The Yellow Emperor, the leader of the Ancient Tribal Alliance, and the head of the Five Emperors. The Yellow Emperor is revered as the "First Ancestor of Humanities", the legend of the Yellow Emperor reflects the realistic demands of ethnic integration during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in order to unite the clan tribes as an integrated nation, it is necessary to trace back to the common ancestor of all ethnic groups - "the idol of the race", "The Yellow Emperor" and its legends are derived from this. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the "Yellow Emperor" is only one of the emperors, and it was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that it was fixed in one statue. It is said that he was the son of Shaodian and Fubao, whose original surname was Gongsun and later changed his surname to Ji, and also said to be surnamed Mi. Ming Xuanyuan, a famous Xuan. The capital was built in Youxiong, also known as The Bear Clan. Some people also call it "Di Hongshi".
Shi Zai Yellow Emperor was called the Yellow Emperor because of his tu de Rui. During the reign of the Yellow Emperor, he sowed hundreds of grains of grass and trees, vigorously developed production, and began to make clothes and crowns, build boats and cars, make music rhythms, and compose the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic".
Anecdotal allusions
Legend of the God of War
According to legend, when the Yellow Emperor ascended the throne, Xuanyou had 81 brothers, who were claimed to be descendants of the Divine Emperor. These 81 people are all beast-like human faces, copper heads and iron foreheads, do not contain grain, and only eat river stones. They disobeyed the Yellow Emperor's orders, mutilated Li Shu, and murdered innocents. He also made a staff knife carrying a large crossbow and made enemies of the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor complied with the will of the people and summoned soldiers and horses from various roads to fight against Xuan You. After 15 decades, he was unable to defeat Xuan You, so he had to retreat. For this reason, the Yellow Emperor was worried about Zhongzhong, and day and night hoped that he would have xianzhe to assist him in order to destroy Xuan you. One night, he dreamed that the wind had blown away the dirt and grime of the world. Then he dreamed that a man with a crossbow in his hand drove tens of thousands of sheep. When I woke up, I felt strange. Secretly thinking, the wind, the command and the lord; dirt, is the soil dissolved and cleared, is there a person in the world after the surname of the wind? The crossbow of a thousand guns is to hope to be able to go far, drive tens of thousands of sheep, and is the shepherd for good, is it not possible to have a surname and a name for the shepherd? So he sent his subordinates to search for these two people everywhere in the world. As a result, after finding the wind in the corner of the sea, he found Li Mu in Sawaba. The Yellow Emperor took the Queen of the Wind as his face and Li Mu as his general, and began to attack Xuan You in a big way. In the countryside of Zhuolu, the two armies fought a battle. There was a hundred miles of fog on xuanyubu, which did not disperse for three days and three nights, so that the soldiers could not distinguish the direction. The Yellow Emperor ordered the wind to build a guide car. At the same time, the Queen Mother of the West also sent her niece to teach him the secret of the three palaces and the basis of the five-tone plot. After the wind, he evolved the method of concealing armor. At this time, the war resumed in Jizhou. Xuan You led the glamorous rays, asked the wind bo, the rain master to let the wind and rain, ordered the dragon to store water to attack the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor invited the female rays of the world to stop the rain in the eastern wilderness, while the Li Shiqiang soldiers in the northern mountains drove the dragon to the South Pole. In the end, he killed Xuan you, but Xuan You had an immortal body, so he buried the body in four places so that he could not finish the body. Later, after Shennong, Emperor Yan Yuyi and the Yellow Emperor competed for the world. The Yellow Emperor used the Zhou Bird Osprey and the Eagle Tremor as banners, with the bear black tiger and leopard as the precursor, and fought against Yu Yi in the wild of Banquan. After three battles, Yu Yi was defeated. Later, he personally led soldiers and horses to conquer the princes who refused to submit. After a total of 52 wars, the world was unified.
