Myths about fire (name)

1. Legend of the Fire God Platform

Legend has it that Xiongnu, the son of Emperor ?àcu, was the "Fire God" in the sky, and violated the rules of the sky by secretly putting fire on the earth, and the emperor of the sky had to relegate him to the mortal world as a citizen. When Xiongnu was about to come down from heaven, he secretly hid the fire on his body and brought it to earth. Not long after, Xiongnu's theft of fire was known to the Heavenly Emperor, who then sent a flood to drown the fire on earth and punish Xiongnu.

The flood on earth was like a fierce beast, and frightened people into fleeing. Xiongnu built a high platform to preserve the fire, erected a shelter from the rain, and stayed alone on the platform to watch over the fire. When the floodwaters receded and people came back from all directions, the fire was still burning on the high platform, but Xiongnu died of starvation beside it.

2. The Legend of Zhu Rong, the God of Fire

Ju Rong's original name was Li, and legend has it that he was born in a clan society as the son of a clan leader. Lai grew up especially like fire, at that time, the flint has just invented the drill wood for fire, people on the preservation and use of fire knowledge is very lacking.

On one occasion, he accompanied his father on a long clan migration, and because it was inconvenient to walk with fire, he brought only stones for drilling wood for fire. At night, when everyone was about to use the fire, Lai couldn't fetch it, so he was so angry that he threw the fire-getting stone toward the mountain, not realizing that the stone fell and splattered a few sparks.

The clever Li was so inspired that he immediately came up with a new way to make fire. He picked the sun-dried rushes, with two pointed stones against the rushes and knocked a few times, the sparks splashed on the rushes, and then gently blow on the fire. This is the later method of striking stones to make fire. Therefore, at that time, the Yellow Emperor appointed him as a fire-rectifying official and gave him the name Zhu Rong.

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The Significance of Fire

Human beings have a long history of discovering and utilizing fire. The natural phenomenon of thunder and lightning made fire available for the first time on the earth where human beings live. The appearance of fire made mankind realize that fire can serve for itself, and from then on mankind began to consciously study the technology of making and controlling fire.

In ancient times, the ancient people of China have long been using concave mirrors to draw fire against the sun. Artificial fire is the summary of the long-term practical experience of the ancient working people, it reflects the progress of human civilization to a large extent. China's ancient use of fire, in addition to meet the needs of life, but also quite early application to production, such as firing pottery, metal smelting and so on.

Fire makes mankind enter the era of cooked food, which played an epoch-making role in the evolution of mankind; fire gives people warmth, sound and perfect the human body function, accelerated the evolution of mankind, so that the human living environment has been unprecedented improvement. The development of human society is always accompanied by the use of fire. It can be said that there is no fire, there is no human society, not to mention the developed civilization of mankind today.

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