Chapter 63 On the Origin and Development of Chinese Civilization
The history of China recorded in literature began with the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, because the imperial courts of the Chinese dynasties attached great importance to the history recorded by the Zhou Dynasty, so the historical documents of the Zhou Dynasty historians recorded the country have been relatively systematically and completely preserved, so the relevant historical documents of the Zhou Dynasty are an important historical basis for the study of China's prehistoric civilization, that is, the Chinese civilization, and whether the prehistoric history recorded by the Zhou Dynasty at that time is true and reliable is still a problem that we cannot bypass. Therefore, we can only analyze China's prehistoric civilization, that is, Chinese civilization, based on the history of the development of human civilization that we have mastered so far, and combine the historical documents recorded by the Zhou Dynasty and the Han Dynasty from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty.
According to the results of Chinese historical research, the Xia Dynasty was established between 2100 BC and 1600 BC, which indicates that the Xia Dynasty was established around 4100 BC, which is the key time node for the end of the Xiaoice River period, which seriously affected the process of human civilization, and also the time period when the Sanxingdui civilization of the ancient Shu Kingdom was destroyed, and also at the time node when the Chinese people established a nation and claimed to rule the world.
After the Xia Dynasty withdrew from the stage of history, the Shang Dynasty was established from 1600 BC to 1027 BC.
After the fall of the Shang dynasty, the Zhou dynasty was established from 1027 BC to 256 BC.
According to Chinese cultural traditions, the Yellow Emperor is the founder and ancestor of the Chinese people, according to the "Historical Records" in the "Five Emperors Benji No. 1" record, "The Yellow Emperor, the son of Shaodian, surnamed Gongsun, is called Xuanyuan." Born as a god, weak and able to speak, young and neat, long and sensitive, mature and intelligent. ”
"At the time of Xuanyuan, the Shennong clan was in decline, the princes invaded each other, tyrannized the people, and the Shennong clan was able to conquer. So Xuanyuan is accustomed to fighting, in order to levy or not, the princes and guests follow. And Chiyou is the most violent, and he can't cut it. ”
"Emperor Yan wants to invade the princes of Lingling, and the princes return to Xuanyuan. Xuanyuan is to cultivate virtue and revitalize the army, govern the five qi, art the five gods, care for the people, measure the four directions, teach the bear, the sling, the pi, the pi, the tiger, in order to fight with the Yan Emperor in the field of Banquan, three battles, and then get his will. ”
"Chi is especially chaotic, and there is no need for the emperor's order. So the Yellow Emperor was the prince of the army, and fought with Chiyou in the field of Zhuolu, chasing birds and killing Chiyou. And the princes Xianzun Xuanyuan is the Son of Heaven, representing the Shennong clan, and is the Yellow Emperor. There are disobedient people in the world, and the Yellow Emperor will recruit them. The mediocre goes. Phi mountain passage, not taste peaceful residence. ”
"To the east is the sea, to Mount Maru, and to Daizong. As for the empty tung in the west, climb the head of the chicken. As for the river in the south, Dengxiong and Hunan are climbed. The north chases the meat porridge Xunyu, which is in line with Busan, and the city is in Zhuolu. Migration is impermanent, and the division is the battalion guard. The official names are all based on cloud life, and they are cloud masters. Put the left and right eunuchs, in view of the kingdom. All nations are harmonious, and the ghosts, gods, mountains and rivers are gods and many people. Get Baoding, welcome the sun. After raising the wind, Li Shepherd, Chang Xian, and Dahong govern the people. The era of heaven and earth, the occupation of darkness, the theory of death and life, and the difficulty of survival. Sow hundreds of grains and plants, purify birds, beasts, insects and moths, and punish, the sun, moon and stars, water waves, earth, stones, gold and jade, hard work, ears and eyes, and save water and fire materials. There is the Rui of Tude, so it is called the Yellow Emperor. ”
"The twenty-five sons of the Yellow Emperor, and his name is fourteen."
