Author: You Lei
(Yellow Emperor Stone Statue)
After fuxi moved east, more small tribes migrated out of the matriarchal tribe, and 6,000 years ago, the Shaodian tribe settled on the Loess Plateau.
Soon, two more small tribes grew up under it, one called the Xiong Clan and the other called the Lieshan Clan. In order to get more food, the two tribes also broke away from the matriarchal clan, and some xiong clans arrived in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province, and lived around the Guji Shuiju tribe, with the surname Ji, and the Lieshan clan lived and multiplied along the Qingjiang River, a tributary of the Weishui River, and got the surname of Jiang.
In fact, when the school is examined, the surname is a matriarchal social heritage, far earlier than the clan. The surnames of Ji and Jiang should have arisen as early as before the Feng surname Shaodian tribe was divided. Ginger shepherds sheep women also, whose original meaning can refer to the word "Qiang". Hime's original meaning is a beautiful woman, such as "Yoshihime, Demon", etc. The descendants of the shepherdess became the tribe of jiang. There are many beautiful women and are famous far and wide, and this tribe also takes the surname of "Ji". Rivers are named after tribes, not the opposite.
As for the Ji tribe, it is a bear, which is the mark of animal husbandry production of nomadic tribes. The shepherd's descendant, Lieshan, is due to setting fire to the mountain and slashing and burning, so it can be seen that at least at this time, the Lieshan tribe was already a farmer and a livestock.
After another thousand years, the Lieshan tribe traveled all the way east along the banks of the Yellow River to the Shennong tribe's sphere of influence, and the dry farming agricultural production technology they brought made the Shennong tribe shine. Before farming, they set fire to remove weeds and shrubs, and the soil fertilizer after the fermentation of grass and tree ash can bring sufficient nutrients to the soil and kill the pests in the soil. Jiang Zhu, the great chief of Lieshan Mountain, invented the choleps and can hoe away weeds and loosen the land, which is far more convenient than The Qi, and he also taught the people to plant vegetables, melons and fruits, and posterity respected Jiang Zhu as the "God of Ji". Because of the advanced technology, the crops grown by the Lieshan Tribe, such as millet and millet, have better taste and higher yields than the ancient rice grown by the Shennong tribe.
Advances in technology led to an increase in prestige, and soon the Lieshan Ministry replaced the ShennongBu as the leading clan in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Because they were tribes that applied "fire" to productive labor, the chief of the Lieshan tribe was revered as "Yandi", and the entire tribal grand alliance was also known as "Yandi Shennongbu". The leadership of the Yandi Shennongbu was only passed down directly among the chiefs of the Lieshan tribe, and they were all called "Yandi".
At the same time, the Xiong tribe slowly migrated along the "several" glyphs of the Yellow River, passed south through the Mongolian plateau to reach the Fenhe River Valley, and once submitted to the Yandi Grand Alliance.
Time advanced to 5,000 years ago, the last Yan Emperor Jiang Yuyi had a big war with the Westward Xuanyu tribe, and the Yan Emperor was defeated.
However, it is said that Xuan You was the leader of the Jiuyi tribe in ancient times, and after Taihao, the Xuan You tribe gradually integrated the Shandong Peninsula. According to legend, Xuanyu "copper-headed iron forehead" and "beast body human language", there are eighty-one brothers.
According to research, the Xuanyu tribe "uses gold as a weapon" and is the earliest inventor of metal smelting, they will slightly shape the metal pieces, wear them on the head and chest, and use them to resist the collision, which should be the earliest armor, the so-called "copperhead iron forehead" is how it came. "Beastman" means that they dress strangely, like beasts. As for the large number of brothers, the population of the Xuanyu tribe is prosperous, and the small clan tribes are like the stars in the sky.
On closer examination, the snake of the "clam" is also, and the "you" is "many", and the meaning of the snake is that there are so many snakes! For the people of the Central Plains, the strong and well-armed Xuanyu tribe is undoubtedly a plague of wild pythons, so terrible. And its original name has not been mentioned.
The defeated Jiang Yuyi was very depressed and began to levy violently against the subordinate tribes, hoping to regroup and fight Again. Soon, the small tribal chiefs could not eat it, before the big chiefs were all serving the people, ah, why would they do this? They set their sights on the bear tribe in southern Jin.
At this time, the Bear Tribe was no longer what it used to be, and their current chief was talented and intelligent, and I heard that he had invented the wheel. Using the axle to wear two wheels, put a wooden board on it, and call a car, this thing is very magical, and it can be easily lifted far. It is said that wolves, bears, tigers, leopards, eagles, eagles, cats and other tribes under the bear tribe have used cattle and horses as power to carry soldiers for war. Because of the invention of the car, the people of the tribe gave the chief a big name: Xuanyuan. In addition, Chief Xuanyuan also cut through the trees and invented a boat that could travel freely on the river. He also taught everyone to build strong houses out of earth and wood, and never suffer from wind and rain again.
