Yandi Shennong
Emperor Yan is one of the ancestors of our Chinese nation. The so-called "Yanhuang" now refers to the Yandi Shennong clan and the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clan. The Yandi Shennong clan was a great figure who made indelible contributions to the creation of the earliest civilization in the ancient Chinese country, to the development of social productive forces, and to the prosperity of the Chinese nation. He is a deity inseparable from the inventions and creations of agriculture, industry, commerce, medicine, literature and other fields, so he has always been admired and sacrificed by the descendants of Yanhuang in successive dynasties. After his death, he became the co-lord of the world, and since then China has entered the agrarian society.
After Fuxi formulated the surname, people were divided into different clans. After Pangu opened up the world, after Nuwa created people to make up for the heavens, she rotated countless spring and autumn cold and summer. On an ordinary dusk, the sun in the west is like blood, the crystal full moon in the east has quietly climbed up the willow branches, and a girl named Ren Ji is still hesitating on the bank of JiangShui. In ancient and modern China and abroad, young and beautiful, amorous and kind women are the same, and their minds cannot be guessed.
Suddenly, a red light shot out from the depths of the blue waves, and Ren Ji looked up fiercely and saw a red-haired divine dragon rising into mid-air, and her eyes emitted two rays of divine light, which met her gaze. The four eyes intersected for a moment, Ren Ji only felt that her heart was throbbing, as if she had a feeling, she wiped her eyes with her hand, fixed her mind, and then fixed her eyes to look, but saw that the twilight was gradually closing, and the waves were not alarmed. The sky and the river are all dark and gloomy, what is the dragon! The dragon saw the head and did not see the tail, but Ren Ji became pregnant, and gave birth to a son at full term, the head of the ox, that is, the ginger of jiang shui. This son was the Emperor of Southern Fire Virtue, hence the name Yan Emperor.
When this sun god and agricultural god Yandi was just born, nine wells poured out of the earth around him. The waters of these nine wells are connected to each other, and if you draw water from one of the wells, the water from the other eight wells will fluctuate with it.
In ancient times, there was no agriculture, people lived by hunting, fishing, and picking wild fruits, starving, freezing, and in distress, living a primitive nomadic life. How can the natural growth of animals and fruits keep up with the speed of human breeding? Once the wild animals and plants have been eaten by people, won't the people of the world starve to death? For the people take food for heaven. Emperor Yan was a very merciful and loving god. He saw that the population was becoming more and more numerous, the natural resources were gradually scarce, and he suddenly had a sense of distress. So Emperor Yan spared no effort, risked his life, walked all over the famous mountains and rivers, tasted all kinds of hardships, and finally found a grain suitable for human consumption in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers in the south. The people were instructed to sow seeds in the reclaimed soil in the spring, fertilize and irrigate frequently, and remove the turnips, so that they could have a good harvest in the autumn. When he saw that the people were working very hard in farming and planting, he broke the wood to make a plank, kneaded the wood to make a yarn, and created agricultural tools. Emperor Yan also told the sun to emit enough light and heat to make the grain grow and nurture; and appointed the immortal Red Pine Nuts as the rain master, observing the weather and regulating the rain and rain. So every year the grain is abundant. The people sang and sang, thanking Emperor Yan for his merits and honoring him as "Shennong".
Emperor Yan was not only an agricultural god, but also a medicine god. Emperor Yan taught people agricultural technology, ensured the source of materials for life, and founded medicine to ensure people's life and health. He looked around and saw that most of the people had yellow and swollen faces, rheumatism, or old and weak and crippled bodies suffering from diseases, and his heart was very uneasy. Just walk through the three mountains and five mountains to collect the world's strange grasses. Legend has it that Emperor Yan had a divine whip called "Ochre Whip". The various plants of the world, once whipped by the ochre whip, whether poisonous or non-toxic, or plugged or hot, will appear of various properties. He treated the patient according to the different medicinal properties of the herbs.
