When we were very young, I believe that everyone was more or less, and we heard some myths and legends. The stories of these ancestors fighting against the world and brave and radical have undoubtedly inspired us from generation to generation.
As the founding father of Chinese mythology, the Shanggu Qi book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" records countless myths and legends. And if we take these myths and stories out separately, although they are classic enough, they are slightly thin, and they are far from the huge character genealogy and social structure of Western mythology.
But if we tie these stories together, people will find a lot of content that subverts cognition. The story of the Houyi Shooting Sun, which we are very familiar with, comes from the records of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. However, is houyi shooting day really like the story says, houyi is to save the world? Not really!
The Houyi Sun recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is as follows: In ancient times, there were 10 tribes with the sun as a totem, collectively known as the Ten Days Kingdom, until one of the tribes had an idea. The Ten Days Kingdom itself is 10 tribes with the sun as a totem, and these ten tribes coexist peacefully in ordinary days, even have relatives, and have always been at peace with each other and coexist peacefully. But one day, the ambitions of one of the tribes gradually expanded, that is, the tribe of Houyi. They launched a "war of unification", using a surprise attack to eliminate the other nine tribes in a short period of time, so that the totems of the nine suns disappeared, leaving only the flag made of the totems of the Houyi tribe still flying in the air. This is the truth of the post-shooting day.
The war of unification is bound to be accompanied by killing, and the original intention of the "Houyi Shooting Day" is probably not to save the people from water and fire, but to exclude dissidents, but in any case, just like the Qin Emperor sweeping the Liuhe, unification is always the trend of history, and the unified tribe may be more stable and powerful under the wise leadership of Houyi, so people have shaped Houyi into heroes and sung for generations in the story of Houyi Shooting Day.
The truth of the Houyi Shooting Day recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas has to be said to be really surprising. However, what Houyi did was actually what many later dynasties were doing, dividing and merging, and there was a collision of various cultural technologies and continuous development. Although Houyi was seen as an evil person who launched an unjust war at that time, in the long run, Houyi actually promoted the development of history.
Many of the monsters and characters recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas may also be true, but they have not been verified, and if the contents of the Classic of Mountains and Seas are verified, this means that China's history is far more than 5,000 years.