After the Yellow Emperor defeated Yan Di, many governors wanted to support him. However, the descendants of Emperor Yan were unwilling to submit to the Yellow Emperor and repeatedly provoked wars, especially Chiyou.
Chiyou is the grandson of Emperor Yan. It is said that Chiyou is cruel and belligerent by nature. He has eighty-one brothers, all talking beasts, each with a bronze head and iron forehead, who eat with stones and iron blocks. Chiyou originally belonged to the Yellow Emperor, but after the defeat of Emperor Yan, Chiyou discovered a copper mine at the foot of Lushan Mountain. They made these bronze weapons into swords, spears, halberds, shields and other weapons, which greatly enhanced their military strength and made them ambitious to avenge Emperor Yan. Chiyou joined forces with people from Fengbo, Shi Yu and Kuafu tribes to challenge the Yellow Emperor angrily.
Huangdi loves the people by nature and doesn't want to fight. He has been trying to persuade Chiyou to stop fighting. But Chiyou didn't listen to advice and crossed the line many times. The Yellow Emperor sighed helplessly: "If I lose the world, Chiyou will rule the world, and I will suffer. If I tolerate Chiyou, it's a tiger. Now he can't do justice and blindly infringe. I only have to punish evil and promote good! " So the Yellow Emperor personally led troops to attack Chiyou.
The Yellow Emperor first sent General Ying Long to fight. Ying Long can fly and spray water from his mouth. As soon as he went into battle, he flew into the sky and sprayed water on the Chiyou array from the commanding heights. In an instant, a rising tide lifts all boats, and the waves come straight to Chiyou. Busy Life of Chiyou, Rain Master of Fengbo. Fengbo and Rain God, one is blowing the wind all over the sky, and the other is collecting the water sprayed by Ying Long. In turn, it showed great power, and it began to rain, blowing the storm into the array of the Yellow Emperor. Ying Long can only spray water, but not collect water. As a result, the Yellow Emperor was defeated.
Soon, the Yellow Emperor reorganized the army, revived its military strength, and once again confronted Chiyou. The Yellow Emperor took the lead and led the troops into the array of Chiyou. This time, Chiyou cast a spell and sprayed smoke, completely covering the Yellow Emperor and his army. Huangdi's army couldn't tell the direction, couldn't see the enemy clearly, was trapped in the smoke and couldn't kill the encirclement. At this critical juncture, the Yellow Emperor had a brainwave and suddenly looked up and saw the Big Dipper in the sky. When the handle rotates, the barrel head remains motionless. According to this principle, he invented the south guide car and determined a direction. The Yellow Emperor led the army out of the tight encirclement.
In this way, the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou fought seventy-one battles in succession. As a result, Huangdi won less and lost more. Huangdi was very anxious. On this day, the Yellow Emperor thought hard about how to defeat Chiyou and fell asleep unconsciously. He dreamed that Xuan Nv gave him a nine-day military book and said, "Take it back and learn the symbols of the military book by heart, and you can defeat the enemy in the battle!" , say and float away. When the Yellow Emperor woke up, he found that he really had a copy of yangfu Well. When I opened it, I saw a few hieroglyphs painted on it, "Tianyi is in front, Taiyi is behind." The Yellow Emperor suddenly realized, so he set up nine arrays and eight gates according to the law of female soldiers, and arranged three strange and six instruments in the array to control Yin and Yang and two escapes. The exercise changed into 1,800 arrays, named "Tianyi Dunjia" array. The Yellow Emperor was familiar with the drill and led the troops to attack Chiyou.
In order to strengthen the military, the Yellow Emperor decided to use a small drum to boost morale. He found a Liubo Mountain in the East China Sea. There is a slow beast named Kui, whose roar is like thunder. The Yellow Emperor sent someone to catch Wei Xiao and peel him off to make a drum face, which was very loud. The Yellow Emperor also sent someone to catch Lei Shou in Razer and pull out the biggest bone from him as a drumstick. Legend has it that this real cow drum can vibrate 500 Li with one knock and 3800 Li with a few knocks. The Yellow Emperor also made eighty drums out of cowhide, which greatly enhanced his military strength.
In order to defeat Chiyou completely, Huangdi specially called his daughter Nuwa to help him fight. Nu Wa is a drought god, who specializes in collecting clouds and resting rain. I usually live in the distant Kunlun Mountain.
