Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Battle of Banquan" in English language version.
蚩尤泉即阪泉的支津,阪泉即涿水的支津,當然(黃帝)與炎帝的阪泉之戰,可以說即與蚩尤戰於涿鹿。由是言之,所謂赤帝(或炎帝),確即蚩尤了。
In synthesizing all the information, some scholars conclude that Banquan is located in the same area as Zhuolu and that the Battle of Banquan was none other than the Battle of Zhuolu.
In short, what all these sources preserve is nothing but a narrative framework about emperors and battles in which the line between the memory of real events, if they were real, and an imagined past is almost impossible to draw.
按:蚩尤為九黎之君 ( 一 ),…… 蚩尤既久游外國,稔知諸夏、九黎,終不能並存於世。又默觀神農世衰 ( 六 ),知事機不可失,乃潛鑄金類,以為利器 ( 七 ),遂即率眾北向,以反抗中國。未幾,逐帝榆罔而自立,號炎帝,亦曰阪泉氏 ( 八 ),……。
In synthesizing all the information, some scholars conclude that Banquan is located in the same area as Zhuolu and that the Battle of Banquan was none other than the Battle of Zhuolu.
In short, what all these sources preserve is nothing but a narrative framework about emperors and battles in which the line between the memory of real events, if they were real, and an imagined past is almost impossible to draw.
然則蚩尤、炎帝,殆即一入﹔涿鹿、阪泉,亦即一役。
In synthesizing all the information, some scholars conclude that Banquan is located in the same area as Zhuolu and that the Battle of Banquan was none other than the Battle of Zhuolu.
In short, what all these sources preserve is nothing but a narrative framework about emperors and battles in which the line between the memory of real events, if they were real, and an imagined past is almost impossible to draw.