[5] Within China, the Xia are now generally associated with the historical Erlitou culture along the Wei and middle Yellow Rivers, while foreign scholarship often continues to dismiss it as legendary.

As Chinese generally fails to distinguish between singular and plural nouns, zūnwáng is sometimes considered to refer to a single Illustrious King.

[9] Wu Zixu had also been involved with the urban planning of King Helü's capital at Suzhou[10] and is sometimes considered a culture hero credited with inventing the waterwheel.

[12] His memory is honored at Duanwu by various the traditions of the Dragon Boat Festival, although some believe this to have been a misplaced bit of Wu Zixu's legacy.

[5] Lu Ban,[1] also known by his Cantonese name Lo Pan, was a woodworker at the end of the Spring and Autumn period who became revered as the Chinese god of carpentry and masonry.

The great demand for his work during his life supposedly compelled him to invent or improve a number of carpenter's tools—the saw, the square, the planer, the drill, the shovel, and an ink marking tool—to complete his many projects more quickly.

Under Koxinga, the Zheng dynasty defeated the Dutch on Taiwan and moved from a base at Xiamen to the area around Tainan, which they ruled as the Kingdom of Tungning.