Why do China people call themselves descendants of the Yellow Emperor and dragons?

About 5000 years ago, the ancestors of China people lived in the Yellow River valley, and they were divided into several tribes. According to legend, Huangdi and Yan Di are half-brothers. At that time, there was also a tribe in the Yangtze River valley, and its leader was Chiyou. At that time, there was also a tribe in the Yangtze River valley, and its leader was Chiyou. The people in this tribe look terrible, with iron foreheads and copper heads. Their bodies are like wild animals, eating sand and stones. They have many weapons, and they also know witchcraft. Chiyou often leads his tribe to invade other tribes. Other tribes were unable to resist, and the tribes in Yan Di were also occupied by Chiyou. Emperor Yan had to flee to the Yellow Emperor for help.

The Yellow Emperor ordered the tribes to make weapons quickly, and sent the brave general Ying Long to catch all kinds of wild animals for training. Before long, these beasts can obey Ying Long's orders. The Yellow Emperor ordered the ambush of wild animals and personally led soldiers from all tribes to fight against Chiyou.

After fighting with Chiyou for a while, the Yellow Emperor pretended to be unable to resist, and fled while fighting, deliberately attracting Chiyou's team to the place where wild animals lay in ambush. At that time, the brave general Ying Long immediately ordered the ambush beast to pounce on the enemy. One by one, wild animals bared their teeth, barking and biting. The Yellow Emperor immediately led all the soldiers to kill Chiyou. Seeing that his soldiers were killed, injured and fled, Chiyou quickly used witchcraft to cause a storm. After a while, it was too dark to see anything clearly. Chiyou thought that the Yellow Emperor's team was lost, and when he was proud, he suddenly saw the Yellow Emperor sitting on the newly invented compass and leading the soldiers to chase them. Ying Long raised his broadsword and killed Chiyou. Huangdi won. At this time, a golden light suddenly appeared in the sky, shining on the Yellow Emperor. Everyone was surprised and happy to see the Yellow Emperor shining all over. It is said that the Yellow Emperor must be the son of the gods. Therefore, everyone suggested that Huangdi become the leader of the tribal alliance.

From then on, the Yellow Emperor was called the "Son of Heaven". He led the people of various tribes to worship the gods and spirits of heaven and earth, engage in agricultural production and develop culture. The Yellow Emperor founded the earliest calendar in China, which is called "Yellow Emperor Calendar" or "Yellow Calendar". Huangdi studied medicine with the famous doctor Qi Bo, and later generations wrote the medical skill Huangdi Neijing according to the medical theory they discussed. The Yellow Emperor asked his wife to teach ordinary people to raise silkworms and make five-color clothes. Huangdi ordered historian Cang Xie to create characters. The Yellow Emperor also ordered music officials to make various musical instruments. Under the leadership of the Yellow Emperor, people created and invented many things, built houses, made cars and boats, and learned to make weapons with copper. The Yellow River Basin has become the cradle of ancient culture in China and one of the cradles of ancient human culture.

Tribes in the Yellow River Valley call themselves "China people" or "Huaxia people". Huaxia people gradually spread their culture to all parts of the country. In this way, the "Chinese nation" has become the floorboard of all tribes in China. The Chinese nation worships Huangdi very much, regards Huangdi as the ancestor of Huaxia nationality, and calls itself the descendant of Huangdi. Because Yan Di and the Yellow Emperor share the same mother's voice, and the two tribes later merged into one tribe, China people call themselves "descendants of the Chinese people". Legend has it that on the day when the Yellow Emperor lived to be a hundred years old, the dragon in the sky came down to pick him up, and the Yellow Emperor returned to the sky in a dragon. Later, in order to commemorate the Yellow Emperor, people built the "Huangdi Mausoleum" in Xi 'an, the old capital.

descendants of the dragon

According to legend, about 7000 years ago, Emperor Fuxi of Tai Hao was born in Ji Cheng (Tianshui, Gansu) and lived in the Central Plains all the year round. His capital was Mulder and Wang Jian in Wanqiu (Huaiyang, Henan).

Fu conquered many tribes in the Central Plains with his extraordinary wisdom and courage. He concentrated several animal features that people liked at that time, and created a complex composed of horse's head, snake's body and chicken's feet. He called himself the "Dragon Master" and regarded the dragon as the national emblem of Huaxia nationality-totem. Therefore, the Chinese nation began to call it a descendant of the dragon.

Another achievement of Fuxi is to take the surname as the wind. Marriage, male marriage and female marriage; Make fishing nets and teach people to fish and hunt; Draw gossip instead of tying a rope; Make harps, make fun; Set up official positions and divide internal affairs ... since then, our ancestors have entered the early civilization era from barbarism.

The dragon is a symbol of the Chinese nation. Every Chinese descendant is a "descendant of the dragon", and the dragon has become a culture. In the hearts of Chinese children, it occupies an irreplaceable position. Dragon, an illusory deity, has been wandering in people's hearts for thousands of years.

Dragons originated in the Neolithic Age 8000 years ago. Out of the worship of nature and the good wish for a good harvest, people have constructed a kind of god beast with the characteristics of horsehead, antlers, snake body, fish scales, talons and fish tails in their hearts, and given it the power to make waves. This is a dragon.

In the ancient mythology of China, the dragon often appeared. It became an epoch-making god, helped the Yellow Emperor to unify China, and made efforts to protect Dayu in flood control, benefiting thousands of people in Qian Qian.

In feudal times, the dragon symbolized imperial power and divine power, and was an inviolable majesty. Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology, the dragon has become a mascot and flew into the homes of ordinary people. People dance and race dragon boats. In riddles, couplets and pictures, dragons have become immortal themes.

As descendants of the dragon, we should carry forward the dragon culture that has been circulated for thousands of years and carry forward a broad and boundless national spirit.

Dragon, the essence of the sun and the moon, the aura of heaven and earth, has the shape of a hundred animals, and all rivers run into the sea. In this new era, it has been given new life. It will not only be the symbol of the Chinese nation, but also represent the spirit of the Chinese nation and become the Chinese soul in the new century.

Why do we say that the Chinese nation is a descendant of the dragon?

In ancient China mythology, human beings were created by Nu Wa squeezing loess. Nu Wa created human beings, so who created Nu Wa herself? Generally speaking, Nuwa was originally created by people who worshipped snakes as totems.

What is a totem? Totem is the symbol of clan in primitive society. Totem belief is a very primitive belief. The color of the snake totem can be clearly seen in the images of Nvwa 、 Fuxi and others. Snake totem is widely distributed, and now it is mainly concentrated in the southeast and southwest of China. In thousands of years of continuous migration, the cultures of various ethnic groups have blended with each other, and snake totems have spread all over the country. Both Gaoshan nationality in Taiwan Province province and Li nationality in Hainan province have traces or customs of snake totem. In areas with snakes as totems, it is generally believed that "snake" is the prototype of "dragon" and "dragon" is the divine display of "snake". Therefore, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, domestic snakes are called "Black Dragon", "Tianlong" and "Jialong". In Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places, some ethnic groups call themselves "dragon species", "dragon people" and "dragon houses" and build snake temples to worship snake gods.

It can be seen that our Chinese nation is a descendant of the dragon and has a profound historical origin. The dragon is a symbol of China people, and the Chinese nation proudly considers itself a "descendant of the dragon".