"The Yellow Emperor lives in Xuanyuan Hill, and marries the daughter of Xiling, which is the ancestor. The ancestor was the concubine of the Yellow Emperor, gave birth to two sons, and then there was the world: one of them was called Xuanhuan, which was for Qingyang, and Qingyang descended to the river; The second is Changyi, descending to the water. Changyi married the daughter of the Shushan clan, said Chang servant, and gave birth to Gaoyang. Gaoyang has holy virtue. ”
"The Yellow Emperor collapsed and was buried in Qiaoshan. Gao Yangli, the son of his grandson Changyi, is the emperor. ”
A basic message is that the Yellow Emperor's leadership of the Huaxia clan and the allied army quelled the national turmoil, repelled the challenge of the Yan Emperor, eliminated the fierce rival Chiyou, and thus ascended to the king of God, and made the Huaxia tribe become the new nobles of the country and the historical stage of human civilization.
So, what caused this world-changing war? We believe that the severe Xiaoice period between 4300 and 4100 years ago forced the northern farmers and herdsmen to cross the Qinling Mountains to take refuge in the Sichuan Basin, so the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor led the Huaxia tribe and its allies, and local forces such as Shennong, Yandi and Xuyou, and wars broke out in Sichuan and other regions, and finally the Yellow Emperor won, and the historical tragedy of the destruction of the ancient Shu Guozong Temple (that is, the Sanxingdui cultural site) occurred.
Sima Qian, who lived from 145 BC to 87 BC, was a historian, writer, and thinker of the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Qian lived in his hometown in his early years, and entered Beijing with his father at the age of ten, and successively learned the "Shangshu" and "Spring and Autumn" ram studies from the ancient literature master Kong Anguo and the modern literature master Dong Zhongshu, and had extensive study of Confucianism, Taoism and other schools. Because of his famous division, he served as a Langzhong in the Western Han Dynasty when he was young, and was ordered to go to southwest China and other places. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Yuanfeng three years (108 years ago) succeeded his father as Taishi Ling, and began to compile the "Historical Records", and later for Li Ling's defense, angered Emperor Wu, was sentenced to corruption, after being released from prison, angry writing, in the first year of Zhenghe (92 years ago) to complete this masterpiece, died soon after completion. Because the "Records of the Historian" is the first literary and historical classic in ancient China to systematically and objectively record Chinese history, Sima Qian is known as "Shi Qian", "Taishi Gong" and "Father of History".
As a high-ranking intellectual and historian of the Western Han Dynasty with conscience and moral character, Sima Qian must have read comprehensively and deeply understood the classic documents on the origin and history of ethnic groups and states in China preserved and collected in the Western Han court. However, when Sima Qian wrote the "Historical Records", more than 2,000 years had passed since the beginning of the Chinese civilization, that is, the Yellow Emperor era, and in the long years of the Yellow Emperor era, due to frequent wars and the uncertain migration of the tribal commanders, the historical classics and documents about the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people that could be preserved must be very limited. The classics that can be handed down are often scattered, logically confusing, contradictory, and obscure.
Therefore, Sima Qian was very difficult to create this prehistoric history, Sima Qian said at the end of the "Historical Records" and "The First Book of the Five Emperors": "From the Yellow Emperor to Shun and Yu, they all have the same surname and different country names, and they are based on Zhang Mingde. Therefore, the Yellow Emperor is Youxiong, Emperor Zhuan is Gao Yang, Emperor Yu is Gao Xin, Di Yao is Tao Tang, and Emperor Shun is Yu. Emperor Yu is another name for the summer queen, and the surname is Xi. The deed is a business, and the surname is a child. Abandoned as Zhou, surnamed Ji. ”
"Taishi Gong said: Scholars are mostly called the Five Emperors, and they are still in charge. However, the "Book of Shang" is unique since Yao, and the Yellow Emperor of Baijiayan is not elegant and smooth, and it is difficult to recommend Mr. Gentleman. ......。 If you are not studious and thoughtful, you know what it means, and it is difficult to be shallow and unheard. The rest of the discussion is the second, and the one who chooses his words is elegant, so the book is the first of this book. ”
The basic meaning of this passage of classical Chinese is: because the ancestors of the Chinese people are all surnamed Youxiong, so the Yellow Emperor, Zhuan, Yu, Yao, and Shun are the five emperors; Although the three emperors such as Yu, Qi, and Qi all had a country to rule the world, they could not be included in the list of the five emperors because they had different surnames from the Yellow Emperor. This is the definition of the Five Emperors by most scholars. However, in the ancient book "Shangshu", when the ancestors of China are recorded, they only start with Emperor Yao and are recorded later, why is this so? Because the scholars of the hundred universities in the past believed that the preserved classics and articles describing the deeds and words and deeds of the Yellow Emperor were not "Yashun", and the "Mr. Recommended Gentleman" did not dare to say it! (Tai Shi Gong) is not the kind of literati who is studious and thoughtful and understands the intentions of the ancients, so Tai Shi Gong also dares to talk about the ancients with his own shallow insight! However, I also made up the discussion, selected those historical materials that were "Yashun" for the discussion of the first emperor, and compiled it as "The First of the Five Emperors".
