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Excuse me, who is Yanhuang?

Inflammation: refers to Yan Di Shennong.

Huang: It refers to the Xuanyuan family of the Yellow Emperor.

The Chinese nation has two nicknames, one is "Chinese children" and the other is "Chinese children" (descendants of the Chinese people, or just "descendants of the Yellow Emperor"). These two appellations can sometimes be used universally, and both refer to the Chinese nation. However, there are some differences between the similarities. The term "Chinese children" only appeared in modern times, and its meaning is biased towards culture (it is a group that accepts Chinese culture); The term "descendants of the Chinese people" (or descendants of the Chinese people) has existed since ancient times, and its meaning focuses on blood (ancestors of the same ancestry). Therefore, some ethnic minorities can accept the term "sons and daughters of China" instead of "descendants of the Chinese people".

According to legend, in ancient times, many scattered people lived in the Yellow River valley in China. They formed clans according to their blood relationship, and many clans United to form tribes. Huangdi and Yan Di are the leaders of two big tribes.

At that time, people's ability to resist natural disasters was very low, and they had to move in case of floods and droughts. Once, when the Yan Di tribe moved, they came to the place occupied by the Yellow Emperor tribe. When they saw the good conditions there, they decided to stay for a long time, but the people of Huangdi tribe didn't want to. As a result, the two sides fought and refused to give way to each other. After three battles, the Yan Di tribe was defeated. Emperor Yan admitted defeat to the Yellow Emperor and expressed his willingness to obey his orders. The Yellow Emperor agreed to the request of the Yan Di tribe to stay.

The wife of the Yellow Emperor personally taught the people of Yan Di tribe to raise silkworms and reeling silk, and the Yellow Emperor had them taught the skills of making cars and ships. Emperor Yan also gave wooden plows and herbs to the Yellow Emperor. They get along well.

Later, they joined forces to form the Yanhuang Tribal Alliance, and the Yellow Emperor became the leader of this alliance. The history of the Chinese nation began. Therefore, people in China regard the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor of the Chinese nation and call themselves "descendants of the Chinese people".

Huangdi Mausoleum is located on a pine and cypress hill in huangling county, Shaanxi Province, China. Now every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there are many sea areas where Chinese and foreign descendants go to worship their ancestors.

Folklore about the descendants of the Yellow Emperor

Idiom entry descendants of the yellow emperor

Pinyin yán Huáng zán

Yanhuang's explanation: Emperor Shennong and Emperor Xuanyuan represent the ancestors of the Chinese nation. Descendants of Chinese people. Refers to the descendants of the Chinese nation. Also known as "descendants of Huangyan".

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In a large number of myths and legends, the person with the greatest ability and the most inventions is the Yellow Emperor. Legend has it that he invented cars, boats, pots, mirrors and made crossbows. It is also said that Huangdi asked Cangjie to create characters, Linglun made musical rules and jiazi, Zeebe wrote medical books, and Yidi made wine.

It is said that the Huangdi and Yan Di nationalities first lived in Shaanxi. The Huangdi family finally settled near Zhuolu, Hebei. Emperor Yan finally arrived in the present Shandong area. Chiyou is the leader of Jiuli nationality. The areas where Jiuli people live are mainly in Shandong, Henan and Anhui today. According to legend, Yan Di and Jiuli fought for a fertile land in the Yellow River basin. The Yan Di clan was defeated and turned to the Huangdi clan for help. Huang heyan merged.

According to the above myths and legends, we can see that the three tribes of Huangdi, Yan Di and Jiuli were gradually ruled by Huangdi and merged with each other, and Huangdi became the same ancestor of our multi-ethnic country. Later, all ethnic groups thought they were descendants of the Chinese people and were called "descendants of the Chinese people".

Yandiling Yandiling is located in Luyuan Town, west of Yanling County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province 17 km. There are circulating water, towering old trees and beautiful scenery here.

Huangdi Mausoleum Huangdi Mausoleum is said to be the graveyard of Xuanyuan Emperor, the ancestor of the Chinese nation. It is located at the top of Qiaoshan Mountain in northern huangling county.

The formation of the Chinese nation

Primitive tribes in China later moved eastward and gradually spread all over the Loess Plateau and the western half of North China Plain, where they created a developed pre-Yangshao culture. Tai Hao culture was formed after years of struggle and cultural integration between primitive Han nationality and primitive Dongyi. Tai Hao culture is the fusion of Yangshao culture and Haidai culture, so Tai Hao is publicly publicized as the human ancestor unanimously recognized by all residents in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River basin. In the 30th century BC, the primitive Han people entered the stage of agricultural cultivation as the main economic production, and the leader was called Shennong. Shennong culture is also the fusion of primitive Han Chinese and Dongyi culture.

At the end of Shennong, a powerful Chinese tribe Shaodian (with Xiong's family) appeared among the primitive Han nationality. Xiongshi and Niushi, the primitive tribes in China, were bred into Huangdi and Yan Di tribes respectively by intermarriage with another primitive Han tribe. Two tribes related by blood, Huangdi and Yan Di, fought fiercely for hegemony in Hanquan area in the lower reaches of Fenhe River. Emperor Yan was defeated and surrendered to the Yellow Emperor. Based on these two tribes, many ancient Huaxia tribes in the west of North China Plain, the south of Fenhe Plain and the east of Weihe Plain gradually merged into Huaxia nationality.

