In Confucian texts, Xuanyu is a negative figure, but in folk mythology, the worship of Xuanyu continues to this day. Yanggu County, Shandong Province, there is a "Xuan You Ling", rebuilt in 2006, regarded as the "Lord of Soldiers" and "God of War", the bronze statue is 10.8 meters high, weighing 4.5 tons, the image is very imposing.
The image of Xuanyu has a very obvious feature: he has a pair of horns, similar to the demons in the Fairy Tale Drama. Can people in ancient times really grow horns? Of course, this is unlikely, but the good war of the Xuanyu clan is uniformly recorded in the historical records, and it may be that the more it is later, the more exaggerated it is, and the more it is, it will produce the "human cow's hooves, four eyes and six hands... The head has horns" imagination (from the Book of Narratives).
Every time we talk about Xuan You, we think that he is a god man, and he actually fought against the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of China, and almost beat the Yellow Emperor into despair. The "History of Justice" records that Xuan You was the "King of Jiuli", that is, the great leader of the Jiuli tribe, and Xuan You's brothers were very capable, and they united to lead the tribe, occupying the east of the North China Plain, and the west was the active territory of the Yellow Emperor.
In ancient times, Xuan You's influence was actually not lost to Yan Huang. The Taibai YangJing records: "Fuxi uses wood as a soldier, Shennong uses stone as a soldier, and Xuan you use jin as a soldier." "Xuan You is good at war, and is good at building weapons, the tribe he leads gradually threatens Yan Huang, legend has it that Xuan You defeated Yan Emperor first, and Yan Emperor then ran to seek cooperation with Huang Emperor, and then Yan Huang and Xuan You fought Zhuo Lu.
According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Great Wilderness of the North", the Yellow Emperor sent Ying Long, and Ying Long lived up to the expectations of the people to defeat Xuan You, who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor. But the Yellow Emperor also fought very hard, because Xuan You made a big fog for a while and created a strong wind and rain for a while, making the Yellow Emperor's side gray.
In the end, the Yellow Emperor got the help of the Nine Heavenly Xuan Lady Niangniang to gnaw down the hard bone of Xuan You. Although Xuan you died, the tribe did not completely disappear, but merged into the Yanhuang tribe, and even the surnames of Xuan You and 8 half-brothers were passed down from generation to generation. As one of the ancestors of the early Huaxia, the clan blood of Xuan you is mainly scattered in the 4 surnames, assuming that you are one of these 4 surnames, you may have a blood relationship with the Xuan You tribe.
The first is naturally the surname of Li, Xuan You and many of his brothers are the leaders of the Jiuli tribe, and the Surname of Li, as an ancient surname with more sources, one of the sources is from the ancient Jiuli Clan, and Xuan You himself has another name called "Li Greed", and his half-brother has the same surname as him.
A branch of the Jiuli clan was once integrated into the Shaohao clan, the son of the Yellow Emperor, and became the prince of the Shaohao Dongyi clan. During the Shang Dynasty, there were also two princely states known as the ancient Nine Li Dynasties, although they were eventually destroyed, but the people still took Li as their surname and passed it on from generation to generation. Nowadays, the surname Li ranks 82nd in the new edition of "Hundred Family Names" (2013 data), and the population of the Surname Li is especially in the southern region.
The second and third are the Tu surname and the Zou surname, in ancient times, the dispute between Xuan You and the Yellow Emperor, the dispute between the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor once separated the Jiuli tribe, one of them lived in the homeland of the Jiuli tribe, that is, in today's Shandong, Shanxi and Hebei, and one moved west with the Yan Emperor to the Lu State (present-day Lucheng County, Shanxi Province).
The Jiuli people who lived in the land of Zou Tu (present-day Zouping, Shandong) gradually took the place names Zou and Tu as surnames, which are more common today, of which the Zou surname ranks 60th among Chinese surnames and the Tu surname ranks 238th.
The last one is the surname of 蚩, which is extremely unpopular, and the Minglun Compilation Clan Codex records: "蚩氏, 蚩尤氏後也." "Many people will wonder, how did the name Xuanyu come about?" According to modern scholars, "蚩宇" may refer to roundworms in the belly of a person, and the Jiuli people worship it as the ancestral totem deity, so the leader of Jiuli is also called Xuanyou, but this statement is controversial.
In fact, regardless of the origin of the surname, the three tribes of the Yellow Emperor, the Yan Emperor, and the Xuan You have long been integrated, and in the long historical years, the Huaxia ethnic group has been eclectic and eclectic, and the civilization has never been broken. We look for the source and ask the ancestors, because the ancestor worship has made the Huaxia people have a strong cohesion, no matter what problems they encounter, they can unite to overcome it, which has never changed since the era of Yan Huangxuanyou.