Why did Sima Qian write "Historical Records" when he was on the edge of the abyss and trembling? Because the Han Dynasty is the country of the Chinese people, and the Yellow Emperor is the number one ancestor of the Chinese people, if the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people have defects, flaws and stains, it will mean that the noble, orthodox and glorious history of the rulers of the Han Dynasty and their clans are nonsense, and at the same time, the civil and political force and moral education of the Han Dynasty's ruling class will also become pale and powerless, so the Han Dynasty must not have an unwritten rule that all the events and remarks about the "indecent and obedient" of the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people cannot be written into the "Historical Records", otherwise Sima Qian will be punished more severely than the palace punishment. However, Sima Qian also knew in his heart that if the content of "indecent shun" was removed, future generations would not be able to understand the history of the Yellow Emperor's era and his descendants, which made Sima Qian very painful and embarrassed. The Five Emperors Benji" is a mythical and inexplicable history of China.
We believe that the Five Emperors basically retains the synopsis of historical events and the basic process and results, but only covers up and modifies the content and remarks of the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people to meet the cultural value needs of the Han rulers.
In terms of geography, the Liu family is a descendant of the Central Plains Huaxia people, the Han Dynasty built the capital of Chang'an, mainly ruling the Central Plains, Qinchuan region, Sichuan region and the south of the Yangtze River, the Central Plains region, Qinchuan region and other Yellow River basin areas in the early days of the Han Dynasty are the traditional territory of the Chinese people, and the Jianghuai region and the area south of the Yangtze River, Sichuan and other regions have always been the residence of Baiyue and other ethnic groups. In order for the Han Dynasty to smoothly conquer and rule the southern region of China, the Han Dynasty historians must place the origin of Chinese civilization in the north, creating a geographical and cultural concept of "respecting the north and inferiority to the south".
In terms of society, the Western Han Dynasty was the first dynasty in Chinese history to establish Confucianism as the orthodox ideology and moral norm of the state, and Confucianism is a set of social governance systems and moral norms based on the patriarchal system of patrilineal clans. Before the Western Han Dynasty, there were historical periods such as the Qin Dynasty, the Warring States Period, the Zhou Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty and the Xia Dynasty, in these historical periods, the dynasty and the people both existed in the matrilineal clan system and the patrilineal clan system coexisted and mixed, therefore, in the property ownership, clan ethics, noble and lowly order, moral education and other social management aspects are very chaotic, such as raising male pets in the matrilineal clan society is a normal phenomenon, reasonable and legal. But raising a male pet is a major crime in a patriarchal society; It is normal for a daughter to be a pet in a patrilineal clan society, but in a matrilineal clan society, a daughter pet will be stoned to death! Therefore, the Western Han court resolutely opposed and cracked down on the systems, customs and ideas left over from the matrilineal clan society, and the Western Han court called these remnants of the matrilineal clan society "barbarian cunning Xia", Yi and Xia were both ancient names for women. Therefore, Sima Qian did not discuss the content of matrilineal clan society as much as possible in the "Historical Records", and used the worldview and values of patrilineal clan society to create articles as much as possible.
In terms of morality, the moral spirit and norms recognized by the ancient society and the imperial court are laws, and morality is the standard for judging the right and wrong of things, judicial trial, conviction and sentencing, so morality is very important. The Western Han Dynasty was the first country in China to implement a patrilineal clan society, so it was the main task of the imperial court to establish the moral system and norms of the patrilineal clan society and eliminate the moral system and norms of the matrilineal clan society. At the same time, since the Western Han court regarded Confucianism as the orthodox ideology of the whole society, some ideas and remarks that contradicted, contradicted and conflicted with Confucianism had to be eliminated. The important content of Confucianism is ethics, loyalty and filial piety, benevolence, kindness, equality and other values and moral norms, but the dynasties and societies before the Western Han Dynasty did not have these values and moral norms, slavery, oppression, mutilation, theft, robbery, adultery, cunning, killing, extermination and other evil things, in the dynasties and societies before the Western Han Dynasty were regarded as normal things, and even these ugly behaviors were generally recognized by the society as a symbol of ability, wisdom, courage and power.
