What kind of world was Chinese mythical world five thousand to ten thousand years ago? I believe that this problem should have bothered everyone for a long time! In fact, these problems can start from the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times, the influence of the three emperors and five emperors on the Chinese is as ubiquitous as the shadow produced under the sun, this group of people for the chinese ancient civilization of the password unlock is the most important, but sadly today we all know the idiom of the three emperors and five emperors, but not many people know who the three emperors and five emperors are, and they have a profound impact on the Chinese nation in later generations.
The real situation of primitive society
The real situation in primitive society is not as polarized as it is in today's arguments. Today, according to the mythological history, that era is likely to be the last advanced stage of the lost civilization, but according to the archaeological excavations of stone tools, that time was actually a very backward savage stage, in fact, in general, the Stone Age is still relatively accurate, the first stage of the origin of chinese ancestors, from the tree to the earth hundreds of years after the most important work is to survive.
China's ancestors were looking for a suitable place to reproduce, and finally found the plains on both sides of the Yellow River, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors were also born from this time, but this is likely to be just an honorific title for posterity, not that the emperor and the emperor were produced at that time, these are high-level words, at that time, the most that appeared was the leader of a tribe, these leaders lived on their own territory with their own tribes, responsible for coordinating the relationship with other tribes, and sometimes wars broke out because of contradictions. So at that time it could not be regarded as a country of later generations.
We will be surprised to find that Ma Qiandu, the Taishi company that treats history most rigorously, directly abandoned the idea of honoring the Three Emperors, and perhaps after he collected the customs and customs of the world at that time, he also felt that this statement was too absurd. Therefore, the history of recording the emperor's famous subjects in the history books of the Han Dynasty began with the Five Emperors, and whether the Three Emperors were the three people, there was no unified statement from the Qin and Han Dynasties, but the widespread circulation should still be based on the three clan leaders of Fuxi, Shennong, and Nuwa as the Three Emperors.
These three emperors represent different meanings, but they are all figures who are eight thousand to ten thousand years away from today or even more. The representative behind Nüwa is the reconstruction of the Chinese nation, saying that in the era in which Nüwa lived, she used soil and water to create future generations of human beings, which is too exaggerated, and can only be seen as a deep feeling for the source of life, water and soil, in that era, so in history, the Lingren clan was generally used instead of Nüwa as one of the three emperors.
The legend behind the Three Emperors
First of all, it is said that the Fuxi clan among the three emperors, the Fuxi clan and the Nüwa clan are said to be a pair of brothers and sisters in ancient times, that there are not many human beings, almost a state of absence, so they pray that if the two of them agree to combine the two of them, the two smokes will be gathered together, which has the later Chinese descendants, although the story is bizarre, but the influence of the Fuxi clan on the ancestors of China is not lacking at all, and many cultural inventions are related to Fuxi. For example, the Fuxi innate gossip of later generations has never been thoroughly studied.
Shennong clan represents a tribe in ancient times that concentrated on agricultural cultivation, the society at that time should be divided into many tribes, or engaged in nomadic herding, or engaged in killing, or engaged in the changes in rivers, lakes and seas fishing and hunting, Shennong's tribe is engaged in looking very bulky to grow plants and grains, Shennong clan should be the leader of the tribe, the title of the generations will not change, they have a duty is to develop new agricultural products for their own tribes, there are many Shennong chiefs are dead in the taste of hundreds of grasses, But this agricultural spirit and cultivation was victorious among thousands of tribes.
The Flintstone tribe is more famous, this tribe is good at inventing various things, the most outstanding invention of the Flintstone clan is to see the flame by observing the natural world, and then use the method of turning wood to make a cooked food for humans. The emergence of cooked food is a memory of the times of the Chinese ancestors, and this change has extended the life expectancy of the Chinese ancestors a lot, and also allowed human beings to break away from the habit of eating raw food in the beast civilization.
Although the influence of these three emperors may only be among their own tribes and thousands of people when they are alive, after the later Yanhuang War, the various tribes began to merge together, everyone did not have the past state of estrangement, and the fused tribes began to have the scale of the country, so in some vague historical materials and myths, the era was regarded as the beginning of national civilization, and the fused tribes absorbed people who had made great contributions from various tribes as gods and sacrifices, and regarded ancestors and gods as one. This is the saying of the three emperors of the later generations. What about the Five Emperors?
The story behind the Five Emperors
Among the five emperors, the first to start is the Yellow Emperor, the latest research data of Tsinghua University says that the war between the Yellow Emperor and Xuan You is likely to be a war between the father and the son, this is not to say for a moment, let alone say that the Yellow Emperor defeated the rebellion of these barbarians from the Yan Emperor after taking over the management of the world from the hands of the Yan Emperor, this is something that Sima Qian wrote clearly, and it is also in line with the development trajectory of the Chinese nation, from the emergence of human beings in history to the use of open fire to make cooked food in the back, and then to the Shennong tribe in the back to establish the Chinese agriculture as the basis.
Sima Qian said that the Yellow Emperor defeated Xuan You, defended the status of the agricultural nation, and then defeated the old overlord Yandi Shennong, so he was honored by the princes at that time as Tianzi, but these are actually the sayings of later generations, the set of princes Tianzi was something that only existed in the Zhou Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty was called the emperor, the Xia Dynasty was called Hou, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors should be called tribal leaders when they were right, the mistake was here, but it did not affect the preciousness of this period of history. The emperor had many descendants, but the only ones who succeeded him as tribal leader were Emperor Huan and Emperor Zhao.
These two people belong to the kind of luck that is relatively good, why they are lucky, this is a point of view based on the lack of historical data, because the emperor and the emperor did not leave a little important big thing, the famous kings of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors did not start to exert their strength until tang Yao, Yao Shunyu These three kings suddenly became the existence of the Yellow Emperor, and when the ministers of later generations taught the disobedient emperor, they all took out these three tribal leaders as an example, and there was no word for tribal leaders among the ancients, but they did have this concept.
Just like the war between hundreds of people in Japan can become a scuffle of princes, and the warring states period of ancient China was a scuffle of tens of thousands of princes, can you say that the princes of the Japanese are not princes? Can you say that the Japanese princes are not qualified by the standards of Chinese? Obviously not! Different countries and different periods have different standards, borrowing different words to express past and future things, as long as they can reach the meaning of the words, why not?