readx;? In order to show his status, Pangu began to thank Heaven for his gifts on behalf of the entire tribal alliance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and began to bury the dead in the underground of the cave, unwilling to be buried in the wild and eaten by wild beasts. And sprinkle hematite powder on the corpses. Hematite powder symbolizes blood, and the blood of people is withered, and the substance of the same color is to hope that the dead can be resurrected in another world with blood. And being able to bless oneself after resurrection can be said to be primitive ancestor worship.

Thanks to the influence of Qin Shi Huang's book burning and Confucianism, the history of prehistoric human beings in China is almost blank, and only the "Historical Records" has records of almost gods such as the Suiren clan, which is like a dream. Therefore, if you want to understand the historical trajectory of antiquity, you must have a certain understanding and analysis of ancient mythology. And mythology is clearly related to religious worship. In fact, the history of China in ancient times, including the history of the world, is inextricably linked with religious worship.

Humanity did not have any religion in the beginning. When the matrilineal clan society was born, human society was formed into relatively stable kinship groups. At this time, people's physique and thinking ability have improved, the language within the group has developed, and certain taboos and norms have been formed.

When people struggle against the natural world with collective strength and rudimentary tools, on the one hand, they gradually realize the connection between people's production activities and certain natural phenomena, and on the other hand, they are heavily oppressed by the natural world, and they cannot have a correct understanding of the myriad forms and ever-changing changes of the natural world. Thus, fear and hope are intertwined, and many natural phenomena are distorted and inverted, and natural phenomena are deified, and primitive religions are born.

Primitive religion: A religion in which the primitive society has developed to a certain stage and reflects the contradictions between man and nature as the main content. Its basic features are mystical ideas and supplication of food, reproduction, ancestors, death, nature, and social groups, from which the belief and worship of supernatural gods and goddesses developed. Characteristics: Animism – polytheistic worship. Although primitive religion had its germination in the early Homo sapiens period, it mainly developed during the matriarchal clan society of late Homo sapiens. The development stage is divided into three stages: nature worship, totem worship, and fertility worship.

The Pangea period was still in the stage of nature worship such as plant worship, animal worship, and celestial worship. Its development has gone through an evolutionary process of participation in concrete worship activities and the formation of abstract ideas of gods.

Nature worship, considered to be one of the earliest forms of worship of primitive religions, lasted the longest, reflecting the contradictions between man and the natural world. People worship those gods, not only by the natural environment in which they live, but also by their production and living needs. The gods of nature worship are generally of two personalities, joy and anger, which are actually imitated according to people's self-consciousness. The gods of nature worship had a completely equal status, which reflected the equal relationship between the economic and social status of people at that time. These characteristics of nature worship are still the same in the later development of primitive religions.

After the rise of the Pangu clan, the ancient humans (cave people on the top of the mountain) developed greatly, producing exquisite bone tools, horn products and a large number of works of art.

During the direct rule of the Pangu tribe, the entire Hebei region became the political center of the world. Its capital or central ruling area is Qingxian in the Hebei region. The corresponding site is the site of Zhoukoudian. Corresponding to prehistoric humans, they are cave people. During this period and the 12 subsequent tribal periods, the alliance of cave people continued to expand into the surrounding areas, including the Hetao region, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong. That is, the area along the Yellow River Basin.

Pangu was able to develop in the Yellow River Basin, because the land in the Yellow River Basin was convenient for digging caves, and the climate in North China was quite good at that time, in the interglacial period of the Quaternary Ice Age, the Yellow River Basin was generally colder than today, so the human beings in the Yellow River Basin lived in the cave, and the mouth of the cave burned a huge fire all year round, one was to keep warm, and the other was to prevent the beasts from finding a cave to hide in the cold and burrowing into the cave where humans lived. In the south, it is warm and humid, and it is difficult to dig holes, and often as soon as they are dug, they become wells, and water comes out of them. It is possible to find ready-made caves in the mountains to live in. Therefore, the development of human civilization in the Yangtze River basin is slow. Most of the human race defected to the Pangu clan in the Yellow River Valley, which also contributed to the Pangu clan's kingship.

Because the primitive religion practiced nature worship and felt mysterious about dangerous animals, people deified Pangu and his descendants, so Pangu became a giant creation god with the head of a dragon and a snake in the legend. The reason why there is a dragon is actually that later generations thought that Pangu was so special, so people summarized the parts of various animals as the king of all beasts, and only this king of all beasts could be worthy of the status of Pangu as the creator god.

This image also evolved slowly. At first, people said that the human head and dragon body were Fuxi, and later people summarized the characteristics of various gods such as Fuxi and candle dragon to Pangu's body, so Pangu also had the saying that the dragon head and snake body were born.

Because of this myth, the Chinese humans claimed to be the descendants of the dragon, and this dragon did not refer to ordinary humans, but to Pangu, the creator god. Today, there is still the existence of Pangu Temple in Qingxian County. The Pangu temple fair is held twice a year, on the third day of March and the ninth day of September, (starting from the Three Kingdoms Wei) the temple fair is postponed for four days or ten days or half a month, and there are singing, storytelling, circus juggling and so on. During the period, good men and women, monks and monks, businessmen, tourists, cars, horses, boats, and boats gathered here.

After Pangu, Chinese history entered the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors Era", also known as the "Ancient Era", "Ancient Era" or "Mythological Era". It can also be referred to as "Three Emperors and Five Emperors".

First of all, we will analyze the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors". The "three" and "five" in this are approximate numbers. Originally, the emperor was the lord of the heavenly realm in myths and legends. Later, the leader of the tribal alliance of the human world began to call the emperor, so the people called the lord of the heavenly realm the emperor. By the time of the Qin Dynasty, Ying Zheng called himself the "First Emperor", which means the lord of heaven and earth (the emperor represents the lord of the heavenly realm, and the emperor represents the lord of the earth).

The Three Emperors and Five Emperors are not real emperors, but only a number of tribal leaders or tribal alliance leaders who have made outstanding contributions to mankind in the middle and late stages of primitive society, and later generations will posthumously respect them as "emperors" or "emperors". Taoism worships them as gods and uses various beautiful myths and legends to publicize their great achievements.

The time span of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors era is the largest in the Three Emperors, which spans the matrilineal clan society and the patrilineal clan society. The span of the Five Emperors is small, and it is basically a patrilineal clan society. The Three Emperors and the Five Emperors were separated by years. This also happens to be the starting point of patrilineal clan society. First of all, we introduce the Three Emperors.

What are the three emperors?