POLITICIAN

Fuxi

2900 BC - Today

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Fuxi or Fu Hsi (Chinese: 伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, hunting, fishing, domestication, and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC or 2000 BC. He is also said to be the originator of bagua (the eight trigrams) after observing that there were eight fundamental building blocks in nature: heaven, earth, water, fire, thunder, wind, mountain, and lake. These eight are all made of different combinations of yin and yang, which are what came to be called bagua. Fuxi was counted as the first mythical emperor of China, "a divine being with a serpent's body" who was miraculously born, a Taoist deity, and/or a member of the Three Sovereigns at the beginning of the Chinese dynastic period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fuxi is the 1,429th most popular politician (down from 1,179th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from China (down from 77th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Chinese Politician.

Fuxi is most famous for being the first human in Chinese mythology. He is credited with teaching the Chinese people how to fish, how to cook, and how to build houses.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fuxi ranks 1,429 out of 19,576. Before him are Soong Ching-ling, Lazare Carnot, Ahmed Ben Bella, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, and Albert Lebrun. After him are Leo IV the Khazar, David Lloyd George, Julius Streicher, Valdemar IV of Denmark, Trygve Lie, and Aurangzeb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 2900 BC, Fuxi ranks 2. Before him is Nebra. After him are Hotepsekhemwy, and Alalngar.

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    Nebra

    POLITICIAN

    2900 BC - 2890 BC

    HPI: 75.14

    Rank: 1

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    Fuxi

    POLITICIAN

    2900 BC - Present

    HPI: 74.10

    Rank: 2

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    Hotepsekhemwy

    PHYSICIAN

    2900 BC - 2900 BC

    HPI: 70.52

    Rank: 3

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    Alalngar

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    2900 BC - 2859 BC

    HPI: 55.28

    Rank: 4

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In China

Among people born in China, Fuxi ranks 81 out of 1,610. Before him are Qin Er Shi (-229), Jianwen Emperor (1377), Jiaqing Emperor (1760), 2nd Dalai Lama (1476), Wanli Emperor (1563), and Soong Ching-ling (1893). After him are Jiang Qing (1914), Shang Yang (-390), Xuande Emperor (1399), Wu Cheng'en (1500), Walter Houser Brattain (1902), and Emperor Yao (-2324).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Fuxi ranks 50. Before him are Qin Er Shi (-229), Jianwen Emperor (1377), Jiaqing Emperor (1760), 2nd Dalai Lama (1476), Wanli Emperor (1563), and Soong Ching-ling (1893). After him are Jiang Qing (1914), Shang Yang (-390), Xuande Emperor (1399), Emperor Yao (-2324), Hu Yaobang (1915), and Daoguang Emperor (1782).

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