[69 Book Bar-www.] Chapter 130 restores historical facts
"The formation of our country has been recited throughout history: since Pangu created the world, there were three emperors and five emperors until now. But who of you knows, what are the three emperors? And who belongs to the five emperors? Who knows? Tell us?"
There was silence. Suddenly someone said, "I know, the three emperors refer to Yao, Shun and Yu."
"What you said is absolutely correct. This is what the public says. The true statement should be: the three emperors are Huangdi, Yandi, and Chiyou. The five emperors are Huangdi, Zhuanxu, Ku, Yao, and Shun. So the Yellow Emperor is the Five Emperors.
First. So isn’t it a contradiction that the Yellow Emperor is both an emperor and an emperor?" Shuirou took a sip of water and continued.
"Actually, it's not contradictory at all. That's because in the context of clan society, the emperor in ancient times is not the supreme ruler that everyone thinks of today, but is used to measure whether he has made outstanding inventions and creative contributions to mankind.
He is also a capable person who can lead the tribe to a prosperous life and the leader of the community.
In the following Five Emperors period, society has entered a slave society. This is the stage where the supreme ruler of the region can order all the people under his rule to do things. The reason is that society has progressed and private ownership has emerged.
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"As for the Yellow Emperor, before he unified the tribes, he was just the leader of a remote tribe. He made inventions and was quite popular. At that time, he was called the emperor, and he was as famous as "Yan" Chi You.
Later, he combined Yan Yijian's methods to defeat Chi You. He established his dominance and established a slave society. With power, he could command the tribesmen below and was called the emperor. He was also one of the Five Emperors.
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"At that time, the three emperors Huangdi, Yandi, and Chiyou each had their own merits. Let's talk about Yandi first, who led a tribe. Legend has it that he was a descendant of Shennong and was good at using fire. Everyone knows that the discovery and use of fire by humans made humans separate from each other.
The era of barbarians who drank hair and blood promoted the high development of human wisdom. This is an absolute contribution.
As for Chi You, the tribe he led was also a descendant of Shennong, and he lived in the same era as Yan. While using fire, he invented farming tools and technology, the smelting of bronze utensils and weapons, textiles, embroidery and dyeing, the use of wild herbs in medicine, and the calendar.
Algorithms, wine making, fiber paper making and other seven arts have promoted the evolution of human social civilization and laid the foundation for the development of material civilization in the Central Plains.
Due to the needs of war, Huangdi invented the compass. It is the ancestor of today's compass and one of the originators of my country's three major inventions."
"Yan and Chiyou were both in the late Shennong clan, and they were both descendants of the same clan. Therefore, there were battles between the tribes they commanded for the ownership of tribal territories. The result was a snipe and clam fight, and then Huang Di
Entered the Central Plains.
Their order is: Yan and Chi You first had a war. Yan was defeated. Then he joined forces with Huang, and was defeated in nine out of nine battles. Legend has it that after that, Huang received divine help. In fact, it was Yan and Huang who used the means of time, and finally defeated Chi You and Zhuo.
Deer finally aspired to the Central Plains. This is how the Zhuolu Central Plains came to be said.
Since all Chinese historical records are handed down as official history, there are very few unofficial histories and scattered histories. Therefore, only the achievements of the rulers can be handed down for all the causes that accompany the development and progress of society.
China's history is dominated by official history, which means it is written by the successful. There are historical narratives, praises for the rulers, and praise and criticism for the defeated.
The history of the defeated is accompanied by the official history, and is passed by in passing. Therefore, it is not exhaustive. Therefore, the defeated are classified into the category of bandits, that is, bandits.
And because Yan and Huang allied with each other to defeat Chi You and occupied part of the achievements in official history, he was called an orthodox figure. And later generations are also honored as the descendants of Yan and Huang. In fact, the current Chinese should be called the descendants of the three emperors.
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"Because the Chiyou tribe has the largest territorial control. Their territory has reached a vast area ranging from Zhuolu, Hebei in the north, Yuncheng in Taiyuan, Shanxi in the west, Dongping in Shandong in the east, and Pei County in Jiangsu in the south. The custom of Chiyou's ritual temple has endured for a long time.
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According to the ancient custom of "people do not worship non-ethnic people", there must be a large number of Chi You's descendants in these areas, so that they have the social conditions to form and maintain this kind of folk custom of worshiping Chi You. During the Han Dynasty, these areas were also the political, economic and cultural center of the Han people.
In the heart of China, there are undoubtedly quite a number of Chi You descendants who have become members of the Han nationality."
"As mentioned before, the Chiyou tribe is an agricultural operator. Because they invented Cui (which is a general term for farming tools) and are good at using fire, they formed the farming habit of clearing wasteland for planting and rotating crops.
Because at that time, they believed that the essence of Bahe trees lay inside objects and could be obtained by burning them to plant crops. And because they had no better ability to reclaim large areas of barren land in a short time, it could be used to quickly
Methods of cultivating the land.
Only with fire can we obtain arable land in a short period of time without delaying the season. Therefore, the traditional slash-and-burn method has been adopted on a large scale.
Based on years of experience, plains are the best areas for farming, as they facilitate soil and water conservation. Therefore, Chiyou’s Shennong tribe occupies a large area of land available for farming.”
"Although the society at that time had made considerable scientific and technological progress, it was still in its infancy. Nine was the highest number, so there was the theory of Jiuli. Chi You was the leader of Jiuli."
The annotation of "Guoyu Meng Yu" says: "Jiuli is a disciple of Chi You". "Shu Lu Xing Interpretation", "Lu Shi Chun Qiu Dang Bing", "Warring States Policy"
8226; Qin" Gao Yuanzhi, all said Chi You
He is the King of Jiuli. With the help of superior geographical conditions, they continued to work hard to open up, continuously improved their productivity, and continuously developed their social economy. They suddenly became a powerful tribe dominating the east and were the first to enter the Central Plains. Everyone should pay attention, they were the first to enter the Central Plains.
Lord Central Plains.
Jiuli was an alliance of nine tribes, and each tribe included nine brother clans, for a total of eighty-one brother clans. Chi You was the leader of the Jiuli clan, with eighty-one brothers, that is, eighty-one clan chiefs.
As you can see, the first radical of Li Zi is the word He, which means that Jiuli is the descendant of Shennong. There will not be only nine tribes. Of course, there may be more, because at that time, Jiu was the descendant of Shennong.
The highest number, the number above cannot be counted.
But in the later period of Chi You, due to the needs of war, calculations had made great progress. With decimal calculations, there was an astronomical almanac that has been brilliant to this day.
However, at that time, the Huang tribe lived in groups mainly based on hunting. As there were more people and less meat, people gradually began to seek food and clothing and integrated into the farming land, thus achieving the integration of clans.