佛祖歷代通載 2.27

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（十三　甲子　三）　顓頊高陽氏（姓姬。名顓頊。黃帝孫。昌意子。有星如虹。女嫗感而生。壽九十八崩。葬于頓丘書疏載）辛卯立。在位七十八年。王水德。都帝丘（今濮陽縣）作曆以孟春為元。造平冠冕（廣八寸。長一尺六寸。至周始制旒。前後各十二用藻玉）制三公九。儀二十四司。養材任地。戴時象天。神人不雜。萬物有序。生八才子謂之八凱。平九黎之亂。制氣以教化。潔誠以祭祀。辨君臣之道。作五莖之樂（合為五行之根基也）凡八代五百二十年。

(13. Sexagenary Cycle 3) Zhuanxu, the Gaoyang clan (surname: Ji; personal name: Zhuanxu; grandson of the Yellow Emperor; son of Changyi. A star was like a rainbow; a woman conceived by it and gave birth [to him]. He passed away at the age of ninety-eight and was buried at Dunqiu, as recorded in the commentaries on the documents). He came to the throne in the xinmao year. He reigned for seventy-eight years. He ruled by the virtue of Water. His capital was at Diqiu (present-day Puyang County). He created a calendar taking the first month of spring as its inception. He made the flat ceremonial cap and crown (eight inches wide and one foot six inches long; not until the Zhou were pendants instituted, with twelve strings each in front and back using multicolored cords and jade). He established the Three Excellencies and Nine Ceremonies, and twenty-four administrators. He cultivated materials according to the land, conformed to the seasons mirroring heaven, kept gods and men from intermixing, and brought order to myriad things. He fathered eight talented sons, known as the Eight Harmonious Ones. He quelled the rebellion of the Jiuli. He regulated the ether to instruct and transform, purified his sincerity to perform sacrifices, distinguished the proper roles of ruler and minister, and composed the music of the Wuxing (uniting them as the foundation of the Five Elements). In all there were eight generations, lasting five hundred and twenty years.