page_title: Suiren
hierarchical_section_title: Suiren
caption_attribution_description: English: Suiren, the fire driller, brought fire to humankind according to Chinese mythology
context_page_description: Suiren appears in Chinese mythology and some works which draw upon it. Suiren is credited as a culture hero who introduce humans to the production of fire and its use for cooking. He was included on some ancient lists of the legendary Three August Ones, who lived long before Emperor Yao, Emperor Shun, and the emperors of the earliest historical Chinese dynasty, and even before the Yellow Emperor & Yandi. Suiren’s innovation may have been the bow drill which dates back at least to the Indus Valley Civilization.
  Tradition holds that he ruled over China for 110 years.
context_section_description: Suiren (Chinese: 燧人, pinyin: suì rén) appears in Chinese mythology and some works which draw upon it. Suiren (literally, "Fire Maker") is credited as a culture hero who introduce humans to the production of fire and its use for cooking (Wu 1982, 51, and Christie 1968, 84). He was included on some ancient lists of the legendary Three August Ones, who lived long before Emperor Yao, Emperor Shun, and the emperors of the earliest historical Chinese dynasty (Xia), and even before the Yellow Emperor & Yandi. Suiren’s innovation may have been the bow drill which dates back at least to the Indus Valley Civilization.
  Tradition holds that he ruled over China for 110 years.
caption: Suiren, from: The Dragon, Image, and Demon by Hampden C. DuBose, London 1886
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