Immortals teach
One day, the Yellow Emperor was on the Luoshui River, enjoying the scenery with the ministers, when he suddenly saw a large bird holding Bian Tu and putting it in front of him, and the Yellow Emperor hurriedly worshiped him. Look at the bird again, shaped like a crane, a chicken head, a swallow's beak, a turtle's neck, a dragon shape, a wings, a fish's tail, and all five colors. The zigzags in the figure are the six characters of Shende, Renyi, and Renzhi. The Yellow Emperor had never seen this bird before, so he went to ask The Heavenly Elder. The heavenly elder told him that this kind of bird is called a phoenix in the male and a phoenix in the female. The morning call is Dengchen, the daytime call is Shangxiang, the evening song is Guichang, and the night song is Baochang. As soon as the phoenix came out, the world was peaceful. It is a sign of Great Luck. Later, the Yellow Emperor dreamed that two dragons came out of the Yellow River with a white map and dedicated it to him. The Yellow Emperor was puzzled and came to inquire about Tianlao again. The old man replied that this was a precursor to the book of River Tuluo. So the Yellow Emperor swam with Tianlao and others between Heluo, sank into the river, and killed three animals and fasted. It was initially foggy for three days in a row. After that, it rained heavily for seven days and seven nights. Then there was the Yellow Dragon holding the picture out of the river, and the Yellow Emperor knelt down to take it. I only saw the five-colored biscuit on the map, the white figure and the blue leaf Zhu Wen, which was the book of Hetuluo. So the Yellow Emperor began to cruise the world and sealed Mount Taishan. He heard that there was an immortal named Guangchengzi who was in Kuntong Mountain, so he went to ask him for advice. Guang Chengzi said: "Since you ruled the world, the clouds did not gather and rained, and the grass and trees did not wither. The sun and the moon are shining, and they are becoming more and more desolate. And if the heart of a servant is enlightened, where do you deserve to talk to you about the Ultimate Path? After the Yellow Emperor returned, he no longer paid attention to political affairs. He built a hut with a mat in it, and he spent 3 months reflecting there. Then he went to Guangchengzi and asked. At that time, Guangchengzi was lying with his head facing south, and the Yellow Emperor knelt down on his knees and walked up to him and asked him how he could achieve eternal life. Guang Chengzi stood up and said, "This is a very good question!" Then he told him the essence of the Ultimate Dao: "The essence of the Ultimate Dao, stealing the meditation, the ultimate of the Dao, fainting and silent." Ignore and listen, hold on to god and be still. The shape will be self-correcting, it will be quiet and clear; no labor makeup shape, no shaking makeup essence, can live forever. Seeing nothing, hearing nothing, and knowing nothing, in this way, the unity of God and form can lead to eternal life. After speaking, Guangchengzi gave him a volume of the Nature Classic.
After the Yellow Emperor asked Guangchengzi, he climbed Wangwu Mountain and obtained the Danjing. He also asked the niece and the vegetarian nun about the cultivation method of health. Then, returning to Jinyun Hall for cultivation, he collected the copper of shoushan mountain and cast jiuding under Jingshan Mountain, and as soon as the ding was cast, there was a dragon with a long whiskers floating down to welcome the Yellow Emperor into the fairyland. The Yellow Emperor immediately mounted on the body of the dragon and flew away. A few of the courtiers, who also wanted to ascend with him, hurriedly grabbed the dragon's whiskers. As a result, the dragon's whiskers broke, and the courtiers fell to the ground again. It is said that the dragon's whiskers are changed by those dragon's whiskers.
Proficient in medicine
After receiving guangchengzi's enlightenment, the Yellow Emperor built a monastery on the Kuntong Mountain, learned about the natural reincarnation and the growth law of all things, and often sat down with qi bo who was proficient in medicine and Lei Gong, who was proficient in traditional Chinese medicine, to expound on pathology, and to teach the people to cure all diseases with the "Art of QiHuang", and finally achieved a "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic".
Invented the drum
The drum is an ancient percussion instrument, and from the literature, the production of the drum first promoted the ancient legend of the Yellow Emperor taking the drum of "Chu Pi". 夔 is a mythical and legendary one-legged god and monster animal, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas , The Great Wilderness of the East Classic" describes the mythical beast of ancient times, born in the East China Sea Liubo Mountain, "shaped like an ox, the body of the cang and no horns, one foot, in and out of the water there will be wind and rain, its light is like the sun and the moon, its sound is like thunder, its name is called the hammer." Later generations believe that the so-called shrew is actually a giant crocodile, which hits its stomach with its tail and emits good music, which is really cute to say, which shows the harmony between man and nature in ancient times. With the hardness of crocodile skin, even if it can't be "sounded for five hundred miles" after making a drum, it must be very loud when it is struck.
Hand planted cypress trees
Located in the courtyard of Xuanyuan Temple (Xuanyuan Huangdi's mausoleum) in Huangling County, Yan'an City, central Shaanxi Province, the Yellow Emperor's hand-planted cypress is more than 20 meters high, with a chest diameter of 11 meters, vigorous and upright, the crown cover is empty, and the leaves are unfailing in all seasons, densely layered, like a huge green umbrella. The cypress tree planted by the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan himself, more than 5,000 years ago, is the oldest cypress tree in the world. There is a local folk proverb: seven arms and eight folds and a half, and the circle is not counted. Seven people hugged together.
The Yellow Emperor is revered as the "Ancestor of China". Liu Yimou commented that the era of the Yellow Emperor was the most prosperous era before the Flood: "From the time of the Burning People to the Tang Dynasty and the Yu Flood, although there is no exact number of their calendar years, at least not less than thousands of years. Therefore, if we look at its production together, we will surprise the ancient saints; according to its period, we will see the ugliness of the first people. At the time of farming and farming, although there were qinsers, recklessness, qi, and soldiers, their lives were simple and imaginable. By the time of the Yellow Emperor, the saints flourished, and the palaces, clothes, boats, bows, documents, drawings, calendars, and arithmetic began to be combined. Therefore, before the flood, the Yellow Emperor was the most prosperous time. Therefore, Chinese called himself "the son of Yan Huang". Every year, sacrifices are held in the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in Shaanxi, and there are ancestor worship activities in Xinzheng, Henan.
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