"Before and after them, there were other Yellow Emperors, Yan Emperors, and Chi You. And these three elites are all great wisdom, actively exerting their own subjective initiative, such as Xuanyuan who invented the car, studied medicine, and created music. Shennong tasted herbs and found medicine, pioneered slash-and-burn farming, made pottery, and even opened up a bazaar. These two led their respective tribes to prosperity, and once they prospered, they needed to merge and expand, absorbing other smaller tribes to participate in order to grow in strength. ”

"The merits of the god of war Chi You cannot be examined for the time being, but the Jiuli clan led by him was very important at that time, and it was an existence that could compete with Yan Huang, and this alone shows that he is definitely not simple. The large tribes began to annex the smaller tribes, and eventually formed three larger tribal alliances and a number of wandering small tribes: the Yellow Emperor tribal alliance led by the Xuanyuan clan, the Yandi tribal alliance led by the Shennong clan, and the Jiuli tribal alliance led by Chiyou. ”

"After completing the primitive accumulation, it was time to compete, and the Xuanyuan clan and the Shennong clan took the lead in setting up a battlefield in the field of Hanquan, which was the famous Battle of Hanquan. After a few years of fighting, the Yellow Emperor Tribal Alliance was victorious, and the Shennong clan was captured alive, so the Yandi Tribal Alliance was merged into the Yellow Emperor Tribal Alliance, and we will call him the Yanhuang Group. And the Shennong clan assisted the Xuanyuan clan in governing the new grand alliance, and even his descendant Rong Guang still received Emperor Xuanyuan's Xia official Zhurong, which is an official position, that is, Da Sima. ”

"After the Yanhuang group is stabilized, only two males are left, and the collision is a matter of course, but from the perspective of productivity level, the Jiuli clan is slightly higher than them, after all, Yanhuang can only form an alliance with him to barely equalize, not to mention that they have also mastered iron manufacturing. Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor led the army to fight with Chiyou many times, all failed to win, and finally the Yan Emperor Department was defeated, the Yellow Emperor Department came back to help, the Yanhuang Group and the Jiuli tribe launched the battle of Zhuolu, the decisive battle in the field of Jizhou, this time, Chiyou failed, not only was killed, but also the head was in a different place, and was divided and buried. ”

"After this battle, the Jiuli clan was completely merged into the Yanhuang group, and this group can finally be said to be the prototype of Huaxia, because it gathers most of the clans and tribes, and can be called the super clan tribal alliance. The leaders of these tribes all obeyed the command of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and because there were many leaders, they were called the people. And Chi You died, and the treatment of the Jiuli tribe was incomparable with the Yandi tribe, and they were taken over one after another, either as slaves or as people, and they were collectively called Li Min. ”

I was a little dumbfounded, "Dare to love... Li Min and the people are not of the same grade!"

"At least at that time, no. Although Chi You died, everyone in the world called him brave, and Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor respected him as the master of the army, that is, the god of war, which can be regarded as a respect for the once powerful opponent. And on the military flag, the image of Chiyou was drawn to boost morale. Huaxia was established, although the descendants claimed to be the descendants of the Chinese people Yan and Huang, but tracing back to the origin, the ancestors of Huaxia should be three, and the soldier master Chiyou should not have no name. ”

"The story of the Three Emperors has come to an end, and then enter the period of the Five Emperors, and you will find a feature of the Five Emperors period, that is, since the Yellow Emperor, the emperors in the future have always come from the Yellow Emperor line. The head of the Five Emperors is Shao Hao, who is the eldest son of the Yellow Emperor, named Xuanhuan, and called Jin Tianshi. The second is Zhuan Xuan, who is the grandson of the Yellow Emperor and the nephew of Shao Hao, named Gaoyang. The third is Emperor Yu, who is the grandson of Shao Hao, named Gao Xin. The fourth is the familiar Tang Yao, Tao Tang, who is the son of Emperor Yu. The fifth is Yu Shun, who has the Yu family, and he is the sixth grandson of Zhuan. ”

I scratched my head, "There is no takeaway in the family of the Five Emperors, aren't they all the descendants of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and they are either Shaohao or the descendants of Xuanyuan." And that Yao Shun, what about the Zen concession system that he said?"

"Don't worry, let me tell you, after the unification of the Huaxia Group, although the main body is still a clan and tribal alliance, the size is already similar to that of the Xia Dynasty, and the difference lies in the system of emperor change. So what kind of system does the Huaxia Group use? You can call it the Zen concession system, but if I were to say it, I think it was an internal election system. The range of candidates selected is in the line of the actual ruler Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and the people have the right to vote, and whoever wins more tribal leaders will take the throne. ”

"Damn, it's so advanced!"

