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Regarding the history of China's ancient times, in addition to archaeological excavations, the remains of our ancestors such as "Lantian People" and "Peking People" and some primitive cultural sites have been found, revealing to everyone the early image and life scenes of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, and many myths and legends about our ancestors have also been preserved in many ancient books that have been handed down.
These two aspects of information help us understand the past and history of our ancestors from different perspectives.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > the Yellow Emperor, The Yan Emperor, and Xuan You were the three tribal chiefs of ancient China in ancient chinese records</h1>
--The Yellow Emperor
There are relatively many records and legends about the Yellow Emperor that have been handed down, which may be because among the clans and tribes that settled in the Central Plains, the Yellow Emperor's power is relatively strong and the degree of civilization is relatively high.
Over time, the Yellow Emperor has become a representative of the Central Plains culture, and the Yellow Emperor has become the mythical ancestor of the Han people, and many cultural relics systems have been traced back to the Yellow Emperor. Of course, from these myths and legends recorded in ancient books, we can also understand some developments and contexts of the Yellow Emperor clan.
In fact, the Yellow Emperor and the Yandi clan both first lived in the Shaanxi area.
The birthplace of the Yellow Emperor clan was in northern Shaanxi, and later migrated eastward, along the North Luoshui South to today's Shaanxi Dazhi and Chaoyi, then east across the Yellow River, along the Zhongtiao Mountains and Taihang Mountains to the northeast, to the shore of the Yellow River in today's southwestern Shanxi, and finally settled in the area near present-day Zhuolu, Hebei.
The descendants of the Yellow Emperor clan are mainly the Ji tribe, so there have been many Fangguo tribes with the surname of Ji in this area, and some of them were founded earlier. In the process of gradually migrating northeast to settle, their production and life also developed from nomadic to agricultural, and began to domesticate livestock and grow plants.
The legendary Yellow Emperor Ji's surname, Xuanyuan Clan, is also called Youxiong Clan. There is a famous poem in Mr. Lu Xun's "Self-Titled Portrait", "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood", which is to use "Xuanyuan" to symbolize our great motherland and express his incomparable love and loyalty to the motherland.
--Emperor Yan
The birthplace of the Yandi clan is in the eastern region of Qishan in Shaanxi, and the route of the Yandi clan to the outside world is different from that of the Yellow Emperor, and their route is biased to the south.
It was about the way down the Weishui River to the east, then along the Yellow River to the east, to the southwest of Henan, and finally to the present-day Shandong region.
The legendary Yan Emperor was surnamed Jiang and was called Shennong, probably due to their earliest involvement in agriculture.
--Xuan you
Xuan you are the leader of the Jiuli people, who were originally the Yi tribe living in the east of china.
The areas in which the Jiuli people operate, about north from southern Shandong, may reach northern Shandong in their peak, west to eastern Henan, southwest to southern Henan, south to central Anhui, and east to the sea.
Due to the later rivalry between the Jiuli and Yan and Huang ethnic groups, some of the Jiuli people went south to live with the tribes belonging to the indigenous Miaoman group in the south, so later generations also believe that Xuanyou is the ancestor of the southern Miaoman.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > the three ethnic groups competed and settled in the Central Plains</h1>
--Battle of Zhuolu
The Jiuli tribe of Xuanyu was the first to enter the central region of China, and when the Yandi clan advanced into the central region, they met with the Jiuli and the two sides clashed.
The two sides fought a long battle, and finally the Jiuli were victorious, and the Yandi were forced to flee to the Zhuolu region, which is today's Hebei Cup County or Zhuolu County.
Later, the Yandi clan united with the Yellow Emperor clan to confront the Jiuli clan, and the two sides fought a big war, and the leader of the Jiuli clan, Xuan You, was killed in the battle, which is what the history books call the "Battle of Zhuolu".
At that time, the struggle between the Jiuli and Yan and Huang tribes was very fierce, and the time was also very long, and finally after the Defeat of the Jiuli Tribe, some of them joined the Yan and Huang tribes, and some of them went south to a place later called Jingchu, living and living with the Miao Man tribe.
--Battle of Banquan
Soon after the Yan and Huang tribes jointly defeated the Jiuli tribe, there was a huge conflict between them, and the two sides fought three major wars in the Banquan area (present-day Huailai, Hebei), and finally the Yandi clan was defeated, which is what the ancient books call the "Battle of Banquan".
Since then, these two tribes from Shaanxi all the way to the east have been further combined, and part of the Jiuli ethnic group have settled down in the central plains of China.
--Summary
The Battle of Zhuolu and the Battle of Banquan illustrate that the ancient inhabitants who settled in the Central Plains were composed of the Yellow Emperor, the Yandi and some Jiuli (i.e., Yi).
Of course, the process of their integration with each other will never be so simple, and the ways and means of integration must be multifaceted. In the records handed down from later generations, only these two conflicts are mentioned because these are the two most prominent major events.
After the Yan and Huang ethnic groups and some Jiuli ethnic groups settled in the Central Plains, they jointly developed the area on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, making this area the cradle of ancient Chinese culture and allowing Chinese civilization to continue and develop.
△ Panorama of the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum
< h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > the sons and daughters of Huaxia, the descendants of Yanhuang</h1>
After history entered the class society, these residents of different ancestors thought that they were descendants of the Yellow Emperor.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, China called itself "Zhuxia" or "Huaxia", and sometimes simply "Hua" or "Xia", and "Huaxia" was the predecessor of the Han nationality. Therefore, later generations of Han people also worshipped the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor, calling themselves "Yanhuang Shiguan" and "Descendants of the Yellow Emperor".
In ancient times, people believed that the Central Plains lived in the four directions, and the people who lived here were Ethnic Chinese, so they called this area "Zhonghua".
Later, the Chinese and other ethnic groups continued to integrate, and the scope of Chinese activities also expanded day by day, and they influenced each other economically and culturally with the Yi people in the east and the Jiuli, Miao, barbarians and other ethnic groups that migrated south, and their relations became increasingly close.
As a result, the Central Plains culture gradually expanded throughout the country, and the word "Zhonghua" became a name that represented the whole of China, and the Chinese nation also became the general name of all ethnic groups in China.
The legends and stories about the Yellow Emperor, the Yan Emperor, and xuan you show how long the history of our multi-ethnic country is. Since ancient times, the ancestors of all ethnic groups in China have worked hard for their homeland and people.
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