The Yellow Emperor lined up his troops to fight against Chiyou again. When the two armies confronted each other, the Yellow Emperor ordered drums. Eighty cowhide drums, real cowhide drums rang, and the sound shook the earth. The soldiers of the Yellow Emperor summoned up the courage to listen to the drums; Chiyou's soldiers lost their souls when they heard the drums. Seeing that he was about to be defeated, Chiyou and his eighty-one brothers killed him fiercely with their great strength. The two armies killed together, and the earth shook until the sun set, which was inextricably linked.
Seeing that Chiyou was very powerful, the Yellow Emperor asked Ying Long to spray water. Ying Long opened his mouth wide and the river gushed from top to bottom. Chiyou was unprepared and went belly-up. It also caused the rain division in Fengbo to set off a storm and hit the Yellow Emperor's array, only to find that the ground was flooded and the situation was urgent. At this time, Nu Wa went into battle. She performed magic and suddenly a rolling heat wave radiated from her. Wherever she went, the wind stopped raining, and the hot sun took the lead. Fengbo and Rain Master were at a loss and failed in haste. The Yellow Emperor led an army to catch up with him and killed him for a while, but Chiyou was defeated and fled.
Chiyou's head is as hard as copper. He lives on an iron stone, and he can fly in the air. If he walks flat on the cliff, the Yellow Emperor can't catch him. When catching up with the central part of Jizhou, the inspiration of the Yellow Emperor suddenly appeared and ordered people to play the real cowhide drum nine times. So, Chiyou suddenly lost his soul and couldn't walk, and was caught by the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor ordered people to put a cangue on Chiyou and kill him. Afraid of what he would do after his death, he buried the body and the head in two places. After the death of Chiyou, his cangue net was taken down and thrown on the barren hill, and it became a maple forest. Every maple leaf on Chiyou's cangue net was stained with blood.
After the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, all the governors honored him as the son of heaven. This is Xuanyuan (the name of the Yellow Emperor). Xuanyuan Huangdi led the people, reclaimed farmland and settled in the Central Plains, laying the foundation of the Chinese nation.
Yan Di
Emperor Yan is one of the ancestors of the Chinese nation and the legendary leader of the ancient Jiang (also known as He) tribe.
According to legend, his mother's name is Ren You. One day when she visited Huashan, she saw a dragon, and her body immediately reacted. When I came back, I gave birth to Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan was born in a stone room in a mountain and grew up in Jiang Shui. He was virtuous and respected by fire, so he was named Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan is few and wise. He can talk for three days, walk for five days and understand crops for three years. He has done many good things for the people in his life: teaching people to farm and making them well fed; In order to protect people from getting sick, he tasted all kinds of medicinal materials, so that he was poisoned 70 times a day. He also made musical instruments to make people understand etiquette, which was praised by later generations. His initial activity area was in the south of Shaanxi today, and later he developed eastward along the Yellow River, which clashed with the Yellow Emperor. In the Battle of Hanquan, Yan Di was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan Di tribe and the Yellow Emperor tribe merged to form the Huaxia tribe, so today China people call themselves "descendants of the Yellow Emperor".
In historical legends, Emperor Yan is a great figure who developed primitive agriculture in China and was the founder of farming culture. Legend has it that he created a wooden plow, taught people to farm and increased the output of crops. Legend has it that he tasted all kinds of herbs and treated human diseases. He was the first discoverer and user of Chinese herbal medicine. Not only that, it is said that he used fire to benefit mankind, made musical instruments, and advocated material exchange ... In short, Yan Di Yan Di is a god inseparable from inventions in agriculture, industry, commerce, medicine, literature and other fields in historical legends, and was greatly admired and sacrificed by the descendants of the Chinese people in past dynasties.
Why is it called Emperor Yan?
When the center is yellow, the Yellow Emperor is right. The south is red, so Emperor Yan's nickname is Chi Di. However, this statement has one drawback. Yandi's birthplace should be in the Weihe River basin in the north, which is similar to the Yellow Emperor area. Later, it developed to the south, and it should be called Yandi in the south.
"Imperial Century" said: "There is virtue. Yan Dewang, hence the name Yan Di. " What is Yan De? "Zuo Zhao Zhuan Gong Seventeen Years": "Yan Dijia remembers fire, so he became famous with fire." It turned out that he reformed Fuxi's timing method, invented the fire calendar based on the fire discipline, and worshipped the sun god, so he was honored as inflammation. I think it may also refer to the clan who is good at using fire. Emperor Yan, namely Chi Di, is the son of Apollo, namely Vulcan.
