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The tsunami-induced floods were followed by a massive rise in sea levels around the world, separating Chinese mainland from Taiwan and Indonesia. And the floods flooded the southeast of Chinese mainland, even northern China, only the Mongolian plateau and the northwest region were not flooded. The short reign of the Zhurong clan ended, and the imperial capital Lingtai (Xushui, Hebei) founded by the Suiren clan was also submerged. The middle of the prehistoric era ended, and world history entered the Neolithic Age.
Fu Xi, who was more sensitive to changes in the weather than ordinary people, predicted an unprecedented flood disaster and called on his people to follow him to migrate westward. Since people usually found his weather predictions more accurate, they responded to his call. And he did not forget to inform his mother that there was a Wa tribe, and they trusted him, so the two tribes retreated to the west together.
In the process of retreating, the flood happened, and the two tribes stepped up their actions, and finally climbed Liupan Mountain before the flood came. There are many fierce beasts in the mountains, and because humans have invaded the places where the fierce beasts live, they have caused the beasts to attack. Although there are many humans of other ethnic groups who have fled to the mountains, few have survived the invasion of fierce beasts, and the Fuxi tribe and the Nuwa tribe have survived even more. They used Liupan Mountain as the main flood defense front, mainly distributed in the line from Gansu to Qinghai. Today, there is still a Fuxi temple in Tianshui, Gansu, which was built in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, and was rebuilt nine times after nine times to form an ancient building complex.
The two tribes became the surviving minority in the east, and began to intermarry each other and form tribal alliances. As for brother and sister, in fact, both tribes are descendants of the Suiren clan, so they can also get along, but in fact they are still practicing extra-clan marriage, and they are already close relatives. As the first patriarch after the union, Fu Xi became the first co-leader of the alliance after the Great Flood.
Fuxi imitated the spiders in nature to make webs, taught people how to use nets to fish, improved people's fishing and hunting skills, and taught people to domesticate wild animals, and its tribe was the first tribe to domesticate domestic animals at that time.
Fuxi began to create writing and used it for memorization, replacing the knotted rope chronicle invented by the Weaver Girl.
According to Sima Zhen's "Three Emperors Benji": "Taihao Fuxi, the sun and the moon are like its brightness, the dragon hippo is like its brightness, the dragon hippo is the god of its response, the secret of yin and yang, the first of the mysterious gossip elephants, with dry branches, as a jiazi." As the Twenty-Five Warriors, the Dragon Division's Judge. The first cook, advocating the six beasts, the first emperor also. The end arch is on the top, and the ministers are divided on the bottom. ”
Fu Xi invented the 25-string seer, composed music and ballads, and brought music into people's lives. Pioneered the production of Chinese cuisine.
Fu Xi took the body of a python, the head of a crocodile, the horns of a stag, the eyes of a tiger, the scales of a red carp, the legs of a monitor lizard, the claws of a goshawk, the tail of a white shark, and the whiskers of a fin whale, and created the totem dragon of the Chinese nation, but Fu Xi did not call himself a dragon, and now he is the title of a descendant who is the head of the dragon. In fact, Fuxi represents Pangu with a dragon. It belongs to the pinnacle of primitive religious animal worship. Today, the Chinese call themselves the descendants of the dragon.
The tribe of Fuxi was called king for 110 years, which does not mean that Fuxi lived for 110 years, and it was difficult to do it with the medical and health conditions at that time. In fact, the Fuxi tribe ruled for 9750~9640 years).
The Fuxi tribe gradually unified the various tribes that lived in various parts of China after the flood, and after the flood receded, they were all in Chendi, Henan, and once sealed Mount Tai.
Huaiyang, Henan Province is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, known as Wanqiu in ancient times, is the capital of Taihao Fuxi in ancient times, the Zhou Dynasty was the Chen State, and the Warring States returned to Chu. Historically known as "Chen Chu". In the following dynasties, it was a prefecture or a county, and its jurisdiction was approximately equivalent to the area of today's Zhoukou City.
Taihao Mausoleum, that is, the mausoleum temple of Fuxi, is located in Huaiyang County, Henan. Taihao Mausoleum covers an area of 875 acres, the scale is large, was built in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was added in the Tang Dynasty.
The Fuxi clan divided and ruled the territory under their rule, and appointed officials to manage the society, providing a reference for future generations to govern the society.
It is generally believed that the early bloodline of the Chinese nation came from the three major ethnic groups of Huaxia, Dongyi and Miaoman, and formed the main bloodline of the Chinese nation by the Qin and Han dynasties. Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang are representatives of the Huaxia people. Fuxi is the ancestor of the three major ethnic groups. In contemporary society, the Han and many ethnic minorities still retain the creation myth of Fuxi and the custom of sacrificing Fuxi.
In 9640 BC, the Youwa clan became the central tribe of the new tribal alliance under the Chan of the Fuxi clan. The Nuwa clan, also known as the Nuxi clan and the Youshu clan, is a tribe in the ancient matriarchal society of the era of Chinese legends. Its leader is respected as the first mother of the Chinese people, the common humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation, the ancient goddess and the emperor, is the mother family of the two emperors of Yan and Huang, and is one of the "three emperors" and "five clans". According to legend, she is the daughter of the Huaxu family. Its totem symbolizes the initial "snail", becoming the emperor, and the women in the tribe are the queens of the Fuxi clan and its descendants for generations, so the totem was changed to a phoenix.
The image of the phoenix is: Hongqian, Linhou, stork, mandarin gills, dragon text, tiger back, swallow jaw, chicken beak, five-color preparation. Good at flying, "morning Dan Cave, Xi Cui Xuan Hill, the sun has not moved the sundial, Zhou Zhang Jiuling" temperament, kind, is the king of birds, and is the god of auspiciousness (Fu Xi life dragon, Nuwa Yun (cloud) phoenix (phoenix)).
The historical book "Taiping Huanyu Ji" contains: "(Xihua) County West Twenty Miles, the capital of Nuwa in the old biography, the real name is Wacheng. The existing inscription of the Ming Dynasty also contains: "Sidugang is the ruins of Nuwa's hometown." "The ancient Nuwa City has been repeatedly destroyed due to the floods of the soldiers. Archaeological excavations have unearthed the ruins of Nuwa City in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the same as the Nuwa Tomb. Later, the folk spontaneously built the mausoleum and built the temple, followed the traditional temple fair, worshiped the mother of Nuwa, especially the first and fifteenth incense of the lunar calendar, and the annual patronage reached more than 2 million.
The following is the legend about Nuwa mending the sky:
According to legend, in ancient times, the four optimus pillars fell, the earth of Kyushu was cracked, the sky could not cover the earth, the earth could not carry all things, the fire spread and could not be extinguished, the flood did not stop, the ferocious beasts ate the kind people, and the ferocious birds grabbed the old people and children with their claws. In this case, Nuwa smelted the five-colored stone to repair the sky, cut off the feet of the giant turtle in the sea to make a heavenly pillar to support the four directions, killed the black dragon to save Jizhou, and blocked the flood with reed ash.
This legend represents the time of the flood, when humans hid in the mountains and invaded the territory of the beasts, who continued to attack humans. Nuwa, the leader of the Youwa clan, led humans to kill beasts and water monsters, and built dikes in important areas to fight prehistoric floods. He played a pivotal leadership role in this process and will be remembered for generations to come. Therefore, after the decline of the Fuxi tribe, the people jointly elected Nuwa to continue to lead the human race and become the co-leader of the tribal alliance.