readx;? There are different opinions on the description of the Three Emperors in various classics. The following is a summary www.biquge.info of several groups of sayings of the Three Emperors:

(1) Fuxi, Nuwa, Shennong

(2) Fuxi, Shennong, Yellow Emperor

(3) Suiren, Fuxi, Shennong

(4) Fuxi, Shennong, Zhurong

(5) Fuxi, Shennong, and Gonggong

I will not discern which statement is correct here, in fact, all statements are correct, but not comprehensive.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Weishu "Spring and Autumn Destiny Calendar" and "The Beginning of Learning" took the three emperors as the emperor, the emperor of the earth, and the emperor of people. The Three Emperors in the Taoist classics are divided into three groups: the "Three Emperors of the First Beginning" also have human shapes (one says that they have twelve, eleven, and nine heads respectively); the "Middle Three Emperors" have a human-faced snake body or a dragon body, with thirteen, eleven, and nine heads respectively (one says that the Zhongren Emperor is the Suiren clan and the Earth Emperor is the Youchao clan); in the "Later Three Emperors", the "Hou Tianhuang" has a dragon head, that is, Fuxi, the "Houdi Emperor" has a snake head, that is, Nuwa, and the "Houren Emperor" has a cow-headed human body, that is, Shennong. Han Dynasty portrait stones and silk paintings are more than this image.

We need to analyze the historical facts of this period of history and first remove the deified part of it. So the above story removes the names of the descendants of the three emperors of heaven, earth, and man to their ancestors.

The prehistoric era can be divided into three phases:

The early prehistoric period is divided into 12, 11, and 9, with a total of 32 tribal periods. This stage belongs to the embryonic stage of religion, after Pangu opened up the worship of heaven, religion continued to develop, but it has not yet reached the stage of animal worship. So the leaders of these tribes have human form.

The middle prehistoric period is divided into 33 tribal periods of 13, 11, and 9. This stage belongs to the stage of religious development, which develops to the stage of animal worship. So the leaders of these tribes are all human heads, dragon bodies, or snake bodies. The pinnacle of animal worship is the advent of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which is full of imaginary animals with divine characteristics.

The late prehistoric period is divided into three tribal periods: Fuxi, Nuwa, and Shennong. At this stage, religion continued its previous development, which was manifested in the image of Fuxi with a human head and a dragon body, Nuwa's image with a human head and a snake body, and Shennong's image with a cow head and a human body.

So how are these three phases demarcated?

We relate the above myths and legends to the history of climate change in the world. It can be clearly eraed.

We know that the end of the Quaternary glaciation was about the beginning of the Holocene, that is, about a year ago. The ice age was followed by a great flood around the world, which caused the sinking of the last island of Atlantis. The eastern part of Chinese mainland was largely flooded, cutting it off from Japan, Taiwan and Indonesia.

In the myths and legends of the Han and other ethnic minorities in China, there are Fuxi Nuwa brothers and sisters who escaped the flood and became the only remaining human beings in the world, so the brothers and sisters got married and multiplied the story of modern human beings.

Summarizing the above two pieces of information, it is concluded that there was a great flood when Fuxi Nuwa was young. So we have a clear message of generation. There were 65 tribal alliance dynasties before Fuxi, and 66 dynasties with the Pangu clan. Due to the fact that Pangea was covered by leather in its time, it can be roughly inferred that the year when it began the rule of the tribal confederation was about a year. We will (years. That is, each tribe may rule the Grand Alliance for more or less time, but on average each tribe rules the Grand Alliance for about 300 years. In the absence of a prehistoric account of history, we can only take this rough estimate.

There are many descendants of Pangu, and legend has it that 12 brothers, led by the emperor, inherited the position of patriarch of Pangu. This is actually a deification of the rule of the 12 central tribes in the aforementioned account. But the emperor is obviously not a real name, and it is impossible for someone to be called the emperor, just as modern people do not name their children the Jade Emperor or the chairman, the president, or something like that. This is just the honorific title of the successor of Pangu by later generations. As for the real name, it is no longer possible to test, (people at that time did not even have a surname, let alone a name), and the names left now are tribal names. Moreover, Pangu's direct successor was also arranged by the old grandmother, and it was impossible for Pangu's children to take over the throne of the patriarch or even the tribal alliance.

The Pangu tribe was limited in its time as the central tribe of the tribal alliance, which was ruled alternately by the tribes due to their different contributions. The so-called 12 brothers headed by the emperor actually refer to the period when the 12 tribes were in power. Each tribe ruled for about 300 years. Generally speaking, the tribal alliance belongs to the mountaintop cave people in Hebei and has become the largest power group in China.

The names of these dynasties or tribes can be known from the Pangu King Table (according to legend for Dayu):

The First Dynasty of China was ruled by a tribal alliance centered on the Pangu clan, which was ruled alternately, and there were thirteen tribes including the Pangu clan before and after, including the Pangu clan, the Jufang clan, the Seti Ji 9 clans, and the Heyu Ji 2 tribes.

Pangu clan, reigned in: > Jufang clan, reigned in:

The 9th clan of the Seti Dynasty, the reign time of the 2nd clan of the > Heji Dynasty, the reign time of the 2nd clan, the reign time of the > years, the tribal alliance in the Hebei region has radiated to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong around the Yellow River Basin. The dominance of the Yellow River basin continued until the year. During this period, there were 20 tribes in power (dynasties), and none of these 20 tribes had Hebei as their political center. So it's different from before.

Among the first 11 tribes, the political center was changed to the Black Camel Mountain in Shuozhou, the southwest corner of the Datong Basin in Shanxi. Ruins: Shiyu ruins. A side tribe of the Heyu period fell here, bringing a more advanced civilization here, and on this basis, they developed more advanced bows and arrows, defeated the central tribe in the Hebei region, and brought the spoils of war to their hometown ~ Black Camel Mountain. From then on, the Hebei region submitted to the Shiyu people in Shanxi, and most of the local tribes moved to Shanxi with them.

The Second Chinese Dynasty (), a tribal alliance established by the Shiyu people of Shanxi, was ruled by 11 tribes alternately. These eleven tribes include one tribe of the Heyu Period, the 6th tribe of the Tongji and the 4th tribe of the Summing Period.

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