Emperor Fuxi
The earliest known Chinese Emperor was Fuxi, he came to power in 2852 BCE. He and his his enlightened Queen, Nüwa, taught their people marriage, music, writing, painting, fishing with nets, the domestication of animals, and the feeding of silkworms for the secretion of silk. He was the first of Five Rulers who, for a period of 647 years, brought prosperity, invention, science, law, and art to China. So much so that Confucius, a thousand years later, would mourn the degeneration of his "modern" China.
Source: Durant, Will, The Story of Civilization, Vol. 1: Our Oriental Heritage, A history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in India, China, and Japan from the beginning. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954.
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