Are we Chinese really the heirs of the dragon?

We are all descendants of the dragon. The claim that we are the heirs of the dragon has a broader historical basis than the descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

Tianshui, Gansu Province, known as the "hometown of Emperor Xihuang," is the birthplace of Fu Xi and Nuwa. Located in the city's Fuxi Temple, built in the Yuan Dynasty and rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, it is the largest and best-preserved Fuxi Temple in the country.

Fu Xi statue of yellow, clad in green leaves like scales, hands up and down holding a black round gossip in front of the chest, the gossip contains yin and yang fish figure. Fuxi's eyebrows, beard, hair thick black heavy, barefoot sitting on the green cornerstone, two feet on the wave pattern, under the foot of the whole body is covered with stripes, the head of the horns of the lying dragon horse. The entire statue of the stout body, look kindly, gaze level, giving a person easy, natural, kind, simple, wisdom feeling.

Fuxi Temple 20 kilometers north of Sanyangchuan, there is also a Guatai Mountain, towering over the Weishui and Hulu River confluence. Legend has it that Fuxi is on this mountain to observe the sky and observe the earth, and begin to draw the eight trigrams. Surrounded by the Dragon Horse Cave, foot-washing stone and other attractions. 30 kilometers north of Guatai Mountain, Qin'an County, there are Nuwa Shrine and Temple, Nuwa Cave, as well as the wind platform, the wind valley, the wind tombs (according to legend, Nuwa wind surname, and "born in the wind valley, long in the wind platform, buried in the wind tombs"), "Nuwa Huang hometown," the monument is still in existence.

The proof of the Fuxi and Nvwa eras is the site of the original village of Dadiwan in Qin'an. The site has unearthed house sites, stoves, ash pits, tombs, drainage ditches, and more than 8,000 pieces of bone, stone, and pottery made of living utensils and so on, indicating that 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, there was indeed a relatively large primitive clans camped here, and flourished.

In Huaxia, similar to the ancient legend of Adam and Eve, also happened on Fuxi and Nuwa. History: "Fuxi dragon body, Nuwa snake body", according to legend, a dark night, a sudden flood, annihilation of the whole world. Fuxi and Nuwa ran barefoot to the top of the high Kunlun Mountain and were spared. In order to prevent the extinction of the human race, the siblings got married, and the Chinese nation was born.

In Chinese and foreign mythological memory, I do not know whether it is coincidence or fact, there is a sudden flood. Noah's Ark in the West, and the ancestors of the people after the Eastern flood, and was born in the land now known as Tianshui. The ecological balance suffered serious disruption, the usual mountains and valleys were seriously short of water, which further led to the accelerated deterioration of the ecology. After a long time, a sudden downpour from the sky brought destruction to the world.

Tianshui named in the birthplace of the Chinese ancestor, perhaps alluding to the need for people to remember the prehistoric catastrophe of the Great Flood.

Talking about Fuxi, we can not help but talk about the dragon. Dragon is the symbol of the Chinese nation, back to the source, the Chinese dragon from the earliest three emperors of our country, the first of the hundred king of the first Taihao Fuxi's tribal totem emblem.

When it comes to Chinese civilization, its origins go back to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. The three emperors and five emperors, the most extensive influence, when it comes to Fuxi emperor. And only the image of Fuxi, is the human head of the dragon body, is honored as the Chinese ancestral dragon.

Fu Xi is said to be the son of the God of Thunder, whose mother, Huaxu, stepped on the "footprints" left by the God of Thunder in the Lei Ze and gave birth to him. This is because lightning is one of the most important objects for dragons. Lightning is the shape of the dragon, the sound of thunder is the sound of the dragon, the god of thunder is the god of dragons, and the son of the god of thunder is of course a dragon. So, Fu Xi was born with a "dragon face". Ancient books called his "turtle teeth and dragon lips", "nose dragon shape", "bull head and dragon body". He "received the dragon map, drawing eight trigrams", "to the dragon record officer, called the Dragon Division", and then netting, making a calendar, for music.

Famous for her achievements in stone mending, rolling yellow earth to create people, and starting marriages, Nvwa is also a dragon, a female dragon. The ancients said that Nuwa was "snake-bodied and human-headed" and that "Fuxi's body was scaly and Nuwa's body was serpentine". The snake is the model of the dragon, and the dragon is the sublimation of the snake. To say that Nuwa is "snake-bodied" and "snake-shaped" is to say that Nuwa is "dragon-bodied" and "dragon-shaped". It is no wonder that people often refer to the long-tailed, intertwined Fuxi and Nuwa images on Han Dynasty statues and Tang Dynasty silkscreen paintings as both "serpentine" and "dragon".

