The "Chronicle of History" records that the Yellow Emperor was the Xuanyuan clan, fought against Xuan You, and after a hard battle, he finally won, and the Yellow Emperor later ascended on a dragon.
Most of the records of the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in the history books are from the pre-Qin legends, and Sima Qian compiled a book based on these and recorded them in the "Records of History", which is the history we see today.
The Hundred Sons and Hundred Families did not exist in the era before the Shang Zhou, but there was a discipline that existed, and this knowledge has continued from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Xia Shang Zhou, and then to the Qin, Han, Tang, and Song Dynasties until today.
This knowledge is Yi Xue, so what is the origin and connection between Yi Xue and our ancestor Emperor Xuanyuan of China? Today we're going to talk about it.
Mention of Yixue What most of us are familiar with now is the Zhou Yi, in which the sixty-four gua and the ten wings of the gua ci yan constitute a theoretical system, which was written by King Wen of Zhou and annotated by Confucius and his descendants.
But in fact, the way of easy learning has existed for a long time before King Wen of Zhou, not only the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, but also the Three Emperors and Five Emperors era.
There are many theories about the origin of the Way of Yi, among which the more mainstream theory is that one of the Three Emperors, Emperor Fuxi, made an innate gossip, which was the beginning of Yi Xue.
Legend has it that Fu Xi got the "river map", represented everything in the world with gossip, carried out divination and prediction, and occupied everything, becoming the coordinates for the progress of Chinese civilization.
In the era of the Yellow Emperor, the way of Yi was developed, and it is said that the Yellow Emperor once performed Yi and obtained the "Book of Luo", in order to guide his military and political strategy, and finally defeated the fierce enemy Xuan You, the so-called "Yellow Emperor Yao Shun, the change of tongyi, the rule of draping clothes, so that the people are tireless." ”
In the Oracle Bone Age, most of the words engraved on the bones of turtle shells and beasts are records of divination results, and there are Gua Xiang Gua Words, which are evidence of the existence of Yi Xue in ancient times.
As an important part of Chinese civilization, the oracle bone is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors, and the heaviest proportion of divination words is undoubtedly the focus of it.
There is a saying that the surname of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan is directly related to Yi Xue.
Because the word "easy" is taken from the lizard's "lizard", this lizard may be a chameleon or a giant turtle, known as "shrew".
This animal can also be called "Xuan Shrew", which means turtle turtle, and the history books record that "also known as "worm", a phonetic yuan. Grasshoppers, grasshoppers also. ”
This "shrew" is closely related to the dragon, and the Huainan Zi records: "The first dragon gave birth to the Xuan Shrew, the Xuan Shrew gave birth to the spirit turtle, the spirit turtle gave birth to the turtle, and the mortal was born in the turtle." ”
The Chinese records that "[The Dragon Dragon] was transformed into a shrew to enter the royal palace." "Shrew, or 'worm'. Grasshoppers, stings, elephant dragons. ”
It can be seen that Xuan Shrew is the descendant of the dragon, and vice versa can be transformed into a dragon.
Dragon is a symbol of the auspiciousness and greatness of Chinese civilization, and the first gua qian gua zhi zhi of Zhou Yi is mostly explained by the dragon as an example, the so-called "flying dragon in the sky", "seeing the dragon in the field", "the hidden dragon in the yuan", "the dragon has regrets".
Now we look at the ancient carvings and records, there are records of the Yellow Emperor surrendering to large turtles and turtles, and the Yellow Emperor obtained this spiritual object, occupied everything, and became the first emperor at that time.
Legend has it that Emperor Xuanyuan finally "ascended on a dragon", was this dragon transformed by the great "Xuan Shrew" that he surrendered?
Therefore, some people speculate that the surname of the Yellow Emperor of "Xuanyuan" or evolved from "Xuan Shrew", although the evidence of this speculation is not sufficient, and the reasoning is not rigorous, but at least from another level, we can understand the profound and far-reaching influence of Yixue on Chinese civilization.