Therefore, the reason why Sima Qian did not dare to fully express the deeds and thoughts of the Yellow Emperor affirmed that the rulers of the Han Dynasty believed that the historical fact that the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people rose to the throne damaged the reputation of the Huaxia people; detrimental to the ethnic integration and unity of the Western Han Dynasty; It is not conducive to the construction of social values, moral systems and norms in the Western Han Dynasty. However, the historical clues left by Sima Qian in the "Historical Records" are enough for us to restore the historical facts of the experience of the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people at that time. The following is the history of China that we have restored in an objective, scientific, neutral and impartial manner.
4,300 years ago, when the Xiaoice period made the northern part of the East Asian continent more and more cold and arid, due to the large number of northern residents migrating south, the Shiyuan Wangcheng in Shiqiao Village, Gaojiabao Town, Shenmu City, northern Shaanxi (after scientific research, we believe that Shiqiao Wangcheng is the earliest tribal headquarters base of the Huaxia people) began to become desolate, and the young Gongsun Xuanyuan of the Huaxia tribe followed his father Wang Shaodian and his mother, etc., they will follow the last group of Huaxia court officials, guards and troops who moved south, and bid farewell to the Huaxia Shiyuan Wangcheng, Embark on the difficult road of southern expedition to Sichuan.
After that, the young Xuanyuan followed his father Wang Shaodian and the Chinese warriors to take refuge in Sichuan, fight hard, and create great causes.
According to the records of the "Century", Xuanyuan was gifted with intelligence since he was a child, with a keen mind and good speech. When he came to power, he was in power at a time when the Shennong clan, the ruler and class of the ancient Shu kingdom, was in decline, and the ancient kingdom was full of wars, wars, and people's livelihood (this was caused by the conflicts and wars caused by refugees from the north and plateau regions entering the Sichuan Basin, competing with the local people and the government for living materials and natural resources).
For the survival and development of his own clan, Xuanyuan trained and rectified his own army to conquer those tribes who did not pay tribute to the imperial court. In this conquest war, Xuanyuan met a strong opponent, Chiyou, who was tyrannical and fierce by nature. In the ancient Yue language, Chi Chi is a ox and ox cart, You You is a man with a free identity, the literal translation means "the male handsome man who rides the ox cart", in the matriarchal clan society, only the noble chiefs and envoys can travel in the ox cart, so this explanation is consistent with the modern description of the image of Chiyou, Chiyou is a bull-headed human god of war, of course, Chiyou chiyou can be read as Yao, Yao, Yu you/jew (this is the Chinese and English abbreviation of Jews).
In the process of quelling the rebellion, another strong opponent of Xuanyuan was Emperor Yan. At that time, Emperor Yan was ready to invade Shu from Yichang, Hubei (formerly known as Yiling) and crusade against the princes and nobles of Shu, so the princes and nobles all surrendered to Xuanyuan, who had military strength. So Xuanyuan organized a strong army, and Emperor Yan in the "field of Banquan" decisive battle, after three battles, Xuanyuan and Emperor Yan to a draw, and finally shook hands and made peace, to maintain Xuanyuan's dominance in Shu, and at the same time the Huaxia people recognized Emperor Yan's right to rule in Hubei.
Subsequently, Chi You rebelled and disobeyed the orders and control of the "emperor", so Xuanyuan was ordered by the emperor to recruit the princes to join forces to crusade against Chi You. The combined forces of the Xuanyuan princes and the Chiyou group army fought a decisive battle in the "Zhuolu Field", the Chiyou group army was wiped out, and Chiyou was captured, skinned and shown to the public, and brutally killed.
After that, the princes began to call Xuanyuan "the Son of Heaven" and supported Xuanyuan to replace Shennong's emperor as the Yellow Emperor. After Xuanyuan became emperor, there were disobedient rebels in the world, and the Yellow Emperor led troops to recruit them. After pacifying here, go there again to pacify. Therefore, the Yellow Emperor can only "pass through the mountain, but not taste the peaceful residence".
Finally, the Yellow Emperor ruled the territory east to the sea; west to the "empty tree"; south to the river; North to "meat porridge". After the land was stabilized, the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people lived a wandering life of indefinite migration and no fixed residence, and the Yellow Emperor set up a camp guard and a court to manage the country.
