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Why is Yan Huang the ancestor of China?

Introduction

Yán huáng èr dì (炎黄二帝): refers to the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor, who were the outstanding leaders of two different tribes in China's primitive society. They were the outstanding leaders of two different tribes in China's primitive society, and more importantly, the founders of Chinese humanity.

The State of the Union: "In the past, the Shaodian clan married the Yujiao clan and gave birth to the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. Yellow Emperor to Ji water into, Yandi to Jiang water into. Cheng and different virtues, so the Yellow Emperor for Ji, Yandi for Jiang." The Explanation of the State Language: Shaodian, the first of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, but not the father of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. Historical Records: "At the time of Xuanyuan, the Shennong clan declined." Exegesis: "Red Emperor, Yan Emperor Shennong after also". Red, Yan Yi Tong, Shennong since the time of Xuan Yuan Yan Di Shi Chao has been five hundred years. Yan Di in Yan Huang, is the last generation of Yan Di. Shennong, Shaodian, are Yan, Huang's first. Yi Chuan: "Bao ?ti did not, Shennong made", "Shennong did not, Huangdi Yao Shun made." The two tribes of Yan and Huang united to form the Huaxia race headed by the Yellow Emperor, and laid the foundation of Huaxia civilization.

Yan Di

Yan Di is the name of the legendary chief of the Shen Nong tribe in ancient China, starting from Shen Nong to his descendants' children, and the publicly elected ****lord of the world by the alliance of the tribes, who was known as Yandi because of the king of fire virtue.

Shennong tribal leader of the last generation Yandi, Jiang surname, Lieshan clan, more than three thousand years ago was born in Lieshan (present-day Hubei Suixian Lieshan). Later, the two tribes of Yandi and Huangdi merged to form the Huaxia tribe. Yellow Emperor's wife, Rayon's father and grandson, Jiang Lei, was the eleventh grandson of Shennong (who was appointed as the Marquis of Fangshan in Liuhe, Fangshan is the present-day Fangshan in Liuhe, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and Jiang Lei took the mountain as his surname and renamed himself Fang Lei).

Huangdi

Huangdi for the "Historical Records" of the five emperors of the first, ancient Chinese mythological figures, Chinese emperors have set up temples and mausoleums, etc. for the Yellow Emperor to obtain symbolic justification for the rule of the Chinese culture of the important iconic figures, known as the ancestors of the Chinese nation; some scholars with documentary evidence that is the beginning of the late Qing dynasty under the impetus of the intellectuals from the era of the three emperors of the Chinese legend and the five emperors, and became the Han nationality to the Chinese people. Some scholars believe, based on documentary evidence, that it began in the late Qing Dynasty under the impetus of intellectuals, from the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors of the Chinese legend era, and became the ancestor of the Han nation and even the Chinese nation.

Yan Di and Huang Di were once related by marriage, after Shen Nong. It is reported, "the former Shaodian clan married in the Jiao clan, gave birth to the Yellow Emperor, Yandi. Yellow Emperor to Ji water into, Yandi to ginger water into", the Yandi tribe in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River basin development, and at that time in today's Shaanxi and Henan junction, inhabited by Chi as the head of the Nine Lai (some say that the sole seedling), the two sides due to the development of the tribe and the occurrence of a long period of conflict, the Yandi invincible and retreated.

It is said that due to the "Yandi want to invade Ling vassals", and then with the Regulus clan Ji of the Yellow Emperor for three fierce battles, which is the first large-scale war recorded in Chinese history, known as the Battle of the Hanquan. Faced with the commander of the bears, fighters, pi, braves, ?

Yanhuang alliance continues to expand, the submissive tribes more and more, but Chiyu always disobeyed, the two sides are the same as water and fire, Chiyu led the nine li, and the alliance war in Zhuo Lu (now the village of Zhuo Lu, Hebei Province), is the second war for the legendary era, known as the war of Zhuo Lu. Finally Chi You was defeated. From then on, the Jiang clan settled down with the Yellow Emperor in the Central Plains. The term "Yan Huang Zi Zi Sun" is used by Chinese scholars to trace back and honor the ancestors of Chinese civilization, the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor.

The Yandi's family name was Jiang, which may indicate that he used sheep as his main meat (some say because he was born in Jiangshui), and that he still retained the tradition of a matriarchal society, where a sheep and a woman were combined into a single entity (also found in Ji, Si, Yao, and Ying). Yandi is one of the humanistic ancestors of the Chinese nation. The emperor's century" cloud: "Shennong's, ginger surname, mother said Ren Si, Jiao's female, the name of women; for the lesser Deng woman, traveled in the Huayang, there is the head of the divine dragon, sense of the birth of Yandi. Personality cow head, long in ginger water. There is a holy virtue, fire to get the king, so the name Yandi. The first all Chen, and then Tu Lu. Also known as the Kui Kui clan, Lian Shan clan, Li Shan clan.'' Can be seen Yandi tribe is to cattle as a totem worship.

According to the "Classic of the Mountains and the Sea - the sea within the scripture": "Yandi's wife, the red water of the son of listening to the Jiu was born Yanju, Yanju was born in the section and the section and the birth of the theater, the theater was born Zhu Rong. Zhu Rong descended into the river water and gave birth to *** Gong. *** worker was born art tool, art tool was born Fangbian, is the soil to be in the river water. *** Worker born after the earth, after the earth born choking, choking born age ten two." Yandi is the god of agriculture, began to teach the world to sow the five grains, taste the five grains, which is Yandi and Shennong origin; Yandi is also the god of fire, God of the stove, began to teach the people to friction to make fire and hot food, with fire to cast metal utensils, so Yandi's descendants after Zhu Rong such a god of fire.

According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas - North Mountain Scripture", the white-beaked, red-footed Jingwei bird is the Yandi's youngest daughter of the female child changed. According to "Road history - after the fourth period", Chi You is also a descendant of Yan Di, and expelled Yan Di and his descendant Yu Yu, and fought with the Yellow Emperor in Zhuo Lu. Immortal war god image of the giant Interceptor, is the Yandi's ministry.