaxiang, Shandong, from the mid 2nd century AD.
Painting of Yao by Kanō Sansetsu. Japan, Edo period, 1632.
A depiction of the system of the zhou, or "islands" (now reinterpreted as "provinces"), a system which Shun is credited with developing as a tool to allow political administration of a territory with ongoing flooding making normal communications impossible, although the number and locations of zhou have varied over time