The meanings of posthumous title's "Gao Xin" and "Gao Xin" by Emperor Yan were not clear in the past. According to people's explanation, "Xin" is the original word of "salary", and the image of Xin in Oracle bone inscriptions is to analyze the shape of wood with an axe (Zhu Fangpu's Interpretation of Yin and Zhou Characters). There is fire if there is Xin (salary), so the original meaning of the name should be Vulcan.
About Yan Di Mausoleum
Like the Huangdi Mausoleum, there are several Yandi Mausoleums.
First, Xuanyuan Huangdi had it, and Huangdi sealed Lu (Shangdang in ancient times). Changzhi city, Shanxi province today), keep its first worship Shennong. In Shangdang area, there is a river between Taihang and Taiyue called Jiang Shui. This is the place where the legend of Emperor Yan is extremely prosperous.
The other is located in Luyuanpo, Tangtian Township, southwest of Yanling County, Hunan Province 15km, also known as the "Emperor's Tomb".
Yan Di Yan Di
The legendary ancient emperor Yan Di. Because fire is king, it is called Emperor Yan. After Nu Wa, she became the master of the world. Legend has it that he was the inventor of farming and medicine. He also created the banjo and began to worship wax festivals and fairs. Since then, China has entered the farming society.
Legend has it that he was an ancient tribal leader and the Yellow Emperor was the ancestor of the Chinese nation. "Guoyu. "Today" contains: "In the past, the Shaodian family married the Insect Qiao family and gave birth to the Yellow Emperor and. The Yellow Emperor became a water-catcher, and Yan Di became a Jiang Shui. The History of Road and Country Names in the Song Dynasty records: "After Emperor Yan, the country name was Jiang, and now Baoji has Jiang City and the south has it." The legend of Emperor Yan has been circulating in Baoji for a long time. There are Yan Di Temple and Yandi Mausoleum in Baoji City, and Yangshan Mountain in the southern suburbs. Chinese people at home and abroad hold grand sacrificial ceremonies in Tomb-Sweeping Day and the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.
Yan Di tribes engaged in gathering, fishing and hunting in the early days. Because of the invention of agriculture, it began a semi-settled agricultural migration life. The migration route is along the east of Weihe River, reaching Henan and Hubei. Yan Di tribes have made great contributions to the agricultural development in China. Emperor Yan "tasted a hundred herbs", found edible plants and cultivated them into crops; Invented production tools, replaced slash and burn, and created the history of agricultural civilization. At the same time, improving the diet structure and understanding the therapeutic function of plants have created the history of China medicine.
According to legend, there was no agriculture in ancient times. People make a living by hunting, fishing and picking wild fruits. They are hungry, cold and in distress, and live a primitive nomadic life. Emperor Yan was very upset when he saw the plight of the people. He thinks about it day and night, and wants everyone to live a life of food and clothing. He thought, if only one kind of grass could bear more fruits and be eaten. He took pains and risked his life, traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, tasted countless strange fruits, and once ate poisonous fruits by mistake, and almost died. Fearless, Emperor Yan finally found grass that he thought could bear a lot of fruit in a beautiful place in the south. This is He Miao. After the trial planting, a cart of crisp and fragrant Huang Chengcheng fruits was harvested in the first year, and dozens of carts were harvested in the second year. Since then, word has spread from word to word, and more and more people are growing grain in all directions. In order to alleviate people's hard work in farming, Emperor Yan taught people farming techniques.
The grain grown in Yan Di has brought light and hope to mankind. In order to commemorate his achievements, people called Yan Di Shennong. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yan searched for a place to grow grain and named it "Jiahe", which is now Jiahe County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province.
Yan Di Yan Di has made great contributions to the survival, reproduction and development of the Chinese nation.
First of all, making crops and growing grains laid the foundation for agriculture and industry. The use of Lei Lei and the planting of five grains have solved the great event that food is the most important thing for the people, promoted the development of agricultural production, and created conditions for the transformation of human beings from primitive nomadic life to farming civilization.
Second, taste a hundred herbs and set a precedent for medicine. According to the "Emperor's Century", Shennong "tasted vegetation, declared to cure diseases and save lives". In order to taste a hundred herbs, I suffered seventy poisons in one day. Yan Di Yan Di laid the foundation for the development of later medicine in his struggle against nature and disease.
