《史记·五帝本纪》写了五位古帝:黄帝、颛顼、帝喾、唐尧、虞舜,所用笔墨却并未平分秋色,而是有轻有重,且轻重十分悬殊。写舜的篇幅,为写黄帝等四帝篇幅的近两倍,占整个《五帝本纪》的近三分之二。而且,于黄帝等古帝,行文多用概叙,于舜则详叙并特别点明:“天下明德皆自虞帝始。”显然,在司马迁眼里,华夏文明虽开端于黄帝,规模备具,实自舜的“明德”始。而此前的《列子·杨朱篇》代表先秦晚期比较普遍的一种时代 “Historical Records Five Emperors Benji” wrote five ancient emperor: Huang Di, Zhuan Xu, emperor emperor, Tang Yao, Yu Shun, the pen and ink are not evenly divided, but light and heavy, and severity is very poor. Written Shun’s length, to write the Yellow Emperor and other four times the length of space nearly twice, accounting for the entire “Five Emperors this century,” nearly two-thirds. Moreover, in the Yellow Emperor and other ancient emperors, the text is more or less generalized, and Yu Shun is described in detail and specifically pointed out: “Obviously, in Sima Qian’s eyes, the Huaxia civilization started in the Yellow Emperor, Scale of equipment, since the Shun’s ”Ming Tak“ began. The previous ”Liezi Yang Zhu articles" on behalf of the pre-Qin period is more common in an era