Folklore is that the god of war, Xuan you

The god of war, Xuan You, is a legendary mythological figure, who is said to be the chief of the Jiuli tribe in ancient times, and the mythical god of war is also called the demon god. Originally a subordinate of emperor Yan, it is said that Xuan You had eight feet, three heads and six arms, a copper head and an iron forehead, and a sword and gun. Good at using knives, axes, and fighting, not eating endlessly, brave and fierce. Xuan You led eighty-one brothers to raise an army to compete with the Yellow Emperor for the world, and after the Yellow Emperor's Battle of Zhuolu, he spread the word that the Yellow Emperor was incapable of being an enemy, and asked the gods to help him break it. The killing was dark and the blood flowed like a river. Xuan You was killed by the Yellow Emperor, who beheaded him and buried him, and his head turned into a blood maple forest. The Later Yellow Emperor zun xuan was particularly the "lord of soldiers", that is, the god of war. Because his image of bravery was still fearful, he painted his image on the military flag to encourage his army to fight bravely, and the princes saw that most of them fell without a fight. According to legend, Xuan you has a bold temperament, is upright, fights bravely, and is full of the masculine beauty of the martial emperor, not for a generation of heroes. Later, in order to praise the Yellow Emperor, people scandalized him and described him as a demon and an evil god.

Nowadays, we call ourselves the descendants of Yan Huang, and the people who call the people of the world call the people of Li Min, in fact, we have added the nine tribes of Xuan You, and what we call Xuan You is actually the fusion of the skills of the seven leaders of the Xuan You clan into one person, which is completely deified by mythological stories, making people see the addition of virtual reality and it is difficult to distinguish. With the excavation of historical materials, there is a saying that the earliest metallurgical technology in China was invented by the Xuanyu tribe, and it can be used well to make various weapons. It is also recorded in the Shimu Zuo that "Xuanyu uses Gold as a weapon". It shows that the Xuanyu clan was the first tribe to use copper for weapons and tools, and there were many tribes large and small in the north of China at that time, but they used stones and wooden sticks. The Xuanyu tribe is more powerful with copper as a weapon, which also paves the way for the growth of its tribe and lays the groundwork for the later Yellow Emperor's great war. After the Battle of the Deer Hunt, After Xuan You was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, he was crowned "God of War". The "Guan Zi" records that "the Yellow Emperor's Xuan You, Ming Yu Dao Ye", according to the Yellow Emperor's canonization, indicating that at that time, Xuan You and his tribe were not exterminated, but were collected and retained, and entrusted Xuan You with heavy responsibilities to assist the Yellow Emperor in conquering various tribes, thus unifying China. Therefore, it is now generally believed in the field of history that Xuan You is also a historical figure, and there are people who call the Yellow Emperor, the Yan Emperor, and Xuan You the "Three Ancestors of Chinese Humanities", and today we call ourselves the descendants of Yan Huang, and the people who call the people of the world li min are the reasons.

The reason for the blackening of Xuan you may come from the national turmoil at the end of the Jin Dynasty, and the people of the Central Plains were often bullied by the ethnic minorities in the north, so they used the example of Xuan You being defeated by the Yellow Emperor to deter the ethnic minorities in the north, and after the Song Dynasty, it was even black to the end.

Of course, whether it is historical records or the history of word of mouth passed down by the people, we can be sure that the spiritual wealth of mankind created by the various ethnic groups in China after a long course of history is one of the important contents that make up the Chinese nation.