The Historical Development of Yan Huang Zi Sun

The term "Yan Huang Zi Zi Sun" is a self-proclaimed title that Chinese people at home and abroad are proud of. The real emergence and widespread use of this term was in the late Qing Dynasty, but its embryonic form "after Huangyan", "Yanhuang Miaozhi", "Yellow Emperor's children and grandchildren" and so on as early as the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, these are the "Yellow Emperor's children and grandchildren". These are "yellow children" title in different times, different contexts of different forms of expression. The state language - Jin said: "the former Shaodian married in the Jiao clan, gave birth to the Yellow Emperor, Yandi. The Yellow Emperor was formed by Ji water, and the Yan Emperor was formed by Jiang water." There was no writing in the Yanhuang era, and it was impossible to have such terms as "children of Yanhuang" or "children of the Yellow Emperor", but a solid foundation was laid for the emergence of such terms in later generations. The most dangerous time for the Chinese nation was also the time of unprecedented awakening and rebirth of the Chinese nation. The title "Children of the Yellow Emperor" was finally finalized in the fire of the war as a symbol of the Chinese nation, and became a flag that called for and inspired Chinese people at home and abroad to fight against the war. The Central Committee of the Chinese **** in the telegram to the Chinese Kuomintang said: "Our generation is the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, the national tragedy, but we can only abandon all preconceptions, close cooperation, *** with the final liberation of the Chinese nation's great journey." Chiang Kai-shek pointed out in the "Letter to All Generals in the War of Resistance" that "all of us are the descendants of the Yellow Emperor who pledged themselves to the revolution. State **** the two parties to sacrifice the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum in Shaanxi Province, Mao Zedong personally wrote a sacrifice to the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum text, Chiang Kai-shek personally inscribed the "Yellow Emperor Mausoleum" three words, they all to "yellow children" to call themselves. Scholars have to pen instead of gun, to promote the great achievements of the two emperors, to inspire the morale of military and civilian resistance. Mr. Chen Ziyi in the "Chinese nation, the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, a yes? Two? An article pointed out that: "non-Huangdi descendants, are included in the Yellow Emperor's descendants, and regardless of the surname, are the descendants of the Yellow Emperor carry on"; "so later generations, salty that the Chinese nation are the descendants of the Yellow Emperor also". Mr. Qian Mu, in his book "The Yellow Emperor", believes that "it is very reasonable for us to call ourselves 'descendants of the Yellow Emperor'." He expressed his recognition of the titles "children of the Yellow Emperor" and "children of the Yellow Emperor".

The title of "children of the Yellow Emperor" is more of a cultural symbol than a bloodline symbol. Chinese people at home and abroad call themselves "children of the Yellow Emperor" is actually the identification of Chinese culture, is the "cultural roots" and "cultural self-awareness" of the need. Therefore, as long as this kind of identity mentality continues to exist, "Yan Huang Zi Sun" will continue to be used.

Why do we call ourselves the children of the Yellow Emperor

Generally speaking, we Chinese call ourselves the children of the Yellow Emperor. Some people may disagree, saying that we are an ethnic minority, and we are not the children of Yanhuang like the Han Chinese, are we?

In fact, we Chinese call ourselves the descendants of Yan Huang, mainly from the point of view of culture and civilization, so we say that we are the originators of humanity.

When did Eastern civilization begin? It is undeniable that the Eastern civilization has the Yellow River basin as its core and birthplace. Just as the Indian civilization was and can be called the Ganges civilization, the Egyptian bush and civilization can be called the Nile civilization, the Sumerian civilization can be called the Two Rivers civilization, and the Greco-Roman civilization can be called the Mediterranean civilization. The traditional Oriental civilization generally covers today's East Asia, Northeast Asia, a part of Southeast Asia, a part of Central Asia, and the islands on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, such as Japan, Okinawa, Guam, and so on. The Central Asian zone is a zone where many civilizations have intersected, and Southeast Asia refers to its continental part.

The regions described above have their own distinctive characteristics compared to other civilizations around them, and there is still more **** between societies in the East than in other regions even today. This ****iness is what has developed over the last 5,000 years of history and is the accumulation of history.

And the Yellow River civilization mainly started with the civilization foundation of the Yan Huang Emperor period. It is the culture, art, aesthetics, customs, ideology, political system, military characteristics, eating habits, values, worldview, religion, writing and so on, which were produced by the collision and mutual influence between the factors of various civilizations in the later historical development with the Yan Huang period as the starting point of civilization. These things clearly distinguish themselves from other civilized societies. There is no doubt that these components of civilization germinated during the period of Emperor Yan Huang.

Excluding ethnic bias and a narrow view of ethnicity, the claim of Yanhuangdi is not unreasonable.

