Feb 5, 2012 © Ulrich Theobald
Shao Dian 少典 is according to ancient Chinese mythology the father of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝 and the Red Emperor 炎帝. He was later seen as the ancestral hero of the tribes settling in the region between modern Shaanxi and Henan.
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Li Jianping 李劍平, ed. (1998). Zhongguo shenhua renwu cidian 中國神話人物辭典 (Xi'an: Shaanxi renmin chubanshe), 375.
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Yuan Ke 袁珂, ed. (1985). Zhongguo shenhua chuanshuo cidian 中國神話傳說詞典 (Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe), 194, 251.