What was the original figure of the dragon? The earliest book on dragons, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas． Overseas Western Scriptures", "the dragon fish Lingju, its shape like a beaver, a said goby". According to "Er Ya": "the salamander's big one is called goby". Now Tianshui southeastern forest area of Quxi, there are still flocks of growth commonly known as baby fish salamanders, it is the four-legged dragon's creation of the prototype, but also the totem god of the Fuxi tribe. The salamander was regarded as sacred by the ancients. The Records of the Grand Historian (史记． The First Emperor's Chronicle" reads, "The First Emperor was also buried, with mermaid fat as a candle." Allegedly, the salamander fat, made of candles, can deplete the oxygen in the air to keep the body from rotting.

As the powerful Fuxi tribe migrated from the Loess Plateau to the Central Plains, the Sichuan Basin, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, many tribes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the southwestern region were conquered. The totems of the conquered tribes, such as horses, cows, dogs, deer, fish and birds, were incorporated into the totems of the Fuxi tribe. The primitive dragon in the shape of a salamander and fish thus merged with the totems of various ethnic groups to form a comprehensive dragon totem, which constituted the bond of unity of the Chinese nation.

The non-Han rulers who conquered the Middle Kingdom by force of arms emphasized their descent from the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors when they became emperors of the Middle Kingdom, in order to eliminate the influence of the Han concept of "orthodoxy". Many minority rulers, but also for their own fabrication of a genealogy related to the saint of China, such as the Huns Liu Yuan claimed to be the descendants of Han Gaozu Liu Bang, the pre-Qin Fu Jian said that he was "Hu's seedling, the world as the chief of the Western Rong," the post-Qin Qiang Yao claimed to be Shun's descendants, the Northern Zhou Xianbei people Yuwen said that "its first from the Yandi Shennong," and so on.

Originally from the Mongolian plateau of the Yuan dynasty emperor, the three emperors especially respected. Chengzong Emperor Timur, an imperial decree requiring all states and counties in the country to build the Three Emperors Temple, to the general worship. The three emperors of the first Fuxi, is more respected, so Tianshui Guatai Mountain Fuxi Temple, flourished for a while. To the northeast of remote Manchuria, broke the customs and entered the Qing Empire, leading China, also repeatedly affirmed that they are also the descendants of the three emperors to emphasize the legitimacy of their own succession.

In fact, whether the Yuan Empire or the Qing Empire, the above is not the source of the said. Since Fuxi and down, Yan Emperor Shennong, Goumang, **** Gong, Zhuan Xu, Zhu Rong, Xuanyuan Huangdi and other ancient heroes, all inherited the dragon totem. The Three Emperors and the Five Emperors are in the same lineage, and the culture they created is also in the same lineage with the dragon culture. The Xia Hou tribe, which established the first slave state, was a dragon tribe; the Xiongnu, which had long been dominant in the north, was also a dragon tribe. In addition, the Yi, Yao and other ethnic minorities in the southwest of China still retain the legend that Fuxi and Nuwa are their founding fathers.

Far away in Xinjiang, there are also many Fuxi Nuwa artifacts unearthed. In the ancient tomb complex of Hara and Zhuo in Astana, Turpan, a silk painting of Fuxi Nuwa was unearthed. The meaning of the map is profound, peculiar composition, rich in artistic charm and mysterious color, by the academic community attention. This kind of drawings in the Jiahe Old City nearby, other cemeteries have also been found, mostly out of the husband and wife buried in the tomb. According to the ancient Chinese ritual of male left and female right, Fuxi is on the left, holding a rule in his left hand, and Nuwa is on the right, holding a rule in her right hand, with the head of a snake and the tail of a snake intertwined; the head is painted with the sun, the tail is painted with the moon, and the surrounding area is filled with stars.

The Qiangrong tribes of the ancient times were widely active in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the upper reaches of the Wei River, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the north and south of the Jinsha River and other vast areas. Then, the birth of Fu Xi, Huang Di, Emperor Yan Di, can not help but have inextricably linked with the Qiang Rong. Even some people say, Fu Xi is actually the advanced cultural status of the Qiang leaders. The later Yan Di Huang Di, also with the Qiang Rong has an inseparable link.

In the land of China, both the Chinese and the Yi Di, all included under the banner of the Dragon Totem. This statement can be derived from the sacrifices to Fuxi, the slightest evidence.

Fu Xi worship, originated from the Qin people. In the tenth year of the reign of Emperor Wen of Qin (756 BC), an ancient sacrifice was set up. The ancient sacrifice was the place where the gods lived. （The ancient sacrifice was a shrine to Fuxi. In the fourth year of Duke Xuan of Qin's reign (672 BC), the Migu ancient sacrifice was set up, which was also a shrine to Fuxi. According to the Records of the Grand Historian (史记-封禅书), before the Qin unified the whole country, there were eight ancient sacrifices to the gods of heaven, and two of them were dedicated to Fuxi.

