Written in the form of dialogues between the legendary Yellow Emperor and his ministers, it offers explanations on the relation between humans, their environment, and the cosmos, on the contents of the body, on human vitality and pathology, on the symptoms of illness, and on how to make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in light of all these factors.

Chiang Kai-shek considered both the Han Chinese and all the minority peoples of China, the Five Races Under One Union, as descendants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation, and belonging to the Chinese Nation Zhonghua Minzu and he introduced this into Kuomintang ideology, which was propagated into the educational system of the Republic of China.

According to the Han Shu 21a, 973, for the moment of unification the Middle kingdoms had 6 different calendars: those of the mythological progenitors Yellow Emperor ( 黄帝曆 ) and Zhuanxu ( 顓頊曆 ); of the dynasties Xia ( 夏曆 ), Yin ( 殷曆 ), and Zhou ( 周曆 ), and of the Zhou Dynasty state of Lu ( 鲁曆 ).

The book covers the period from the time of the Yellow Emperor until the author's own time.

It provides an overview of the history of China covering more than two thousand years from the legendary Yellow Emperor to Sima's contemporary Emperor Han Wudi ( 漢武帝 ).

Although the Neijing has long been attributed to the mythical Yellow Emperor ( twenty-7th century BC ), Chinese scholars started doubting this attribution as early as the 11th century and now usually date the Neijing to the late Warring States period ( 5th century-221 BC ).

The Jin Dynasty practitioner and advocate of acupuncture and moxibustion, Huangfu Mi ( 215-282 ), also quotes the Yellow Emperor in his Jiayi jing, c. 265.

The Kuomintang considers all minorities to be members of the Chinese Nation, Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang party leader, considered all the minority peoples of China, including the Hui, as descedants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation.

Similar ideas can be found in other cultures, for example in China, where a concept often translated as " race " was associated with supposed common descent from the Yellow Emperor, and used to stress the unity of ethnic groups in China.

He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography for his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian, a " Jizhuanti "- style general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Wu of Han.

* October 22 – Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, an envoy of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh ( r. 1404 – 1447 ), to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), records his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou ( constructed earlier in 1372 ) as he crosses the Yellow River on this day.

The Wanli Emperor ( ruled in 1572 – 1620 ) made attempts to reestablish Sino-Tibetan relations in the wake of a Mongol-Tibetan alliance initiated in 1578, the latter of which affected the foreign policy of the subsequent Manchu Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ) of China in their support for the Dalai Lama of the Yellow Hat sect.

However, many Chinese historians extend the starting point of this period back to various years during the collapse of the Han dynasty, such as to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 ; the year after the beginning of the rebellion, 185 ; Dong Zhuo deposing and murdering Emperor Shao of Han and establishing Emperor Xian of Han in 189 ; Dong Zhuo sacking Luoyang and moving the capital to Chang ' an in 190 ; or Cao Cao placing the emperor under his control in Xuchang in 196.

Between 604 to 609, Emperor Yang Guang ( or Sui Yangdi ) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ‘ Y ’ shape, from Hangzhou in the south to termini in ( modern ) Beijing and in the capital region along the Yellow River valley.

A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of the Yongle Emperor protesting the current inefficient means of transporting 4, 000, 000 dan ( 428, 000, 000 liters ) of grain a year by means of transferring it along several different rivers and canals in barge types that went from deep to shallow after the Huai River, and then transferred back onto deep barges once the shipment of grain reached the Yellow River.

A surname in Han society was viewed as the most prominent legitimizing marker of a patrilineal ancestral link to the Yellow Emperor ( Huang Di ) and the Five Emperors of Han mythology.

:" Emperor " is the normal translation of 皇帝 ( huangdi ), a Chinese term that is not to be confused with the homophonic 黄帝, which refers to the Yellow Emperor.

Furthermore, it is generally agreed upon that the founding of the dominant Chinese race, the Han 漢 race, was the result of the " Yellow Emperor " Huangdi 黃帝, who unified a federation of tribes to drive the other tribes out of central China as it was known then ( today's northwestern China ), and several imperial dynasties existed since the time of Huang Di and before the time of Ying Zheng, the last of which integral dynasties, the Zhou 周 dynasty, disintegrated and formed the " Warring Nations " which were principalities of various sizes roughly based on the feudal kingdoms and duchies as ascribed under the Zhou dynasty political system.

