The Mysterious Disappearing Ancient Kingdom of Xiling

That said, Xiling Kingdom, a legendary ancient kingdom. Many people do not know its existence. We, who call ourselves the children of the Yellow Emperor, should understand its past because. It is also a mediator of the bloodline of the Chinese nation. Source. It is not surprising that many people do not know of the existence of the Xiling Kingdom. This ancient state exists, strictly speaking, only in the records of history books. Sima Qian, the Duke of Tai Shi, recorded in the Historical Records? The Chronicles of the Five Emperors", he recorded: "The Yellow Emperor resided in the hill of Regulus and married the daughter of the Xiling clan, who was known as the Mule Ancestor. Mule Ancestor was the Yellow Emperor's rightful consort and gave birth to two sons, both of whom had the world afterward." The Records of the Grand Historian? The Five Emperors' Chronicles? Justice" explains, "Xiling, the name of the country also these two historical materials combined together, that is to say, the Yellow Emperor, who lived in the hill of Xuanyuan northwest of Xinzheng, Henan Province, today, married the daughter of the king of Xiling as his wife. In other words, our most respected ancestor, Huang Di's wife, Luo Zu, was originally from Xiling country. We all believe that the Yellow Emperor did exist, and we also believe that the Mule Ancestor did exist, therefore, it is possible that this Xiling country did exist. So, where is this Xiling country? According to experts and scholars, Yanting County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, is the year of the Xiling State is located.

Yanting County began because of the salt production and salt wells adjacent to the name. Modern times. People in Yanting found a large number of excavated sericulture artifacts, fossils, mule ancestral cultural relics, the Tang Dynasty, "mule ancestral sacred ground" monument, but also found many about the screw ancestor found the sky worm, sericulture silk legend. People thus believe. Yanting County is supposed to be the birthplace of the Mule Ancestor and the location of the Xiling country. In Yanting County kilometers south of the city there is also a screw ancestor of the mountain, there is a media ancestor cave, said to be the birthplace of the mule ancestor.

At the end of the last century, people and in the local Zujiawan ancient tomb group found two stone carvings, respectively, "Regulus chief ritual days praying for the year map" and "Ying You wind after returning to the market Fusang value night map". Nowadays, Yanting every place name related to silk weaving has a mule ancestor sericulture weaving story in circulation, the people still retain the folklore of the annual sacrifice mule ancestor.

Of course, Yanting is only one area within the jurisdiction of Xiling Kingdom. The detailed data of how big Xiling country's sphere of influence was is not available, and people today can only make a guess. In the territory of Yanting, there is a river called Gushui, which was called Xiling River in ancient times. At that time, living in the vicinity of the ancient tribes, it is along the Xiling River built the Xiling vassal state, elected later born the leader of the tribe of the mule ancestor for the chief, and its power is about as far north as today's Sichuan zhangjia, jiange, zhaohua, guangyuan, west of sichuan santai, zhongjiang, guanghan, south of sichuan shaikong, pengxi, east stop four "of langzhong, south, yilong, bazhong.

Xiling State is an extraordinary ancient kingdom in the region of ancient Ba Shu. People once excavated in the Xiling country territory of the high centimeters of bronze kneeling figurines, its age than the Sanxingdui more ancient. There is also an ancient boundary monument, which is engraved with more than one line of symbols similar to the text, similar to the Xi'an half-slope painted pottery engraved symbols, belonging to the four or five thousand years BC before the cultural remains, in terms of time to calculate, than the Two Rivers civilization, Egyptian civilization period of the text of the ancient and far away.

So why did the people of Xilingguo gather and settle here? This is with the Yanting area of the geographic conditions are closely related to the bar Shu of the land since ancient times known as the "Kingdom of Heaven" has a very suitable for living in the environmental conditions, the territory of the mountains, water, hills, is a subtropical climate, the temperature difference between the four seasons is not big, especially suitable for all kinds of plants and crops grow. Yanting generation for the Yangtze River opening place, in the southwest of Jingshan, east of Wushan, hundreds of miles in circumference. The type of local people, according to the widely recognized theory of human origins, should be the descendants of late homo sapiens who arrived in southern China from Africa, and the primitive human beings who lived in the heart and mouth of the Central Plains did not have much contact with them at the beginning. But the physical characteristics should have no mouth public entrance difference. They use the name of the place as the name of the tribe, eat there is a small tribe united together, as if the Yan Emperor, the Yellow Emperor successively led the tribal alliance. At that time, the Yangtze River has not been dredged, four "Xiling around the tour of serious flooding, floods often inundated for months or even years, the clan community can not live along the river, only Yanting area favorable for human habitation. Near Yanting, there is Leiqiu, or Leigong Mountain, where the Lei tribe of the Xiling tribal alliance used to live. This tribe lived by hunting and planting, and also engaged in sericulture and misty weaving, and this Lei tribe was the tribe of the ruler of Xiling country. The name of the matchmaker ancestor may also be related to the character "Lei" of the Lei tribe. After the arrival of the Yellow Emperor's generation, the Xiling country was united with the Central Plains by the marriage of Luo Zu and the Yellow Emperor, and should have experienced a period of considerable prosperity.

