佛祖歷代通載 2.27

2.27

(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.