In order to further identify the sexual taste and function of the drug and better save lives and help the injured, Emperor Yan personally tasted the hundred herbs. His body is exquisite and transparent, and he can see his internal organs from the outside, so he tries the medicine with his body and sees how the herbs work in the body. Yan Di made two pockets to take with him, planning to put the delicious ones in the bag on the left for food, and if it was not delicious and had special effects, he put them in the bag on the right for medicinal purposes. When he was ready, he began to taste the herbs. First, he tasted a small green leaf that was tender. As soon as the small green leaves fall into the stomach, wash the stomach and intestines up and down, and wash all parts of the stomach to be refreshing, which makes people very comfortable! Because the small green leaves went up and down in the stomach, like patrolling back and forth, Yandi called it "Cha". He thought that "checking" was beneficial and edible, so he received it in the bag on the left. Later, people somehow wrote it as "tea".
He then tasted a small butterfly-like pale red flower, the leaves were like feathers, and they looked beautiful. Pick up the fragrant smell, eat in the mouth sweet silk, this is what posterity called "licorice". Shennong thought that licorice was very delicious, so he also put it in the bag on the left.
Then I tasted a chic little green flower. The flowers hang from the stem like ears of grass, and the oval leaves have small tips. Take it and taste it, it's bitter and sour, and there are thorns on the fruit. This thing kept bumping into his stomach one after another, and even Yan Di's knees were swollen up, swollen like a cow's knee. Emperor Yan knew that it was not good, and hurriedly swallowed a handful of tea leaves to detoxify. This kind of thing was later called "cow's knee" and was placed in the bag on the right side of Shennong.
In this way, he tasted the herbs one by one, and sometimes he was poisoned, and he swallowed a handful of tea leaves. On average, he was poisoned more than ten times a day, and worse, seventy times a day. Fortunately, he was able to immediately know the poisoned part and find a way to rescue him. Emperor Yan tried the medicinal properties of the hundred herbs, placed the warm, cold, cold, and hot medicines in one place, and wrote a medical prescription according to the righteousness of the Emperor and the Emperor to benefit mankind. The department of medicine was established at this point.
The Yandi Shennong clan made important contributions to the survival, reproduction, and development of the Chinese nation: manufacturing the five grains and planting five grains; tasting all kinds of grasses and opening up medicine; setting up a city hall and opening up the first market; treating hemp as cloth and clothing for the people; making five-stringed organs and using music to the people; cutting wood into bows to make pottery and improving life; establishing calendar days, setting up stars, dividing day and night, and fixing the sun and moon; teaching the people to sow grain, teaching the people to medicine, teaching the people to make pottery and painting, teaching the people to hunt animals, fitness, teaching the people to music and dance, and also teaching the people wisdom. It can be seen that during the Yandi period, morality, intelligence, physique and beauty were comprehensively valued and developed. In this way, Emperor Yan continued to use his wisdom to improve the people's lives and improve the people's mode of survival, and achieved remarkable results.
However, in his later years, Emperor Yan's creativity was almost fully exerted, and his half-brother, another great leader, the Yellow Emperor, began to rise, and the Yellow Emperor was also a enterprising and capable leader, and their way of dealing with the world was contradictory. The contradiction is so fierce that it can only be resolved by the means of war. Finally, the two of them fought in the field of Hansen. Emperor Yan was the sun god, and he had the fire god Zhu Rong under his command, so he used fire attack. The Yellow Emperor was the god of thunderstorms, and he attacked with water. You come and go for a few rounds, up and down. The Yellow Emperor commanded 100,000 divine soldiers, 100,000 people, and 100,000 ghost pawns to use eagles, eagles, vultures, harriers and other fierce birds soaring in the heavenly dome as banners, and tigers, leopards, bears, and beasts galloping in the wilderness as precursors to launch a decisive battle with Emperor Yan. The two armies clashed, the killing sound was tremendous, the white blades shone brightly, the war was unusually cruel and fierce, and the blood on the battlefield was flowing, making those wooden weapons float. As a result, the war ended in the victory of the young and powerful Yellow Emperor.
