Yan Di and Huangdi clashed, and Huangdi finally defeated Yan Di. Why do some people claim to be descendants of the Yellow Emperor instead of the Yellow Emperor?

Emperor Yan is one of the ancestors of the Chinese nation and the legendary leader of the ancient Jiang (also known as He) tribe.

According to legend, his mother's name is Ren You. One day when she visited Huashan, she saw a dragon, and her body immediately reacted. When I came back, I gave birth to Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan was born in a stone room in a mountain and grew up in Jiang Shui. He was virtuous and respected by fire, so he was named Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan is few and wise. He can talk for three days, walk for five days and understand crops for three years. He has done many good things for the people in his life: teaching people to farm and making them well fed; In order to protect people from getting sick, he tasted all kinds of medicinal materials, so that he was poisoned 70 times a day. He also made musical instruments to make people understand etiquette, which was praised by later generations. His initial activity area was in the south of Shaanxi today, and later he developed eastward along the Yellow River, which clashed with the Yellow Emperor. In the Battle of Hanquan, Yan Di was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan Di tribe and the Yellow Emperor tribe merged to form the Huaxia tribe, so today China people call themselves "descendants of the Yellow Emperor".

In historical legends, Emperor Yan is a great figure who developed primitive agriculture in China and was the founder of farming culture. Legend has it that he created a wooden plow, taught people to farm and increased the output of crops. Legend has it that he tasted all kinds of herbs and treated human diseases. He was the first discoverer and user of Chinese herbal medicine. Not only that, it is said that he also used fire to benefit mankind, made musical instruments, and advocated material exchange ... In short, Yan Di Yan Di is a god inseparable from inventions in agriculture, industry, commerce, medicine, literature and other fields in historical legends, and was greatly admired and sacrificed by the descendants of Chinese people in past dynasties.

Why is it called Emperor Yan?

When the center is yellow, the Yellow Emperor is right. The south is red, so Emperor Yan's nickname is Chi Di. However, this statement has one drawback. Yandi's birthplace should be in the Weihe River basin in the north, which is similar to the Yellow Emperor area. Later, it developed to the south, and it should be called Yandi in the south.

"Imperial Century" said: "There is virtue. Yan Dewang, hence the name Yan Di. " What is Yan De? "Zuo Zhao Zhuan Gong Seventeen Years": "Yan Dijia remembers fire, so he became famous with fire." It turned out that he reformed Fuxi's timing method, invented the fire calendar based on the fire discipline, and worshipped the sun god, so he was honored as inflammation. I think it may also refer to the clan who is good at using fire. Emperor Yan, namely Chi Di, is the son of Apollo, namely Vulcan.

The meanings of posthumous title's "Gao Xin" and "Gao Xin" by Emperor Yan were not clear in the past. According to people's explanation, "Xin" is the original word of "salary", and the image of Xin in Oracle bone inscriptions is to analyze the shape of wood with an axe (Zhu Fangpu's Interpretation of Yin and Zhou Characters). There is fire if there is Xin (salary), so the original meaning of the name should be Vulcan.

The legendary ancient emperor Yan Di. Because fire is king, it is called Emperor Yan. After Nu Wa, she became the master of the world. Legend has it that he was the inventor of farming and medicine. He also created the banjo and began to worship wax festivals and fairs. Since then, China has entered the farming society.

Legend has it that he was an ancient tribal leader and the Yellow Emperor was the ancestor of the Chinese nation. "Guoyu. "Today" contains: "In the past, the Shaodian family married the Insect Qiao family and gave birth to the Yellow Emperor and. The Yellow Emperor became a water-catcher, and Yan Di became a Jiang Shui. The History of Road and Country Names in the Song Dynasty records: "After Emperor Yan, the country name was Jiang, and now Baoji has Jiang City and the south has it." The legend of Emperor Yan has been circulating in Baoji for a long time. There are Yan Di Temple and Yandi Mausoleum in Baoji City, and Yangshan Mountain in the southern suburbs. Chinese people at home and abroad hold grand sacrificial ceremonies in Tomb-Sweeping Day and the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.

Yan Di tribes engaged in gathering, fishing and hunting in the early days. Because of the invention of agriculture, it began a semi-settled agricultural migration life. The migration route is along the east of Weihe River, reaching Henan and Hubei. Yan Di tribes have made great contributions to the agricultural development in China. Emperor Yan "tasted a hundred herbs", found edible plants and cultivated them into crops; Invented production tools, replaced slash and burn, and created the history of agricultural civilization. At the same time, improving the diet structure and understanding the therapeutic function of plants have created the history of China medicine.

