What was before Emperor Yanhuang?

That period is called prehistoric period or primitive social period.

Yandi and Huangdi: refer to the two tribal leaders of Yandi and Huangdi in Han mythology. In many historical records of Han nationality or China, it is a myth that these two tribal leaders formed the origin of Han civilization (or China culture) or China dynasty in the Yellow River valley of ancient Central Plains. There are reliable inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells in Shang Dynasty in China. Before that, there were some myths and legends or archaeological sites. The history of China before the Yellow Emperor is called prehistoric period or primitive social period.

Ancient history, also known as prehistory. Belongs to tribal society. Because this part of history is not recorded in writing and there are not many historical materials, the research in this period mainly relies on myths and legends. Various cultures in prehistoric times in China experienced the following stages:

The early and middle Paleolithic period, dominated by Homo erectus, is about 500,000-400,000 years ago.

Hetao period-Middle Paleolithic period, about 200 ~ 65438+ 10,000 years ago.

Neanderthal period-Late Paleolithic period, about 10 to 15 thousand years ago.

Early Neolithic period represented by Peiligang culture.

The middle Neolithic period represented by Yangshao culture.

The late Neolithic period, represented by Longshan culture, was about 2500 BC to 1300 BC.