5,000-year-old story: The Yellow Emperor fought against Chiyou.

About 4,000 years ago, many clans and tribes lived in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins in China. The Yellow Emperor is one of the most famous tribal leaders in legend.

Tribes headed by the Yellow Emperor first lived near Jishui in the northwest of China, and later moved to Zhuolu (now around Zhuolu and Huailai in Hebei Province), where they began to develop animal husbandry and agriculture and settled down.

Yan Di, another tribal leader who was contemporary with the Yellow Emperor, originally lived near Jiang Shui in northwest China. It is said that they are close relatives of the Yellow Emperor. The Yan Di family gradually declined, while the Huangdi family flourished.

At that time, there was a leader of the Jiu Li nationality named Ch and Y not u (Ch and Y not u), who was very strong. Legend has it that Chiyou has eighty-one brothers, all of whom are beasts, with bronze heads and iron foreheads, eating sand and stones, and they are extremely fierce. They also made swords, halberds, crossbows and various weapons, and often led his tribe to invade other tribes.

Once, Chiyou occupied the position of Emperor Yan, and Emperor Yan rose up to resist, but he was no match for Chiyou and was defeated by Chiyou. Emperor Yan had no choice but to flee to Zhuolu and ask the Yellow Emperor for help. The Yellow Emperor had long wanted to get rid of the scourge of various tribes, so he joined forces with various tribes to prepare for a decisive battle with Chiyou in the land of Zhuolu.

There are many myths and legends about this war. It is said that the Yellow Emperor domesticated bears, barbarians (pronounced pí), barbarians (pronounced pí), raccoons (pronounced xiū), and others? (sound chū) Six kinds of wild animals, tigers, were released to help in the war (some people think that the legendary six kinds of wild animals are actually six clans named after wild animals). Although Chiyou's soldiers were brave, they could not resist the Yellow Emperor's army and this group of fierce tigers and beasts, and were defeated and fled.

When the Yellow Emperor led his troops to win the battle, it was dark, foggy, jittery and thunderous, and the soldiers of the Yellow Emperor could not catch up at all. It turned out that Chiyou invited "Fengbo Rain Master" to help. Not to be outdone, the Yellow Emperor asked the goddess to help him dispel the wind and rain. In an instant, the wind stopped raining and the sky was clear. Wanli finally defeated Chiyou. There is also a legend that Chiyou used witchcraft to create a fog, which made the soldiers of the Yellow Emperor lose their way. The Yellow Emperor took the "south guide car" as the guide and led the soldiers to pursue Chiyou in the direction of escape. As a result, Chiyou was arrested and killed. These myths reflect that the war is very fierce.

The tribes were very happy to see that the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou. The Yellow Emperor was supported by many tribes. However, the Yan Di family and the Huangdi family also clashed. The two sides fought a battle in Hanquan (now southeast of Zhuolu County, Hebei Province), and Yan Di failed. From then on, the Yellow Emperor became the leader of the tribal alliance in the Central Plains.

In the legendary era of the Yellow Emperor, there were many inventions, such as building palaces, making cars, building ships and making five-color clothes. Of course, none of these were invented by one person, but later people put them on the account of the Yellow Emperor.

Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor had a wife named Zukun (sound léi) who personally took part in labor. It turns out that silkworms are only wild, and people don't know the use of silkworms. Ancestors taught women to raise silkworms, reel silk and weave silk. From then on, there was silk and silk.

The Yellow Emperor also had a historian, Cang Xie, who created ancient Chinese characters. We haven't seen the words of that period, and we can't find them.

Legends in ancient China highly praised the Yellow Emperor, and later generations believed that the Yellow Emperor was the ancestor of the Chinese nation, and he was the descendant of the Yellow Emperor. Because Yan Di and the Yellow Emperor are close relatives and later merged together, we often call ourselves descendants of the Yellow Emperor. In order to commemorate this legendary ancestor, later generations also built a "Huangdi Mausoleum" on Qiaoshan, north of huangling county, Shaanxi.