본문 바로가기
  • Home

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Research of Chinese Five Emperors Era from the Perspective of Its Systematic Historical Literature

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2015, (38), pp.105-135
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2015..38.005
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2015

付希亮 1 Changwon Choi 2

1中国 内蒙古师范大学
2청운대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The Five Emperors Era mentioned here refers to the Yellow Emperor, Zhuan Xu, Di Ku, Yao and Shun’s times recorded in Sima Qian’s Historical RecordsㆍBiographic Sketches of Five Emperors. This period of history is the source of Chinese history, which has been valued from Han Dynasty to present days. Sima qian’s Biographic Sketches of the Five Emperors(wudibenji 五帝本纪) in the Western Han Dynasty, Huangfu Mi’s Imperial Century(diwangshiji 帝王世纪) in the Western Jin Dynasty and Luo Bi’s The History of Road (lushi 路史) in the Southern Song dynasty are the important research results of Five Emperors Era in China’s feudal era. In the early 20th century, Chinese historiography embarked on the way to modernization. School of Discrimination of Ancient History, represented by Gu Jiegang, had reflection on the study of Five Emperors Era in China’s feudal era and put forward “layered view of ancient history”. They thought that this history recorded by Sima Qian has a strong mythological element, which was built bit by bit by scholars from Shang and Zhou Dynasty to Qin and Han Dynasty and turned out to be fake and unreliable. School of Discrimination of Ancient History broke the traditional understanding of Five Emperors Era. On the basis of ruins, Chinese scholars have started the difficult reconstruction of five emperors’ history for one hundred years. During the one hundred years, the study of five emperors’ history has made a lot of achievements in history, archaeology, mythology, environmental science and creates the conditions for the establishment of a scientific history of the five emperors system.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.