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| White Emperor | |
|---|---|
 Diagram of the Wufang Shangdi | |
| Major cult centre | Mount Hua |
| Predecessor | Huangdi (Wuxing cycle and political) |
| Successor | Heidi (Wuxing cycle, also political with Zhuanxu) |
| Planet | Venus |
| Personal information | |
| Children | Taibai Jinxing Huayue Sanniang Huashan Sanlang |
Báidì (白帝 "White Emperor" or "White Deity") or Báishén (白神 "White God"), also known as the Xīdì (西帝 "West Deity") or Xīyuèdàdì (西岳大帝 "Great Deity of the Western Peak") is one of the five manifestations of the deity Shangdi. He is associated with metal, the west, and autumn.[1] As a human he was Shǎohào (少昊), and he is the manifestation of the supreme God associated with the essence of metal and autumn. His animal form is the White Dragon (白龙 Báilóng) and his stellar animal is the tiger. His astral body is Venus.[2]
Taibai Jinxing is his son.[3]
- ^ Sun, Xiaochun; Kistemaker, Jacob (1997). The Chinese Sky During the Han: Constellating Stars and Society. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10737-3.
- ^ Sun & Kistemaker (1997), p. 121.
- ^ Walsh, Michael J. (25 March 2010). Sacred Economies: Buddhist Monasticism and Territoriality in Medieval China. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51993-9.
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