Volume 1 The Search for a Thousand Years Chapter 8 The Fog of Life
At that time, the Emperor of Heaven often told the father of the Northern Water God King to obey his orders. However, the father of the Northern Water God King relied on his strength to be relatively strong and older, so he did not obey the orders of the Emperor of Heaven very much. At that time, the strength of the Heavenly Emperor was not very strong, and he could not completely eliminate the father of the Northern Water God King. Moreover, at that time, there were many youkai in Beishui. If it weren't for the father of the North Water God King to deal with those monsters in Beishui, the Heavenly Emperor would not have the energy to take care of the monsters in Beishui. The main reason is that the Emperor of Heaven does not have very strong courtiers, so he will be restrained by the Northern Water God King.
When the Northern Water God King was very young, he often saw his father disobeying the Emperor of Heaven. Therefore, the North Water God King also did not obey the Emperor of Heaven, and felt that the Emperor of Heaven had no ability. Therefore, the North Water God King did things according to his own temperament. Once, the Northern Water God King did something wrong, causing a flood in the human world and drowning many people. However, the Northern Water God King didn't care about the affairs of the world at all. Because the flood was too big, it was impossible to cure the flood. Kun knew that the Emperor of Heaven had a treasure that could control floods. Therefore, Kun stole the treasure of the Emperor of Heaven. That treasure can turn the earth into a mountain to keep out the flood.
Through this treasure, Kun managed the flood. However, this matter was discovered by the Emperor of Heaven, and he sent Zhu Rong to retrieve the treasure. When Kun saw Zhu Rong coming to his house, he knew that his theft of treasures had been discovered by the Emperor of Heaven. So, Kun knew that he was going to die. However, Kun hopes that Zhu Rong can help the human world deal with the North Water God King. Otherwise, there will always be a flood on earth. After saying that, Kun committed suicide, and Zhu Rong was moved by Kun's behavior and vowed to get rid of the North Water God King. After Zhu Rong returned the treasure to the Emperor of Heaven, he asked the Emperor of Heaven for permission to kill the God King of the North Water.
The Emperor of Heaven had long seen that the Northern Water God King was not pleasing to the eye, so he agreed to Zhu Rong's request. So, Zhu Rong flew far away and came to the place where the North Water God King lived. When the Northern Water God King saw Zhu Rong coming to his territory, he knew that it was the Emperor of Heaven who had sent him to kill his enemy. So, the North Water God King immediately fought with Zhu Rong. However, Zhu Rong's strength is somewhat stronger than that of the Northern Water God King. After a long time, Zhu Rong killed the North Water God King. Therefore, the Emperor of Heaven named Zhu Rong as the god of fire and water.
The music of the salty pond played, and everyone danced around the Yellow Emperor. After dancing happily, the Yellow Emperor asked everyone to calm down and said: "Since I took the throne, I have been leveling the elbows, killing the chiyou, formulating the calendar, inventing writing, creating music and rhythm, compiling medical books, and the ancestors have cultivated silkworms and silkworms, and fixed the system of clothes. Now that the world is unified, I want to lay the five mountains: Mount Tai in the east, Mount Hua in the west, Mount Heng in the south, Mount Heng in the north, and Mount Song in the middle. From now on, Huo Zheng Zhurong guards Nanyue. ”
During the reign of Nanyue, he saw that the people here often ate raw food, so he told them to make a fire and taught them to cook things before eating. When he saw that the people were groping in the darkness at night, he told them to use the fire pine. When he saw that there was a lot of miasma and mosquitoes, and that the people were often sick, he told them to light a fire and smoke to drive away the mosquitoes and the miasma. The people respected him very much, and every year after the autumn harvest in August, they came in droves to worship him.
One year, the Yellow Emperor led the people of the Xia tribe to move from south to north. Suddenly encountered a torrential rain on the way, flash floods, water everywhere, adults and children were watered by the rain like chickens in soup. Zhu Rong was in charge of managing the fire, and the fire he brought with him was also extinguished by the torrential rain. People were cold and hungry, and children were crying and screaming. The Yellow Emperor ordered everyone to stay in a large stone cave for a while, and wait for the weather to clear before leaving.
