Chapter 6 Cangjie Character Creation and the Chronicle of the Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branches
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Cangjie, a minister during the emperor's period, created the best carrier of culture - writing, so that people can use these words to record various rules and experiences before the Yellow Emperor, including the emperor's time, which is a great benefit to Chinese culture. Although most of them are now lost, there is no doubt that they have played a role in history, and without them, we would not have all the subject knowledge we see now. Legend has it that when Cangjie created the first word, it caused the wind and clouds of heaven and earth to change color, and it was suspected that it was a leak of heavenly secrets. However, from the perspective of the spread of Chinese civilization, it is indeed no less than opening the heavens and the earth.
Music: Linglun takes the bamboo of the valley to make the pipe, and sets the five tones and twelve rhythms, which are in line with today. During the Yellow Emperor era, the National Ritual Music was created.
The drum is an ancient percussion instrument, and the production of the drum is the first to recommend the ancient legend of the Yellow Emperor taking the "Kui Pi" drum. Kui, is a mythical and legendary one-legged god and monster animal, "Shan Hai Jing - Great Wilderness East Classic" describes Kui is a mythical beast in ancient times, born in the East China Sea Liubo Mountain, "like a cow, the body and no horns, one foot, in and out of the water there must be wind and rain, its light is like the sun and the moon, its sound is like thunder, its name is called Kui". Later generations believe that the so-called dragon is actually a giant crocodile, which hits its belly with its tail and makes beautiful music, which is really cute to say, which shows the harmony between man and nature in ancient times. And with the hardness of crocodile skin, even if it can't be "heard for 500 miles" after being made into a drum, it must be very loud to beat.
Medicine: Discussed pathology with Qi Bo, and wrote "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" (written during the Warring States Period).
In terms of architecture, the palace room, Luan Palace, Ting, Ming Hall, Guan, Pavilion, Castle, Building, Gate, Steps, Silkworm Room, Ancestral Temple, Yufang Palace, etc.
In terms of weapons, he has mastered swords, spears, bows, crossbows, six flags, flags, five-party flags, horns, swords, talismans, ladders, turrets, swords, archery, etc. Army: After the wind, Yan holds the strange map, and starts the formation. The Yellow Emperor invented the chariot later than the Sumerians in the valley of the two rivers.
In terms of daily life, cooked food, porridge, rice, wine, meat, rulers, buckets, rules, inkstones, several cases, felt, han, seals, beads, fire lamps, beds, mats, and kicks have all appeared.
In terms of smelting, it mainly integrates the technology of the Jiuli tribe, smelts copper, and manufactures copper tripods, knives, coins, cymbals, cho, copper mirrors, bells, and guns.
The Yellow Emperor observed the movement of the sun and often offered sacrifices to the ghosts and gods of the mountains and rivers. The yarrow (shi, division) used for divination was used to calculate and formulate a calendar to predict the solar terms. The Yellow Emperor taught people to conform to the laws of the four seasons of heaven and earth, speculate on the changes of yin and yang, explain the principles of life and death, discuss the causes of existence and death, sow hundreds of grains and plants according to the seasons, domesticate birds, beasts, silkworms, and insects, measure the sun, moon and stars to determine the calendar, collect earth, stones, gold and jade for civil use, and use water, fire, wood and various possessions in moderation.
The emperor made Da Luo as Jiazi, with ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches to Ji Shi (Jiazi, Yichou and Guihai, a total of 60 years as a cycle), that is, the 60 yuan of Taoism. That is to say, the Ganzhi chronology was founded by the Yellow Emperor and became the time chronology method of Huaxia that has been passed down to modern society.
In 2678 BC, after the Yellow Emperor established the world, he formulated the country's official system, and the official positions of the Yellow Emperor were named after clouds, and the army was called Yunshi. The one who is in charge of clan affairs is called Qingyun, and the one who is in charge of military affairs is called Jinyun, and he has set up left and right eunuchs to supervise all the tribes in the world. There are a total of 120 official positions to manage the country, including three dukes, three young people, four auxiliaries, four histories, six phases, and nine virtues (official names). Fenghou, Limu, Changxian, Dahong, Cangjie and others were appointed as major ministers.
For officials at all levels, he proposed "six prohibitions", and "heavy" means excessive, that is, "heavy on sound, sex, clothing, incense, taste, and room", requiring officials to be simple and simple, and to oppose extravagance. It is proposed to govern the country by virtue, "cultivate virtue and revitalize the army", give the world with "virtue", cultivate virtue together, but benevolence is action, cultivate virtue and establish righteousness, especially the establishment of "ministers of nine virtues", educate the people and nine elements, that is, serve as judges, serve as prison officials, and sentence those who commit serious crimes to be lost, and those who commit serious crimes are sentenced to beheading.
The Yellow Emperor established the ancient state system: dividing the territory into eight wells, three wells for one neighbor, three neighbors for one friend, three friends for one mile, five miles for one yi, ten yi for the capital, ten for one division, ten divisions for the state. The Yellow Emperor cast a tripod in Jingshan (located in Henan), and there are three tripods, which means that there are three talents of heaven, earth and man, and they are placed in Zhuolu, Beijing.
The Yellow Emperor moved the tribes to the hinterland of the Central Plains, believing that the Central Plains was the center of the earth, and the leaders designated the places where the tribes would settle. In this way, the chieftain can directly enjoy the special products offered by the tribes. Since then, the Central Plains Dynasty has been called Dingding Central Plains whenever a new dynasty is established. Later, in the long years from the Yellow Emperor to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China, those who held the power of various countries claimed to be the descendants of the Yellow Emperor.
The Yellow Emperor began to formally establish the basic system of the state, and also stipulated the relevant norms of all walks of life, as well as some very specialized books such as the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing". There are so many things in history that are listed as the creations and achievements of the Yellow Emperor that many of them are suspected to have been written in the name of the Yellow Emperor. Because if a person can do so many things, it must be a god who can do it.
Since the Yellow Emperor was embraced by the ancestors as a respected elder, there has not been a formal "title" The ministers have given the Yellow Emperor many honorific titles, and the Yellow Emperor did not agree. In the end, it was the Yellow Emperor who decided for himself. The Yellow Emperor found that the soil is yellow, the soil can give birth to all things, the soil is the only backer on which people depend, and the ancestors are yellow-skinned, so he determined that his honorific title should be called "Yellow Land". Since then, "Xuanyuan Huangdi" has been settled.
In the Yin Shang era, some literati felt that it was indecent to call their ancestors "Huangdi", and they changed "Huangdi" to "Yellow Emperor" under the pretext that "Di" and "Emperor" were homonyms. "Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor" has been used since then. Before the Qin Dynasty, the princes of all countries were afraid of violating the ancestral teachings and damaging the ancestors' morality, so they easily did not dare to call themselves "emperors", so they had to call themselves kings and hegemons. After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he considered himself to be the "Three Emperors" and the "Five Emperors", and called himself the "First Yellow Emperor". But he didn't dare to use this "yellow", so he had to use the white king "emperor".
The Yellow Emperor is the honorific title of the Xiong tribe ruling the Central Plains, and the Yellow Emperor, as a dynasty, is a honorific title shared by several generations, similar to the emperor's honorific title in the feudal era.