The Yellow Emperor fixed the palace in the "Xuanyuan Hill", he married the daughter of Xiling "Ancestor" as a concubine, the ancestor gave birth to two sons, one is Xuanhuan that is, Qingyang, he lived on the shore of the river after growing up; The other is Changyi, who lived on the shore of Ruoshui when he grew up. Changyi married the daughter of the Shushan clan, Chang Servant, as the main concubine, and Chang Servant gave birth to Gaoyang.
After the death of the Yellow Emperor, he was buried in Qiaoshan. Gao Yangli, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor and the son of Changyi, became the emperor, and he was one of the "Five Emperors".
This is the main story outline of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor's life, and after reading the life story of the Yellow Emperor, it is inevitable that there will be many confusions and questions. To check the authenticity of a story, we must look at the five elements of the story, namely the cause, time, place, people, and events of the story.
This story is to tell the story of the rise of the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia tribe, the most reasonable reason for the rise of the emperor must be "the corruption of the imperial court, the chaos of the world, and the people's lack of livelihood", the "Historical Records" is expressed like this, and our analysis is that after the outbreak of the Xiaoice River, the northern and plateau peoples migrated to the Sichuan Basin, and in the face of emergencies, the conservative ancient Shu court and Yamen controlled the invasion of displaced people, diverted and resettled, in these processes, there must be conflicts, chaos, corruption and wars, and then the world was in chaos and the people were not happy. This course of events is basically the same as the historical process narrated in the "Five Emperors Benji".
The Shiji does not set the time of this historical story, and according to the time of the Xiaoice period, this story should have occurred between 4300 and 4100 years ago.
Historical Records. The story locations set in the "Five Emperors Benji" are mostly related to the Yellow River Basin and the Jizhou Plain, but the place names are vague and the geographical span is large. For a while, the geographical background is plains and deserts, and for a while, it is a place of green mountains and green waters, mountains and steep mountains. Let the reader feel that the Yellow Emperor and his army are immortals, with the ability to fly at high speeds, and let the reader have the feeling of reading myths. Sima Qian's attempt to write the article was to meet the cultural value needs of the ruling class of the Han Dynasty.
However, through careful analysis, Sima Qian left us with a story framework, and we can still deduce and conclude that the life story of the Yellow Emperor took place in Sichuan, and the places where the Yellow Emperor and the Huaxia people often lived, such as Jiangshui, Ruoshui and other river areas, the river is today's Yangtze River, the southern part of Sichuan is the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River can reach the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and other wealthy places in China along the east of the Yangtze River; Ruoshui is today's Yalong River, a section after the confluence of Ruoshui and Jinsha River, also known as Ruoshui in ancient times, here is the Sichuan Basin into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area traffic artery. When the Yellow Emperor conquered the battle, he had to march in a very steep mountainous area, which was consistent with the terrain of Sichuan, but had nothing to do with the topography of the Jizhou Plain. The Yellow Emperor married the concubine in Xiling, Xiling is the Xiling Gorge in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, it is located in today's Yichang area, here is the homeland of the Shennong clan, so the ancestor is likely to be the princess of the Shennong family, in the era of the matrilineal clan, marrying the princess with divine power and royal power can correct the orthodox status of the father's family, so the Yellow Emperor will marry the ancestor as the concubine, which is a typical political marriage.
Another piece of evidence that proves that the story of the Yellow Emperor took place in the Sichuan region is that the Yellow Emperor's war opponent, Emperor Yan. If the story of the Yellow Emperor takes place in the Jizhou Plain, how did the Yellow Emperor lead the Huaxia army and the allied forces to travel thousands of kilometers to attack the Yan Emperor and his army, which lived deep in southern China or even south of the Yangtze River? In that ancient era, when the army could only be wagoned by ox cart and marched on foot, could such a labor-based expedition and protracted war be fought? More than 4,000 years ago, two groups of ancients separated by thousands of kilometers could have a deep hatred and hatred between you and me?! Since there is no conflict of interest and deep hatred, why should they fight a war that everyone cannot do well in intelligence, logistics, marching, camping, war planning, command, and fighting. For this story to make sense, the story of the dispute between the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor can only take place in Sichuan and its surrounding areas. The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor fought a decisive battle in the field of Banquan, in the ancient Yue tribe "Banquan ba."
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The homonym means woman, the Virgin, and the literal translation of Banquan is the holy city.