After the Battle of Hanquan, Emperor Yan realized that his time was over, so he went with the flow and retreated. He came to the remote south, became the god of heaven in charge of the south, and together with the fire god Zhu Rong, worked together to govern the 12,000 miles of the south, and ruled the summer of the four seasons of the year.
Emperor Yan's wife was Tingwo, daughter of the Chishui clan, and the boy she had with Emperor Yan was named Yanju. Yanju sheng festival and, festival and drama instrument, drama instrument to produce fire god blessing. Zhu Rong was relegated to the Yangtze River Valley, and gave birth to the water gods who later angrily touched the Zhou Mountains. The son of the co-worker, the magician, was born with a different phase, and his head was flat as a cut; the other son was called Hou Tu, the god of the land. The earth god hou gave birth to the god of time choking, who had twelve children, namely the twelve-year-old gods such as Sleepy Dun (Zi Nian), Chi Fenruo (Ugly Year), and Setig (Yin Nian). Hou Tu also has a grandchild, that is, the daily father of the Kwa.
Emperor Yan had four daughters, and the fates of these four daughters were different.
One of them has the best fate. Emperor Yan had a rain officer named Akamatsuko. This person likes alchemy and often takes a kind of "water jade", that is, crystal. After a long time, the body changed, and finally jumped into the fire, so that the body burned the result of rebirth and became a god. This daughter of Emperor Yan was very convinced of Akamatsuko since childhood, and after Akamatsuko attained enlightenment, she followed Akamatsuko to Kunlun Mountain, cultivated immortals in the stone house where the Queen Mother of the West lived, and finally after taking crystals and burning, she also got rid of her mortal fetus, cultivated into a god, and has been traveling with Akamatsuko all over the world.
Emperor Yan also had a daughter, XueShengXian, who lived on the mulberry tree in Nanyang Mountain, and her body sometimes turned into a white magpie, and sometimes she still maintained a woman's posture. When Emperor Yan saw such a strange act of hers, he was very sad and tried his best to lure her down, but he racked his brains and did not succeed. Later, Emperor Yan simply let people put a fire under the tree in an attempt to force her to come down, but in the midst of the flames, the young and beautiful girl instead degenerated into flesh and blood and rose into the sky. Since then, every year people have burned the Nestle on this tree to ash, mixed with water, and fed the silkworms, and it is said that in this way, the hatched silkworms can spit more silk and spit silk.
Another daughter of Emperor Yan was named Yao Ji. She was an amorous girl, but unfortunately she died just before she reached the age of marriage. A wisp of fang soul floats to the Guyao Mountain, transforms into a Yao grass, blooms a beautiful yellow flower, and bears a fruit like a silk seed, and those who eat this fruit will be loved by everyone. The Heavenly Emperor pitied her for her early death, so he made her the cloud and rain god of Wushan. In the morning she transformed into a beautiful morning cloud, floating among the valleys, and at dusk she turned into a gentle twilight rain, pouring out full of sorrow. She has always been so affectionate, waiting for the confidant...
Emperor Yan also had a daughter named Nuwa, whose deeds were the most tragic.
It is said that once when she went to the East China Sea to play, a storm suddenly broke out at sea, and she unfortunately drowned in the sea. Her soul did not disperse, and she transformed into a "jingwei bird" with a flower head, a white beak, and a red foot. She deeply resented that the sea had swallowed up her young life, and vowed to fill the sea, so she constantly went to the stones and branches of the West Mountain to reclaim the sea, and her spirit was really comparable to that of Yugong Moving Mountain. Folk also call this bird a female finch. The Jin Dynasty poet Tao Yuanming once had a poem "Jingwei Wei Wei Wei Mu will fill the sea", singing this kind of spirit of incompatibility.