As a Chinese, most people know that our civilization originated from the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, so everyone also calls themselves the descendants of Yan Huang.
However, in the era when the Second Emperor of Yanhuang was honored, there was actually a more powerful human ancestor, and this person's name was Xuan You. At that time, Xuan You once beat Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor into the wilderness and fled, and it was only by the combined efforts of the two that they achieved the final victory.
However, we only know that Xuanyu is a very terrifying tribal leader, and we call it the God of War. But he didn't know that in fact, Xuanyu was also one of the sources of human civilization. Even he was killed by the emperor for this reason. So what's going on here?
In our traditional cognition, in ancient times, there were three large tribes, they were the Yan Emperor, the Yellow Emperor, and the Xuan You. In many literature records, both the Yan Emperor and the Emperor represent the correct direction of human civilization, but their military industry development is lacking a lot. Therefore, as a pioneer in the political priority of developing the weapons industry, and even using copper as the basis for weapons, Xuan You became a negative teaching material at that time.
In the records, Xuan you, like the later nomadic tribes, always led an army to attack the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor. Among them, the YanDi tribe could not be defeated at all for his attack, and was almost collapsed, and could only fully rely on the Yellow Emperor tribe, and finally the two combined to achieve victory.
In many legends, Xuanyu is an incomparably terrifying figure, he has a fierce face, like a devil, and his brothers are also abnormal human beings, even able to eat sand and stone, and copperheads and iron foreheads. Even his mounts are pandas known as stone and iron beasts, and they are extremely terrifying.
Therefore, in our traditional impression, the victory of the Yellow Emperor of Yandi is a victory of civilization, a victory of justice over evil. But I don't know if you have found a problem, that is, after the end of the war, the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan is in hot pursuit of Xuan You's tribe, and must kill them all or completely integrate them into his own tribe. If it is only a war between good and evil, why do we have to be so persistent?
Therefore, regarding the cognition of Xuan You, in later historical research, many people have put forward other views, and even some people think that Xuan You is not a person, but a tribe, one of the origins of human civilization, and Xuan You himself can even be the same as the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor, as our humanistic ancestors. Why?
Through the screening of legends and real history, scholars finally came to the conclusion that the tribe to which Xuanyu belonged was the Jiuli tribe, which existed in a real and objective way, not a mythical tribe.
So what are the characteristics of this tribe? According to research, the Jiuli tribe created an astronomical center, had an early unified calendar, and actually proposed the use of buffalo as a tool for cultivating the land. Of course, the most important thing is that this civilization has also embarked on an industrial road, and they have a good bronze smelting technology.
From these records, it can be fully seen that in terms of the development of civilization, the Xuanyu tribe is not inferior to people, and even for the development and contribution of human civilization, it far exceeds the Yanhuang and Huang tribes. Because of this, when the three major tribes were fighting, the Yanhuang and Huang tribes were beaten very badly, because their wooden weapons could not beat each other's metal weapons, which was also a kind of civilization crushing.
So the question is, at the same time, what kind of road is the Yanhuang tribe taking? According to the research of archaeologists, the Yandi tribe is engaged in vigorous slash-and-burn farming, and most historians believe that the slash-and-burn technology began here. In addition, Yandi also developed the cultivation technology of grain, which made a huge breakthrough in the development of agriculture. And most importantly, it is possible that in the hands of Emperor Yan, he really developed a formal medical technique, after all, Emperor Yan tasted hundreds of herbs and achieved medical skills.
The final victor, the Yellow Emperor, also had great breakthroughs in that year, for example, studying writing and clothing, inventing guide cars, and building boats. Study arithmetic to make laws.
When we compare the creation of these three tribes, it is obvious that the three tribes chose different paths in the period of civilization development, and there is also a kind of dispute over the choice of the future direction of human civilization.
The Yandi civilization tended to live and survive, the Yellow Emperor civilization tended to order and unity, and the Xuanyu civilization was more inclined to expand and emphasize religious belief.
Therefore, there must be a war between these three civilizations to determine the ultimate direction of our civilization. If we understand them as a struggle between three countries, then there is no doubt that the strongest short-term explosive force is naturally the Xuanyu civilization, while the sustainable development is the Yandi civilization, and the strongest resistance to blows is the Yellow Emperor civilization, (enough order and unified writing, can continuously mobilize all forces.) ）
Seeing this, we can probably understand why Xuan You must be killed, in fact, Sun Quan and Liu Bei joined forces to eliminate the Cao Wei regime. So why kill the Xuanyu tribe? In fact, the answer is also very simple, because the Xuanyu tribe is more advanced in some aspects, and in this struggle for the direction of civilization, it is necessary to completely eliminate or accommodate another civilization, which is an inevitable choice.
As for why there is a big war between Yanhuang and Huang, that is, the two need to be integrated and screened in the choice of civilization. In the end, the Yellow Emperor, who had more sustained combat capabilities, won the victory, and the three major civilizations were screened and selected, and finally fused with the Yanhuang civilization as we know it today.
However, we also need to have a understanding of this, although we call ourselves the descendants of Yanhuang, but our entire Chinese civilization is not only the fusion of the two major civilizations of Yanhuang, but also includes the civilization cases provided by the Jiuli tribe. For example, the pottery production of that period, the development of the bronze industry in that period, and the mysterious beliefs of that time were all inherited by later generations.
Therefore, we can finally draw a conclusion that the battle for deer is not a war between good and evil, and there are no gods and ghosts participating in the war, which is purely a contest between three civilizations, just to choose the most suitable path for our development. Although Xuanyu failed, he was not a bad person, but our three ancestors were fighting for the right to take the helm, success or failure was a matter for the ancestors, but respecting them was what we had to do.
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