Regarding Fuxi, I would like to talk about a few issues that everyone is very concerned about, which may help you to have a more accurate understanding of the social and cultural environment at that time, and also help some professionals to do more in-depth and detailed research on this basis.
First of all, the first question is the specific age of Fuxi's life? According to our research, Fuxi lived about 6,500 years ago.
The second question is, where exactly are Fuxi people from? Because at present, many local governments have made Fuxi their hometown because of the needs of tourism development. According to our research, Fuxi's mother, Hua Xu, was in Langzhong, Sichuan, and she was 12 years pregnant, and after the tribe migrated to Tianshui, she gave birth to Fuxi, so Fuxi was born in Tianshui. Then the whole tribe migrated to the west of Shaanxi, and gradually grew. In the end, Fuxi led the tribe back to Langzhong and established a country in Langzhong. This is the main life course of Fuxi.
The third problem is that many netizens reported that it was difficult to understand Fuxi's sowing of the land of China. This is because we mainly understand this issue according to our current concept. So here I would like to make a special note to you.
1. On the issue of covering shame between men and women.
Under these conditions at that time, the entire land of China, no matter which tribe, no matter whether it was a man or a woman, had no clothes to wear. If you can understand this, then you can have a deep understanding of the social environment of the entire Fuxi.
Some historians say they might have used some leaves, which is unlikely. It is very likely that they will use some animal skins, but their role is mainly to protect them from the cold, not to hide their shame. It can be said that human beings at that time were honest with each other.
2. On the division of labor among men.
Understanding the structural characteristics of matrilineal societies is very similar to that of bee colonies as a whole. In the whole colony, the queen bee is in the absolute leader's position, the drone does not work, it is only responsible for mating, and the rest of the busy bees are worker bees. These worker bees, who are busy working all day long, do not have the right to mate.
The same is true in matrilineal tribes, as in worker bees, where most men (including captives), and possibly women of low status or mistakes in the tribe, as well as women who are captive, do not have the right to mate. Only a very small number of good men were able to mate with the women of the tribe, and made copulation their main job.
It may be difficult for you to understand this, so I will give you an example. It was during the American Civil War, because of the plantations in the South, it used many black slaves. Because it was also very expensive to buy and sell black slaves at that time, these farmers on the southern plantations, they came up with a method: that is, to select some strong male black slaves, who were specially responsible for mating with female black slaves, to be responsible for the production of baby black slaves. And these male black slaves, they usually don't have much work, their only job is to be responsible for mating with female black slaves, giving birth to baby black slaves, and helping farmers save costs.
3. On the status of men.
In the matriarchal tribe of primitive society, the relationship between women and men is the relationship between domination and domination, and men do not have any social status.
Let me give you another example, that is, as we all know, there is a Mosuo tribe in Lugu Lake in Sichuan, and the characteristics of a matriarchal society have always been maintained there. There is a very important system there, which is to maintain a characteristic called walking marriage.
What is the characteristic of walking marriage? That is, the men of this tribe do not have their own house, nor any property, and they have no fixed residence, so to speak, they have nothing. Every night, if he was not favored by the women of the tribe, he would not be able to enter the women's boudoir, there would be no place to sleep, and only one man would live on the streets. That's the case. This is very matrilineal and triarchal in primitive society.