According to ancient historical records, Emperor Yan ruled in present-day Hubei, Hunan and other Dongting Lake and Xiangjiang River basin areas, Emperor Yan was the clan affinity and backer of the Shennong clan, and Shennong believed that the Yellow Emperor and the ancient Shu princes and nobles drove the Shennong group out of Sichuan, which was a great rebellion, so the king of the Shennong clan invited Emperor Yan to come forward and help the Shennong group fight against the Shu princes and the Yellow Emperor. In the end, the Yellow Emperor led the allied forces of the princes of Shu out of Xiling Gorge and engaged in a protracted tug-of-war with the ancient Yue alliance of Emperor Yan in the hinterland of present-day Hubei.
In the end, due to the rebellion of the Chiyou group, the Yellow Emperor made a truce with the Yan Emperor, signed a peace treaty, and married the princess of the Shennong clan as the concubine, and the Shennong clan and the Yandi group became the dominant position of the Yellow Emperor in Shu, and the Yellow Emperor group recognized the dominance of the Shennong clan and the Yandi group in Hubei, Hunan and other Dongting Lake and Xiangjiang River basin areas. Then, the Yellow Emperor and his army returned to Sichuan to quell the Chiyou rebellion.
At present, Chiyou is listed as the three ancestors of the three civilizations of the Chinese nation along with the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, but Chiyou is the most unclear and mysterious of the three ancestors of the three civilizations. Chinese historians believe that Chiyou was the leader of the Jiuli tribe, and the descendants of the Jiuli tribe were the Yao and Miao peoples.
In the history books and classics of the past dynasties, there is a scattered compilation of Chi You's deeds, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Great Wilderness of the North (compiled in the Western Han Dynasty, more than 2,000 years from the time of the incident) said: "Chi You made a military attack on the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor was the field of Jizhou that ordered the dragon to attack. Ying Long impounds water, and Chi especially invites the wind and rain to indulge in the wind and rain. The Yellow Emperor was the goddess of heaven, and the rain stopped, so he killed Chiyou. "Confucius Three Dynasties" (compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, about 1700 years after the incident) said: "The Yellow Emperor killed Chi You in Zhongji, Chi You body head in a different place, and its blood turned into halogen, then the salt pond of the solution, because of its autopsy, so the name of the place is the solution." Reflected from these expressions, Chiyou is powerful, resourceful, brave and strong, a very difficult war maniac, he must have made the young Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor suffer a lot, lose face, so after Chiyou was defeated and captured, the Yellow Emperor killed him very cruelly, according to the documents unearthed in the Western Han Dynasty in Mawangdui, Changsha, after the Yellow Emperor killed Chiyou, he skinned him and showed it to the public, and chopped his flesh and bones to Chiyou's relatives and the elders of the Jiuli tribe to eat!
Who is Chiyou? Why did the Yellow Emperor hate him so much?! To understand this problem, we must figure out, where is Chiyou messing around? Why did he challenge the powerful Yellow Emperor? According to the records of the past dynasties, the Jiuli people lived in the area of present-day Hebei, Henan and Shandong, and the place where the Yellow Emperor fought the decisive battle with Chiyou was in the "Zhuolu Field" and "Jizhou Wilderness" that is, the area of Zhuozhou, Hebei Province. Why have historians throughout the ages always believed that the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou were both from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River? The reason must be that they want to cover up a disgraceful history through the change of location of the story, and make the new story of the fabrication conform to the moral norms of the society. According to the arguments and analysis cited in this article, Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor both lived in the Sichuan region, and their decisive battle also took place in the Sichuan region.
So, with what strength did Chiyou rely on to challenge the Yellow Emperor and his military group? According to the records of "The Century" and "The First Book of the Five Emperors", after Xuanyuan led troops to quell the rebellion and popular rebellion in Shu and drove the forces of the Shennong group out of Sichuan, Xuanyuan had become the overlord of the ancient Shu State, that is, the actual ruler; After Xuanyuan led the alliance of princes into Hubei to fight against Emperor Yan, all the princes and nobles of the ancient Shu Kingdom had returned to the Xuanyuan group, and Xuanyuan had become the monarch of the ancient Shu Kingdom, that is, "Pi". In a matrilineal clan society, the monarch and the tribal leader must be appointed by the matrilineal theocracy leader "Emperor" to be considered legitimate and orthodox, and the Pi group must obey the leadership of the emperor group and provide generous support to the emperor group, pay taxes and provide labor for the emperor group. Because he was busy with the war, the Yellow Emperor must have neglected the communication and contact with the Emperor Group of the Ancient Shu Kingdom, that is, the Theocratic Group, so Xuanyuan's position and power in the Ancient Shu Kingdom must not have been appointed and authorized by the Emperor Group, as for supporting the Emperor Group, paying taxes to the Emperor Group, providing labor and other things, not to mention, the daily expenses of the Xuanyuan Group and the Huaxia Clan have made Xuanyuan exhausted and anxious, and he has the leisure to manage the pampered, yin and yang theocratic group! Therefore, the Xuanyuan group and the Huaxia people must have deeply offended the theocratic group of the ancient Shu Kingdom, that is, the shamanic priest group headed by the "emperor" united the ancient Shu Kingdom.
