Who are the three "Huang San" in China?

Huang San among the Three Emperors and Five Emperors refers to the royal family, the secular monarch and the people's royal family, namely Fuxi (fú, xī), Shennong (shén, nóng) and Huangdi (huáng, di). The Five Emperors refer to Tai Hao, Yan Di, Huangdi, Shao Hao and Zhuan Xu.

Who are the three emperors and five emperors?

There are different views on the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in history, as follows:

Huang San:

Sui people, Fuxi, Shennong, from the biography of Shangshu;

Fuxi, Nuwa and Shennong came from the Spring and Autumn Period;

Fuxi, Zhu Rong and Shennong, from Custom Yi Tong;

Fuxi, Shennong and Huangdi are from Saint Amethyst;

You Chaojia, Sui Renjia and Zhisheng Jia are from Zhuangzi and Zhi Yi Lu.

Huang San, the names of the emperor, the Yellow Emperor and Tai Huang, were first recorded in Records of the First Qin Shihuang. Terrain Surrounded by River Map: "When heaven and earth came into being, there was an emperor's family, who lived in seclusion with nature and shared the same path with the north". At the beginning of heaven and earth, there was an emperor, who was the same as the North Pole and had a very lofty position.

Five emperors:

Tai Hao, Yan Di, Huangdi, Shao Hao and Zhuan Xu, from Lv Chunqiu;

Huangdi, Zhuan Xu, Yao and Shun, from Da Dai;

Huangdi, Zhuan Xu, Yao, from the Collection of Capital Tongzhi Jianwai.