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What is the history of China before the Xia Dynasty? What are the legends before the Xia Dynasty?

Before the Xia Dynasty, there were three emperors and five emperors. Generally speaking, the people referred to by san huang were the symbols of China's ancestors in different prehistoric cultural stages. Youchao (the emperor of the nest), Suiren (the emperor of the emperor) and Fuxi (the emperor of the emperor) represent the three stages of ignorance respectively. Shennong represents the lower stage of barbarism; Nu Wa, on the other hand, was an earlier creational deity, and in mythology, she combined with Fuxi to create human beings. The people referred to in the Five Emperors Theory are mainly some tribal chiefs or military leaders in the heyday of patriarchal tribal alliances and their disintegration or in the period of military democracy at the end of primitive society.