Chapter 22 The Gao Yang Clan
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At that time, the tribal alliance decided to make Zhuan the emperor, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Gonggong clan.
The Gonggong clan is a descendant of Emperor Yan. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the Sea": "The wife of Emperor Yan, the son of Chishui, listens to the Yanju of Wosheng, the Yanju is born of the festival, the festival is born, the drama is born Zhurong, and Zhurong is in the river, and the work is born. ā
It is said that Gonggong's surname is Jiang, and he is a descendant of Emperor Yan and the son of Zhu Rong. Gonggong, a descendant of Emperor Yan, has become the leader of the Gonggong tribal alliance, a branch of the Yandi clan, and uses the toad as a totem to live in the Hexi region in the middle reaches of the Yellow River (about the border of present-day Hui County, Henan). He attached great importance to farming, especially water conservancy work, and was the first in China to use the method of building embankments to store water. Humans are mainly engaged in agricultural production, and the use of water is crucial. Gonggong is another person who has made contributions to the development of agricultural production after Shennong.
Gonggong has a son named Houtu, who is also proficient in agriculture. In order to develop agricultural production and do a good job in water conservancy, they inspected the land situation of the tribes together and found that in some places the terrain was too high and it was very difficult to water the fields, and in some places the terrain was too low and easy to be flooded. For these reasons, it is very unfavorable for agricultural production. Therefore, the Gonggong clan formulated a plan to transport the soil from the high part of the land to raise the high ground, believing that the height of the depression can expand the cultivated area, and the high land can be leveled, which is conducive to water conservancy and irrigation, and is of great benefit to the development of agricultural production.
Gonggong is a descendant of Emperor Yan, and he has many contradictions with the Xuanyuan family. After the emperor took the throne, he gathered the disgruntled princes to oppose him. The rebellious tribes elected the Gonggong as the leader of the alliance and formed an army. Taking advantage of the instability of the emperor's throne at the beginning of the Emperor's reign, the whole army was dispatched to challenge the Yellow Emperor's system. The battle was unfavorable, retreated to the Liaohe River Valley, and the Gonggong landed on the Liaodong Peninsula by sea, so the two sides fought a life-and-death sea and land battle. The decisive battle took place in Bohai Bay, Jinzhou.
The Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi" contains: "In the past, the co-workers and Zhuan fought for the emperor, and the anger could not touch the mountain, the heavenly pillar was broken, and the earth was destroyed. The sky is tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon and stars are shifting, and the earth is not satisfied with the southeast, so the water and dust return. This story recorded in "Huainanzi" is a very famous Chinese myth of "anger touching the Zhou Mountain", and its background is the war between Gonggong and Emperor Zhuan.
When the Gonggong fleet entered, due to the influence of the sea breeze, Zhuan used bamboo and wood bows and arrows, which could no longer resist the pressure of the enemy's army, and Zhuan used agate to make arrows. At this moment, the agate began to show its might, and the co-workers were defeated by this kind of weapon with long range and strong lethality, so they would "be angry and untouchable".
Tang Wei believes that "Buzhou" is a "Dongyi language", which belongs to the Altaic language family, and this ancient word translated into Chinese has the meaning of "all".
"Anger touches the Zhou Mountain" shows that after the Gonggong was damaged by the agate and damaged the attacking warship, he was forced to urgently seek an island landing in the Bohai Bay, repaired and hidden, because to prevent the pursuit of the Emperor Zhuan, so he began to travel east and west, fleeing in all directions, and several islands in the nearby waters have landed, and the Emperor Zhuan will inevitably send people to search the islands comprehensively, so there will be "baidag" meaning "all" Dongyi vocabulary appears, and it becomes "not Zhou" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Ancient texts record that the Gonggong was captured and exiled, and the Gonggong finally hid in Beacon Hill and was captured, although Beacon Hill is said to be named because of its resemblance to a beacon. The pronunciation of "Bijia" is close to "not Zhou", it should originally also come from the sound of "baidag", and later influenced by other "Bijia Mountain" in China, it gave its current name, and when the tide of this Bijia Mountain in Jinzhou falls, there will be a "flyover" wonder in the sea, and the Gonggong led the remnants of the army to retreat at this time, just in time for the low tide, and the Emperor Zhuan can directly reach the island with the troops, and can successfully capture it.
And the shape of the "two long and one short" peaks of this Beacon Mountain is also like being knocked down for a while, which does not contradict the view of some scholars who interpret "incomplete" as "incomplete", and is also extremely consistent with the plot of the mythological story.
Agate made the Gonggong lose a big loss, and saved his family and people, so he had great feelings for agate, so he would wear agate ornaments when he was on the throne, so that most of the descendants did not call him "Gaoyang Emperor", but affectionately called "Zhuan" according to the appearance of the image - that is, "the young leader with a round head and a fat face and an agate on his head".
Legend has it that once the Buzhou Mountain (Heavenly Pillar) was broken, the whole heaven and earth underwent a great change: the northwestern celestial dome lost its support and tilted downward, so that the sun, moon and stars tied to the northern zenith could no longer maintain their original positions. On the other hand, the huge rope hanging from the southeast corner of the earth was broken by violent vibrations, and the southeast earth collapsed, achieving the high terrain in the northwest and low in the southeast that we see today, and the scene of rivers flowing eastward and rivers returning to the sea.
This myth indicates that North China began to enter the final stage before the flood period, which was caused by the hot climate caused by the outbreak of sunspots, and reached its peak during the reign of Emperor Yao, and even gave rise to the legend of the Later Yi S day. Finally, in the later years of Emperor Yao, the flood came. It was the second great flood in prehistory. Later generations joined the Gonggong and broke the pillar, causing the subsequent flood. The interval between them is ignored.
In fact, when looking at prehistoric materials such as "Historical Records", we can find that there is no specific time, and it is difficult to even appear a number, so for people at that time, no matter how long they are apart, they will record together, and it seems that everyone can live forever, like a god descending to earth. The only relative time record in this regard is the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", but unfortunately it was also destroyed by the Song Dynasty physicists through the power of the imperial court, and now there are only a few traces of it recorded in other materials.
The flood caused so much fear that after the death of the leader of the Gonggong clan, he was sacrificed to him as a water master (god of water conservancy) in the hope of protecting them from the threat of the flood. His son, Houtu, was also worshipped as the god of the land (i.e., the god of the land), and later when people swore an oath, they said, "The earth is on the top," referring to him.
After the victory of the Gonggong clan, in order to facilitate the rule of the Central Plains, the capital was moved to Puyang, Henan.