The Historical Records of the Qin (史记-秦本纪), records that since the end of the Shang Dynasty, the Qin people have been based in Xizhu (西垂), or the area around today's Shui (水), for 14 generations and about 300 years, with the middle bubble of the Shang Dynasty (商末), which is documented in the book.

The origin of the Qin people of different say, and can see the dragon totem, when including Mongolia, Xiongnu and other nationalities end. Although Sima Qian, the Grand Historian of the Qin Dynasty, wrote "The Records of the Grand Historian of the Qin Dynasty" (史记． The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. But the modern famous historian Jian Bozan, after in-depth study, proposed that the Qin people are the original inhabitants of the Ordos field on the Qiang descendants. Around the end of the Paleolithic period, they went up the Yellow River to the west and slowly migrated to the southwest. By the early Neolithic, or have settled in southwest Gansu Yellow River Valley, Taohe River Valley. In the middle of the Neolithic period, the Qin people left southwestern Gansu and migrated to the east, and at the same time there were also the Qiang tribes migrating to the east. One of the first into the central plains is the Zhou nationality, Zhou into the central plains, then said later migrated to the east of the Qiang said Xirong, to be different from the Qiang in Gansu. The Qin Dynasty has the Qin Rong said.

Early Spring and Autumn, Shaanxi, has become the whole territory of the Rong chasing the land, the hundred Qin in the Rong returned to the powerful. It occupies the fertile river valley between the Weishui River, rich in water and grass for animal husbandry, and is the birthplace of the Zhou culture, with a prosperous manor agriculture and handicrafts. Therefore, in the early Spring and Autumn period, it rose vigorously, conquered the neighboring Rongs, and became a strong Qin tribe.

To the Qin annexation of the six countries, the formation of a unified Chinese nation, when the foreign barbarians are called the Yellow River Basin in the Middle Kingdom for the Qin people. Some people even called China in English, which also originated from the name of Qin people. Due to the short life of the Qin Dynasty, the name was changed to Han Chinese after the rise of the Han Dynasty. At this point, the Han Chinese people began to distinguish themselves from other ethnic groups, but the roots of the Han Chinese people and other ethnic minorities should be attributed to the Fuxi emperor of the Dragon's heirs.

For the formation of the Han nationality, the expert's authoritative explanation is: "before the formation of the Zhou nationality, the central plains of China were formed in the Xia nationality, the Shang nationality, as well as barbarians, barbarians, the Rong, Di and other ethnic groups; after the formation of the Zhou nationality, in the Spring and Autumn period of the great fusion of nationalities formed into the Huaxia nation, the Qin unification of the whole country, only to be formed as a united nation of the Huaxia nation; West Han Dynasty Huaxia nation and the development of the transformation of the Han nationality."

Some people even believe that the present Han nation considers the authentic Yanhuang culture, the root of its culture, and even the root of its ethnic origin, has a constant flesh and blood connection with the Qiangrong civilization in the upper reaches of the river. It can even be said that the Yanhuang civilization, which flourished in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, was born from the Qiangrong civilization in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Silk Road in January of the investigation interview, along the Wei Shui, the Yellow River line, everywhere can be found in the Yanhuang tribe to the east of the development of the "track", so I agree with this point of view.

In the long process of history, the Han Chinese people are in the process of integration of neighboring peoples. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, China has also experienced two major integration of the Han Chinese people and ethnic minorities: one is the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Capricorn, dibei, Ba, Qiang and a large number of minorities in the north and south of the central plains of the Han Chinese people assimilated; Han Chinese people and a large number of southward, assimilated some of the minorities of the southern part of the country. As a result of the cultural integration of the various ethnic groups, the formation of a peak in the cultural history of the Han Chinese people - Tang culture. Therefore, there are still many foreigners overseas who are accustomed to calling Chinese people Tang people.

The other is from the Song, Liao, Xia, Jin and Yuan to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there is a large number of assimilation of the Han Chinese ethnic minorities in the north. After more than 2,000 years of snowballing, the Han Chinese, the main ethnic group in China today, was formed.

If the Han Chinese people in the central plains is the trunk of a tree, then the Chinese neighborhood, the same as the Dragon's descendants of the ethnic minorities, as if the branches and leaves of the luxuriant. In the long process of history and extensive cultural exchanges, the Han Chinese people and the surrounding minorities, *** with the wonderful music of Chinese civilization, should be more accurate, the source of all of China's national abundance.

We are all descendants of the dragon. The heir to the dragon this statement, than the descendants of the yellow, more extensive historical basis.

Fu Xi and Nuwa created the Chinese nation, is no longer a myth, this is my mind in the Fu Xi Temple found