What did the Yellow Emperor tribe do after entering the Loess Plateau? There are only 4 words like this - development and growth, and then let our nation have a resounding name - Xia.
There is a legend that goes like this: the Yellow Emperor led his ancestors to migrate to the northern Loess Plateau, one day suddenly a strong wind, the Yellow Emperor immediately ordered all the ancestors, everyone to hold the tree, one by one, hiding, in case the wind swept away, the Yellow Emperor only cared about the safety of others, but unexpectedly, the large circle hat he wore on his head to cover the sun was blown away by the fierce wind. He quickly grabbed a small tree and squatted down on the spot. The Yellow Emperor found that his large circle hat was rolled on the spot by the fierce wind and did not fall to the ground.
This gave the Yellow Emperor some inspiration, he cut a branch, tied it into a circle, put it on the ground and pushed it forward with force, rolled less than a mile away and then fell. The Yellow Emperor pondered for a long time, and then he tied another circle, made a cross in the middle of the two circles, cut off a long branch, and tied the two circles at both ends of the branches, and put them on the ground and pushed them forward. Although this time it did not fall, it could not roll far before stopping. At this time, Chang Xian, Feng Hou, and Cang Jie came together and asked what the Yellow Emperor was doing? The Yellow Emperor told the three counselors what had just happened. After the wise wind, he hastily peeled off a bark and tied it to the crossbar in the middle of the two circles, pulling forward with one hand, and the two circles kept rolling and did not fall to the ground.
When the Yellow Emperor looked at it, he suddenly laughed and suddenly woke up. He told Chang to tie two more identical circles first, and the four wooden circles were connected together, like four wheels, rolling forward steadily, no longer afraid to fall to the ground. After looking at the wind, it seemed that his mind had suddenly awakened, and he ordered him to go to the quarry first to get two round stone plates and dig a hole in the middle. In less than half a day, two round stone plates were made. After the wind, a wooden stick is placed across the middle. A straw rope was tied between the sticks, and Chang was told to pull up and run forward. A group of ancestors followed behind to watch the hilarity. Cangjie hurriedly said to the Yellow Emperor: I will give this thing a name, call it "car". The Yellow Emperor pondered for half a day and agreed.
The car was invented in this way, but, we analyze, what inspired the Yellow Emperor must not be hats, because at that time people were not clothed, and there were so many hairs on their heads, not necessarily hats, this inspiration may come from rolling wood or stones, and then there are cars. However, this is not important to people, what is important is to have a car, but the car is not necessarily just a car, it should represent the ability to invent and create in that era, which is what we call productivity today, with which the Yellow Emperor tribe can develop and grow and defeat other tribes.
Among the many explanations about Xia, we are relatively biased towards the "Erya" statement: Xia, Daiya. The Shuowen Jiezi also says that Xia is a Chinese person, the self-designation of the ancient Central Plains people. When the Yellow Emperor tribe grew stronger, of course, they also became a big family, and they could talk about it by calling themselves like this or others called them so, which was more reasonable and in line with the laws of historical development. Other than that, other claims would seem far-fetched. In addition, from a hieroglyphic point of view, Xia is more like an upright walking, well-dressed person.
Xia thus integrated into our lives and became the scenery of the source of our nation, but what we must say is that under the premise of "big", our nation has no race from the beginning, it is the fusion of multiple tribes or multiple nationalities, and the fusion of "big". And the later Huaxia people's statement is not only for the Han people, from the perspective of geography and experience for scientific analysis, many ethnic minorities in China today have inseparable origins with the Huaxia, and the Huaxia is definitely not the ancestral patent of the Han people.
Here, let's go back to the legend at the beginning of the article, the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, and the car wear a close relationship, there are many ancestors in the ethnic minorities in the north of our country are also connected with the car, such as gao car and car master.
Gaoche is a generic name for a part of the nomadic tribes in the northern desert by the Northern Dynasty people. The Southern Dynasty people called it "Ding Zero", and the Mobei people also called it "敕勒" (敕, pronounced: 赤chi), "Tiele", "Di Li" and so on. Nomadic peoples active in northern and northwestern China during the Wei and Jin dynasties. Self-titled Di Li, in the Spring and Autumn Period was called Chi Di, after the Western Jin Dynasty, all ethnic groups outside the Seychelles were called Shule, the Northern Dynasty people were called Gaoche, and those who moved into the interior were called Ding Zero. The original settlement was in the area of present-day Lake Baikal, and whenever the Xiongnu and Xianbei who dominated the desert steppe moved or weakened successively, they entered the steppe.
