Hsi Ho is said originally to have been an official astronomer in charge of observing the skies and regulating the calendar during the Hsia dynasty of the early 2nd millennium B.C. He was later mythologized into the wife, half-human and half-dragon, of the Emperor Chun of Yin.
似人非人的義和，據說本是夏朝的天文官，負責觀測天象，測定曆法，後來才被神化為殷族的天帝﹘﹘帝俊之妻，生下十個太陽。