hwang-ti

Updated: May 6, 2025

So, for instance, the emperor is "Hwang-ti" the "Lord of the Yellow Land"; the imperial throne is the "Hwang-wei" or "yellow throne" of China; the great river, formerly spelled in your school geographies Hoang-ho, is "Hwang-ho," the "yellow river," etc.

Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Historic Girls

I explained the loss of many rare Chinese books by the piratical order of destruction by Emperor Che Hwang-ti, calling attention to the fact that the burning of the famous library of Alexandria was a parallel. Finally she said, "I have studied literature, but that of China was not included."

- As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home