Later, Chiyou, the leader of Dongyi, who originally lived in Shandong, went west, and Kuafu, the leader of Sanmiao, who originally lived in Huainan, also went north to the Central Plains. Dongyi formed an alliance with Sanmiao, taking Chiyou as the leader, together with Huaxia. In 2700 BC, the leader of the Chinese nation, Huangdi, defeated the allied forces in Chiyou, Kuafu, and killed them in Zhuolu County, Hebei Province. The remnants of the allied forces retreated to Jizhou, pursued by the Yellow Emperor, and Dongyi and Sanmiao (Jiulijia) fled across the river in haste. Sanmiao retreated to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the south, Dongyi retreated to Taishan in the east, and the Huaxia nationality occupied most of Henan, making Xinzheng its capital. After the communication with Dongyi culture, Chinese characters suitable for China characteristics formally appeared.

The Development and Evolution of the Chinese Nation

At this time, the Huaxia nationality is not a unified country, but it is still divided into several tribes or other tribes such as Dongyi. Politically, it is led by the Huaxia nationality, but it still maintains its original culture. These tribes merged with tribes of other cultures and eventually developed into a powerful country.

Xia: Yu's son founded the Xia Dynasty. The Henan-Jinnan Longshan culture formed by the intersection and fusion of Yangshao culture in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and Haidai culture in the lower reaches (represented by Dawenkou culture) is the predecessor of Xia culture. Xia people are a nation formed by the differentiation from the Yan Di Group in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the integration of the Yellow Emperor, Dongyi and other clans. The territory directly under Xia Guo only includes the Central Plains and southern Shaanxi. At this time, there are still many uncivilized primitive Han-Tibetan tribes and Tuholo people on the Loess Plateau, who have not yet accepted the rule of civilized Han-Tibetan Xia people.

Shang: Dongyi tribe (descendants of the eldest son of the Yellow Emperor) and Giant Butterfly (son's surname), whose descendants were renamed Shang tribe in the Tang Dynasty. 1550 years ago, the Shang tribe destroyed the central Xia Dynasty, established the Shang Dynasty, and became the master of the Central Plains. Compared with the Xia Dynasty, the territory is more in the Dongyi residential area of Huaxia (southwest of Shandong and northeast of Henan). After 500 years of rule, Shang tribes have been completely sinicized.

Zhou: Married to the tribe, Jiang Yuan, the daughter of Taiwei's family, was born and abandoned her son (Ji surname), and later became Taiwei. After the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, the Thai dynasty took Xia as the agricultural officer. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Tai fled to the northwest, lived between Rong and Di, and followed its customs. Apart from being influenced by the customs of Rongdi, Youtai also has its own developed bronze industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, which is a clear proof that it is different from Rongdi. Moreover, he ended his life with Rong Di, got rid of Rong Di customs, developed agriculture, established five senses, and renamed the Thai tribe Zhou Guo. 1046 years ago, Zhou Wuwang destroyed commerce and established a powerful Zhou Dynasty. Compared with Shang Dynasty, there were more non-Xia China residential areas in the territory of Zhou Dynasty (Guanzhong, the hometown of Yandi, and Taihang Mountain, the eastern foot of Beijing conquered by Huangdi).

Qin: A descendant of Emperor Levin (Emperor Zhuan Xu) and the second son of the Yellow Emperor, he married Dongyi and gave birth to (Great Cause). Among the descendants of the great cause, Hubei was killed by Zhou, followed by Qin. The sources of Qin people are roughly as follows: the dominant Qin Gong nationality originated in Dongyi, moved to Rongrong in the west, and entered the customs to become Han; The second largest source of Qin people is "Vic Zhou", which is no less than the dominant clan and the highest part of Qin people's culture. Among the Qin people, the conquered Xirong (the frontier strength of the Tibetan and Burmese people and the Tuholo people) also accounted for a considerable number. Because Qin vigorously developed agriculture and adopted the policy of absorbing advanced culture, economy and talents from the Central Plains, the sources of Qin people included several parts of different nationalities, but by the middle and late Warring States period, they had merged into one and became Chinese people in Qin Long.

During the Warring States period, the Di people were completely integrated into the Huaxia people.

Zhu Rong's descendants married the daughter of the Qiang people's ghost party, and their descendants established the State of Chu. Chu's power has developed to the center of the ancient three seedlings, and then almost unified the whole south. The ruling class of Chu is descended from Zhu Rong, a Huaxia nationality who speaks a Chinese dialect. Hubei people speak Tibetan-Burmese and Miao-Yao mixed language, while Hunan people speak Miao-Yao language. With the strengthening of communication between Chu and the Central Plains and the annexation war against many small Chinese countries in the Central Plains, by the Warring States period, Hubei people began to speak the Chu branch of Sino-Tibetan language family, which had a certain influence on the formation of Southwest Mandarin. Hubei people without China culture became the ancestors of Tujia people.

Before Qin Shihuang unified the whole country, there were not only many countries but also many nationalities. It can be said that a country is a nation: Xia people live in a country established by descendants of Xia dynasty, Shang people live in a country established by descendants of Shang dynasty, and Zhou people are the main ethnic groups in the country enfeoffed by Zhou dynasty, but they also live in Shang people. Some countries founded by ancient tribes also speak their own languages. All these ethnic groups speak a distinctive Chinese dialect called Zhu Xia.