"This is very reasonable, although Huaxia is unified, but the form is greater than the reality, no one has ever tried to manage such a large alliance, so the leader of each tribe has a certain right to speak, but after all, it is Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor who unifies them, and there is no problem with the CEO of this alliance being served by his descendants, but you have to let us choose." After each election, the transition of the CEO is very smooth, and this peaceful transfer of power ceremony is called Zen Rang. ”

"The Five Emperors are only the five CEOs with outstanding achievements in the Huaxia Group, and there are actually other CEOs in the middle, but because of their mediocre political achievements, they have been forgotten by history, for example, Yao's son Danzhu was the CEO for three years, and later returned to Shun. Shun's CEO is Yu, but Shun's original favorite successor is Gao Tao, he is the Minister of Justice appointed by Shun, and he is also a descendant of Gao Yang's Zhuan, and his voice is very high, but Gao Tao is too old, and he died before he was selected as the successor. So the position of the new CEO turned around to Yu. ”

Yu is also the sixth grandson of Zhuan, he originally led the official position of Sikong, responsible for water control, and later because of the merit of water control, plus Gao Tao passed away, so he successfully ascended to the throne, and also cast Kyushu Ding. The originally chosen successor after him was Boyi, but his son Qi mastered the armed forces, after so many generations of governance, especially after the great flood, the original people had already become Li Min, and at this time, the right to vote was basically a decoration, whoever mastered the armed forces, who had the right to speak. ”

"Qi defeated Boyi by force, and then established the Xia Dynasty, and ended the previous electoral system and changed it to hereditary. In fact, it was to take back the power that had been scattered among the people and appoint the next generation of monarchs by themselves, and this system continued until the Qing Dynasty. The world has become the world of their family, and the clan tribal alliance has finally become an ancient country. In the following generations, although there were incidents of Taikang losing the country, in general, the imperial hereditary system remained unchanged. And Shang and Zhou were just two major forces under the Xia Dynasty. ”

Xia Wei was tyrannical, so the merchants rebelled and overthrew the Xia Dynasty and established a new dynasty called Shang. The Shang dynasty was mediocre, and the Zhou people stood up again and overthrew the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty. In fact, the ancestors of the imperial lineage of Xia, Shang and Zhou are still the lineage of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. And no matter who established the new dynasty, the people of the previous dynasty still exist, this is just a normal change of dynasty, similar to the later generations. ”

"The Zhou Dynasty is different in that he divided the people of these different clans, so the Zhou Dynasty sat on the world, called the Son of Zhou, and the capital of the Zhou Dynasty was China. What was divided into vassal states was one by one, and if they practiced feudalism again, they would have Cai Yi of scholars, which was their home. Later, the Western Zhou Dynasty moved its capital, and the Eastern Zhou countries began to move, producing the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, the Warring States Seven Heroes, and finally all of them were destroyed by the Qin State, becoming a unified country, this country only has counties and counties, highly centralized, so it can be called an empire. ”

I nodded, "Well, I still know a little bit about the things behind the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the front one is more vague, and it is much clearer to hear you say this." By the way, grandpa, you said that the three emperors and five emperors, the three emperors are Fuxi, Emperor Yan, and Yellow Emperor, but how do I feel that Nuwa Niangniang is also one of the three emperors. ”

Old Man Su glanced at me meaningfully, "Actually, when it comes to Fuxi, we must mention Nuwa, they are a couple, it is rumored that they are both human heads and snake bodies, they are brothers and sisters, but they are married. However, there are also records that the surname and marriage matchmaking system began to appear from Fuxi Nuwa, which is obviously somewhat inconsistent. The Three Emperors' statements do sometimes include Nuwa in them, which is enough to prove that Nuwa's status is not low. ”

"Yes, in fact, according to my concept, Nuwa Niangniang's fame is much better than Fuxi's. ”

"Then let's have a good chat about them, first of all, from the records of ancient classics, the earliest record of Nuwa is the "History of the Chapter", which was written in the Western Zhou Dynasty. After that, Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci Tianwen" at the end of the Warring States Period, it can be seen that the image of Nuwa has been circulated at least in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. ”

What about the record of Fuxi? In the classics before the middle of the Warring States period, there is no record of him, and even the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which records the most ancient emperors, is still not recorded. The earliest record of Fuxi is the "Zhuangzi" in the middle and late Warring States period, which means that the record of Nuwa is earlier than Fuxi. ”

"But this doesn't mean anything, Fuxi is also known as Taihao, there are many honorific titles for him, there is one I have studied, he is the god of Mount Tai, Mount Tai has been the place where the Son of Heaven is qualified to worship the sky since ancient times. Mount Tai is the East Mountain, the first of the five mountains. Because the east belongs to the green dragon, the five lines are wood, and the five colors are green, so it is also called the green emperor. So I deduced that the first Eastern Emperor Taiyi in Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci Nine Songs" was him. ”

If you look at it this way, Qu Yuan recorded the legend of Fuxi and Nuwa at the same time, and the story of Fuxi and Nuwa was also recorded in the Warring States Chu Silk Book, and it is not a big problem for them to appear together. Knowing the time, let's look at the story again, the record and description of Fuxi: knotting rope records, creating gossip, and developing fishing and hunting, does it sound very humane, representing the embodiment of the wisdom of the ancient ancestors. ”

I agreed, and Old Man Su said, "Then what about Nuwa, what is your impression of her?"

"Man... Mending the sky..."

"See the difference?"

"Nuwa Niangniang has a lot of cows... That's what the gods do. ”

"Can't you figure out why? Even though they're all deified, they're not the same kind. ”

I was dumbfounded when I heard this, and asked in a low voice with a careful tone, "Nuwa Niangniang is... Be... Is it a youkai?"

There is no mistake