Chapter 4 Yandi Shennong's Clan
readx;? But the tribesmen and the tribesmen who defected to him loved him very much, saying that he did not die, but was summoned by the Emperor of Heaven. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Because of Shennong's contributions, the people of the info tribe called him Shennong, but this actually became the name of the surrounding tribes for the Shennong tribe.
The tribesmen systematically summarized Shennong's inventions and creations, and the productive forces have been greatly developed, especially the medical skills are more worthy of praise. The tribes in the Yangtze River basin gradually embraced the Shennong tribe and became a tribal alliance centered on the Shennong clan.
And the last Wuhuai tribe was gradually surpassed by the prestige of the Shennong clan because they had no special merits. Finally, the leader of the Shennong tribe ~ the Kui clan who inherited the status of Shennong (he was not the descendant of Shennong, the clan system at that time, did not engage in a set of sons inheriting his father's business, and the children of Shennong's clan were still young, so the new patriarch set by the old grandmother) entered the Central Plains, occupied the ancient Chen land of the Fuxi clan, and built the capital on the bank of Yishui, and later the Shennong tribe moved the capital to Yuluo, which is still generally around the ancient Chen land. It officially replaced the rule of the Fuxi tribal alliance, and from then on, the leader of the tribal alliance was no longer honored as Fuxi, but was honored as Emperor Yan. This is the first time that a force from the Yangtze River basin has entered the Central Plains after the Chao clan. The reason why it is called Emperor Yan is also a metaphor for the hot land in the south.
The first alliance leader, the Kui clan, handed over the position of patriarch to the descendants of Shennong, who had grown up, in accordance with the tribal consensus. Thus began the more than 2,000 years of rule of the descendants of the Shennong clan in China. The tribal alliance centered on the Shennong clan revered the Yandi Shennong clan as a common ancestor and buried his grave in Suizhou, Hubei. Since each leader called himself Emperor Yan Shennong Jiang XX, this period is called the era of Emperor Yan.
Yandi Shennong was revered as a god, according to idolatry, because Shennong tamed the buffalo, so the cow was respected as a totem, and the idol of Shennong became the head of the cow. This is the same reason that the descendants of the Fuxi clan idolized the Fuxi clan into a dragon-headed human body. All are the result of primitive religious animal worship.
Legend has it that from Shennong, the Jiang tribe has a total of nine generations of Yan Emperor, Shennong Emperor Kui, Kuisheng Emperor Cheng, Chengsheng Emperor Ming, Ming Sheng Emperor Zhi, Zhisheng Emperor Yu, Emperor Mourning, Mourning Emperor Ke, Kesheng Emperor Yu, and passed on the throne for 530 years.
The above statement is not completely true, we know that the approximate age of the Yellow Emperor is the last year of Emperor Yan, and it is 3000 BC, and the time when Emperor Yan Shennong's invention of Leiyun cannot be later than the Hemudu period of BC5000 BC when Leiyun was discovered. So it's easy to see that Emperor Yan ruled for more than 2,000 years.
So in fact, the tribe originally called the Zhu Xiang tribe and later renamed the Shennong clan did not continue the rule of its own tribe.
Reality: Emperor Yan began his reign in 5000 BC. After the death of the Kui clan, the tribal public agreement passed the position of patriarch to the descendants of Shennong. Not counting the Shennong clan who did not claim the king, there were 8 dynasties, the first of which was ruled by the Shennong tribe, and the other seven dynasties were ruled by other tribes in the tribal alliance, but the leaders were all tribes married by Shennong's children, so the leaders were surnamed Jiang. This is the same as the succession to the throne in the Fuxi period, and there were also Nuwa clans in the Fuxi era who played the same role as the Kuikui clan.
There were about 2,000 years of rule, and there were 8 periods of tribal rule, with an average of about 300 years for each dynasty.
The regime of Emperor Yan Shennong was passed down to eight dynasties, about 5000~2703).
The first emperor, the Shennong clan, was founded by the Kui clan, and then transferred to the Jiang clan. Its tribe (Zhu Xiang-Shennong) ruled for 5000~4470 years.
During the second period of tribal rule, Linkui, a child of the Jiang family who married outside, was the leader of the tribal alliance. Its tribe (the name of the tribe is unknown) ruled for 4470~4220 years.
During the third tribal rule, Jiang Cheng, a descendant of the Jiang family, was the leader of the tribal alliance. The reign of its tribe (the name of the tribe is unknown): 4220~3970 years.
During the fourth tribal rule, Jiang Ming, a descendant of the Jiang family, was the leader of the tribal alliance. Its tribe (the name of the tribe is unknown) ruled for 3970~3720 years.
During the fifth tribal rule, Jiang Yi, a descendant of the Jiang family, was the leader of the tribal alliance. The reign of its tribe (the name of the tribe is unknown): 3720~3470 years.
During the sixth tribal rule, Jiang Lai, a descendant of the Jiang family, was the leader of the tribal alliance. The reign of its tribe (the name of the tribe is unknown): 3470~3220 years.
The latter two tribal reigning eras will be introduced later, first introducing the historical relics of the Yandi era:
Hemudu Culture: Zhejiang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Time: BC5000~3000 years. Typical site: Hemudu site in Yuyao, Zhejiang.
The building form is mainly a dry column building with pile slabs higher than the ground. Reflecting the high temperature and humid living environment in the south, the pole-and-railed house is one of the important architectural forms since the Neolithic period south of the Yangtze River in China, and it is the earliest dry-column building found at present. There is a marked difference from the semi-crypt houses of the same period in the northern region.
Household utensils, mainly pottery, and a small amount of wood. Black pottery is a major feature of Hemudu pottery. Stone tools are mainly hunting tools such as axes, but there are also ornaments.
The production technology of black pottery is complex, when it is fired to 1000 degrees Celsius, it is necessary to seal the kiln to reduce the air ingress, so that the red color of iron oxide is reduced to gray divalent iron, and the unburned carbon black makes the ceramsite fill the fine pores in the pottery body, which is conducive to the durability of the pottery body. Further development of this technology led to the knowledge of copper metal obtained by reducing the smelting of ores. Therefore, archaeology once believed that black pottery was the predecessor of bronze ware.
The pottery of Hemudu culture is mainly charcoal black pottery, with a small amount of sand and muddy gray pottery, all of which are handmade, and the firing temperature is 800-930C. There are kettles, pots, cups, plates, bowls, basins, jars, bowls, stoves, covers, supports, cups, retorts, tripods, etc., which can be divided into cookers, eating utensils, storage utensils, and water drawers according to the use function. There are two kinds of special ones: stove and cup. The pottery stove resembles a dustpan and has three milk-nailed feet on the inner wall, which is set up for the placement of the kettle. After the invention of the pottery stove, it solved the problem of fire prevention in the wooden building, and was the predecessor of the cylinder stove that was used by the southern residents in later generations. There are often rope patterns and scratches on the surface of the instrument. There are some painted pottery, painted with variants of brown and black-brown plant patterns.
The pattern of rice ears is printed on the pottery pot with rice ears, and the curved rice ear pattern makes people imagine that people in the Hemudu period had already begun to cultivate rice. The cultivation of rice has made it possible to accumulate a large amount of surplus grain in society, and with it comes the emergence of a gap between the rich and the poor. The development of culture has also entered a new stage.