At 18:51 on October 14th, congratulations to China at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center for adopting the Long March 2D carrier rocket to successfully launch the first solar exploration science and technology test satellite "Xihe" to achieve China Zero breakthrough in solar detection. This marks that our country has officially entered the era of "exploring Japan".
"Xihe" is named as "Imitate Xihe and ride the horse, aiming to herd the stars in the sky", which symbolizes the origin and expansion of China's exploration of the sun.
is the goddess of the sun, span3 At the same time, it is also considered to be the earliest astronomer and calendar maker in ancient China. Some Chinese scholars believe that: Xihe and Changyi are the same person, "Xihe, Changxi, also have the same name and the same story The change is also". Therefore, Xihe is also a goddess of the sun and the moon.
Under the Tiantai Mountain in the Sun Culture Source Tourist Scenic Area of Tanggu, Rizhao, Shandong, there is a very unique old mother temple—this old mother The temple worships our ancestor, the sun god Xihe. The local people call Xihe Laomu, which is rare in many old mother temples across the country.
Laomu Temple
Xihe belongs to the Xi family and the He family. Also known as legend. Yao once ordered Xizhong, Xishu, Hezhong, and Heshu two brothers to stay in the Quartet to observe the sky and make the calendar.
Xihe is called the god of the sun, because she was born for the sun Later, in the change of times, she evolved from the original "Sun Mother" to "Riyu". In the subsequent continuous evolution and development, Xihe again as a representative of solar mythology and astronomical historian, clearly undertook the cultural heritage. The functional carrier is concentrated in the use of ancient poetry and cultural environment.
In the play "Shan Hai Jing", "Beyond the Southeast China Sea, between the Gans and Rivers, there is a country of Xihe. There was a woman named Xihe, Fangri bathed in Ganyuan,Xihe, wife of Emperor , born for ten days. "So Xihe first appeared in front of people as a sun mother. She is the creator of human light and the supreme god in sun worship.
sun mother
drama Guo Pu quoted from "Gui Zang·Qixi", "the empty mulberry is the blue, the eight poles are both Zhang, but there are husbands and Xihe, is the Lord Sun and the Moon, the office comes in and out, thinks it is obscure." The meaning is roughly the sun mother Xi and the presidency sun From the east to the west, we formed the morning and evening, and the ancestors’ view of time may be coming from the rotation of the sun from the east to the west. At four o'clock in the Lord, the subsequent generations became this country. As the sun and moon, palms it, bathing and running in the sweet water, so that it can enter and leave Yanggu. From east to west, Xihe and the presidency of the sun formed the morning and evening, and the ancestors' view of time may be coming from the rotation of the sun from the east to the west.
Riyu
But the tenth came out, scorching the crops, killing the vegetation, and then Kuafu chasing the sun, Houyi , the myth of shooting the sun. According to Guo Pu's commentary, Yao Li is the official of Xihe, and the book " Shangshu " was published at the time, which will be discussed in detail later. Based on this, it can be inferred that the myth of the Japanese mother Xihe is the first; the official of the Yaoli Xihe in "Shangshu" is behind; after that, the historical Xihe of the "Shangshu" is borrowed to name Xihe for the subsequent generations as the country of Xihe.
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