Some scholars have noted that a myth arose that the first legendary Emperor of China, Huangdi ( 黃帝, Yellow Emperor ) used a snake for his coat of arms.

In China, there is a legend that the discovery of the silkworm's silk was by an ancient empress Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor and the daughter of XiLing-Shi.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

Since then it has been eroding, creating dramatic incised valleys, and providing the sediment that gives the Yellow River its yellow color and that causes the flooding of the river in the lower reaches ( hence the river's nickname ' China's sorrow ').

Yellow, then, may be understood as a quale ; it will do no good to read the dictionary and learn that " yellow " names the colour of egg yolks and ripe lemons, or that " yellow " names the primary colour between green and orange on the spectrum, or that the perception of yellow is stimulated by electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of between 570 and 590 nanometers.

File: Gul tre skilling banco. jpg | The Three-Skilling Yellow of Sweden was sold for 2. 88 million Swiss Francs ( then about $ 2, 300, 000 ) in 1996 and again for an undisclosed amount in 2010.

The Yellow Kid appeared now and then in Outcault's later cartoon strips, most notably Buster Brown.

Additional amounts of water from the Yangtze will be drawn into the canal in Jiangdu City, where a giant pumping station was already built in the 1980s, and is then fed uphill by pumping stations along the route and through a tunnel under the Yellow River, from where it can flow downhill to reservoirs near Tianjin.

In the Zoige Basin along the boundary with Gansu Province, the Yellow River loops northwest and then northeast before turning south, creating the " Ordos Loop ", and then flows generally eastward across northern China to the Gulf of Bohai, draining a basin of which nourishes 140 million people with drinking water and irrigation.

The Wei lured the Liu Song to cross the Yellow River, and then flanked them, destroying the Eastern army.

The Sixers drafted Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets SF Thaddeus Young with the 12th pick, traded with the Miami Heat for 21st pick Colorado State PF Jason Smith, traded with the Portland Trail Blazers for 42nd pick Vanderbilt SG / SF Derrick Byars, and then finally traded with the Utah Jazz for Providence PF Herbert Hill.

On 14 May, German Army Group A burst through the Ardennes and advanced rapidly to the west toward Sedan, then turned northward to the English Channel, in what Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein called the " Sickle Cut " ( known as " Plan Yellow " or the Manstein Plan ), effectively flanking the Allied forces.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

The group released the albums Dead Air ( 1993 ) and Cop and Speeder ( 1994 ) as well as the Yellow No. 5 EP ( 1994 ) on Frontier Records, and were then signed to Virgin Records to release what became their final album, Mic City Sons ( 1996 ).

(" Area B " — known as " The Farm " and consisting of nearly — was purchased in 1946 to provide a test area west of Rosemont Avenue, then called Yellow Springs Pike.

Numbering about 500 warriors and 600 non-combatants, they crossed near the mouth of the Iowa River over to Yellow Banks ( present-day Oquawka, Illinois ), and then headed north.

Like The King in Yellow, Salomé was originally written in French before being translated ; it was then banned in Britain because of its scandalous reputation.

The company was sold to Buckingham Transportation in the mid 1960's, which then became part of Yellow Freight.

Examples of the lyrics from " Yellow Fever " include " like an oriental rug ' cause I lay her where I please, then I blindfold her with dental floss and get on my knees " and " Oh me Chinky, she's so kinky, got me hot like Nagasaki, burnin ' up like napalm burstin ' like an a-bomb.

Richardson made his London début in July 1926 as the stranger in Oedipus at Colonus at a small theatre, followed by his West End début as Arthur Varwell in Yellow Sands which ran for 610 performances and from then to 1929 played in supporting roles in London productions.

Zordon then chooses Rocky, Adam, and Aisha to replace Jason, Zack, and Trini as the Red, Black, and Yellow Rangers, respectively.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a network of Chinese and Japanese prostitutes being trafficked across Asia, in countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and British India, in what was then known as the ’ Yellow Slave Traffic ’.

But you killed my kin again on Yellow Creek, and took my cousin prisoner then I thought I must kill too ; and I have been three timeto war since but the Indians is not Angry only myself.

The Yellow Tape is the Barenaked Ladies ' third indie tape release, after Buck Naked in 1989 with just Ed Robertson and Steven Page, then Barenaked Lunch ( also known as the Pink Tape ) in 1990, with bassist Jim Creeggan and percussionist Andy Creeggan.