According to legend, there was no agriculture in ancient times. People make a living by hunting, fishing and picking wild fruits. They are hungry, cold and in distress, and live a primitive nomadic life. Emperor Yan was very upset when he saw the plight of the people. He thinks about it day and night, and wants everyone to live a life of food and clothing. He thought, if only one kind of grass could bear more fruits and be eaten. He took pains and risked his life, traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, tasted countless strange fruits, and once ate poisonous fruits by mistake, and almost died. Fearless, Emperor Yan finally found grass that he thought could bear a lot of fruit in a beautiful place in the south. This is He Miao. After the trial planting, a cart of crisp and fragrant Huang Chengcheng fruits was harvested in the first year, and dozens of carts were harvested in the second year. Since then, word has spread from word to word, and more and more people are growing grain in all directions. In order to alleviate people's hard work in farming, Emperor Yan taught people farming techniques.

The grain grown in Yan Di has brought light and hope to mankind. In order to commemorate his achievements, people called Yan Di Shennong. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yan searched for a place to grow grain and named it "Jiahe", which is now Jiahe County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province.

Yan Di Yan Di has made great contributions to the survival, reproduction and development of the Chinese nation.

Jiang is a branch of Xirong nationality. Originally a nomadic people, Jiang entered the Central Plains from the west very early. At that time, at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan, there lived the Jiuli nationality headed by Chiyou (an independent Miao nationality). Because of the long-term conflict between the two sides, Emperor Yan retreated to Hebei. According to legend, because Emperor Yan wanted to invade the princes, he fought three fierce battles with the Yellow Emperor, the surname of Xuanyuan, which was considered to be the first large-scale war of the Chinese nation. It was called the Battle of Hanquan in history (Hanquan, now Hanquan Village in Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing). Facing the leader of the bear, scorpion, scorpion, scorpion and tiger are powerful opponents of the totem tribe, but Emperor Yan finally lost, allied with it and surrendered to it, and the Yellow Emperor ended the war with victory.

With the expansion of the Yanhuang alliance, more and more tribes submitted to it, but Chiyou refused to accept it all the time, and a big war was inevitable. Chiyou led Jiu Li to fight against the alliance in Zhuolu (now Zhuolu Village, Hebei Province). This was the second war in the legendary era, which was called the Battle of Zhuolu, and the so-called Zhuolu Central Plains also originated from this. Finally, Chiyou was defeated. Since then, the surname Jiang and the Yellow Emperor have settled in the Central Plains. The word "descendants of the Yellow Emperor" refers to people's tracing and respect for the ancestors of Chinese civilization, Emperor Yan and Yellow Emperor.

In ancient mythology, the Yellow Emperor was a great god who appeared later than Emperor Yan. Legend has it that he has four faces and can monitor all directions. He is the emperor of heaven in the center and rules the whole universe. Among the people, there are various legends about his and his courtiers' inventions. There is a book saying that the Yellow Emperor invented the car, so people called him Xuanyuan.

According to legend, the Yellow Emperor was born on the second day of February, and sacrifices are held in Zhengzhou at this time every year. The ancestor of the Yellow Emperor was Xiong. Because the Xiong family worships earth virtue and the earth is yellow, his mother named him Huangdi, and he has a baby. Living in the hill of Xuanyuan, because he grew up in Jishui, he took Ji as his surname and Xuanyuan as his name, so later generations also called the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. According to legend, at the beginning of Chinese civilization, Huangdi began to build cars, so it was called Xuanyuan. The word Xuanyuan refers to the car. In the time when myths and legends have a long history, turtles, as one of the four ancient gods in China (the other three gods are the Dragon and Phoenix Forest), have penetrated into the water culture that is extremely related to farming people.

The first emperor of China, the Yellow Emperor, was named Xuanyuan, or Xuanyuan, which means "the year of heaven" or "the day of heaven", which means the deified tortoise. No one can explain the word Xuanyuan. After studying ancient books, it is found that Xuanyuan may be a giant salamander. In ancient times, Xuanyuan and giant salamander had the same pronunciation, and giant salamander was an aquatic animal. The Yellow Emperor used the giant salamander as a totem, indicating that his totem was an aquatic animal. (See>, page 128- 129, Qiushi Publishing House, 1987). He further demonstrated that Xia Zhou and Huangdi were a system and related by blood. Because Xia's totem is close to the Yellow Emperor, Zhou also claimed to be from the giant salamander, and all of them took aquatic animals such as dragons and snakes as totems. This theory finds out the meaning of Xuanyuan from the totem of ancient society. Scientifically explained why the Chinese nation is the so-called "descendants of the dragon".