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Who's Bai Di?

Bai Di's "One of the Five Gods"

Shao Hao Bai Di, also known as Xiao Xuan, is one of the five gods in China mythology. His native place is from Rizhao, the coast of the East China Sea in Shandong Province, to most parts of Lianyungang City in Jiangsu Province.

As early as the Zhou Dynasty, according to Zhou Li, people used six figures to offer sacrifices to the gods and five gods (five gods in the sky).

Jin surname, whose ancestors are Jin people. See the overview diagram.

Wang Mang usurped the throne, and Gongsun Shu divided Shu. In 25 AD, Gongsun Shu claimed to be "Bai Di", and the city was named "Bai Di City", and the mountain was renamed "Baidishan".

1. One of the five emperors in ancient China mythology, the God of the West.

"Zhou Li Heavenly Officials are Great" and "Sacrificing Five Emperors" Tang Gong Yanshu: "Five Emperors, Di Qing in the east, Huangdi in the south, Huangdi in the middle, Baidi in the west and Hei Di in the north." Historical Records of Zen: "Wen Gong dreamed that the yellow snake came from the world and stopped at Yan Yan ... so it was made into a temple and sacrificed to Bai Di with three animals." "Jin Shu Tian Wen Shang Zhi": "Xibaidi is also a god of description." Chapter 4 of the History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "Wen Gong said:' I am a son of God, and the emperor ordered you to be a white emperor to worship the Western Heaven.' I can't see Cao Yin's "Martial Arts Stone Song" in the Qing Dynasty: "Before the suspected White Emperor, after the Yellow Emperor, the jade base was overturned; The wind rises in a thousand years, and the whirlpool gathers foam. "

2. The abbreviation of "white".

Tang Li Bai's poem "Looking Back on the Ancient Battlefield of Guangwu" said: "Red essence cuts the white emperor and sweeps into the customs." See the article "White".

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3. The name of the ancient city. So the address is at the mouth of Dongqutang Gorge in fengjie county, Chongqing.

Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote in "Notes on Water Mirror Jiangshui No.1": "The river is in the south of the city, so the fish country also ... Gongsun Shu named it Bai Di, taking its royal color." Tang Li Bai's poem "Send Bai Di City Early": "Say goodbye to Bai Di in the morning, and return to Jiangling in a day." In the Qing Dynasty, the poem "Mrs. Sun's Temple in Jiji" said: "I am sad for my life and hate for my death."

4. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Gongsun Shu changed Yufu County to Bai Di, which was later called by thought.

Gu Yanwu's Journey to the Great Man in the Qing Dynasty: "What is the harmony between the monarch and the emperor, the wind will help the horse to give birth to a true husband."

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