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Di Ku, One of the Five Emperors
Legend has it that Emperor Ku had four concubines. The eldest concubine was Jiang Yuan, who was the daughter of the king of Tai Kingdom (now Wugong County, Shaanxi). Legend has it that when Jiang Yuan was in her parents’ home, she became pregnant because she was out in the footsteps of giants. Because she had no husband to give birth to a child, she abandoned the child three times in deep alleys, desolate forests and ice.
All of them were protected from death by cattle, sheep, tigers, leopards, and birds. , so it was named “Abandoned”. Later, when he grew up, he liked agriculture and taught people to grow grains. He was honored as Houji and became the ancestor of the Zhou nation. The second concubine, Jian Di, was the daughter of Lord Yousong (now Gaotai County, Gansu). According to legend, Jian Di went to Xuanchi Hot Spring to bathe at the spring equinox with his sister Jiancui at her mother’s house.
A swallow flew by and left an egg, which was swallowed by Jian Di. Later, she became pregnant and gave birth to a contract, which is the ancestor of the Shang family. The third concubine Qingdu, according to legend, was the daughter of the Great Emperor. She was born in Douweizhiye (probably in present-day Jixian County, Hebei), and was adopted by Chen Feng’s wife. After Chen Feng’s death, she was adopted by Yin Changru.
Hou Qingdu came to Puyang today with his adoptive father Yin Changru. Because Qingdu’s head is always covered with a yellow cloud, she is considered a strange girl. Emperor Ku’s mother heard about it and persuaded him to accept her as a concubine, and Yao was born later. Now there is Qingzu in Puyang, whose original name is Qingdu, and there is Qingdu Temple. Whether the name of this place is related to Qingdu coming to Puyang, there is no historical record. Four concubines, Changyi, are smart and beautiful, with long hair and feet. Both Zhi and Yao inherited the throne and became emperors.
Di Ku was very fond of music. He asked musician Xian Hei to make songs such as Jiu Zhao, Liu Lie, Liu Ying, etc. He also ordered Le Chui to make drums, bells, pans, and other instruments, and let 64 dancers, dressed in colorful clothes, sing along with the songs. Dance. After the music started, the phoenix, Da Zhai and other precious fairy birds also gathered in the hall and danced gracefully. In ancient times, it was believed that only virtuous people could attract phoenixes.
Emperor Kuhao traveled to Taishan and Donghai in the east; Liaoning in the northeast; Zhuolu, Hengshan, and Taiyuan in the north; Ningxia and Gansu in the northwest; Sichuan in the southwest; Hubei, Hunan and Changsha in the south. He traveled almost all over the Five Sacred Mountains and visited the current ruins of Nuwa, Shaohao, and Huangdi. Although these legends may not be true, they give a glimpse of the vastness of China at that time.
There were not many wars in Emperor Ku’s time, only when Emperor Ku led Chang Yi and the Emperor’s daughter on a southern tour, did they encounter the chaos of King Fang in Yunmeng Daze. At that time, the emperor’s daughter brought a dog with supernatural powers named Pan Hu, which secretly ran to the enemy’s camp, killed the Fang Wang, and quelled the chaos. As the emperor’s daughter and the palace maid, who betrothed to Panhu, each gave birth to twelve southern daughters and distributed them to Hunan and Zhejiang. That would be even more absurd.