This nation and its ancestors were named for their ability to build cars, and the cars they built were "wheels tall and had up to the number of spokes", and the car masters were a branch of them, establishing the Gaoche State in the area of the ancient city of Jiaohe in present-day Turpan, Xinjiang, in 487-541 AD, controlling the gateway to the western region, Gaochang, Yanqi and Yanshan, and the northeast reached the Selenge River, the Orkhon River, and the Tula River, reaching the Altai Mountains in the north, Yueban in the northwest of Wusun in the west, and adjacent to the Northern Wei in the east. It has existed in the Western Regions for more than 50 years, with a total of seven lords. It has a certain kinship relationship with today's Uyghurs.
Xuan is an ancient car with a fence or curtain, the rudder is two straight logs driving livestock in front of the car, a pair of cars so that our people are linked together, today we look at the topographic map of China, we will find that the western elevation is high, the eastern elevation is low, and the terrain can be divided into three steps.
The first step is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, located in the Kunlun Mountains, south of the Qilian Mountains, west of the Hengduan Mountains, and north of the Himalayas, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters; the second ladder is the Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Loess Plateau, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The average altitude is 1000-2000 meters. The third ladder is the Northeast Plain, the North China Plain, the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Plain, the Liaodong Hills, the Shandong Hills, and the Southeast Hills, most of which are below 500 meters above sea level. The dividing line between the first and second steps is the Kunlun Mountains - Arjin Mountains - Qilian Mountains - Hengduan Mountains; the second and third steps are divided into Daxing'anling Mountains - Taihang Mountains - Wushan Mountains - Xuefeng Mountains.
To be sure, the Yellow Emperor tribe developed and grew in the yellow river valley of the second ladder. It is said that the Battle of Hanquan was a war of dominance between two distant relatives of the same origin and ancestor within the Huaxia Clique, in which the Yellow Emperor secretly attacked the Yandi camp and captured the Yandi alive. Emperor Yan, the leader of the Jiang tribe in ancient China, was known as the Shennong clan, and he invented medicine, made grains, made pottery, opened a market, and joined forces with the Yellow Emperor to defeat Xuan You.
According to legend, these two tribes are daughter clans that split off from the Shaodian clan, which is a marriage group with the Youyu clan, and the Yellow Emperor tribe originated in Ji Shui, that is, the ancient lacquer water, which originated in Dulin, which is in the north-west of present-day Linyou, Shaanxi, and entered Wei in present-day Wugong. Therefore, they took Ji as their clan; the other originated in JiangShui, in the area of the Weishui River in present-day Shaanxi, to the Jiang clan. The Yu clan seems to be associated with the legendary Queen Mother of the West, Gu Guoguo, and Jiang is the daughter of the female sheep, that is, the shepherd of the West Chief. Therefore, we analyze that after entering the Loess Plateau, these two tribes should have a very close relationship with the Ancient Qiang people of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Hexi Corridor and the Xinjiang region.
In the course of thousands of years of history, these two ancient clans have become increasingly prosperous and prosperous, splitting into many daughter clans and developing into many tribes, in addition to those who remain in their ancestral homelands, there are also many branches that have developed outside, opening up new living space, especially the eastward development area is not a no-man's land, distributed dongyi, Jiuli tribe and Sanmiao tribe, etc., but the Yellow Emperor tribe has defeated them without exception. The remnants of these tribes have since become the ancestors of many of our ethnic minorities today, so the Chinese nation has been a community of destiny from the very beginning.
In 2697 BC, Ji Xuanyuan met the tribes of the world at the top of Mount Tai and held a solemn ceremony to unify the tribes, not only having the honorific title of "Yellow Emperor", but also giving us the title of "Xia".
The car came from Gao yuan, the emperor came out of Mount Tai, and Xia was in the middle of the place, which was later called China. From west to east, from center to north and south, that's who we are. (Text/Lu Sheng)