As we all know, the world has four major ancient civilizations: ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient Babylon and China. The other three ancient civilizations have been interrupted many times, only our China has a history of five thousand years, has not been interrupted, China is the world's first ancient civilization.
In fact, China's history has a "blank period" of 1500 years, and there is no data record, which makes the Chinese civilization more mysterious, what happened in these 1500 years? What does the real history look like? These questions affect the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter. Only by knowing history can we find our roots, and only by finding our roots can we be fearless of all the difficulties in the world.
Disappeared 1500 years
When we were in junior high school, we all learned dynasty songs, and we knew that the Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty in China, but the history of our country was even earlier than the Xia Dynasty.
In the Yanhuang era before the Xia Dynasty, China had a certain record, and later it was even more recorded in words, but the Yanhuang period was too illusory, so everyone thought that the Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty in China, and it was not known that the Yanhuang Era before the Xia Dynasty was the 1500 years that disappeared.
In ancient times, the three emperors ruled the world, and the five emperors passed on the legend, which was recognized by everyone, but who the three emperors and the five emperors were, it was full of controversy. Through statistical analysis, we can find that among the three emperors, the "Fuxi clan", "Shennong clan" and "Furen clan" appear frequently; among the five emperors, "Yellow Emperor" and "Huang Yan" appear the most. The stories of these people are all familiar to us, so we will not repeat them one by one, but briefly introduce the "jaws" that everyone is not very familiar with.
He was a grandson of the Yellow Emperor and was enfeoffed in Gaoyang. Later, he defeated the Gonggong clan and became the Co-Lord. Legend has it that when The Jedi heaven passed, the connection between the human world and the heavenly court and the earthly government was severed.
However, the above claims are all legends and have not been confirmed, so the era before the Xia Dynasty is called the Era of Semi-Faith History, that is, the history recorded in these 1500 years cannot be blindly believed, and there is not enough evidence to overturn it. These 1500 years are also known as the Age of Myths and Legends.
An era of myths and legends that flutters
In the era of myths and legends before Xia, there is a "Five Emperors Benji" in the "Records of History" that can be queried, but earlier than the "Records of History", the era of myths and legends is the "Bamboo Book Chronicle".
The Bamboo Book Chronicle is the only general history in ancient China that was not burned by Qin Shi Huang, and records the history of the past two decades from the emperor to the Warring States period of Wei Xiang King. However, the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" once escaped during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and was later collected and sorted into a book, so the credibility and historical value of the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" were not very high.
Without the history of faith, the history of the age of myths and legends is unclear, and experts can only speculate on sporadic records. But China's classics are complex, there are many sayings, and when they are circulated, they will make mistakes, which makes the era of myths and legends more mysterious, you start from here, he starts from there, no one can say clearly.
The author believes that at the beginning of the development of Chinese civilization, the vast number of working people made great contributions, but because there is no specific historical record, in the legend, the origin of Chinese civilization is the eight co-lords of the myth and legend era, that is, the three emperors and five emperors.
Legend has it that the first human emperor taught people to use fire, so that people could cook with fire, eat cooked food, and get rid of the days when Ru Mao drank blood. The emergence of cooked food allows people to better digest food, absorb nutrients, and people's bodies gradually become stronger and less sick. Therefore, this human emperor is called "Fu Ren Clan", also known as the Emperor or The Thai Emperor.
After the Fu ren clan, there was a co-lord called the "Fu Xi Clan", who observed astronomical geography, evolved gossip, and taught people to fish with ropes. Since then, people have been able to observe the weather and plan their day according to the weather; knotted rope fishing has given people a relatively stable source of food.
After the Fuxi clan, people became more and more numerous because they had a relatively stable food source, and at this time, fishing alone was not enough for people to eat. At this time, shennong taught people to grow grains, so that people have a more stable source of food. People were sick, there was no medicine to cure the disease, and it was Shennong who personally tasted the hundred herbs and found Chinese medicine.
The five emperors after the three emperors are also the co-lords of the world and have made great contributions to the development of Chinese civilization. All along, we have believed that the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors was the rule of the heavens, and the succession of the Son of Heaven was a Zen system. Confucianism has also always flaunted the Three Emperors and Five Emperors as the Ancient Holy King, the Ming Emperor and the Wise Lord, and the Ancient Era as the Era of Benevolent Government.
According to the classic Records of Confucianism, when Yao was old, he found that Shun had benevolence, and not only married his two daughters to Shun, but also gave up the seat of the co-lord To Shun, and when Shun was in power, the world flooded, and it was Yu who ruled the water, and the world was stable, so when Shun was old, he gave up the co-lord's seat zen to Yu. However, in the Bamboo Book Chronicle, it is recorded that Yao was imprisoned by Shun, and Shun was exiled by Yu.
The reason for the lack of historical records
The reason why this real history is not recorded, the author believes that the real reasons are as follows.
The first is the low life expectancy in ancient times. At that time, the sanitary conditions were extremely poor, and people had no cure even for common colds. At that time, the level of medical care was extremely low, and after getting sick, it could only be resigned to fate, and the mortality rate was very high. Therefore, if the rulers at that time did not set up a successor historian, they could not record history at all. In recorded history, the Han Dynasty people lived to be thirty years old enough to call themselves old men.
The second is that people in the age of myths and legends did not have the consciousness to record history. In the age of myths and legends, people were still in a state of obscurity, and the starting point of all actions was to eat enough and wear warm clothes, rather than recording history. At that time, people were more wild than rational and unconstrained, so neither rulers nor individuals had the consciousness to record history.
The third is that in the face of natural and man-made disasters, people can only go along with the flow. At that time, people did not have a plan to face natural disasters, and they did not have a plan to save things. Even if history is recorded before, after a natural disaster, the recorded history is naturally lost. Latecomers who want to record the previous history can only inquire around to record it according to the memories of others.
In this way, the history of the age of myth and legend is naturally chaotic.
epilogue
Although the history of these 1500 years is chaotic, it does not affect the status of China's historical power, and The Chinese civilization is still unshakable in the world. It is also the absence of these 1500 years that makes people full of imagination about the age of myths and legends, and how many of our dreams occurred in that era. It can be said that myths and legends are the birthplace of Chinese civilization.
The author also believes that with the passage of time, the history of the myth and legend era will eventually surface, from the history of semi-faith to the history of faith, just like the Sanxingdui cultural site, once again stunning the world.
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