The courtiers under Chief Xuanyuan were also wise. His concubine Ancestors raised silkworm reeling and made comfortable and beautiful silk clothes. Cang Jie invented writing, we are still passing it on by word of mouth, and people can already record history. Linglun invented bamboo flutes, stone chimes, and ceramic drums, and compiled multi-voice music. He invented the bow and Mu Yi invented the arrow, which greatly improved the combat ability of the army.
Today, their influence extends north to the Mongolian Plateau, east to the North China Plain to western Liaoning, and south to the Central Plains, far beyond the Yandi Shennong tribe and the sphere of influence of the Fuxi King. The people of the tribe have secretly called him the "Yellow Emperor", supposedly because they came from the Loess Plateau, stepped on the yellow land, drank the water of the Yellow River, and they worshiped yellow.
The small tribe squeezed the xuanyuan clan and made an eyebrow, Jiang Yu knew it, he was angry and corrupt, and he poured all his family to kill the bears, and the hegemony was beyond his tolerance. At Hanquan (the specific address is unknown, but the most reliable location is said to be in the south of present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi Province), Ji Xuanyuan calmly lined up, and he knew very well that sooner or later there would be such a day.
The battle situation was not complicated, Ji Xuanyuan's mobile troops were no less than the Heavenly Descending Divine Soldiers, and the depressed Jiang Yuyi was once again defeated and fled. Ji Xuanyuan no longer gave him a chance, and led his troops across the Yellow River and surrounded the base camp of the Lieshan tribe. Under the attack of the small chieftains who violated the yin and yang, Jiang Yuyi lowered his noble head. Before ceding his hegemony, he only proposed one condition: to destroy Xuanyu. Ji Xuanyuan looked up to the sky and roared, as the new overlord, it was his duty to give the tribe a stable environment.
The Yellow Emperor's department merged with the Yandi tribe to form a tribal grand alliance, and since then the Chinese have had a resounding name: the descendants of Yanhuang.
For Ji Xuanyuan as the overlord, there were still some small tribes under the Yandi Shennong Department who were not convinced, such as the Kua Father Department, the Punishment Heaven Department, and the Gonggong Department.
The daily story of Kwa Father comes from the "Shan Hai Jing , Overseas North Classic", saying that the leader of the Kwa Father tribe is proud of himself and strong, and wants to catch up with the sun, so he runs all the way to the sun. Soon, he was thirsty, and after drinking the water of the Yellow River and the Wei River, he still did not quench his thirst, and prepared to go to Daze in the north to drink water, but before he arrived, he died of thirst. Through the fog of mythology, we say that the Kwa father tribe is the iron rod of the Yan Emperor, so it will not stop day by day, and the "day" will represent the Yan Emperor. When the Yellow Emperor conquered Kwapa, the war was very fierce, and the Kwapa clan dug up the water of the Yellow River and the Wei River to submerge the Yellow Emperor tribe, which led to the legend that Kwapa drank the water of the Yellow River and the WeiHe River. In the end, the Kwa fathers still failed and were driven by the Yellow Emperor to the northern Mongolian plateau.
The Yellow Emperor cut off the head of the torturer, and he used his milk as his eyes and his navel as his mouth, still wielding a gange to fight the Yellow Emperor. Tao Yuanming has a poem: The Heavenly Dance is dry, and the fierce zhi is always there. The meaning of the Punishment Heaven is to fight with the Heavens, which shows that the Punishment Heaven Tribe, like the Kwa Father Tribe, is also the royalist of the Yan Emperor.
The Gonggong clan should be a clan that moved to the north with the Shennong tribe, they came from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions where rice farming was developed, they were masters of playing with water, and Gonggong was once revered as "water gods" by posterity. The Gonggong tribe should not have been exterminated, and in the Era of the Gonggong Dynasty, the Gonggong Tribe also fought a great war with it at Mount Buzhou.
The losers were driven to the bitter cold lands of the northwest, and they mixed with the local natives and became the ancestors of the Rongdi tribes such as the Foxes.
Well, the opposition was eliminated one by one, the dragon flag of the Yanhuang Grand Alliance flew high, and the world now changed from the three kingdoms to the Huayi dispute. The Yellow Emperor moved the capital of the alliance to Xuanyuanqiu, which is today's Xinzheng, which is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and is closer to the Dongyi Xuanyu tribe.
A big war is inevitable.
(Xuanyu)
【Author's Profile】You Lei, pen name Guilai, grassroots cadre, municipal writers association member. He focuses on history and humanities, and occasionally writes novels, essays, poems, etc.
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