本书利用知识考古和"多重证据法"，对黄帝史实与崇拜观念进行了系统研究。以后世奉为"人文始祖"的黄帝为对象，通过对黄帝、炎帝、蚩尤、颛顼、帝喾、尧、舜等上古族邦的全面分析，廓清黄帝传说中的真实与虚妄，尝试重新勾勒中国上古族邦的亲缘和地缘图谱。作者提出古史传说在历史上经历了三期发展，进一步发展了族邦理论，客观评价20世纪古史研究思潮，并第一次对先秦到当代不同时期的黄帝崇拜观念进行了全景论述。 (Using archaeology of knowledge and "method of multiple evidences", this book conducts a systemic research on the concept of Yellow Emperor's historical facts and worship. With Yellow Emperor called "humanistic primogenitor" by later generations as the object, the book made a comprehensive analysis on Yellow Emperor, Yan Emperor, Chi You, ZhuanXu, Emperor Ku, Yao, Shun and other ancient nations to clarify truth and false in the legend of the Yellow Emperor and try to draw the outline of kinship and geographical map of ancient Chinese nations. The author puts forward that ancient legends in history has experienced three periods of development, further develops the theory of nations, and objectively evaluates thoughts of ancient Chinese history in the 20th century, and for the first time, describes a panoramic view to the worship ideas of Yellow Emperor from pre-Qin Dynasty period to the contemporary times in different periods.)