In the ancient years of the land of China, there were many myths and stories. Because it is so old, the content of the record has long been impossible to verify.
For these contents that cannot be verified to be true or false, they are all labeled as "mythical stories". The reasons given are also relatively simple and crude, exceeding what people know today, violating the laws of natural science, and listening to them as stories.
In this way, it seems that there is no problem, but if you think about it carefully, such a one-size-fits-all approach to the problem will be extremely prone to "unjust, false and wrongly decided cases".
Although it is generally believed that myths and stories are the crystallization of the ancient working people, it is a yearning for a happy life of the working people.
But as far as I know, the working people of ancient times were not very literate, not highly educated, and they were so busy that they basically didn't have time to lie there and make up stories.
Many of the so-called "myths" are written in records with official backgrounds. For example, the story of "Dayu controlling the water" is from the "Sui Gongxuan" cast in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
There is also the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which has always been known for its "absurdity", which has always been hidden in the ruler's library, and it was passed on for several years before it was gradually perfected.
Then the question arises, why do the rulers spend so much energy to make an "absurd" literary work, and it is still treated as a treasure, otherwise it will be circulated to the people.
Therefore, we should perhaps re-examine these so-called "mythological stories", which may not be stories in the first place, but because of the different ways of interpreting them, these accounts have lost their original meaning.
But when we look for traces of the story from different historical books, we can still find the real events hidden behind this "mythical story".
The story of "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun" to be told in this article is one of them.
In ancient times, there was a severe drought in the land. Under the scorching sun, the seedlings and others died due to drought. The reason why this happened was because the ten children of Dijun and Xihe were all little suns, and they lived in the Fuso tree in the east and took turns to be on duty in the sky.
Sometimes they even gather together in the sky, causing the ground to be hot. So, in order to save the common people, Hou Yi stepped forward and shot nine suns with a bow and arrows, leaving only one sun in the sky.
It's just such a story, which makes anyone feel a little absurd to read it, and maybe it will only seem appropriate if it is placed on a children's book. But after interpreting it this way, it can't be said that Mao Yong is not used, but it can only be said: This story is good.
According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Huainanzi", it was the Shun Houyi who shot down the nine suns in the sky. However, it is recorded in the "Zuo Chuan" and "Shangshu" that Hou Yi was the monarch of a poor country, who once usurped the power of the Xia Dynasty and served as the monarch of the Xia Dynasty for 8 years.
According to this theory, Emperor Yao corresponds to the Taosi cultural site, which was about 2300 BC, while the Xia Dynasty was established around 2000 BC, with a gap of more than 300 years.
According to the analysis of archaeologists, the time point of this great invasion coincides with the time point of the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, and even has a great connection with the Dayu tribe.
This custom still existed until the pre-Qin period, and people often used official positions to refer to people, perhaps this habit was handed down from ancient times.
Therefore, the prototype of Hou Yi shooting the sun, it should be said that Emperor Yao had a person who was good at archery, and the people here are likely to refer to a group of people.
Moreover, when archaeologists excavated the site of Tao Temple, they found more than 100 arrow clusters in it, which also shows that archery had developed quite maturely at that time, so there was nothing wrong with setting up a good archery position.
After talking about it for a long time, I still haven't talked about it, and this has a dime to do with the war. Don't worry, let's move on. As a representative culture of the Yao era, Taosi culture has also experienced the development of the early, middle and late periods.
In the middle and late stages of the Taosi culture, they all suffered varying degrees of damage, and even the destruction in the later period had obvious traces of foreign invasion.
According to the analysis of archaeologists, the time point of this great invasion coincides with the time point of the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, and even has a great connection with the Dayu tribe.
Inspired by this, archaeologists started from the early stage of Taosi culture to explore the evolution and change of Taosi culture. Sure enough, clues were found in it, and there was no precedent for burying pig skeletons in the southern Jinnan region for more than 2,000 years before the development of Taosi culture.
This shows that the Taosi culture is also a migratory culture from the outside, and from the analysis and comparison of the pig skeleton, there are many similarities with the Dawenkou culture in Shandong.
It can be deduced that Yao came all the way to the Jinnan region from the Shandong region, and they fought a great war with the local natives.
Yao's good shooters played a key role in this. Therefore, the 9 days here are likely to represent 9 people, not 9 suns.
In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is also an explanation for the nine days, saying that Emperor Jun's wife Xihe gave birth for ten days. And what exactly is this emperor doing, the archaeological community has been debating for a while.
Later, it was not until the words "Gao Zu Miao" appeared in the oracle bone inscription that the scholars suddenly realized that this was not the ancestor of the merchants.
Speaking of which, it is clear that Yao once led the tribe to migrate to the southern Jin region and had a battle with Dijun. During the battle, Yao's good archers made a great achievement, shooting all nine of Emperor Jun's sons.
The war was quite fierce, and after each major battle, there was a miserable scene of "scorched grass and trees".
Eventually, Emperor Jun also had to submit to Yao's leadership, during which time Shang's ancestors remained part of this tribal confederation, which laid the foundation for the Shang to overthrow the Xia Dynasty and establish the Shang Dynasty.
Moreover, in the archaeological excavations, the second phase of the Hougang culture in Anyang City was identified as the pre-Shang culture, and according to the positioning, this place is only more than 100 kilometers away from the location of the Taosi culture.
The Changzhi Basin does have a phenomenon of multiple cultural superposition, which indicates that there has been a considerable period of cultural exchange here. The so-called cultural exchanges, at that time, were mostly based on invasion and resistance, and after a period of confrontation, Yao's Tao culture finally won the victory.
It is recorded in "Huainanzi":
Yao made Yi shoot nine black in the mountain of Sanzhi......
This Sanzhi Mountain refers to the Changzhi Basin area, and there is a record of "Sanzhi Mountain" in the "New Tang Dynasty Book Geographical Chronicles", according to it, there is a "Sanzhi Mountain" in Tunliu County, Luzhou, and where Luzhou is, there must be no need to say more.
To sum up, if "Hou Yi shoots the sun" only interprets this incident as Hou Yi shooting the sun, it can only be read as a myth.
But after analysis, this incident records a war in ancient times, where Yao, as a foreign tribe, fought with the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty for territory in the southern Jin region.
The two tribes fought fiercely, and Hou Yi, as a good archer corps under Yao, played an important role, and in the position of "Sanzhi Mountain", he wiped out Di Jun's nine sons, thus striking Di Jun's living force, and finally bringing Di Jun into Emperor Yao's management.
Later, in the middle of the Taosi culture, Yu Shun defeated Tang Yao and became the co-lord of the world, and also developed the city-state and improved the cultivation method.
Later, Dayu seized Shun's world, and Shun was forced to flee south, and finally died in the wilderness. The Shang tribe, on the other hand, has been developing tepidly.
The so-called feng shui rotated, and the Shang tribe grew step by step with the development, and later overthrew the rule of the Xia Dynasty in one fell swoop and established the Shang Dynasty.
The so-called world has reincarnation, and the heavens forgive whom, and people are constantly changing, dividing and merging for thousands of years, and will continue to do so......