↑ Allan 1984, tr. 245 ("Only after the 'First Emperor' of Qin styled himself Shi Huangdi, did huangdi come to refer to an earthly ruler rather than the August Lord").
↑ LeBlanc 1985–1986, tr. 53 (quotation); Seidel 1969, tr. 21 (who calls it "the most ancient document on Huangdi" ["le plus ancient document sur Houang Ti"]); Jan 1981, tr. 118 (who calls the inscription "the earliest existing and datable source of the Yellow Emperor cult" and claims that the vessel dates either from 375 or 356 BC; Chang 2007, tr. 122 (who gives the date as 356 BC); Puett 2001, tr. 112 (Huangdi's "first appearance in early Chinese literature is a passing reference in a bronze inscription, where he is mentioned as an ancestor of the patron of the vessel"); Yates 1997, tr. 18 ("earliest extant reference" to Huangdi is "in a bronze inscription dedicated by King Wei" (r. 357–320); von Glahn 2004, tr. 38 (which calls Qi "the dominant state in eastern China" at the time).
↑ Yi 2010, in section titled "Yan–Huang chuanshuo 炎黄传说" ("The legends of Yandi and Huangdi") (original: "到了司马迁《史记》才有较系统记述.... 《史记·五帝本纪》整合成了一个相对完整的故事"); Lewis 1990, tr. 174 ("the earliest surviving sequential narrative of the career of the Yellow Emperor"); Birrell 1994, tr. 86 ("[Sima Qian] composed a seamless biographical account of the deity that had no basis in the earlier classical texts that recorded myth narratives.").
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