"Chiyou" and "Yehu" are both close in pronunciation. In the ancient mother clan society, "Yehu" or "Yao Yao" was the name of high-ranking officers and commanders, and in the ancient Yue language, Yao means to look into the distance. Therefore, "Ye Hu yehu", that is, "Yaoyao", is the "Distant Territory Overseer", that is, "Governor of the Frontier".
Therefore, the Jiuli people (Jiuli can be read as you/jew, which shows that the Jiuli people are a guerrilla branch of the ancient Yue patriarchal group in Sichuan) should have been the military and civilian group sent by the ancient Shu Emperor Group or the Pi Group to garrison the frontier to reclaim the wasteland, and Chi You was the leader of these people. The frontiers of the ancient Shu kingdom generally reached the north of the Qinling Mountains and the eastern foothills of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the Jiuli people were supposed to live in these frontier areas at first. After the outbreak of the Xiaoice period, Xuan You led the tribe of the Jiuli tribe to retreat to the Sichuan Basin. Subsequently, a war broke out between the Chiyou Group and the Xuanyuan Group, and in the early wars, the Chiyou Group and the Xuanyuan Group were evenly matched, and the two sides should have ended in peace.
After the rapid operation of the Xuanyuan Group in Shudi, Chiyou felt the crisis, and at the same time, in the contradiction between the Xuanyuan Group and the ancient Shu Kingdom Theocracy Group, Chiyou also saw the opportunity to bring down and eliminate the Xuanyuan Group. The Mother Theocracy is composed of a group of female aristocratic elders, shamanic intellectuals, and the imperial court, harem, guards, entertainment teams, and service teams led by them, as well as their children, such as the aristocratic women's camp and the men's camp. The imperial court had Gyeonggi, vast fiefdoms and franchised industries, and the imperial group was basically self-sufficient economically. However, in order to maintain the luxurious life of the Imperial Group, heavy management, business, large-scale projects and the defense of the Imperial Capital require the continuous support and supply of the Imperial Group.
Therefore, the clever Chiyou and his clique soon became the guardians, supporters, and executors of the imperial court of the ancient Shu theocratic group. At this time, Chi You gained a position of power, which was more like the monarch of the ancient Shu Kingdom, and at the same time, Chi You obtained more resources and wealth of the Ancient Shu Kingdom, so Chi You dared to challenge the Xuanyuan Group.
Xuanyuan must be well aware of Chi You's ultimate goal, so his struggle with Chi You and the ancient Shu Emperor group is a life-and-death struggle.
This brutal decisive battle took place in Sanxingdui on the bank of the Yazi River in the Guanghan Plain in the eastern foothills of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in present-day Sichuan!
Today, the history of the ancient Shu Kingdom, as well as the history of the brutal war that broke out between Xuanyuan and Chiyou in the Sanxingdui area, the imperial capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom, except for knowing that Xuanyuan won and Chiyou ended dismally, other contents have been cleaned up by the emperors and literati of the past dynasties, and the real history can no longer be found. The so-called history we see is just what the ancients wanted us to see and that they carefully fabricated!
If it were not for the discovery of the Sanxingdui cultural site and the attention to the disaster that occurred during the Xiaoice period between 4300 and 4100 years ago, perhaps we would not dare to infer that the Sanxingdui cultural site is the imperial capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom theocratic group, and it is also the ancient battlefield of the life-and-death battle between the Xuanyuan Group and the Xuanyou Group!
