Fuxi (伏羲) is a deity / immortal in Chinese mythology.
Fuxi is celebrated as the foremost of the Three Sovereigns and the father of Chinese civilization, revered for inventing the Eight Trigrams, weaving fishing nets, and crafting musical instruments.
Also known as · 别名 包牺氏 · Baoxi · 太昊 · Taihao · 庖牺氏 · Bao Xi · 春皇 · Emperor of Spring
Classical sources · 典籍出处 I Ching (《周易》) · Zhuangzi (《庄子》)
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一、出身与神话来历
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The legends of Fuxi's conception and birth are suffused with romantic primordial wonder.
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二、仰观俯察与始创八卦
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Fuxi's most enduring and monumental legacy is the creation of the primordial Eight Trigrams (Bagua), which laid the bedrock for Chinese cosmological philosophy.
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三、教化万民与文明创造
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Far beyond abstract metaphysics, Fuxi was an ingenious practical reformer who liberated early humans from the brutal struggle for survival.
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Furthermore, Fuxi penned and domesticated captured wild animals, inaugurating the pastoral husbandry of the Six Domestic Beasts; he taught the culinary use of fire to roast meat, sparing humanity the disease of raw consumption; he carved the sacred twenty-five-string zither (*se* and *qin*), composing the serene melody *Jiabian* to harmonize social tempers and commune with divine spirits; and he abolished chaotic endogamy by instituting formal marriage customs, requiring a pair of clean deer pelts as an honorable betrothal gift to foster stable family lineages.
四、标志法宝与造化意象
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In Chinese art, literature, and religious traditions, Fuxi is instantly recognized by several iconic sacred emblems:
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五、历史演化与文献考据
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Across three millennia of Chinese literature, the mythological persona of Fuxi evolved through three distinct cultural phases:
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六、文化象征与深远影响
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Fuxi stands as an everlasting beacon in the Chinese quest for cultural and intellectual origins.
After the great deluge recedes, Fuxi and Nuwa are the sole survivors on earth. Facing the extinction of humanity, they light twin fires on Mount Kunlun to divine Heaven's will, uniting in marriage when the smoke merges to revive the human race.
In ancient times when heaven and earth were close, the divine tree Jianmu stood at the center of the world. To unravel the mysteries of celestial bodies and seasons, Fuxi climbed the cosmic tree to the heavens, bringing humanity the wisdom of time and calendar.
Facing his people's starvation, Fuxi is inspired by spiderwebs to invent fishing nets, and later carves wood and twists silk to craft the zither, bringing humanity both sustenance and music.
Exiled in the mortal world, the hero Yi wanders to the Luo River and encounters the goddess Mifei, trapped by the tyrannical River God. Striking the marauding white dragon blind with a single arrow, Yi crafts an epic legend of mutual compassion and inevitable departure.