Legend In ancient times, heaven and earth were connected, man and gods lived together, gods and immortals could freely travel between heaven and earth, and man could also travel between heaven and earth through the ladder. The communication between man and god was unobstructed, but all this changed because of a shocking event led by Emperor Zhuanxu, which is "Emperor Zhuanxu's Heavenly Connection". Why did Emperor Zhuanxu separate the heaven and earth and block the communication channel between man and god?
There was an era of human and gods living together in myths all over the world. China's history tracing from ancient times to ancient times is inevitable mixed with myths and legends. For example, characters like the ancient Five Clans and Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors , who seem to be able to reach the sky and the earth, not only appear in legends, but are also truly recorded in historical books of various dynasties. "The Six Classics are all history", and myths and legends are also the silhouette of history. We look for the sporadic records scattered into the historical classics of various dynasties and speculate what happened at that time?
According to legend, the era of human and gods living together lasted for millions of years. As the Yanhuang Alliance defeated the Chiyou tribe and achieved the first unification of Chinese civilization, a problem arose, which is management. We have already said in the witch that those who can understand gods are witches, and all the ancient ancestors can be witches, and any few people in the tribe can be divined. Many ancient emperors were great witches. At that time, there was a big tree called " Jianmu ", which happened to grow in the middle of the earth, and the gods went up and down from this big tree. In addition, you can also go directly to the Tian Hall from Kunlun Mountain. Although Huangdi unified the Central Plains, the war did not end, and Sanmiao continued to cause trouble.
"Shangshu.Lu Xing" records: " Miao people do not use spirits, and control punishments, but only the five punishments of abuse are called law...... To abuse the mighty people, kill the people, and tell the innocent to the superiors. Huangdi betrays the common people, and repay the evil people with power, and stop the Miao people, and have no world left. He is the emperor. He is the emperor, and he is the emperor, and he is the emperor of the world, and he will not be demoted."
"Three Miaoshu" is the remnants of Dongyi . They are tyrannical and have no faith. They go to the altar every day to cry to the gods. In order to eliminate the roots, Emperor Zhuanxu used the thundering means of the thunder of the world. But things are far from that simple. According to "Records of the Grand Historian", Emperor Zhuanxu was the grandson of Emperor Huang. Because of his contribution to assisting Shaobian , he was granted the title of Gaoyang . After the death of Shaohao , Gonggong and Zhuanxu competed for the throne. This was the subsequent war.
"Mandarin·Chu Yu II" says: "When Shao Ni declined, the virtuous virtues of Jiuli were mixed, and the people and gods were mixed, and things could not be divided into things. The wife enjoyed the family, and the family was a witch and historian, and there was no need for quality. The people were scarce to worship, but they did not know their blessings. The people enjoyed the sacrificial and divine positions. The people were in power, and the people were in power. There was no strict authority. God flirted with the people, so they would not be punished."
means that after the decline of Shao Ni clan, the Jiuli tribe disrupted the moral government, and the people and the gods were mixed, and they could not distinguish which one was true and which one was false. Everyone sacrifices to the gods, every family makes divination, and each family uses the result of asking for the witch and divination as a basis. They do not respect the common covenant, which makes the war alliance without strong unified command. Sacrifices are rampant, and there is no law, and the people and Gods are in the same position. The people swear in disrespect and have no awe. God is accustomed to humans, which also leads to the inability to seek God and God becomes unmagnanimous. Disasters are coming frequently.
Emperor Zhuanxu realized that the regime must be unified with the divine power, so that the people's thoughts can be unified and easy to manage. Therefore, Emperor Zhuanxu wanted to separate the world from the heavenly realm forever. People could not see the gods casually. Human affairs were also managed by people themselves. " Mountains and Seas·The Great Wilderness West Classic " says: "The emperor (Zhuanxu) ordered Chong to offer to heaven and to suppress Li down to the earth. He went down to the earth and was at the western extreme to travel the sun, moon and stars."
This myth says: Emperor Zhuanxu had two grandsons, named Chong and Li respectively. This Chong and Li was also born with divine power. He ordered " Chong" to hold the sky with both hands, and tried his best to lift it up: Let " Li" press the ground with both hands and try his best to press down. As a result, the distance between heaven and earth became larger and larger, so that except for Kunlun Mountain, the passages between heaven and earth were all separated. Since then, the sun and the moon have changed, and the stars are self-scheduled. Before isolating the heaven and earth, the gods are responsible for managing them. After the human and gods are separated forever, no one will manage the sun, moon and stars.The act of dragging the sky and suppressing the earth today cannot understand it. It should describe the degree of tragic action at that time.
So Zhuanxu ordered Li's son Ye (the folk legend of time god) to be in the Western Pole to take charge of the sun, moon and stars instead of the previous god. In addition, all the affairs originally under the control of gods were replaced by human race. After Emperor Zhuanxu passed away from the world, there was actually another channel in the world that could be connected with the heaven, that is, the Buzhou Mountain Tianzhu. And this connection is also firmly grasped in the hands of the emperor. However, because Gonggong and Emperor Zhuanxu competed for the throne, another battle between the two sides had a gods. After Gonggong was defeated, he broke the Tianzhu of Buzhou Mountain in anger. From then on, the direct connection between gods and man was completely cut off.
"Liezi. Tang Wen" records: "After that, Gonggong and Zhuanxu fought for the emperor, and they were angry and touched the mountain of Buzhou, breaking the pillar of heaven, and the earth was doomed to the earth; therefore, the sky was tilted northwest, and the sun, moon, and stars were there; the earth was not satisfied with the southeast, so all rivers and waters returned to the ground."
A battle between Emperor Zhuanxu and Gonggong broke the sky and the earth, causing China to fall into the siege of floods. This flood was only subjugated by Xia Yu after three generations of emperors.
No matter what legends and myths are, we can see through the fact that since ancient times, rulers of all dynasties have wanted to achieve unity of people's thoughts in order to facilitate management, so the power of the divine must not be higher than the power of the imperial power. Because people's belief in gods, the power of the divine power must also be in the hands of the rulers. After the power of the divine, the power of the divine power of the nation is nationalized, and the people are prohibited from private sacrifices to the heaven and the earth, so as to achieve the purpose of unified audio and visual.
The one who conveys the will of God must also be an official person. How can you ordinary people communicate with God at will? Everyone says that they have received God's will, and who still listens to the king? This is why since ancient times, emperors have said that they are the ones who have given their orders to heaven. When the divine power and the imperial power are unified, the highest ruler of the world, the king, has absolute power.
"In ancient times, the three strokes were connected to the inside, which was called the king. The three strokes were the heaven and earth and man. And the ones were connected to the inside, which was the way. The word "wang" means three horizontal and one vertical, which means that the king is a person who connects the three of heaven, earth and man.
