Shennong

legendary Chinese culture hero and god
Person mythological_king Q313336
Shennong
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Shennong

Summary

Shennong is a mythological king[1]. He worked as a traditional leader or chief[2]. He draws 376 Wikipedia views per month (mythological_king category, ranking #4 of 37).[3]

Key Facts

  • Shennong worked as a traditional leader or chief[2].
  • Shennong's image is recorded as Shennong3.jpg[4].
  • Shennong is recorded as male[5].
  • Shennong's instance of is recorded as mythological king[6].
  • Shennong's Commons category is recorded as Shennong[7].
  • Shennong's said to be the same as is recorded as Yandi[8].
  • Shennong's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02yn8c[9].
  • Shennong's worshipped by is recorded as Chinese folk religion[10].
  • Shennong's Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts person ID is recorded as A006100[11].
  • Shennong's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Shennong's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[13].
  • Shennong's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Shennong[14].
  • Shennong's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'lzh', 'text': '神農'}[15].
  • Shennong's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as shennong-chen-nong[16].
  • Shennong's Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID is recorded as shennong[17].
  • Shennong's Japan Search name ID is recorded as 神農[18].
  • Shennong's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3974550[19].
  • Shennong's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 신농[20].
  • Shennong's Google Arts & Culture entity ID is recorded as m02yn8c[21].
  • Shennong's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 555178[22].
  • Shennong's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 557276[23].
  • Shennong's museum-digital ID is recorded as 64567[24].

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Career and Affiliations

Shennong's professions included traditional leader or chief[2].

Works and Contributions

Things named for Shennong include Mount Byōbu[25], a mountain[26], in Japan[27].

Why It Matters

Shennong draws 376 Wikipedia views per month (mythological_king category, ranking #4 of 37).[3] He has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] He is known by 79 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Works attributed to him include Shennong Bencaojing[30], a written work[31], written by him[32]. Entities named for him include Mount Byōbu[25], a mountain[26], in Japan[27].

FAQs

What did Shennong do for work?

Shennong worked as traditional leader or chief[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [3] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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