Chapter 341: Emperor Jun
"Mountains and Seas Overseas East Longitude": "There is Fusang in the Tang Valley, bathed in ten days, in the north of the black tooth. In the water, there is a big tree, which is on the lower branch for nine days, and the upper branch for one day. ”
"The Great Wilderness of Mountains and Seas": "There is a valley called Wenyuan Valley, Tang Valley, there is a supporting wood, one day to arrive, one day to out, all contained in Wu. ”
This is the record of the sun in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
To be precise, there should be a record of the "Golden Crow Divine Bird".
The Jinsha site, which is later than Sanxingdui, once unearthed a gold ornament of the sun god bird.
The whole gold ornament has an outer diameter of 12.5 cm, an inner diameter of 5.29 cm, a thickness of 0.02 cm, and a weight of 20 grams.
The whole vessel is round and the body is extremely thin. The figure is represented by a hollow method, divided into two layers, the inner layer is a circle, and there are twelve rotating toothed rays of light distributed around it at equal distances.
The outer eucalyptus surrounds the inner eucalyptus and consists of four identical birds flying counterclockwise.
The four birds meet their heads and feet in front of each other, flying in the same direction, opposite to the direction of rotation of the inner vortex.
Obviously, this gold ornament vividly reproduces the myths and legends of the ancient human "Golden Crow Negative Day".
The four sacred birds fly around the rotating sun, repeating themselves over and over again.
It reflects the strong worship of the sun and birds of Jinsha people!
This shows that at least the legend about the Golden Crow Divine Bird in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", as well as the myths and legends of Hou Yi shooting the sun, and the ten days of the same day, should be born very early.
At least in the late Shang period, it was already born.
The legend of the 10th day and the same day of the Hou Yi was once one of the most widely spread myths in our country.
The Sanxingdui civilization resembles the bronze god tree of "Fusang", and the Jinsha site that inherits the Sanxingdui cultural bloodline, and the famous sun god bird gold leaf has been unearthed.
This all shows that the ancient Shu people have a great possibility and are the starting point of the myths and legends about the sun in China.
"Senior Brother Chen, you said that the gods of Sanxingdui people's large-scale sacrifice will be the emperor of myths and legends?"
Zhuang Yunpeng frowned, and suddenly came up with a bold idea.
The Sanxingdui civilization is likely to be related to an ancient god recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" - Dijun!
Dijun is a very special deity.
In Chinese legends and myths, Di Jun is an enigmatic divine figure.
His deeds are neither recorded in the official history, nor are they passed down to his sons.
The only pre-Qin book that has ever recorded the god "Di Jun" is only the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Dijun is the first god in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
In the world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he is the husband of the Japanese mother Xi and the moon mother Chang Xi, the father of the sun and the moon, the boss of Dayi, and the ancestor of the agricultural countries such as Bai Min, Sanshen, and Black Tooth.
To put it simply, Di Jun's setting in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is simply the main god who supports the whole world.
Without him, there would be no sun and no moon.
However, the record about him can only be found in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", especially reflected in the "Great Wilderness" and "Sea" classics.
It's just that Chen Han disagrees with Zhuang Yunpeng's speculation.
He frowned and said, "Di Jun should be the god of the Dongyi Group, and it is impossible to contact Shudi." ”
The legend of Emperor Jun does not belong to the lineage of Emperor Yan at all, nor does it belong to the lineage of Emperor Huangdi, and is a legend independent of the gods of Emperor Yan and Huang.
In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", he appeared as the ancestral god of the Eastern tribes in ancient times.
In fact, it is equivalent to the ancestral god of Dongyi.
Because most of the places of activity of the emperor and his descendants recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are in the east.
Most scholars now believe that the believers of Emperor Jun were the early members of the Dongyi group.
Dayi and Kuafu are all members of them.
The multicolored bird is their totem.
Dongyi people have advanced farming technology, can sing and dance, worship the sun, can use the advanced solar calendar, and take birds as their ancestors.
It was only later that the rise of the Yan and Huang groups defeated and conquered the Dongyi people, and later the Dongyi people were scattered in all directions and integrated into the Yan and Huang tribes.
By the way, Chiyou, or the Chiyou tribe, is now considered by many scholars to be a part of Dongyi.
Some scholars believe that the prototype of the phoenix is the messenger of the Dongyi tribe's god ———— Dijun, the "colorful bird".
The later Chu people took the phoenix as the sacred bird, perhaps because the ancestors of the Chu people were the descendants of the Dongyi people after the defeat and moved south.
Therefore, they inherited the god worship of Dongyi, and only then did they take the phoenix and the divine bird as the totem of the Chu State.
It's just a theological study of these gods.
Chen Han has always been insensitive.
He didn't think that by studying the inheritance of the Chinese gods, he would be able to clarify the history of the pre-Qin period in China.
Because the legends of the gods in Huaxia are too chaotic.
And the earlier it is, the more chaotic it is...
Take this Dijun as an example.
According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he went to everything from east to west, north and south, and almost all the important great inventions of ancient times came from his descendants.
The most important thing is that many clans, including the surname Ji, the surname Jiang, and the surname Yao, were divided by him.
However, neither the Zhou people nor the later Qi State worshiped the culture of Emperor Jun...
The tombs of the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty and the tombs of the Qi Kingdom unearthed in various places have not found any written records of "Emperor Jun", or totem and utensils worship.
However, in the "Book of Chu Silk" unearthed in Chu, I saw that "Emperor Chu (Jun) is a trip to the sun and the moon." ".
This is also the earliest record of Emperor Jun.
Obviously, the legend of Emperor Jun in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" cannot be confirmed by reality.
Moreover, in fact, there are also relevant records of Hou Yi, or "Yi", in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
It's just that, unlike the records of other classics, Hou Yi in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is Di Jun's subordinate.
"Emperor Jun gave Yi Tong a bow to help the country, and Yi was the first to go to the land to overcome the difficulties."
In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Dayi is not a human being, but a god sent by the god Emperor Jun to the world to save the suffering.
But in other texts of later generations, the object of Dayi's allegiance became the human emperor Yao.
"Emperor Jun" seems to have disappeared into the classics except the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Chen Han shook his head and said with a look of disinterest: "I have no interest in studying the Huaxia Divine System at all. ”
"Relying on that bronze divine tree alone, there is no way to associate it with the Golden Crow, with the Ten Days and the Same Day, and with the Emperor Jun."
"The golden crow on the bronze god tree doesn't even look like a crow."
"The crow's beak is short and straight. Like a dagger. ”
"And the bird beak shell unearthed in Sanxingdui has a downward arc at the tip."
"It's more like an osprey than a crow."
"That's right, it's the animal in the name of the ancient Shu king's "Yu Yan clan". An osprey is a fish. ”
"I look at the bronze god tree, the sun wheel below, it is indeed the worship of the sun, but the nine birds parked above should be the ancestor worship."
"The object of worship is the ancient Shu people's Yuzhu King, or the Yuzhu tribe."
"Don't talk about Emperor Jun, the more you engage in it, the more ethereal it becomes."