The Beginning of Chinese History: Five Emperors | Records of the Grand Historian | Reading by Amy

To understand China, we must go back to the very beginning of Chinese history, to the foundational legends that started it all, from around 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE. Join me for a reading of my translation of the First Basic Annal from Sima Qian's monumental Records of the Grand Historian, written around 100 BCE during the Han Dynasty. In this chapter, we explore the epic lives of the legendary Five Emperors, the god-kings whose stories blend myth and reality to form the very bedrock of Chinese civilization.