The leader of the Shennong clan is called Yandi, the name Shi Nian, the surname of Jiang, and the sheep totem. The Shennong clan, a shennong clan, was born in Jiangshui (in present-day Baoji City, Shaanxi Province), and is said to have reigned for 140 years (about 3216 BC to 3077 BC), and was buried in Luyuanpi (also known as Yanling Mountain and Huangshan) in Yanling County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. He was the inventor of agriculture and medicine. His famous descendants include the Xuan you clan, the Lie (Li) Shan clan, the Gonggong clan, and the Siyue clan.
Shen nong
Shennong was originally one of the Three Emperors, born in a stone cave in Lieshan Mountain, and legend has it that he was a minotaur. Because of his special appearance and industriousness and bravery, he was pushed as a tribal leader when he grew up, because his tribe lived in the hot south, called the Yan tribe, and everyone called him the Yan Emperor. Once he saw a bird and planted seeds, thus inventing grain agriculture, because of these outstanding contributions, everyone also called him Shennong. He saw that people were sick, and then went to the Garden of the Heavenly Emperor on the Building Wood of Duguang no no No. Yuki to take Yao grass and met the Heavenly Emperor who gave him a whip, and Shennong took this divine whip from Duguang Nono all the way back to the Lieshan Mountain. Shennong tasted hundred herbs and was poisoned many times, all thanks to tea detoxification. He vowed to taste all the grass, and finally died because he tasted the intestinal grass. In order to commemorate his kindness and merits, people worshipped him as the god of the medicine king and built the temple of the medicine king to worship at four o'clock. In China, the border between Sichuan, Hubei and Shaanxi is said to be the place where Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, called Shennongjia Mountain.
Bronze statue of Shennong
There have been many debates in history about whether Shennong and Emperor Yan were alone
For a long time, two schools of thought have been formed in academia with diametrically opposed views: one faction believes that Emperor Yan is the Shennong clan. For example, the Yandi Tomb Memorial Hall in Hunan is dedicated to the Yandi as a shennong, so there is the theme of the Yandi tasting of hundreds of herbs in the memorial hall. The other faction believes that Emperor Yan and Shennong are people of two systems and cannot be related, so they cannot be the same person.
The ancient history book Shennong's generation record of Shennong's clan is as follows: Shennong's rule lasted for seventy generations, and (seventeen generations) declined until the rise of the Yellow Emperor's tribe. Here is a problem that needs to be explained earlier, that is, the Shennong clan used to include the era of the Shennong clan, and the names like Fuxi, Nuwa, and Shennong were collective names for a tribe or several generations of tribal leaders, not for the only monarch. For example, in the historical records of the ancient Shu kingdom, many people believe that silkworm cong and yu are the two generations of kings of the ancient Shu kingdom, but in fact, the silkworm cong and the fish are two ancient Shu dynasty that lasted for hundreds of years, and each dynasty had more than a dozen generations. (The Chronicle of History. It is also mentioned in the Five Emperors Benji that when the Yellow Emperor rose, it happened that "shennong was in decline", and the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor fought in the wilderness of Hanquan. Notice the word "world". This is why the reigns of Fuxi, Nuwa, and Shennong often lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years. According to the calculation of the first thirty years, then the period of Shennong's rule is about two thousand years (if it is seventeen generations, it is about five hundred years) The era of the Yellow Emperor, about five thousand years ago, from this two thousand years, it can be inferred that the Shennong rule began about seven thousand years ago.
Emperor Yan: The son of the Shaodian tribe, whose mother was named An (nü) Deng, the daughter of the Youzhi clan, and the Yan Emperor was born in Jiang Shui (legend has it that he is a descendant of the divine dragon, because the dragon head looks like a sheep's head), so he took Jiang as his surname, named Shi Nian, and his original kingdom yi ji guoqi, collectively known as the Name: Yi Qi clan. Ancient primitive society has very few people and many animals, so they all eat animal meat, to the Yandi Lieshan clan Jiang Shi Nian when the people are many and the beasts have been insufficient, wild vegetarian food can eat also eat, but still can not solve the people's hunger, so the Yan di Lieshan clan Jiang Shi Nian according to the time of day, the location, made labor tools, teach the people to cultivate the fields, plant crops, completely solve the people's hunger, the people can also be better reproduction. The people praised Jiang ShiNian of the Lieshan clan of The Yan Emperor: "The gods and make it suitable for the people are called shennong." "The emperor who succeeded to the throne in later generations is called: Yandi Shennong clan "Jiang Moumou", and those who succeed to the throne in later generations still use the Yandi Shennong clan name. Jiang Shinian of the Lieshan clan of the Yan Emperor took the daughter of the Mang (Benshui) clan and had two sons: The ChangDi Linkui and Cigui. Yandi Shennong Clan Jiang Linkui Sheng Di Cheng, Yan Di Shen Nong Clan Jiang Chengsheng Di Ming, Zhongxian, Xi Wen, Yan Di Shen Nong Clan Jiang Ming Sheng Di Yi, Yan Di Shen Nong Clan Jiang Yi Sheng Di Lai, Yan Di Shen Nong Clan Jiang Lai Sheng Emperor Wrap, Di Shen Nong Clan Jiang Sheng Sheng Sheng, Di Shen Nong Clan Jiang Sheng The Yandi Lieshan clan was passed down to the Eighth Emperor to the Yandi Shennong clan Yu Yi (The Yandi Shennong clan Yu Yi was the tenth grandson of the YanDi Lieshan clan). Jiang Shinian of the Yandi Lieshan clan is one of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, and the year of birth and death is around the third millennium BC.
