Xu Zheng
Chinese

Xu Zheng (fl. 200s) was an Eastern Wu official who served as the "Taichang(太常)" and a Daoist author of the "Three Five Historic Records" (Chinese: 三五歷紀; pinyin: Sānwǔ Lìjì, literally: "Three Five Calendar"). The "3-5" refers to the "Three August Ones and Five Emperors" (三皇五帝).

Xu Zheng relates two different variants of the creation myth of Pangu.

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