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Xuan Tian Shang Di A Ming painting of Xuanwu in his position as Xuantian Shangdi (Supreme Emperor of the Dark Heaven), seated on a rock throne in the clouds surrounded by attendants and divine marshals
Xuan Wu Di (宣武帝 xuan1 wu3 di4) Yuan Ke (元恪 yuan2 ke4) 500–515 Jingming (景明 jing3 ming2) 500–503 Zhengshi (正始 zheng4 shi3) 504–508 Yongping (永平 yong3 ping2) 508–512 Yanchang (延昌 yan2 chang1) 512–515 Xiao Ming Di (孝明帝 xiao4 ming2 di4) Yuan Xu (元詡 yuan2 xu3) 516–528 Xiping (熙平 xi1 ping2) 516–518
Illustrations of the appointment of the gods and immortals. The classic Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods (also commonly known as Fengshen Yanyi) contains a register of deities (Chinese: 封神榜).
Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei (May or June 483 [1] – February 12, 515 [2]) was an emperor of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty (499-515). [3] He was born Tuoba Ke, but later changed his surname so that he became Yuan Ke.
Xuanwu or Xuan Wu may refer to: Mythology. Black Tortoise or Turtle, one of the Four Symbols of Chinese astronomy; Xuanwu (god) ("Dark Warrior"), a god in Chinese ...
Emperor Xuan honored his father Emperor Wu's wife Empress Ashina as empress dowager and created his wife Crown Princess Yang empress. Other than those proper acts, however, he began to carry out a number of inappropriate ones—including immediately promoting of Zheng Yi and having sexual relations with the ladies in waiting in his father's palace.
Emperor Wu died in summer 578, and Yuwen Yun took the throne as Emperor Xuan. On 22 February 579, Emperor Xuan created Yuwen Chan, then six-years-old, as the Prince of Lu—echoing the title of Duke of Lu that both Emperors Wu and Xuan carried prior to their becoming emperor. 15 days later, on 9 March, [8] Emperor Xuan created Yuwen Chan crown ...
The Three Great Emperor-Officials (Chinese: 三官大帝; pinyin: sānguān dàdì), Sanguan, [1] or the Three Officials [1] are three of the highest shen in some branches of religious Taoism, and subordinate only to the Jade Emperor (玉帝 yùdì).