Third of the Wu Di (Five Emperors) per the Shiji canonical-historical framework; descended from Huangdi through Xuanxiao / Shaohao → Qiaoji → Diku per Shiji (the intermediate generations not registered in this cluster). Father of multiple sage-king-and-dynastic-progenitor sons: Yao (fourth Sage-king Five Emperor), Houji "Lord Millet" (legendary ancestor of the Zhou dynasty), Xie (legendary ancestor of the Shang dynasty), and Zhi (Diku's immediate successor before being displaced by Yao). The Diku-as-multi-dynasty-progenitor framing reflects the Han-period rationalization of the Three-Sovereigns-Five-Emperors lineage as a unified genealogical-historical chain connecting all subsequent Chinese dynasties to the Yellow Emperor through Diku's sons.