Chapter Twenty-Five: Emperor Yao Tao Tang Clan
readx;? The ancient city of Pingyao should talk about the origin of humanities, starting from Di Yao. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Qing Dynasty rebuilt the Confucian Temple inscription: "Pingyao is an ancient pottery land, and Emperor Yaozuo was sealed here. "But the people of Pingyao regard Di Yao as the ancestor of humanity in this land, but it has been passed down from generation to generation.
The history books say that because the emperor's immorality angered the heavens, the emperor sent all kinds of disasters to punish the world. In fact, it is purely a natural disaster.
"Huainan Ziben Sutra Training" cloud: "When you catch Yao, you will go out in ten days." Scorch the crops, kill the grass and trees, and the people have nothing to eat. "Ten days together." Legend has it that at this time, ten suns appeared in the sky and dried all the crops in the field and the trees on the mountain. Some poisonous snakes and beasts also took the opportunity to run rampant and kill humans, and people fell into extreme panic.
During the Yellow Emperor, the sunspot activity entered an active period, reaching its peak when the emperor was in the middle of the emperor, so that there was a legend that the ten days (golden crow) crossed the sky, representing the shape of the sunspot like a crow, and the ten crows showed that the sunspot activity was extremely intense.
When sunspots increase, the sun's radiation to the ground increases, which exacerbates the rise in temperature, causing a large-scale drought in the north. This drought has caused untold suffering to the people.
At that time, the climate was very hot, and the natural disasters and the greenhouse effect caused by global warming brought about the catastrophe of all mankind.
In the face of the suffering brought by natural disasters to the people, the emperor turned a blind eye and was obsessed with the pleasures of the palace.
When the Central Plains and Shaanxi and Gansu regions were in drought for many years, Shanxi was also attacked by drought demons. However, Tang Yao led the local residents to build dams and divert water to irrigate the fields, thus defeating the drought demon and reaping a bumper harvest, making the Tang Kingdom a wealthy state at that time. As a result, many people from other places fled to Tang and asked Tang Yao for help. With compassion in his heart, Yao selflessly helped the victims in various places, and won the respect of all the people.
Tang Yao took it as his mission to save the people, led the people of various tribes to fight disasters and save themselves, and fought to the death against the evil forces.
Legend: He ordered the divine arrow general Yi to shoot down nine suns in the sky, leaving only one sun in the sky (Yi was a leading minister in the emperor's period, because of his good shooting, the emperor gave him a red bow and ten arrows with white feathers, so that he could use his own bravery to help and support those weak tribes and suffering people, and fight and eliminate those evil forces that bully others.) Since then, the Yi people are famous for shooting, and later generations have been called Yi, and Yi in the Yao period should be its descendants).
Tang Yao also led the crowd to kill the demons and beasts such as the Nine Infants, the Great Wind, the Yayu, the Snake Cultivator, and the Sealed Pig, so that the world gained peace. Tang Yao's character and behavior won the unanimous support of various clan alliances, and they all elected Tang Yao as emperor and called for the removal of the inactive emperor.
The so-called appearance of ten suns in the sky is just the "deification" interpretation of the great drought by the ancient people, and the nine infants, the gale, the rampant, the snake repair, and the sealing of pigs are also the generalizations of the ancients on various natural disasters. These records are mainly to prove Tang Yao's great feat of leading the people to fight disasters and save themselves. This was originally true ancient history, but it has been attributed to myths and legends by historians throughout the ages. Obviously, these great historians did not understand the state of the ancient human mind, and misunderstood the ancient totemic symbol culture.
Tang Yao united the princes of all parties and forced Emperor Zhi to abdicate. Although Emperor Zhi was unwilling to abdicate, in the face of the powerful tribal alliance camp and his young and aggressive younger brother, he knew that he was powerless to fight, so he had to step down from the throne of the Son of Heaven and give up the throne to Tang Yao.
