[citation needed] The site traditionally claimed to be Shaohao's tomb is located in present-day Jiuxian village on the eastern outskirts of Qufu, most likely constructed during the Song dynasty.

[citation needed] Another legend says that his mother—the Weaver Woman, a star goddess—was a beautiful fairy named Huang'e, who fell in love with the planet Venus while drifting along the Milky Way.

[citation needed] According to this telling, Shaohao created a kingdom in the five mountains of the Eastern Paradise inhabited by different types of birds.

As ruler of this land, he captured the identity of a vulture, and other birds worked below him: a phoenix was his Lord Chancellor, a hawk delegated the law, and a pigeon was in charge of education.

[citation needed] While no modern scholarship accepts any part of the Yellow Emperor body of myth as describing historical events, traditional Chinese historiography viewed them as real.

In a theory that has since been discredited,[2] : 49  the Doubting Antiquity School, represented by Kang Youwei, Gu Jiegang, and Qian Mu, posited that Shaohao was inserted into the orthodox lineage during the Han dynasty by imperial librarian Liu Xin, as part of a wide-ranging campaign to revise ancient texts in order to justify the present monarch—either the Han imperial house, or the brief Xin dynasty that overthrew it.

[citation needed]The Doubting Antiquity School therefore theorizes that Liu Xin fabricated Shaohao from an existing but separate legendary figure, and inserted him into the early royal lineage during his edit of the Zuozhuan.