Chapter 7 The Dating Clan and the Bai Huang Clan
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First, in history, primitive religion was the superstructure of society, and its religious, social, and political activities were often one and the same. At this time, primitive religion was the force that sustained the national spirit, allowing people to form a strong group to resist the oppression of nature and society.
Second, the formation of various ethnic groups in history, the unity, stability, and common development among ethnic groups, the common prosperity of various ethnic groups, and the stability of the social system have played a very positive role. The worship of the same natural object or totem strengthens the sense of identity between the community of people bound by blood or geographical ties, and strengthens their ties with each other.
In the case of very limited food supply in primitive society, it is very important to adhere to absolute egalitarianism in food distribution, and this kind of ethical and moral norms are to a large extent supported by religious concepts and activities, and the ethical and moral norms in other fields are mainly guaranteed by traditional primitive religions, so it can be said that primitive religions play a very important role in maintaining ethical and moral norms.
Third, the use of witchcraft in primitive religion to cure people's diseases is a kind of active primitive accumulation, including not only the accumulation of primitive medical knowledge, but also the accumulation of some social practices and science and technology. All these have laid a certain foundation for the formation and development of practical sciences and skills such as ethnic medicine.
Fourth, it has had a very positive impact on the formation and development of the writing, literature, and art of various ethnic groups.
Primitive religion increased and inspired the courage and strength of people to fight against nature at that time, and promoted the development of primitive people's thinking ability from concrete to abstract. The religious activities of the priests gave birth to the germ of certain spiritual labors, such as art. Totem worship has consolidated the clan system, changed the marital status of peer marriages that were prevalent within blood families in the past, and made the new thing of group marriage outside the clan achieve lasting and stable development.
Volume 78 of "Taiping Yulan" quotes the cloud of "Dunjia Kaishan Tu": "The Nuwa clan is not, the king of the Dating clan has the world, and the five phoenixes are of different colors." There are Baihuang clan, Central clan, Li Lu clan, Lilian clan, Huxu clan, Zun Lu clan, Zhu Rong clan, Chaos, Haoying clan, Rongcheng clan, Ge Tian clan, Yin Kang clan, Zhu Xiang clan, Wu Huai clan, all fifteen generations, all attack the name of Ku sacrifice. "The names of the 15 tribes in this part are the same as the tribal names of the early and middle prehistoric ones (such as Zhurong), which should be their descendants, but later followed the tribal names of Fuxi.
After the Nuwa clan, 15 tribes successively became the central tribes of the tribal alliance, all of them were descendants of the tribal alliance during the Fuxi clan, and they all respected Fuxi as their common ancestor and called Fuxi as the common leader of the alliance. So how do we break the generation?
Let's take a look at the next system that inherited the Fuxi system, the Shennong's system, and the history records that the main achievement of the Shennong clan was the invention of the plow, and the cultivation of grains, systematizing ancient agriculture. Because some of the crops in the five grains were cultivated as early as the Fuxi period, but they were not systematized. So it can't be counted as a landmark event. The invention of Shennong's Leiyun did not appear in the Fuxi period, which is a landmark event. Therefore, we can search for the corresponding era of the Shennong clan in the ancient ruins with this landmark event.
We quickly retrieved the earliest site of Leiyun ~ Hemudu site in the Yangtze River basin (BC5000~3000 years), and the corresponding site in the Yellow River basin is about the Yangyun culture period. At that time, there were plows pulled by buffaloes in the south, and stone hoes appeared in the north. It was a revolutionary agricultural event that took place around the same time.
And Shennong's next system ~ the Yellow Emperor system also happened to be around 3000 BC. Therefore, we can infer that the time when Shennong's replaced the Fuxi system was exactly 5000 BC.
A total of 17 tribes (including the Fuxi and Nuwa tribes) appeared in succession with the Fuxi system, which began in 9750 BC and ended in 5000 BC. The average rule time of each tribe is (9750-5000)/17=279 years. An average reign of about 280 years.
Then the reign time of Fuxi and Nuwa is about 560 years, and the time of Fuxi's reign is clearly 110 years, so the reign time of Nuwa is about 450 years, that is, BC9640~9190.
The Dating clan, the name of the clan leader in ancient China, is the ancestor of the Yandi Shennong clan. According to the records of the "Imperial Century", the Dating clan was after the Nuwa clan and before the Baihuang clan. The monarch of the Fuxi clan. There were sixteen monarchs from Taihao to Wuhuai in the Fuxi system (in fact, the Nuwa clan was added as seventeen monarchs, but the phoenix was used as a totem in the Nuwa period, and in fact, even Fuxi himself was born in the Nuwa clan, while the dragon was used as a totem in other periods).
Reign of the Εting clan: BC9190~8910. A total of 280 years.
Bai Huang is also known as "Bai Huang". Also known as "Fence". The name of the ancient emperor in Han legend. "Yi Department Resignation" "Bao Xi (Fu Xi's) No, Shennong's Made" Tang Kong Yingda Shu: "Nuwa's No, there are Dating and Baihuang...... All the fifteenth, all Xi Bao Xi clan also. β
The Song Dynasty scholar Luo Mi recorded in the "History of the Road: The Sixth Chronicle of the Former Period": "Bai Huang's family, surnamed Bai Mingzhi, is the imperial cypress, the sun of the day of the fight, driving the six Kai, and taking Mu Jide." For the sake of not having, should not be asked. Standing in the south of Zhengyang, it is the Huangren Mountain. It is also recorded in the historical book "Preface to the Destiny Calendar": "Emperor Bai went out of the sun of Bosang and drove the cloud dragon up and down." It is recorded in the historical book "Hanshu Lile Zhi": "Baihuang Dule Six Dragons". Six dragons, that is, six horses, refers to the driving specifications of the Son of Heaven when he went out on patrol, and the Bai Huang clan rode in the car of the six dragons, which shows that its status was very prominent at that time.
The Baihuang clan lived on Huangbai Mountain (Huangbo Mountain, now Chenliu, Kaifeng, Henan), and legend has it that its leader was named Baizhi, with cypress as a totem. When Baizhi was young, he served as Fuxi's assistant, worked hard in the world without merit, and benefited the people without asking for anything, so he won the support of the people, so he won the trust of Fuxi, and later became the leader of the tribal alliance, with Huangbai Mountain as the capital. Therefore, historians also call him Bai Huang's clan. It is revered as the imperial cypress and called the royal cypress. The Baihuang clan is an ancient Chinese ethnic group, which is recorded in many classics.
Note: The leaders of the tribal confederations of the 15 dynasties called themselves Fuxi, just as the people later called themselves emperors. The title that belongs to the co-lord of the world. Therefore, Baizhi was an assistant to the previous generation of Fuxi (that is, the last head of the Dating clan).
It is mentioned that the Bai Huang clan won the trust of Fuxi, and then became the leader of the tribal alliance. Cause and effect in this is untenable. You must know that at that time, it was still in the late stage of the matriarchal clan that was negotiated by the tribes, and even if the patriarch wanted to give it up, the people in the tribe would not easily agree.
Whether there is an element of conspiracy in this, it is precisely because Cecilia is deeply trusted, so he can establish prestige among the princes and the common people, thus unknowingly usurping the ruling authority of the Dating clan over the tribes. By the time the leader of the Dating clan finds out, I'm afraid it'll be too late.