Hello ~ Hello everyone, welcome to today's xiao Li Pin history. Many legends have been born in the 5,000-year culture of China, among which the Houyi Shooting Sun and Chang'e Running Moon are one of the good stories. In fact, Houyi and Chang'e are actually not completely a pair of mandarin ducks fictionalized by folklore, but there is a real historical prototype, in the mainland Shandong Province, there have been excavated suspected Houyi and Chang'e joint burial tombs, today Xiaobian will take you to understand the real history of Houyi and Chang'e's story.
In the Han Dynasty's "Bracket Map", there is a detailed description of Houyi: "Yi was five years old, and his parents entered the mountain. Under the great tree of his mother's place, wait for the cicadas to chirp, and also, want to take it. The cicadas chirped and donated. Yi is raised in the mountains, twenty years old, can learn bows and arrows. He sighed, "I will shoot into the distance, to the end of my door." "Because of the shot, Yama cut the grass, passed through the Yimen, and went with the arrow." It can be seen that Houyi is indeed very good at bows and arrows, not only that, he is also the leader of a tribe, and later his tribe was annexed by Emperor Yao, and he was named a local lord, in the current Hunan generation. Later, due to Houyi's bravery, Emperor Zhao also mated his daughter Chang'e Xu to Houyi as a wife.
Chang'e, as the daughter of Emperor Zhao, one of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of the Ancients, was born with extraordinary beauty, and was actually called Jiao'e at first, but later in the Han Dynasty, The Han Emperor Liu Heng changed it to Chang'e for reasons of avoidance. After Chang'e married Houyi, Houyi never took a concubine again, which can be said to have created a precedent for monogamy in the mainland, and the two have always been very affectionate after marriage. But why did it become a tragic love story later? Did Chang'e leave Houyi? The answer is yes, in the historical records, Houyi died before Chang'e.
The reason why Houyi died first was that he was not reconciled after being crowned lord, and wanted to defeat Di Yao and become the head of the tribe, but because he was exposed by his own subordinates at the planning stage, he had not yet had time to realize it, Houyi was killed by Emperor Yao, and after Houyi's death, Chang'e was grief-stricken, and his father Emperor Zhao wanted his daughter to remarry, and Chang'e of course preferred to die. However, a woman of her own, how can she get past her father, so helpless, Chang'e had to promise her father, but she and Di Zhao put forward two conditions, that is, after remarrying, they should be buried next to HouYi, and they would not agree to these two conditions and immediately commit suicide. Seeing that his daughter was so determined, the emperor agreed. In the end, Chang'e was depressed and buried next to Houyi after her death, which also counted her wishes.
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