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Research on the Origin of the Chinese Nation
The Chinese civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and the Chinese Empire, like other ancient civilization empires, from small primitive tribes and small areas, constantly united with other tribes, melted and expanded, forming a huge scale. empire.
When studying other ancient civilizations, modern people have been unable to decipher the writings of their ancestors, so it is difficult to understand the beginning and end of their own civilization, while modern Chinese can read the writings of thousands of years ago and understand the culture of Chinese ancestors.
Because our Chinese civilization is the only unified and continuous civilization in the world, the development of Chinese civilization has of course been invaded by foreign nations, and China has also been ruled by foreign nations, but it is not that we are forced to accept the language and civilization of the invaders.
On the contrary, Chinese civilization is a non-aggressive, but broad and profound civilization. Therefore, the invaders themselves are always quickly and completely assimilated by us, making our Chinese civilization more advanced and more dynamic. Now, let’s get to know our ancestors together.
From the 3000 BC to the 21st century BC, it is the era of the beginning of Chinese civilization. There is a saying that there are three emperors and five emperors. There are different versions of the three emperors, but they are generally considered to be Fuxi, Nuwa, and Shennong. Legend has it that the Fuxi clan taught the people to make nets, engaged in fishing, hunting, and animal husbandry, leading to marriage and marriage, using Lippi as a ritual, creating gossip, and writing books to replace the government of knotting ropes.
However, archaeological discoveries of the earliest Chinese characters were about 5,000 years ago. Therefore, the Fuxi clan should indeed be the earliest representative of Chinese culture. Nuwa became the co-lord of the world after the Fuxi family. She made sheng reeds, which was the beginning of music. It is said that she practiced stones to mend the sky, and gathered reed ash to stop the flooding.
Shennong’s (Yan Emperor) stepdaughter, Wa, is the ruler of the world. It is said that he was the inventor of farming and medicine, and he also created the banjo, and started wax sacrifices and markets. It seems that by the time he started, the Chinese nation began to enter the farming society.
The “five emperors” are Huangdi, Zhuanxu, Diku, Tang Yao, and Yu Shun in the “Records of the Grand Historian.” The Yellow Emperor, surnamed Ji (or Yun Gongsun), named Xuanyuan and Youxiong, originally lived in the northwest, and later migrated to Zhuolu (now southeast of Zhuolu County, Hebei Province).
Emperor Yan was passed down as Shennong, Jiang surname, Lieshan or Lishan. At that time, the powerful Jiuli tribe in the south, led by its leader Chi You, competed with Emperor Yan for the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Emperor Yan failed, fled north, asked Huang Emperor for help, and formed an alliance.
The Yellow Emperor’s commander Yan, Huang Erbu and Chiyou fought in the wild of Zhuolu. The Yellow Emperor, with the assistance of the general Fenghou and Li Mu, defeated Chiyou and Chiyou was killed. After the Battle of Zhuolu, there was a war between the two tribes of Yan and Huang, and the Yellow Emperor defeated the Yan Emperor.
From then on, the tribes in the Central Plains Xianzun respected the Yellow Emperor as the co-owner, and the tribes such as Yan and Huang merged into the Chinese nation under the leadership of the Yellow Emperor. Therefore, the Chinese nation has always regarded itself as the “descendant of the Yellow Emperor”, and because the two tribes of Yan and Huang merged into the Chinese nation, it is also called “the descendants of Yan and Huang”.
After the Yellow Emperor, the most famous co-owners were Tang Yao, Yu Shun, Xia Yu and others. Yu is the leader of the Xiahou tribe, with the surname Si, also known as Xia Yu and Dayu. Legend has it that in the last year of Yao, the floods were flooding, and Yu’s father was ordered to control the water. It took nine years to achieve nothing and was executed by Yao.
When Shun ascended the throne, Yu was ordered to follow his father to control the flood. Yu used the method of dredging and repairing ditches extensively, and finally cured the flood. From then on, he became a hero of the Chinese nation and was called “Da Yu”.
Yellow Emperor, Nuwa, Shennong, Tang Yao, Yu Shun, Xia Yu
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Huangdi Concubine: Ancestor Lei, Empress Dowager
Politics: It is said that the officials of the Fuxi clan were all named after dragons, and they were called Qinglong, Chilong, White Dragon, Black Dragon and Yellow Dragon. Later, the Shennong family named their officials with fire, and the Yellow Emperor named their officials with clouds. These circumstances show that until the time of the Yellow Emperor, his political organization was extremely simple, and in fact it was a council of tribal chiefs.
Legend has it that when Emperor Zhuanxu set up officials of the Five Elements, as well as the officials of Nanzheng in charge of sacrificing heaven and the officials of Beizheng in charge of governing the people, this was the prototype of the political organization.
At the time of Emperor Yao, it is said that there was an official system of the Chinese Dynasty with three princes, six ministers and a hundred deacons, in charge of the four mountains of various princes, as well as the division of local organizations at all levels of states, divisions, capitals, cities, li, friends and neighbors, as well as the division of state shepherds and princes. Burr’s magistrate.
At the time of Emperor Shun, there were Sikong, Situ, Shi, Gonggong, Yu, Zhizong, Dianle, Nayan and other Chinese officials. Obviously, the legend of the official system of Yao and Shun has many contents added by later generations. But from another perspective, Yao and Shun already had a relatively formed official system at that time.
