In the long history of human evolution, various myths and legends have emerged. If some legends are studied by our current human perspective, they are definitely unscientific fantasy stories that are impossible to believe.

Chinese culture has a long history.

In the long history of human evolution, various myths and legends have emerged. If some legends are studied by our current human perspective, they are definitely unscientific fantasy stories that are impossible to believe.

For example, the story of Pangu creating the world and Nuwa creating humans.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the sky and earth on the earth were inseparable, like a huge egg, and there was a giant sleeping in this egg, his name was Pangu.

One day, Pangu suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the chaos around him and felt very aggrieved, so he held the axe and slashed twice, splitting the world.

In order to prevent the sky from falling, he held the sky with his hands, stepped on the ground, and struggled to hold on.

Just like this, the sky slowly rose, and the earth became stronger and stronger. As the sky rose, Pangu's body gradually grew larger. When the sky did not fall, Pangu became tired and eventually fell to the ground with a bang.

His eyes rose into the sky and turned into the sun and the moon, his body became mountains and hills, his blood became rivers and lakes, his hair became trees and grass, his sweat turned into rain, snow and fog, his breath turned into strong wind and thunder...

In this way, Pangu created a brand new world, making the earth a place where humans can survive , and later a great god named Nuwa appeared. She felt that the world was too lonely, so she made many small clay people imitating her own appearance.

In order to allow humans to reproduce on their own like birds, she also created a gender that allows people to live forever.

It is obvious that these two myths cannot be true and violates science. However, was a long time in history, and ancient ancestors believed it. Behind the myths and legends, it represents human exploration of the origin of life of .

After Nuwa, there are many myths and legends. Houyi shoots the sun and is also a very popular story, but archaeology has found that Houyi shoots the sun and at all, and there is a war hidden behind it.

Houyi Shoots the Sun

Houyi is a very well-known god in today's society, and can even be called the savior of ancient ancestors.

His story appears in many historical books, and the stories recorded in these historical books are not the same, but Houyi Shooting the Sun is a common point recorded in these historical books.

Legend In ancient times, there were ten suns coexisting in the sky. They united to roast the earth, making the world extremely hot, and crops and plants could not grow. People survived with difficulty and suffered.

When this happened, six monsters appeared in the world: 华小子, 华小子 , 华小子 , 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 未子 �

Whenever the world is in chaos, there will always be a savior. This time, a mighty shooting officer holding a red god white feathered arrow, whose name is Houyi.

Houyi's left arm is long, his arm strength is amazing, and he is good at shooting arrows. He uses the divine bow in his hand to shoot all six monsters that endanger the world, and then aims his finger at the ten suns in the sky.

These ten suns are the ten children born to the ancient Emperor Di Jun and the sun goddess Xihe. They live overseas in the east and there is a big Fusang tree in the sea. The ten suns sleep under the branches of the Fusang tree . Di Jun and Xihe ask them to take turns to work every day, thinking that the earth brings light and warmth.

But sometimes they are very playful and always come out together, which brings disaster to people. Houyi took advantage of the appearance of these ten suns and pulled out the divine bow and shot the suns one by one, leaving only the last sun, allowing him to contribute light and heat to the earth.

Houyi saved the people's dawn, and his story of shooting the sun has also been widely circulated, and it is still praised by people today.

A war

The story of Houyi shooting the sun is indeed attractive enough. Of course, there is nothing to be surprised about when it appears in children's books, but the perspective of scientific development tells us that Houyi shooting the sun is not credible.

However, after , which corresponds to the Taosi site, recorded in historical records, was excavated, the story of Houyi shooting the sun, has a more convincing explanation.

After the Taosi site was excavated, many arrows were unearthed. This shows that in ancient times, people did have mastered the skills of making arrows. This further shows that Houyi, who is good at shooting arrows, does not mean that it was fabricated. It is very likely that there were such people in ancient times.

To be precise, is . There is indeed a person who is good at shooting archery under the command of Emperor Yao , and of course it may be a group of people.

Archaeologists also discovered that the Taosi site was not complete, but was destroyed to varying degrees. These traces of destruction pointed out to people one thing: foreign invasions.

This means that Emperor Yao is probably not originally from the southern part of Shanxi, but migrating from other places.

A complete pig skeleton was also found in Taosi culture. This cultural element corresponds to the Dawenkou culture in Shandong. Therefore, people speculate that the real history was that Emperor Yao and his subordinates migrated from Shandong to southern Shanxi.

In this process, he encountered stubborn resistance from the natives in southern Shanxi. Fortunately, Emperor Yao had Houyi. After a fierce battle, he finally resolved all these rebellious natives and gained a firm foothold in southern Shanxi.

Based on this clue, the nine suns shot by Houyi in are not the sun in the sky, but nine very powerful people in the indigenous tribes.

Houyi's person

Since there is no written record in ancient legends, and people at that time did not understand the true meaning of science, in order to gain a foothold in the local area, Emperor Yao had to find a statement that was enough to convince the local people.

So, he fabricated the story of Houyi shooting the sun, described the leader who could have brought them warmth into a brutal sun, and transformed Houyi into a hero who saved them.

However, In addition to the mythical Houyi, there was also a monarch named Yi during the Xia Dynasty period.

He was the leader of the Youqiong clan in the Xia Dynasty and a hereditary shooter. "Hou" was the most noble title in the Xia Dynasty. When Yi usurped the Xia Dynasty's regime and became the king, he was respected as "Houyi".

Xia Qi's son Taikang is an inaction monarch. He plays and hunts all day long and does not care about political affairs. Houyi is very ambitious and prestige, so he took the opportunity to attack and expel Taikang from the capital, and established his younger brother Zhongkang as the Queen of Xia. After Zhongkang's death, his son succeeded to the throne one after another.

As Houyi's ambition expanded, he eventually expelled the prime minister. After he became the Xia Dynasty, this is what is known in history books as the story of Taikang's loss of the country and Houyi's generation of Xia.

After Houyi became the monarch, his fame and prestige naturally increased greatly. In order to strengthen his divine power, Houyi used the story of Houyi, who shot the sun during the Five Emperors period, for himself.

This has caused many versions of Houyi's story to appear. In the end, the combination of these two images brought about the "Houyi" in our impression.

However, Chinese scientist Professor Zhao Feng also has his own opinions on Houyi shooting the sun. He believes that Houyi shooting the sun was actually an emergency incident in which the comet hit the earth.

Because the comet has a loose texture and is captured by the planet, it will disintegrate into a series of celestial bodies under the action of tidal forces. After entering the atmosphere, they will become luminous and hot due to friction. From a distance, it looks like the sun. Although Houyi feels powerless, he shoots arrows at it to show his inability to surrender, which evolves the story of Houyi shooting the sun.

Reference materials: "Huainanzi", "Shan Hai Jing", "Heaven and Earth Ask Ancient and Current Affairs", etc.

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