Where does this come from?

Let's start with the Three Emperors and Five Emperors

the winds of change

Everything changes

From aquatic to terrestrial

From a single cell to a complex mindful body

Eventually, humans appeared

Ancient things are too old to be examined

Let's start with some legends

Legend has it that after the existence of heaven and earth

The earth was empty and lifeless

Out of thin air, there was a Nuwa Niangniang

Nuwa Niangniang's magic power is boundless

Boredom and loneliness

He used loess to pinch out human beings

Then disaster after disaster

There is a leak in the sky

Underground on fire

Wild beasts run rampant

Human suffering

Nuwa Niangniang is compassionate

Melt the colorful stone to replenish the sky and block the water

Kill the monsters and monsters to rescue the people

From then on, everything was in order

The world is stable

As we understand it today

In primitive societies

Individual power is limited

Unable to fight against nature and beasts

They live in groups

The laws of society were different then than they are now

The leader of the clan is a respected grandmother

The woman is in charge of gathering food

Manufacture of utensils

Caring for the elderly and supporting children

It is also necessary to produce the next generation

Men go out hunting

It's not just about wrestling with wild beasts

There is no fixed place of residence

So the children at that time only knew their mothers

I don't know about the father

This is matriarchal society

And Nuwa Niangniang is the embodiment of the brilliance of the old grandmother

Next

Let's talk about the second God-man

This person is called Fu Xi

The Fuxi clan has a talent for heaven

It can understand the nature of all things

It has the ability to educate sentient beings

He taught humans how to weave nets, fish, and hunt

It also teaches human beings the way of cooking, and the way of breeding

From then on, humans don't have to eat their prey raw

There is no need for prey

The amount of three meals at a time

There is no prey

If you are hungry, you will be hungry for three days

Although these are legends

But it also reflects the living conditions of human beings at that time

Humanity is in the process of evolution

Constantly summarize experience

Accumulate knowledge

Improving the level of skills in practice

Improve your quality of life

Next

Shennong's shining debut

Human life is settled

The tools and means of hunting were enriched

I also learned to breed

Living conditions are better

The ability to reproduce itself is also enhanced

Not only has the number increased

The life cycle of the individual is also extended

So

There is no more to eat

People only know

Animals can eat me

I can also eat animals

But what if the animals are eaten up?

Then you can only eat those flowers and plants

But flowers and plants are not simple

They are all preventive

Some are not easy to digest

Some don't digest it at all

Some are poisonous

Some are also highly toxic

What to do

At this time, Shennong stood up

He wants to taste the flowers and plants of the world

Familiarize yourself with performance

Let's make an inductive summary

Which ones can be eaten

Which ones are delicious

Which can only be used to see

Which can also be planted

Which like the sun

Which like rain

And so on and so forth

finally

Humans after harnessing animals

and harnessed the plants

Of course, this is just a legend

If you do this alone

He has been poisoned eight hundred times ago

These are valuable experiences

All of them were bought back with the lives of countless human beings

Later generations collectively referred to Nuwa, Fuxi, and Shennong as the Three Emperors

It is the meaning of the first human beings

There are many versions about the Three Emperors

That's all we have to say here

The Three Emperors were followed by the Five Emperors

The honor of the five emperors is called the Yellow Emperor

It is said that this Yellow Emperor is after the Xiong family

This year, the position of the leader of the Xiong clan was passed to Shaodian

Shaodian Chunfeng proudly married a girl named Fubao

The two of them are affectionate and loving

Lang is a concubine

Muscles

One day

The two went to play near Himesui

It's not early

The two of them were about to rush back

Suddenly, there was thunder in the sky

Say it's too late, then it's too fast

A bolt of lightning streaked across the sky

How can it be so coincidental

How can it be so inches

After Fubao went back, she became pregnant

After the news spread

The people of the clan are talking about it

It is said that this is a son sent by the gods

Extraordinary people will be born

The attached treasure is really competitive

A few months later, a boy was born

The child has thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a tiger head

I learned to speak at a few months old

It's a little bigger

There is no self-taught

Everything, understand

He also often judges the rights and wrongs of the clansmen

Because there is a bear clan that admires the soil among the five elements

The soil is yellow

This child is a son sent by the gods

It was named the Yellow Emperor

And because he grew up on the side of Himesu

Live in Xuanyuan Hill

and Ji as his surname

Xuanyuan is the number

Later generations also called the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan

After the Yellow Emperor came of age

Naturally, he became the leader of the country with bears

Under his leadership

There is a bear country that is thriving and thriving

It may be that the Yellow Emperor is too capable

He felt that the place of Himesui was too small

Not conducive to the development of the tribe

led the people of his clan to look for a new living space everywhere

These three turns are two turns

He came to Zhuo (Tongcau) Lu (now northern Hebei)