The ancient state of Shu appeared in the Sichuan Basin several years after Xilingguo, and it had a mysterious relationship with Xilingguo. Is not it is the Xiling State people created the ancient Shu? Or was the Xiling State destroyed by the tribe that founded the ancient Shu State? Did the people of Xiling country survive under the rule of ancient Shu, or were they expelled or even wiped out? History does not tell us the answer to the riddle, no one knows the correct answer.

Screw Zu, folk also called "Silkworm Mother Mother" she is the wife of the Yellow Emperor, is the ancient first lady of the land of the gods. She and the Yellow Emperor had two sons: Xuan clamor and Chang Yi. According to the Records of the Grand Historian, the ancestors of the three emperors of Xia, Shang and Zhou, the twelve vassals of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the seven heroes of the Warring States period, all originated from the lineage of the Yellow Emperor and the screw ancestor, and they are in the same lineage.

About a thousand years ago, the Yellow Emperor traveled to the Chengdu Plain to marry Luo Zu. Huang Di was the **** Lord of China after Yan Di. He was originally the monarch of the Kingdom of Ursus, known as Regulus, and was active in the area of today's Henan and Shanxi; Mule Zu was the daughter of the king of the Xiling Kingdom. Why did the Yellow Emperor travel all the way from the Central Plains to the Chengdu Plain in the far southwest of China to marry the Mule Ancestor? Perhaps, it has something to do with the advanced civilization of the ancient Shu people a media ancestor married to the Yellow Emperor, she brought the advanced sericulture civilization to the Central Plains, the process of civilization in the Central Plains thus changed. Huangdi married mule ancestor of the story in the "Shiben", "Dai Dai Li Ji", "Shi Ji" can be found in the record, but are some words, folklore is to be specific and vivid some.

Legend has it that on the Chengdu Plain, where the soil and water are rich, the king of Xiling Kingdom had a beautiful and kind daughter. She went out to pick wild fruits every day, and when the nearby wild fruits were finished, she trekked far away to pick them. But it wasn't long before the distant fruits were also finished. When the girl thought that the young and old in her clan would go hungry, she couldn't help but cry out in pain. When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was so touched that he sent the sinful fairy "Ma Tou Niang" down to the mortal world and turned her into a silkworm that eats mulberry leaves and spits out silk. The silkworm brought the mulberry fruit from the mulberry tree to the girl's mouth, and the girl ate it. The girl ate it and found it sour and sweet, so she picked a lot of it and brought it back to her clan. In the summer. Silkworms began to spit silk to make cocoons. The girl saw that the silk was both tough and light, so she wove it into clothes for her people to wear. The clothes made of silk were cool in the heat and warm in the winter, making them very pleasant to wear. Inspired, the girl caught the silkworms and fed them at home, gradually mastered the skills of raising silkworms and the art of weaving silk, and taught these accounts to her people, so that the people of Xiling Kingdom did not need to wear bark or animal skin from then on, but wore beautiful and lightweight silk. People therefore called the king's daughter "Mule Zu". The news of Mule Zu's invention of silk weaving and silkworm raising soon spread all over China, and the Yi people from the east and the Yue people from the south all came to Xiling Kingdom to propose marriage to Luo Zu, but they were all politely rejected. Finally, the Yellow Emperor also came to Xiling Kingdom to ask for his hand in marriage. The two of them fell in love at first sight and became friends, and Huang Di became the son-in-law of the king of Xiling Kingdom.

After consummating their marriage with the Yellow Emperor, Luo Zu may have also lived with the Yellow Emperor for a long time on the Chengdu Plain. According to the Records of the Grand Historian, their two sons, the eldest Xuanxiong, was born on the "Jiangshui" side of the present Qingyi River in the area of present-day Leshan, and the second son, Changyi, was born on the "Ruoshui" side of the present-day Yarangjiang River in the western part of Sichuan province. The union of Luo Zu and Huangdi was not a simple wedding, Xiling Guo and Huangdi tribe, under the premise of marriage, the two large tribal alliances gradually came together. Huangdi tribe in the Central Plains, originally did not know sericulture, screw ancestor to the Chengdu Plain advanced sericulture misty silk technology to the Central Plains, and this time, roughly, is the time of the emergence of sericulture in the Central Plains civilization. From the Xiling country to learn to raise silkworm misty silk technology, from the Yandi learned from the farming technology, the Yellow Emperor tribe gradually strong, and gradually migrate to the east, at this time the Yellow Emperor tribe, has long since not been the backward nomadic people.

At this time, the Central Plains region is not stable, the south of the Nine Li tribal alliance under the leadership of the leader of the Huang You attacked the Central Plains. Nine Li Tribe is a large alliance, by a number of tribes, each tribe has its own leader, and one of the most powerful tribal leader is the Nine Li Tribe **** the same leader, which is "Huang You have eighty-one brothers," the origin of the legend. They were originally the same as the Yandi tribe, in today's Weishui basin around the southwest a little. Yandi Shennong's passed to the emperor yu hui this generation, the country gradually weakened, the original submissive tribal disputes, which is the most tough and militant, is the Jiu Li tribe. Due to and Yandi mixed, some records also say that they are also after Yandi. The culture of the Jiu Li tribe was not backward. It is said that they were the first tribe to use copper weapons Guangyi, when the flash floods, copper ore downstream, the Jiu Li tribe will collect these copper ore, refining bronze. Manufacturing sharp weapons.

