Fuxi

Fuxi
Fuxi
	Fuxi and Nüwa. Hanging scroll. Color on silk. Located at the Chinese History Museum.
Chinese	伏羲
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Fúxī
Wade–Giles	Fu2-hsi1
IPA	[fǔ.ɕí]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Fuhk-hēi
Jyutping	Fuk6-hei1
IPA	[fok̚˨.hei˥]

Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲)^[a]^[1] is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music,^[2] hunting, fishing, domestication,^[3] and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC^[4] or 2000 BC. Fuxi was counted as the first mythical emperor of China, "a divine being with a serpent's body" who was miraculously born,^[5] a Taoist deity, and/or a member of the Three Sovereigns at the beginning of the Chinese dynastic period.

Some representations show him as a human with snake-like characteristics, "a leaf-wreathed head growing out of a mountain", "or as a man clothed with animal skins."^[5]

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^ Theobald, Ulrich. Fu Xi 伏羲 ChinaKnowledge.de - An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art
^ Fernald, Helen E. (December 1926). "Ancient Chinese Musical Instruments: As Depicted on Some of the Early Monuments in the Museum". The Museum Journal. XVII (4): 325–371.
^ Ivanhoe, Philip J.; Van Norden, Bryan W. (2005). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. p. 379. ISBN 0-87220-781-1. OCLC 60826646.
^ Canton, James; Cleary, Helen; Kramer, Ann; Laxby, Robin; Loxley, Diana; Ripley, Esther; Todd, Megan; Shaghar, Hila; Valente, Alex (2016). Canton, James (ed.). The Literature Book. New York: DK. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4654-2988-9.
^ ^a ^b Pletcher, Kenneth. "Fu Xi". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2023-05-30.

[2] Theobald, Ulrich. Fu Xi 伏羲 ChinaKnowledge.de - An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art

[3] Fernald, Helen E. (December 1926). "Ancient Chinese Musical Instruments: As Depicted on Some of the Early Monuments in the Museum". The Museum Journal. XVII (4): 325–371.

[:122-4] Ivanhoe, Philip J.; Van Norden, Bryan W. (2005). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. p. 379. ISBN 0-87220-781-1. OCLC 60826646.

[:3-5] Canton, James; Cleary, Helen; Kramer, Ann; Laxby, Robin; Loxley, Diana; Ripley, Esther; Todd, Megan; Shaghar, Hila; Valente, Alex (2016). Canton, James (ed.). The Literature Book. New York: DK. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4654-2988-9.

[:0-6] Pletcher, Kenneth. "Fu Xi". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2023-05-30.

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