Take a look

It's a nice place

The land is also good

The prey is also sufficient

get

It took root here

But Nacheng thinks that this is a land of lords

A tribe led by Emperor Yan lives here

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers

The two groups of people fought

In the end, the Yellow Emperor conquered the Yan Emperor, both physically and mentally

The two sides merged into a new group

The Yellow Emperor is the boss

Emperor Yan is the deputy boss

The name of the new tribe is Yanhuangbu

This was the earliest prototype of the Chinese nation

We call ourselves the grandsons of Yan Huang

That's where it came from

The Yanhuang tribe was under the leadership of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor

Life is a good time

But the good times didn't last long

The Jiuli tribe in the south called

This Jiuli clan is under the leadership of Chiyou

An attack was launched against the Yanhuang tribe

The two sides are fighting to the death in the field of Zhuolu

In the end, it was the Yellow Emperor who was superior

Killed Chiyou

He also incorporated the remnants of the Jiuli clan under his command

Since then, the Yellow Emperor

The territory is bigger

The prestige is higher

He was embraced as a public leader by various tribes in the Central Plains

It doesn't matter how much truth these stories have

At least we can understand

In a clan society

There was a constant struggle between the tribes

In the end, the big fish eat the small fish

Turn into a giant crocodile

Maybe the Yellow Emperor lived too bravely

When he passed down the position of leader

It can only be passed on to Sun Tzu 颛顼 [zhuānxū].

The story of 颛顼

We'll move on tomorrow

The book continues from the previous text

The position of the tribal leader fell to the head of the tribe

颛顼 is the grandson of the Yellow Emperor

This grandson is not simple

As smart as his grandfather

Not a jack of all trades

It's also a jack of all trades

There is a right

There is a strategy

In particular, they use superstitions about ghosts and gods to control their clansmen

His prestige among the masses is extremely high

It is said that every time he goes out to inspect

The common people will be welcome in the middle of the road

Even animals wag their tails

Trees also wiggle their foliage

His public approval rating can be seen

However, he is not a person who makes the people 100% satisfied

He made a nasty rule

If a woman meets a man on the road

Just get out of the way

Otherwise, they will be dragged to the side of the road and beaten severely

Although this is just a legend

But it also reflected a social reality at the time

That is, the society at that time had changed from a matriarchal society headed by an old grandmother

Transition to a patrilineal society

Men are already higher in social status than women

In the era of the reign of 颛顼

There is a cow man named Gonggong

It is said that this person's surname is Jiang

He is a descendant of Emperor Yan

The Gonggong clan is smart and brave

The power is endless

And he is very good at conducting research on agricultural production

It has made a great contribution to the agricultural production of future generations

The Gonggong clan also has a son named Houtu

He also inherited his father's fine tradition

He is interested in agricultural research

The two of them traveled all over the land of Kyushu

(Jizhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou and Yuzhou)

Inspect the land situation

Later generations respected Gonggong as a water master (the god of water conservancy and irrigation)

Houtu is the shrine god (land god)

After the two of them inspected, they thought

The land of Kyushu is uneven

Some of the terrain is too high

Not conducive to irrigation

Some of the terrain is too low

It is easy to overwaterlog

They developed a macro plan

Dig up the high ground

Low floor pad high

In this way, the world can increase countless fertile fields

For the benefit of the people

We don't care if this plan is feasible or not

The starting point is certainly good

But he disagreed

Are you doing good things for the people?

I don't care

The question is if you get it done

Your reputation will overpower me

Where is my prestige?

Where is my authority?

You have become the savior of the people

Raise your arms and exhale

You'll be a leader

So what am I

So I don't agree

If you don't agree in your heart, you don't agree in your heart

I didn't dare to express it directly

If you want to oppose it directly, isn't that against the world?

The strength of the joint work is not as great

But there are many eyes

Just spread such a rumor

It is necessary to dig mountains and fill pits

The gods will be angry

Society at that time

There was a thunder in the sky

People snore as if they were gods

Scared half to death

If the gods are angry

That's worth it

Plus this rumor was made up by the boss

Those who believe are still in the majority

As a result, the co-workers became alone

This is a joint effort

He crashed headlong into Buzhou Mountain (now Kunlun Mountain)

I want to knock down the mountain peaks and fill in the depression on the side of the mountain

Give everyone an example

Plug the mouth of the 颛顼

What I didn't expect was that Buzhou Mountain was a pillar between heaven and earth

As soon as the pillar of heaven was broken, the relationship between the whole earth and the sky was chaotic

