Collection of data on the first ancestor of China, Emperor Yan

In order to have a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and the ancestors of our Chinese people, the editor specially compiled information about Emperor Yan, so that everyone can clearly know what kind of person Yan Emperor was.

Introduction to Yandi

Yandi, Lieshan, Shennong, also known as Chidi, one of the ancestors of China, together with the Yellow Emperor, is called the ancestor of China, and the tribal leader in ancient China. Born around 6,000 to 5,500 years ago on the shore of Jiangshui in Baoji (one said Lishan in Suizhou, Hubei), Emperor Yan made lei and planted five grains. Established a store and opened a market for the first time. Hemp is treated as cloth, and the people wear clothes. Make a five-stringed lute to entertain the people. Cut wood into a bow, and make the world powerful. Make pottery and improve life.

He is the first human ancestor of the Chinese nation. He formed an alliance with the Yellow Emperor and gradually formed the Huaxia tribe. Therefore, the descendants of Yan and Huang were formed. There is also a saying of the Eighth Emperor Yan. The first and second Emperor Yan lived in Baoji and radiated to the two lakes (Hunan and Hubei). The Eighth Emperor Yan lived in Yanling County, Zhuzhou, Hunan, and was buried in Chaling. Emperor Yan is the Shennong clan, referring to the same person.

Yandi Information

Emperor Yan, it is said that the leader of the Jiang tribe in ancient times, also known as Chidi and Lieshan, is the Shennong clan (or the descendants of Shennong clan). According to legend, his mother’s name was Ren Si, who visited Huashan one day and saw a dragon, her body reacted immediately, and she gave birth to Emperor Yan when she came back. Emperor Yan was born in the stone room of Lieshan, grew up in Jiangshui, and possessed virtuous virtue. Emperor Yan was young and intelligent. He could talk in three days, walk in five days, and knew about crops in three years.

He did many good things for the people in his life: he taught them how to farm, and the people could have plenty of food and clothing; in order to prevent the people from suffering from diseases, he tasted all kinds of medicinal herbs, so that he was poisoned 70 times a day. He also made musical instruments, so that the people could understand etiquette, which was praised by later generations. The original activity area of ​​its people was in the southern part of today’s Shaanxi, and later developed eastward along the Yellow River, and conflicted with the Yellow Emperor.

In the Battle of Banquan, Emperor Yan was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan Emperor tribe merged with the Yellow Emperor tribe to form the Huaxia tribe, so today the Chinese call themselves “the descendants of Yan and Huang”.

Emperor Yan was the inventor of farming and medicine, and he created Wuxian Se, and started wax sacrifices and markets. After him, China entered the farming society.

He is the leader of the Jiang surname tribe in ancient times and one of the ancestors of the Chinese nation.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zuo Qiuming wrote “Mandarin Jinyu”, saying: “In the past, Shaodian married the Youquan family, and gave birth to Huangdi and Yandi. “Shui Jing Note: Wei River”: “Qi Water (now in Qishan County) and eastwards south of Jiang’s City, is Jiang Water”. Luo Mi’s “Road History: Country Name” in the Southern Song Dynasty contains: “After Emperor Yan, Jiang’s surname is the country. Today, Baoji has Jiang’s city, and Jiangshui in the south.” , there is ginger water in the south, and Emperor Yan grows more than ginger water…”.

In the area of ​​Nanjiang Castle in Baoji City, there are many legends about Emperor Yan. For example, Emperor Yan was born in Yu, and his mother bathed in Jiulong Spring with Emperor Yan in his arms. It is also said that Emperor Yan tasted all kinds of herbs and found Chinese herbs that can cure diseases for human beings.

Because the legend has been passed down from generation to generation, the local people regard Jiulong Spring as a holy place, and they often pray here for rain in case of severe drought. In the 30th year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1765), Xu Qifeng, the magistrate of Baoji County, rebuilt the Yandi Temple and erected a stone tablet for praying for rain.

In the early days, the Yandi tribe was engaged in gathering, fishing and hunting, and then gradually engaged in agriculture, beginning a semi-settled migratory agricultural life. The route of their migration is to descend eastward along the Wei River, cross the Yihe River and the Luohe River, and arrive at present-day Henan and Shandong. Because the land is flat and the climate is warmer, it is suitable for primitive agriculture, so farming is the mainstay, forming a settled tribal group. The first capital was Chen, which is now Huaiyang, Henan; then it was moved to Lu, and the capital was Qufu.

After the eight or nine generations, the power gradually declined, and was oppressed by the Jiuli people, and was defeated by Chiyou. After joining the Yellow Emperor tribe to defeat Chiyou. The Yellow Emperor Tribe defeated the Yan Emperor Tribe again. After that, the Yan and Huang tribes began to unite and merge to form the Chinese nation, occupying the Central Plains, and gradually created and developed a great Chinese civilization on the vast land on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

The Yandi tribe made great contributions to the development of agriculture. After many generations of observation, exploration, and trial planting, he discovered edible wild plants, and gradually cultivated them into crops. And “the wood is the scorpion”, “the wood is the scorpion”, and the production tools were invented to replace the slash-and-burn cultivation, thus creating the history of China’s agricultural civilization.

The Yandi tribe also made great contributions to the development of medicine. After identifying plants, they gradually understood the therapeutic effects of some plants on human diseases; they also improved people’s diet structure and provided a more reliable source of various nutrients needed by the human body due to the production of sorghum and five grains.

It has promoted the improvement of human body quality; it has also made pottery and made axe, which has improved people’s living conditions and improved people’s health and life expectancy; it has also compared the land and water and springs, making people relatively settled, eliminating the need for fishing, hunting, and gathering. People’s living conditions and physical health are gradually improved and improved, and the formation and development of human society has a solid foundation, so it can be said that Emperor Yan created the history of Chinese medicine.

The information on Emperor Yan is basically like this. I believe everyone has a certain understanding of Emperor Yan after reading this.