Fortunately, Tang Yaonian did not embarrass him in terms of brotherhood, and still let him inherit the title of Emperor Xinhou.
Emperor Yao, reigned 2324-2225 BC.
In 2324 BC, the Taotang tribe, led by the Yellow Emperor's Sun Yao, replaced the Louzi clan as the new ruling tribe. The first capital was Tangdi (Taiyuan, Shanxi), and later Pingyang (Linfen, Shanxi) was the capital. Yao was 43 years old at this time.
Emperor Yao ordered the Xi and He clans, following the will of the heavens, to formulate a calendar according to the appearance of the sun and the moon and the position of the stars, and to carefully teach the people the festivals for production.
In addition, he ordered Xi Zhong to live in Yuyi, a place called Yang (yáng, yang) valley, to respectfully greet the sunrise and arrange the spring cultivation step by step. On the day of the vernal equinox, the day is as long as the night, and the stars in the Seven Nakshatras (xiu) appear due south at dusk, according to which the time of mid-spring is determined. At this time, the people scattered their work, and the birds and beasts gave birth.
He also ordered Uncle Xi to live in Nanjiao, arrange the summer farm work step by step, and do it carefully. On the summer solstice, the day is the longest, and the Antares (also known as the fire) in the Seven Nights of the Canglong appear due south at dusk, so as to determine the time of midsummer. At this time, the people are on high places, and the birds and beasts are sparsely feathered.
He also commanded Kazuna, to dwell in the western soil, which is called the valley, to respectfully send the sun down, and to arrange the autumn harvest in a step-by-step manner. On the day of the autumn equinox, the night is as long as the day, and the void of the seven nights of Xuanwu appears due south at the beginning of dusk, according to which the time of mid-autumn is determined. At this time, the people moved to the flat land, and the birds and beasts regenerated new hair.
He also ordered Uncle He to live in the north, which is called Youdu, and carefully arrange the collection in winter. On the winter solstice, the day is the shortest, and the pleiades (mǎo, 卯) of the Seven Houses of the White Tiger appear due south at dusk, according to which the time of midwinter is determined. At this time, the people went into the house to keep warm, and the birds and beasts were covered with fine hair. There are 366 days in a year, and the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter are corrected by placing leap months.
Emperor Yao was highly respected, lived a very frugal life, lived in a thatched hut, drank wild vegetable soup, and wore coarse cloth clothes woven from kudzu vines. The people are devoted to Di Yao. He is solemn and respectful, illuminates all directions, and distinguishes between the top and bottom, so that the people of the tribe can unite like a family and live in harmony. Yao was a simple man and was widely loved by the people.
At the beginning of BC2320, Yao began to patrol the four mountains (vassal states). When Emperor Yao, Bai Chengzi Gao Li was a prince and a descendant of Bai Huang. Boyi, a descendant of Emperor Yan Shennong's Jiang Yugang, held the official position of Siyue by Emperor Yao's side.
The ancients believed that Mount Hua was the first peak, and the mountain was high and connected to the sky, and it could reach the gods. In order to worship the gods, the official position of Taiyue was born. Later, with the circulation of the tribe, the tradition of worshipping the mountains was not forgotten, so the four peaks (the highest peaks in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions centered on the Taiyue tribe, which later evolved into official positions and were held by the tribal leaders), were in charge of the worship of the four sacred mountains.
After the defeat of Jiuli, its power declined greatly, but they still possessed a vast area in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. By the Yao, Shun, and Yu periods, they formed a new tribal alliance. This is the "three seedlings" mentioned in the history books, also known as "Youmiao" or "Miao people". It is mainly distributed between Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake. Yao Shun is called three seedlings, and it is called barbarian in the spring and autumn period. It is recorded in the literature that Sanmiao "only used the punishment of five abuses", and was the first to invent punishment. Sanmiao has the custom of "hair head", that is, the hemp and hair are braided into a knot.