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Gaoyang is also a city located in the Chinese province of
Hebei''.
'Zhuanxu' (), also known as 'Gaoyang' (高陽) is a
legendary monarch of ancient
China.
A grandson of the
Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu led the Shi clan in an eastward migration to present-day
Shandong, where intermarriages with the
Dongyi clan enlarged and augmented their tribal influences. At age twenty, he became their sovereign, going on to rule for seventy-eight years until his death.
He made contributions to a unified
calendar,
astrology,
religion reforms to oppose
shamanism, upheld the
patriarchal (as opposed to the previous matriarchal) system, and forbade close-kin marriage. Zhuanxu is held by many to be one of the
Five Emperors.