The earth collapsed like a southeast

The sky is tipping to the northwest

The sun and moon rise in the east and set in the west every day

And the great rivers and the seas flowed eastward

As for why this is so

Let's listen to it as a fairy tale

This is not a short life

It is said that he lived to be ninety-one years old

After his death

He was succeeded as the new tribal leader

Emperor Yu is the nephew of Zhuan

He is also the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor

At the age of fifteen, he began to assist him

He was named the Marquis of Xin

Also known as Goxin's

He was in his thirties when he succeeded to the throne

This man is said to be a just man

Discerning

selfless

Strict self-discipline

When he died at the age of one hundred and five, he passed the throne to his son

That is, the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor

But this grandson really doesn't give the Yellow Emperor any anger

Extravagance

Arrogance and extravagance

Lord it over

No good governance

Nine years later

Everyone really can't give face to the Yellow Emperor anymore

Deposed the Sincere

from now on

Yao officially stepped onto the stage of history

Yao's coming to power

Broke the dominance of the Yellow Emperor family

After Yao stepped down

and did not pass on the position to his children and grandchildren

The Zen system was completely opened and inherited

Yao

The surname is Yiqi

Famous Release

No. Tao Tang

Known as Tang Yao in history

According to ancient books

Yao is very good at governing the world

He sent a special person to take charge of the four corners of heaven and earth

A calendar was drawn up

Three hundred and sixty-six days a year is stipulated

It is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter

Let the common people have a basis for farming and hunting

Yao began to rule the world at the age of sixteen

He reigned for seventy years

By the time he was old

Sending a notice to the world

Let the Quartet nominate talented people to take their place

So Yu Shun was promoted

It is said that Yu Shun's surname is Yao Chonghua

Nicknamed "Shun"

A native of Jizhou (now Hebei)

Lost his mother at an early age

My father was a blind old man

This blind old man married Shun a stepmother again

This stepmother gave birth to a younger brother to Shun

It's called an elephant

It seems to be lazy and idle

This stepmother has also fulfilled her stepmother's obligations

often speaks ill of Shun in front of his blind father

This one goes back and forth

After the blind father, the mother was lazy, and the younger brother reached an alliance

I want to kill Shun

Let the elephant inherit the family property himself

See here

I realized a blind old man with a bottle of oil

Why can I marry a little daughter-in-law?

No matter what his father and stepmother treat him

Shun didn't care

is still filial to his blind father

It's also good for stepmom and lazy brother

When Yao asked the world to recommend talents

Shun is such a good boy with outstanding deeds

Naturally, it is among the candidates

After all, Yao is going to choose the heir of the leader

More investigation is what should be dropped

The old man is also enough to spend money

married his two daughters, Empress E and Nuying, to Shun

Shun was also sent to inspect all parts of the country

Eat, live and work with the common people

After Shun got married

took his two wives to work in the fields together

He still treats his parents and brothers the same way he did before

This time, his title is not only good son, good brother

And also added a good husband

legend

The peasants at the foot of Lishan were originally fighting for land

Shun went farming

The peasants were humble to each other

Help each other

Production is getting better

Fishermen in the Razor region often beat their heads and bleed over their houses in order to fight for their houses

Shun went fishing

The fishermen gave each other their houses

It's like a family

The potters in the riverside area work roughly, and the quality of the pottery is poor

Shun went to make pottery

Everyone will work hard

The quality of pottery has reached a new level

Regardless of whether everyone is afraid of Shun

Or Jing Shun

in a word

Shun has the ability to unite people's hearts and improve productivity

Shun is getting more and more powerful

His blind father, stepmother and lazy brother are even more angry

I want to kill him even more

He poisoned Shun several times

The blind father asked Shun to go to the top of the granary to clean up the roof

He set the fire down there

As a result, Shun's two wives had already arrived

I brought him two hats

I saw that there was a fire

Shun has a hat in one hand

And flew down

The blind father asked Shun to dig a well

When digging deep

And he sealed the well with clay and stones

Shun's wives have already arrived

Let Shun get himself a diagonal passage in the well at the beginning

Wait for the lazy brother to think that his brother is dead

When I was about to go to my brother's house to collect the property

Shun has gone home

The lazy brother also pretended to shed tears of joy

Shun didn't blame him at all

It's really suspicious at this time

Is this blind father his own father?

It has gone through a series of tests

Yao steadfastly put the position of the leader of the tribal alliance

Handed it over to Shun

Shun was given more power

Took on greater responsibility

Fulfilled a greater obligation

The world has been governed better

After Shun's old age

He followed the rules of his own succession to the throne back then

and put the position of leader of the tribal alliance

gave it to the more talented Yu

Tomorrow, I'll tell you the story of Yu