After the victory of this war, Xuanyuan was elected as the Yellow Emperor by the princes and nobles of the ancient Shu Kingdom, known as the Son of Heaven, integrating divine power and royal power. This means that in order to prevent future troubles, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor abolished the maternal imperial system and abolished the maternal aristocratic theocratic class. After careful planning and preparation, the Yellow Emperor's court destroyed ritual vessels and documents that symbolized the divine power, royal power, culture, religion, and ghosts and gods of the ancient Shu Kingdom, and began to create ritual vessels and classics about the history, religion, culture, and thought of the Chinese people. These details have already been described in the analysis of the state of cultural relics at the Sanxingdui site, and will not be repeated here.
After Chiyou's death, the Jiuli disappeared from Chinese historical texts. Perhaps after the defeat of Chiyou, the Jiuli people changed their ancestry, changed their names and surnames, crossed the Yangtze River to the south, and migrated to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Xiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other mountainous areas with rich products, perhaps these places were originally their homeland. Soon after, they became known as "Yao Yao" and worshipped Chi You as the ancestor and protector of the Yao people.
After the Yellow Emperor won the world, although there was a Jingyi court to govern the world, the Yellow Emperor and the harem clan lived an uncertain life, and they set up camp with the Praetorian Guards to live in the village.
The ancestor of the Yellow Emperor's concubine had two sons, one was Xuanhuan or Qingyang, who settled on the bank of the river; The other is Changyi, who settled on the shore of Ruoshui. Changyi married the princess of the Shushan clan, Chang Servant, as the main concubine, and Chang Servant gave birth to Gao Yang.
After the death of the Yellow Emperor, he was buried in Qiaoshan. Many people here will ask: where is Qiaoshan? Why is the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor located in Qiaoshan, the north of Huangling County, Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province? This problem is very easy to explain, in ancient times human beings all believed in shamanism, people were buried twice after death, maybe the Yellow Emperor was just buried in a place in Sichuan Bridge Mountain, and then, the descendants of the Yellow Emperor Huaxia moved his spirit bones to the ancestral land of the Huaxia people for burial, so there are only the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum and Qiaoshan, there are many wastelands in ancient times, the place name is very arbitrary, how to take how to take it, now Guangzhou does not have Beijing Road? Can we think that in ancient times Beijing was a village in Guangzhou?
After the death of the Yellow Emperor, Gao Yang, the son of his grandson Changyi, became the emperor, that is, the emperor.
After winning the world, why did the Yellow Emperor adopt such a ruling method and make such a layout arrangement? The first reason is that the Huaxia people in Shu are outsiders, and the population is not as large as the locals, and they settle in a certain place and are vulnerable to the siege of foreign races, so the mobile lifestyle of irregular migration and concealment can avoid foreign invasion and play a role in patrolling the world; The second reason is to solve the problem of defending the territory. The reason why the emperor let Changyi lead his people to settle in Ruoshui, that is, the southwest gateway of the Yalong River in Sichuan, is because it is the birthplace of Thai-Vietnamese civilization such as Sichuan and Yunnan, Southeast Asia and the South Asian subcontinent, and is the only convenient channel for economic and cultural exchanges, and it is also the gateway for economic and cultural exchanges between Sichuan and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, because Southeast Asia and other tropical regions are the mother of human civilization, and it is also the most complete and developed area of ancient civilization. These are treasures that come from Southeast Asia with a monetary function. A large number of exquisite gold and bronze artifacts have also been found at the Sanxingtui site, and precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper have been produced in Yunnan and Southeast Asia since ancient times. Therefore, this region is indeed an important gateway for China's foreign exchanges.
We believe that the Yellow Emperor's arrangement was to defend against the invasion of Shu by the great powers in the area east of the Three Gorges, so the tribes and armies under the jurisdiction of Qingyang should have settled in the area from present-day Chongqing to Yichang, because the terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. At the same time, the Yangtze River is also a natural barrier against the ancient Yue, Miao, Yao and Yi ethnic groups living in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and southwest China. Therefore, Qingyang's defense zone is of great significance.
The northern part of Shu is a plateau and mountainous area, these places are barren and difficult, so the Yellow Emperor handed over these areas to the Huaxia princes' alliance army to garrison, after the Yellow Emperor won the world, the plateau and mountainous areas around Sichuan were handed over to the Qiang, Di, Ba and other local ethnic groups who had stood in the united front of the Huaxia people to garrison and settle.
Since then, Sichuan has become the source and base of the Chinese people ruling the world and developing Chinese civilization.