Source: Uncle Hai said
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In the "Kong Congzi Ji Qing", it is said: "The Son of Heaven Bude will lead to taiping, and the Linfeng Turtle Dragon will first present auspiciousness." "Linfeng turtle dragon is what we often call the four spirits, but among the four spirits, everyone is most familiar with the dragon and the phoenix, and the most profound influence on the Chinese family is also the dragon culture and phoenix culture."
The phoenix is a little more special than the dragon, because the phoenix, as a bird, was originally separated between male and female, the phoenix was male, and the phoenix was female. But I don't know how, but later the phoenix is completely female, if the folk give birth to a "dragon and phoenix fetus", the dragon refers to the boy, and the phoenix refers to the girl.
In life, we often say that we are "descendants of the dragon", in fact, from the perspective of surnames, some surname groups of the Huaxia ethnic group can also be said to be "descendants of the phoenix". Take the Surname of Jiang, the ancestor of the Surname of Jiang can be traced back to the Shaohao Emperor, Shaohao is the son of the Yellow Emperor, and the Shaohao Clan is a complete clan tribal society with a phoenix bird as a totem.
Each surname has its own totem, which is a rule that has been handed down from ancient times to the present, because the surname of the Chinese people is derived from the ancient totem worship. Therefore, a surname group with Shao Hao's blood lineage, such as Jiang surname, can still find a phoenix-like pattern in its surname totem. The god of the Shaohao clan is a phoenix bird, and the phoenix culture in early China was developed and prospered by Shaohao. Legend has it that when Shao Hao was born, five phoenixes flew from the sky, namely red, yellow, green, white, and Xuan, so Shao Hao was also known as the Feng bird clan, and his wife was Feng Hong.
Not only that, when Shao Hao became the leader of the tribal alliance, phoenix birds also flew from the sky. In short, the relationship between the Shaohao clan and the phoenix is locked to death; it is said that the dragon totem was created by his father, the Yellow Emperor, together with the leaders of various tribes, so that the dragon and the phoenix were a family, and Shao Hao himself was also capable of cultivating the Yellow Emperor.
When he grew up, Shao Hao became the leader of the Fenghong tribe, and later the leader of the entire Dongyi tribe, his tribe was completely a phoenix country, and various management systems were related to the phoenix. The phoenix rules the hundred birds, so the 24 clans of the Shaohao tribe, some are called the Wind Bird Clan, some are called the Xuan Bird Clan, anyway, they are all related to birds.
According to ancient books such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Great Wilderness of the North, Shao Hao's father, the Yellow Emperor, once defeated Xuan You, and his tribe merged with emperor Yan's tribe to form the original Huaxia clan. In the early years of the Xia Dynasty, because Dayu's son Qi was unwilling to give up his father's position to others, he destroyed the Zen concession system and became the leader himself, which caused dissatisfaction among the Dongyi tribe.
What else can I do if I am dissatisfied? Boom! In this way, the ancestors of the Huaxia clan fought, but until the Shang Dynasty, the merchants did not completely annex Dongyi. King Huan wanted to do it very much, but when he fought with Dongyi, the Zhou people instead took the opportunity to destroy the Shang Dynasty, and the task of incorporating Dongyi into the Huaxia clan fell to Zhou Tianzi, and the Dongyi clan was really completely integrated into the Huaxia clan in the late Spring and Autumn.
This is very important, because from a cultural point of view, this is also the process of integration and mutual influence between phoenix culture and dragon culture. Although the Dongyi clan itself is also a Chinese ethnic group, after all, the origin of the dragon and the phoenix are different, and the surname ethnic groups with the blood of the Shaohao tribe can be counted as the descendants of the phoenix from the cultural level, so what are these surnames?
In addition to the jiang surname mentioned earlier, there are 9 such surnames: Yao, Ji, Li, Huang, Xu, Ma, Zhao, Tan, hao, a total of 10. Among them, the surname Li is a big surname, we are very familiar with the Li Tang royal family, the ancestor can be traced back to the toads ((jiǎo) pole, he is shaohao's son, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor.
The Surname of Jiang can be said to be closely related to the Shaohao clan, because Shaohao died that year and was buried in Jiangdi. As the two important spiritual pillars of the Huaxia ethnic group, dragon culture and phoenix culture are not affected by it today. Dragons and phoenixes are different and still fused, just as the chinese multi-ethnic groups are integrated, and they can no longer be separated.