Who knows, God seems to be deliberately against people, and for several days, the rain has been falling non-stop. People live in caves in the mountains, and hunger and cold are unbearable. But because of the loss of fire, it is impossible to make a fire for cooking and heating. The hunger was so hungry that they couldn't support it, so the adults began to eat raw meat, and the elderly and children had to soak mushrooms in cold water to eat.
Zhu Rong was very anxious and wanted to use the method of drilling wood to make fire, but the firewood he brought was all wet, and he had not drilled out of the spark after drilling for a long time.
Seeing that it was dark, Zhu Rong was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and there was no effect, so in a fit of anger, he threw the drill in his hand hard. Unexpectedly, the drill bit hit the rock of the cave, splashing more sparks. Zhu Rong's heart suddenly changed from worry to joy, he forgot about fatigue, found a lot of rocks, and hit each other hard, only to see the sparks constantly splashing.
But how do you make Mars burn? Again, this becomes a conundrum. The Yellow Emperor came over and said to Zhu Rong: "Don't be too anxious, if you can shoot a spark from a stone, this is a great success." What to do next, you need to find more people to discuss together. ”
The Yellow Emperor's encouragement doubled Zhu Rong's confidence. He found Chang Xian, Da Hong, Li Mu, Concubine, and others to find a way together. Everyone, you and I don't stop talking, only Chang Xian is one person who bows down and doesn't say a word.
They thought he was hungry and sick and advised him to rest. Unexpectedly, Chang Xian suddenly stood up and said, "There is a way!" As he spoke, he untied his waistline, tore it hard, calmly took out a ball of tidbits, and said to Zhu Rong: You put these reed tidbits under the stones, and then hit the stones to make fire. ”
Zhu Rong laid out the reed tidbits according to his suggestion, and then hit the stone, the sparks splashed more and more, and the sound of igniting the reed tidbits became louder and louder, Zhu Rong blew lightly with his mouth, and a puff of smoke burst out of the flames. The fire was successful!
With fire, people have hope of survival. The adults and children in the cave all cheered and jumped. The Yellow Emperor held a celebration party for Zhu Rong, recorded great merit for him, and named him "Huozheng".
After the Zhurong clan took charge of the south, they lived on the Zhurong Peak in the north of Nanyue Heng Mountain, in the west of the Zhurong Palace, the platform was expected, the moon was bright, the moon was in the sky, the silver light was shining, and the scenery was exceptionally beautiful. Standing on the stage and admiring the moonlight, there is a different scene than on the flat ground. Even when the moon sinks in the west, it still has its afterglow.
Since Zhu Rong is also the god of the South China Sea, of course, he must choose a station for him to manage the South China Sea. There must be at least two conditions for this location: first, it is close to the mouth of the South China Sea and there is a port nearby, which is convenient for merchant ships to enter and exit for worship; The second is that there is a certain population nearby, and people can often go to the temple to worship and worship and manage.
Located in the South China Sea at the mouth of the Pearl River, Fuxu Town is about 80 miles away from Guangzhou City, on the north bank of the Pearl River, facing the Fuxu River (a section of the Pearl River), connecting the Shiziyang in the east, connecting the Tiger Gate under the Humen, and backing to Guangzhou.
The geographical location of Fuxu Town is very superior, and it is known as "only a hundred steps to the sea, and it has always been windy and turbulent, and the shore is facing the abyss of unforesight". It became an ideal place to build the sea temple, so people built the South China Sea Temple here, so that Zhurong had a place to live.
(Zhurong's descendants were able to branch out mainly due to the large-scale migration and movement of ancient China, according to legend, in ancient times, Zhurong's lineage was concentrated in the Yellow Emperor tribe, because Zhurong was the son of Emperor Zhuan, and Zhurong also served as Emperor Zhuan's Huozheng Palace (there is also a saying: Zhurong was the Huozheng Palace in the era of the Yellow Emperor, or served as the Huozheng Palace in the era of Emperor Yu's rule), at first, Zhurong and his descendants lived in the Central Plains, and lived together with other clans and tribes. In the later generational change, the descendants of Zhu Rong began to move to Jiangnan, and at this time, the two main surnames were derived from the name of Zhu Rong, that is, the two factions of "Zhu Clan" and "Rong Clan". Among them, among the eight surnames of Zhurong, there is the surname "Mi", and the state of Chu was established. The state of Chu established by the descendants of the Zhurong clan can be said to have undergone a long period of changes, and it continued until the later fall of the Qin state. )