As for the characteristics of the Yellow Emperor, Yan Di, Chi You and war, and that it is this early war and collision, access to the same period of the rest of the Eastern land does not have the opportunity to promote the civilization of the Yellow River Basin breakthrough development.

The outstanding contribution of the Yandi race is for the breakthrough development of primitive agriculture, in the Yandi hometown of Baoji, Beishouling site (7000-5000 years ago) excavated a large number of stone, bone, horn, ceramic farming tools and milling trays, milling bars, indicating that the forefathers at that time has entered the era of farming, the large number of ceramic pieces of the unearthed, proving that they have mastered the technology of pottery production. According to the records, the contributions of Yandi Shennong's mainly include the invention of agricultural tools, cultivation of grains - corn, pottery making, weaving, tasting a hundred medicines, making wax sacrifices, dancing, Wuxuanqin, and the creation of the day market, and so on. It was the main inventor of clothing, food, entertainment, medicine, and trading in primitive society, which were all about the daily life of ordinary people and were economic in nature. But the Yandi tribe's level of tribal management was obviously not good, so there were more tribal conflicts during the reign of the Yandi tribe. At this time, an inventor of a system that was good at war and managing tribes appeared, and this was our other ancestor, the Yellow Emperor.

According to the available written records, Huang Di's outstanding talents lay in training armies, uniting tribes, creating new systems, being good at employing people and managing tribes with new ideas. Conflicts between clans are inevitable, to solve these conflicts, the military means is the last support, the yellow emperor is to see the tribal conflicts, the people live a difficult life, it is efforts to train the army, to create a more warlike tribal united army, this army defeated the Yandi tribe and the Chi You Jiu Li tribe, for the yellow emperor to create a wider range of tribal alliances to lay the foundation. According to records, the Yellow Emperor's most important contribution is to collect a variety of primitive political ideas, the creation of bureaucratic systems, moral traditions, ceremonial systems, and actively recruit the wise and use good people. At the same time, he organized and carried forward the achievements of the Yandi tribe's agricultural revolution, united more tribes, put an end to the barbaric conflicts between primitive tribes, and promoted exchanges and cooperation among tribes. It was because of these institutional constructions and foundations that Yao, Shun and Yu, the 8th and 9th generation grandsons of the Yellow Emperor, were able to carry out the larger scale feat of governing the Yellow River.

So, if Yandi Shennong was the inventor of primitive technology, production, trade, entertainment, art, etc., then Huangdi was the founder of ideology, political system, social system, military, and tribal management, and they were the indispensable components of a complete civilization. The style of civilization of the Eastern land is precisely the basic paradigm of their original inheritance, which is constantly carried forward, enriched and enriched, and interpreted.

In the history of China, the Han Chinese had been the most powerful successor of the Yan Huang civilization, so the Han Chinese population also developed the most, and ruled for a relatively long time, and other different ethnic minorities had also practiced their rule in different scopes, and the stage of the Eastern land was interpreted by all the ethnic groups **** together. Although with the evolution of history, the differences between the various ethnic groups are not small, but compared with other civilizations and ethnic groups, these differences are actually less.

So it should be indisputable that Emperor Yan Huang is the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese people. Of course some other ethnic groups also identify with Fuxi and others as the originators, and we think there is nothing wrong with that either. As a matter of fact, the entire East Asian society should have the same root and branch, and they have more or less influenced each other. It is said that Emperor Yandi also invented and produced the zither and created the five-stringed musical instrument "Gong Shang, Horn, Zheng, and Yu".

Of course, the Yellow Emperor was also very impressive. He invented and built the cart, which gave its name to "Regulus". The Yellow Emperor also created the kettle and cauldron, which created the history of the Chinese "food culture". Yellow Emperor's first wife, Rayon, initiated the silk weaving business. Huang Di was originally the leader of the tribes in the Central Plains, and later with the Yan Di war in the Osaka Spring field, in the support of the tribes, won the victory, was embraced as the leader of the tribal alliance. Both Yandi and Huangdi are equally worthy of our gratitude and respect.

The Yandi and Yellow Emperor tribes continued to grow and intermarry with various ethnic minorities, slowly forming the Huaxia ethnic group. As a result, Chinese people often refer to themselves as the children of Yan Huang.

Today, we are in a brand new era of civil society, national consciousness is gradually fading, and the feuds and grudges of history, such as the smoke clouds of the past, have long since become fossilized stories that we can see from afar, and perhaps have accumulated enough memories in many places.

In any case, we should not forget that in the ancient times for the Chinese civilization has made outstanding contributions to the ancestors of Yan Huang, remember them, in order to face the history of human development in the face of new challenges have more courage and wisdom, to create a better life.