Third, establish the market and open the market for the first time. According to Zhouyi? Under the copula? Shennong "Japan and China are the city, with the people of the world, gathering the wealth of the world, and the transaction is retreating, and each has its place." The market invented by Shennong, which takes Japan and China as markets and barters things, is the origin and cornerstone of China's monetary and commercial development.
Fourth, linen is used as cloth and people wear clothes. Primitive man had no clothes, but covered himself with leaves and animal skins. It was only after Sang Ma of Shennong made cloth and silk that people got clothes, which was a great progress from an ignorant society to a civilized society.
Fifth, do banjo to entertain people. According to "Shiben? In the next chapter, Shennong invented a musical instrument. He cut tung trees into pianos and weaved silk into strings. This kind of piano was later called Shennong Qin. Shennong Qin is "three feet, six inches and six minutes long, with five strings of Yue, Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu". The sound made by this kind of piano can show the virtue of heaven and earth, the harmony of Shennong and entertain people.
Six, cut wood for the bow, dominate the world. Shennong created bows and arrows, which effectively stopped the attack of wild animals, effectively attacked the invasion of foreign tribes, and defended people's life safety and labor achievements.
Seven, pottery to improve life. Before pottery was invented, people could only barbecue food with fire. With pottery, people can cook food, store things, make wine and disinfect. The use of pottery has improved the living conditions of human beings and had a far-reaching impact on human food hygiene and medical development.
In order to encourage people to live regularly and plant crops according to seasons, Yandi Shennong also made calendars and stars to divide day and night into the sun and the moon, with the month as the 30th day and 1 1 month as the winter solstice.
Yan Di Yan Di manages the tribe and the world well. He does not expect his report, nor is he greedy for the wealth of the world, but the wealth of the world. Wisdom is more valuable to people and respected by the world. He serves people with virtue, does not reward diligence, does not punish good and evil, does not complain about wealth, does not restrain obedience, is strong and does not kill, is thrifty and is respected.
Yan Di Yan Di is also the originator of education in China. He taught people to use tools, sow grain, teach medicine, teach people to make pottery and paint, teach people to bow and arrow, hunt animals, keep fit, teach people piano, teach people music and dance, and teach people wisdom and virtue. It can be seen that during the Yan Emperor's period, moral, intellectual and physical beauty was fully valued and developed.
Yan Di Yan Di has made great contributions to the development of mankind. The spirit of Yan Di is, first of all, entrepreneurial spirit, dedication spirit, pioneering spirit, indomitable and enterprising spirit. The spirit of Emperor Yan enabled Chinese descendants to get rid of ignorance and barbarism and pursue advanced civilization in the struggle with nature and society. This spirit has enabled the Chinese nation to achieve a high degree of unity and unity.
As for the birthplace of Emperor Yan, there is no conclusion yet. Emperor Yan is actually a deified figure, which represents the concentrated expression of the collective wisdom of ancient human beings in transforming nature in their struggle with nature. Today, "Emperor Yan" and "Yellow Emperor", as symbols of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, are recorded in the history of world civilization, and China people are also called "descendants of the Chinese people".
Legend about Emperor Yan:
Jiang is a branch of Xirong nationality. Originally a nomadic people, Jiang entered the Central Plains from the west very early. At that time, at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan, there lived the Jiuli nationality headed by Chiyou (an independent Miao nationality). Because of the long-term conflict between the two sides, Emperor Yan retreated to Hebei. According to legend, because Emperor Yan wanted to invade the princes, he fought three fierce battles with the Yellow Emperor, the surname of Xuanyuan, which was considered to be the first large-scale war of the Chinese nation. It was called the Battle of Hanquan in history (Hanquan, now Hanquan Village in Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing). Facing the leader of the bear, scorpion, scorpion, scorpion and tiger are powerful opponents of the totem tribe, but Emperor Yan finally lost, allied with it and surrendered to it, and the Yellow Emperor ended the war with victory.
With the expansion of the Yanhuang alliance, more and more tribes submitted to it, but Chiyou refused to accept it all the time, and a big war was inevitable. Chiyou led Jiu Li to fight against the alliance in Zhuolu (now Zhuolu Village, Hebei Province). This was the second war in the legendary era, which was called the Battle of Zhuolu, and the so-called Zhuolu Central Plains also originated from this. Finally, Chiyou was defeated. Since then, the surname Jiang and the Yellow Emperor have settled in the Central Plains. The word "descendants of the Yellow Emperor" refers to people's tracing and respect for the ancestors of Chinese civilization, Emperor Yan and Yellow Emperor.