Yan Emperor

Some modern Chinese scholars have identified the Sheep's Head Mountains (Yángtóu Shān) Weibin District, Baoji as his homeland and territory.

An academic conference held in China in 2004 achieved general consensus that the Yan Emperor and Shennong were the same person.

At this time it appears that there were only the bare beginnings of written language, and that for record keeping a system of knotting strings (perhaps similar to quipu) was in use.

Under the Yellow Emperor's leadership, the newly combined tribes then went to war and defeated Chiyou in the Battle of Zhuolu, and established their cultural and political dominance in Central Plains China.

Since the Battle of Banquan is treated as a historical fact by Sima Qian in his Records of the Grand Historian, it would appear that this is a pivotal transition point between mythology and history.

[8] According to the records of ancient history books by the Vietnamese such as Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, the earliest monarch of Vietnam, Hồng Bàng, was allegedly a descendant of Emperor Yan.