At this time, or the Neolithic period, the weapons of other tribes are still some stone knives and bone knives, Jiu Li tribe's fighting strength to other tribes is amazing, people hate and fear Jiu Li, so much so that it later depicted Huang You as a terrible monster.

Faced with the attack of the Jiu Li tribe, the Yandi tribe put all their efforts to defend themselves. At first, Yandi adopted a policy of reconciliation, but the Nine Li tribe still did not stop, everywhere conquest, other tribes complained, and when Yandi woke up, the Nine Li tribe has been exceptionally strong. In the end, the two groups fought the "Battle of Zhuo Deer" at Zhuo Deer in today's Hebei province. The Yandi tribe was defeated, and the victorious Dong You invaded and annexed everywhere, leaving the whole of China without a leader and in chaos. The defeated Yandi had to ask the Yellow Emperor for help. By this time, the Yellow Emperor had already returned to the Xiling Kingdom with his medium ancestor and his son. Through this trip to the Xiling Kingdom, Huang Di had already contacted some tribes that had long been oppressed by Huang You, including the Xiling Kingdom. The joining of these tribes was a prerequisite for Huang Di's victory over Huang You. The Yellow Emperor was determined to exterminate Huang You, but he did not want to make the same mistake as the Yan Emperor. In order to deal with the bronze weapons of the Jiu Li tribe, he ordered his men to memorize and practice fierce beasts in order to use them in battle; in addition, the Yellow Emperor's tribe had a powerful weapon, which was the bow and arrow. In the Cold War era, the bow and arrow was definitely a formidable and effective weapon. The Yellow Emperor also had several great generals under his command, the most famous being the Wind Queen and Li Mu. The Wind Queen was probably a descendant of the Fuxi Clan and lived by the sea, while the Li Mu was probably a nomad. They used the army like gods, and later military strategists worshipped them as their ancestors.

The duel between Huangdi and Huang You also started in Zhuo Lu. Before that, legend has it that they had fought seventy-one battles, but it was still difficult to distinguish between the two. The Yellow Emperor surrounded Huang You on Zhuo Deer Mountain for three years and failed to take it down. After fighting for many years, Huang Di summarized a lot of experience and formulated a set of art of war. With the Art of War, Huang Di's army was organized in advance and retreat, attacking and defending, and already had the demeanor of a king's army. In order to encourage morale, the Yellow Emperor also made the East China Sea Liubo mountain beast "love" to catch back, its skin recorded as a drum; and sent people to the forest in the thunder beast to catch, from its body to pull out one of the largest bone as a drumstick. Once the drum was struck, it could be heard for miles around. The sound of the drum not only boosted morale, but also contacted the soldiers in the distance and delivered news of the war. In addition. In order to recognize the direction in foggy weather, it is said that the emperor also invented the compass car. With these inventions, the Yellow Emperor naturally added a few more points to his victory, and after some bloody battles, he finally defeated Dong You at Zhuo Lu, ending the war.

After defeating Huang You, Huang Di rightfully replaced Yan Di as the leader of the Central Plains tribal alliance. Having seized the world by force, the next question was how to govern the country. At this time, Luo Zu also acted as the role of a wise domestic helper. She often said to her people: "Agriculture and mulberry is the root of the country It is said that she often led women to the mountains to record bark. Weaving hemp net, but also the men hunted all kinds of beasts of the fur recorded to make clothes. Soon, the tribes of the size of the chiefs are wearing clothes and shoes, wearing a hat, completely bid farewell to the "Ru Mao drinking blood. The time of the "Ruwu Drinking Blood". Mule Zu felt that the marriage between men and women should follow certain customs; in order to the development of the tribe, all people should respect the elderly, love and care for children, there are certain etiquette, so she developed these customs and etiquette, the whole of China, everyone is courteous to each other, the people dressed appropriately, the society is stable and peaceful. At that time, whether it was the tribes in the Central Plains or the neighboring ethnic minorities, there was no one who did not praise the merits of Mule Zu, and they all said that she assisted the Yellow Emperor in putting the country in good order. In her later years, Mule Ancestor was on her way to the south with the Yellow Emperor on a tour when she unfortunately passed away. Before dying, she remembered her hometown. She must have her bones buried in her hometown of Yanting. Huangdi was so grieved that he buried Mule Zu in Qinglong Mountain of Yanting. Mule ancestor to the invention of silk and silk in the Xiling enjoys a great reputation, and the Huangdi alliance after marriage, touring the world, teaching people to raise silkworms, popularization of sericulture silk culture, assisting the Huangdi unification of the Central Plains, laying the foundation of the country, is more creditable. She is deservedly China's first queen, the first mother of Yan Huang. About armor. Years ago, the yellow emperor went to the chengdu plain xiling country to marry the screw ancestor. Mule Zu will raise silkworm misty silk technology into the Central Plains.