Yu Yi: Jiang surname, so the full name of the Yan Emperor Shennong clan Jiang Yu Yi. He was the tenth grandson of Jiang Shi of the Lieshan clan of the Yan Emperor and the great-grandson of Jiang Shu of the Shennong clan of the Yan Emperor, and was the eighth emperor after the Yan Emperor Lieshan clan of Jiang Shi, a contemporary of the Yellow Emperor Gongsun Xuanyuan. Emperor Yan Shennong clan Jiang Yu lived in Kongsang, and after the princes invaded each other and abused the people, of which Xuan you was the most tyrannical, The Yan Emperor Shennong clan Jiang Yu's forces had weakened and were unable to carry out conquest, so he was forced to live in Zhuolu, and the princes Gongsun Xuanyuan shimao Shengde and quelled the world's riots, so the princes all submitted to him, so Gongsun Xuanyuan replaced The Yandi Shennong clan Jiang Yu and ruled the world as the son of heaven. Jiang Yuyi of the Shennong clan of the Yandi Emperor reigned for fifty-five years, was demoted to Luo, shamed by the title, and moved to the tail of Xiaoxiang Tea Township (so he collapsed at the end of Xiaoxiang Tea Township, and the local people still buried him with imperial courtesy, the Yandi Mausoleum in present-day Yanling, Hunan. Therefore, there is a mausoleum of the Yan Emperor in Baoji, Shaanxi, which I agreed with after inferring and agreeing with the historical books and contexts, which is the mausoleum of Jiang Shinian of the first generation of the YanDi Lieshan clan (Shennong clan). There is the Yan Emperor Mausoleum in Gaoping, Shanxi, the Yan Emperor Mausoleum in Shangqiu, Henan, and the Yan Emperor Mausoleum in Suizhou, Hubei, which is the mausoleum of three other emperors of the Yan Emperor Shennong clan. Sun Boyi, the seventh grandson of the Yan Emperor Shennong clan Jiang Yuyi, held the official position of Siyue at Emperor Yao's side, that is, the ruler of the four princes of the world. At Emperor Shun's side, he held the official position of Emperor Zhizong and performed the three ceremonies. He was greatly credited with assisting Emperor Dayu in leveling water and soil. For Yao Shunyu's side of the humerus heavy subjects, so called Lü Hou, Lü is also the "backbone". The fief was the State of Lü (Reading the Minutes of the History of Public Opinion) (compiled by Qing Gu Zuyu), volume 29: "Lü Cheng. (Xu) fifty miles east of the prefecture. Spring and Autumn Song Yi. Xiangyuan year (Note: The fourteenth year of King Jian of Zhou, that is, 572 BC. Volume 15 of the Taiping Huanyu Ji, Du Pre-notes: "Pengcheng Lü County, Han for Lü County; Song Wu Northern Expedition changed to Shouzhang County." Around 2000, the Han Dynasty people Du Qian and the Qing Dynasty 500 years ago believed that the Lü state was east of Pengcheng Xuzhou, near the Song state, "the ancestor of the Chinese Lü clan."
After Fuxi, Shennong is another legendary figure who has made great contributions to the Chinese nation. In addition to inventing farming techniques, he also invented the art of medicine,
A calendar was formulated, and a water conservancy irrigation technique connected to nine wells was pioneered. Because he invented farming techniques, he was called shennong, but he was also known as the Yan Emperor, the Red Emperor, and the Lie (Li) Shan Clan, and he became the leader of the world against the Yellow Emperor. For a long time, the question of whether the Shennong clan was the Yan Emperor had been inconclusive.
The Huainan Zi records that shennong "tasted the taste of hundreds of grasses, and the sweetness and bitterness of the water spring, so that the people avoided it." At this time, seventy poisons were encountered in one day. "The History of the Road. Yiyun of the Outer Chronicle: Yandi Shennongshi "grinds mirages and whips, detects colors, tastes grass and trees and is justified." Judge them to cure poison, to cure their troubles, to detect their fear of evil, to discern their subordinates, to judge three of them, and to nourish their lives and cure their diseases. Seventy poisons in one day, extremely qi also. "Han Feizi Wuyin" said: "The people eat clams, fishy and foul-smelling, and hurt the stomach, and the people are sick." The record describes that the Yandi Shennong clan and its ancestors gradually discovered during the gathering activities that vomiting, abdominal pain, coma, and even death would occur due to the accidental eating of certain animals and plants. Eating certain animals and plants can eliminate or alleviate some diseases of the body or relieve the poisoning caused by eating certain plants. In the life of fishing and hunting, it has also been found that eating the limbs and internal organs of some animals can produce special reactions. After a long period of practice, people can gradually identify many animals and plants, understand their efficacy, and when they encounter a certain disease, they intentionally choose certain animals and plants for treatment. It is this spirit of practice and exploration that has laid the foundation of Chinese traditional Chinese medicine and created the Chinese national traditional Chinese medicine culture. In order to commemorate him, later generations named the first medical work in China "Shennong Materia Medica".
Now the people are still commemorating Shennong in various ways and remembering their ancestors.
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