We are all "descendants of Yan and Huang". The beginning of China is naturally inseparable from Yandi and Huangdi . "Huangdi conquered the princes and fought with Chiyou in the wilderness of Zhuolu."
The legend about Huangdi is the most popular one. YanhuangThe two brothers jointly defeated the powerful and fierce Chiyou tribe at that time, and finally successfully won the Central Plains.
However, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. The Yan Emperor tribe fought against the Huang Emperor tribe and was finally subdued by it. The Huangdi tribe realized the alliance between major tribes. Small tribes do not pose any threat to Huangdi, so we call it alliance, not unity. Of course, there is no consensus on the historical records and legends about Huangdi, and we can only have a different opinion.
Who is Huangdi?
Spreading all kinds of grains, making music, making clothes, making cars and ships, writing famous books "Huangdi Neijing", etc. Huangdi has been labeled as omnipotent since ancient times. From now on, he is the "outstanding student" in the school.
However, what we are talking about is not the same as the mythical Huangdi in " Mountains and Seas Jing " who "whoever lives for eight hundred years" is. According to archaeological data, Huangdi, known as the "ancestor of humanities", may really have a prototype.
Huangdi actually has a magnificent surname: You Xiong. Among many historical materials, he is called " Youxiong's ". There is also a story about repaying kindness between Huangdi and " Youxiong ".
tribe leader Shaodian During his tenure, he rescued a big bear and its fellow race from the mouth of a monster. Since then, Big Bear and its tribe have followed Shaodian in an instant to protect the safety of the tribe. Later, Shaodian called his tribe the "Youxiong Tribe".
"Records of the Grand Historian: The Annals of the Five Emperors" records: "Huangdi is the son of Shaodian." Naturally, after Shaodian, Huangdi became the next leader of the Youxiong tribe.
There is also a saying that Huangdi is not a person, but a general term for tribal leaders. In short, no matter whether you are A, B, B, D, or as long as you are the leader of this tribe, you are called "Huangdi".
"Who is Huangdi? He can live for three hundred years." slaughter me and asked Confucius .
If it were now, I believe everyone would have the same questions. Then have you heard of "Peng Zu Eight Hundred Years"?
In a tribe called "Peng's family", every time everyone looks forward to the favorite leader they choose together is called " Peng Zu ".
In other words, it is a position name in modern society, such as chairman, CEO, etc. Therefore, "Peng Zu's eight hundred years" is not because Peng Zu lived 800 years old, but the Peng family tribe lasted for 800 years. The same is true for "Three Hundred Years of Huangdi".
No matter whether Huangdi is a specific person or an abstract general term, the Huangdi tribe is brave and good at fighting. Chiyou and Yandi were defeated one after another, and there are traces to become the leader of the alliance tribe.
The Huangdi era already had the prototype of a leader, but why was the Great Xia Dynasty established a thousand years after Huangdi? What exactly happened to the blank period in the middle of ?
The dispute between leaders
It is not difficult to find that related books have never recognized that the Yellow Emperor era was a dynasty, and the first dynasty in Chinese history was Xia.
Before the establishment of Xia Dynasty , the society in which humans lived was still a primitive society and belonged to the Neolithic Age. tribes are gradually growing and growing, and people's sense of territory is also increasing, but they still use simple and crude ways to maintain the survival of the tribe.
For example, in order to compete for food in Land B, tribe A and the two sides fought against each other in linen cloth and various original tools such as branches and wooden sticks. Tribe A won the victory, and after grabbing the food, he burned the house with a fire, declaring the joy of victory.
, and tribe B had to agree to join tribe A, and they would share it together after grabbing things.In this way, Tribe A continues to grow and grow by allowing other tribes to join themselves. Such an organizational form is indeed irrelevant to the word "dynasty".
From the thousand years after Huangdi's death to before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, perhaps the struggle for tribal leaders in the Huangdi era may have continued.
The Yellow Emperor’s return to heaven, the struggle for leaders is naturally intensifying. Everyone said that they were descendants of Huangdi and wanted to swallow this huge Youxiong tribe and inherit the position of leader of the alliance tribe formed during the Huangdi period.
The bear tribe collapsed, and there is a rebellious heart everywhere.
Historical records show that Huangdi's has Xiong Kingdom , and its capital is in Henan. It was later confirmed that a site and cultural relics related to the late Yangshao culture was discovered in Zhengzhou, Henan. The ruins appearing in this site actually contain cultural relics representing the symbol of royal power.
Surprisingly, the same " Beidou Jiuxing " with royal characteristics was also found on the nearby Qingtai site . Therefore, in this area alone, there are at least two royal capitals, not to mention areas that have not been discovered yet.
can be seen that after Huangdi's death, the battle between the leaders was in full swing, and even found a capital of to become king in the future. "Big King and Little King" blossomed everywhere.
The obsession with becoming the leader may have the desire for rights, and perhaps the last resort to protecting one's family and tribe members . No matter what the reason is, the seed of hope for people to become leaders has been sown since primitive society. The battle between the leaders of Xiantianxia and Jiatianxia
continued until Yao and slowly subsided.
From the thousand years after the death of Huangdi to the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, the most famous tribal leaders were Yao, Shun and Yu.
Yao, as a descendant of Huangdi, was officially appointed as the leader of the tribe of various ethnic alliances, and the overall environment he lived in was extremely difficult. However, he overcomes all difficulties, and makes achievements in various measures such as flood control, farming implementation, the formulation of the new calendar, and the rectification of officials, laying the foundation for the establishment of the Xia Dynasty to a certain extent.
Because of this, it is Sima Qian that he is the "most ideal monarch" in history.
What he left to the world is that created the "abdication system" of "the wise king". was not easy to have such a high level of ideological awareness in that environment at that time. The selfish nature of human beings did not make him partial to his own family, but instead handed over the world to capable wise men.
Therefore, after Yao passed the position of leader to Shun, who had no blood relationship with him but was famous for his filial piety. Shun did not disappoint Yao's expectations for him. "Records of the Grand Historian" records that "the world's virtues all start from Yu Shun ".
During his tenure, all industries were prosperous and political affairs were harmonious.
Similarly, Shun inherited Yao's noble character of abdicating the sage and passed the position of the leader to Yu, who had made contributions in controlling the water and "passed three times but did not enter". This also marks that this gap between the end of the Yellow Emperor era and before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty is about to come to an end.
Because, the person who took over Yu was his son, Qi, who broke the inheritance system of abdication system. But this cannot be blamed on Yu. The person who let Qi succeed is the Boyi , which Yu originally wanted to pass the throne according to the abdication system.
Since then, the Daxia Dynasty of "family world" has opened up a new situation in the slave society.
Conclusion
There is not much description of this thousand-year blank period in historical materials, and what happened may be much more complicated than what is recorded.
I have to sigh that our ancestors were able to exert their subjective initiative a long time ago. Whether it is systems or technologies they show to the world, they have certain significance to the present.
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