Overview
Shennong was a Culture Hero and Sage Ruler.
PeriodAncient China
IdentityLegendary · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
- legendary antiquityDated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 49, passage 3
- legendary antiquityDirectly stated · Book of Han 26, passages 3, 189; Book of Han 98, passage 178; Book of Han 117, passage 249; History of Jin 35, passage 62; Old Book of Tang 27, passage 69; Records of the Grand Historian 1, passages 3-4, 12; Records of the Grand Historian 26, passage 13; Book of Zhou 4, passage 178; Book of Zhou 46, passage 256
Key source chapters
- Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 1 Annals of the Five Emperors 3 passages
- Book of Han, Chapter 26 Volume 24a: Treatise on Trade 1 2 passages
- Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 49 Volume 49 Biographies 41: Arts 1 passage
- Book of Han, Chapter 98 Volume 87a: Yang Xiong 1 1 passage
- Book of Han, Chapter 117 Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 1 passage
Learning and skills
- Skill pharmacology 藥性Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 49, passage 3
Works and attributed material
- Historian appraisal · Exemplar invoked · ParaphrasedDirectly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 256
- Teaching · Author · Direct quotationDirectly stated · Book of Han 26, passage 189
Events and relationships
- Taught plow and marketsCultural · InnovatorDirectly stated · Book of Han 26, passages 3-5
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment ideal of a world like Jing Ke and Qin Zu would not be far from Fu Xi and Shen Nong · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 256
Source notes
- Historicity legendary
- Historicity legendaryStrongly inferred · Book of Han 117, passage 249
- Value legendaryDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 26, passage 13
References in the histories
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