Xuanyuan clan is the "humanistic ancestor" of the Chinese nation, during the reign of the Xuanyuan clan, completed the transition of the Chinese nation from the ancient era to the era of civilization, the Xuanyuan clan went through two battles, completed the unification of Kyushu, is the ancient tribes completed the first great integration, established the Chinese nation, and laid the foundation for the future Chinese nation.
At the end of the Shennong clan's rule, the central government was powerless to restrain the world, so the masses rose up, the various tribes fought each other, and after several major wars, the land of Kyushu was occupied by three forces, namely, the Yellow Emperor in the Central Plains, that is, the Xuanyuan clan, the Yan Emperor who occupied the west of the Taihang Mountains, and the leader of the Jiuli tribe who divided the east, Xuan You.
The Chinese nation has always regarded itself as the descendants of Yan Huang, but in fact, these two ancestors of the Chinese nation, the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. In that era, they did not get along well, frankly there was a competitive relationship between them, and in order to compete for the position of the lord of the world, the two ancestral groups of the Huaxia tribe fought the Battle of Hanquan.
Ma Qian of the Taishi Company recorded in the "History of the Five Emperors" as follows:
At the time of Xuanyuan, the Shennong clan declined. The princes invaded each other and abused the people, while the Shennong clan was enlisted. Therefore, Xuanyuan was accustomed to using Gange, so as not to enjoy it, and the princes were salty and guests. And Xuan you is the most violent, Mo Nengfa. Emperor Yan wanted to invade the princes, and the princes returned to Xuanyuan. Xuanyuan is a Shude Zhenbing, Zhi Wu Qi, Five Kinds of Qi, Fu Wanmin, Du Sifang, teaching Xiong Qi Qi and Qi Hu to fight against Emperor Yan in the wilderness of Hanquan. Three battles, and then its ambition.
The Battle of Hanquan occurred at the end of the Shennong clan's rule, during this period, the clan system created by relying on the primitive agricultural inventions had come to an end, the ancient tribes pursued material interests more and more intensely, frequent wars seriously affected the daily production of the ancestors, social differentiation intensified, and the Shennong clan could not rely on the clan system to regulate social contradictions.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem, the various tribes could only unite relatives and tribes to form an alliance to form a powerful combination, and the Xuanyuan clan came into being, leading the tribal alliance to conquer the disobedient by force. As the territory continued to expand, a dispute arose with the Yandi tribal alliance that occupied the west of the Taihang Mountains, and the Battle of Hanquan broke out.
In "Liezi Yellow Emperor", this battle scene is described as follows:
The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor fought in the wilderness of Hanquan, with handsome bears, wolves, leopards, cats, and tigers as the precursors, and eagles, ospreys, eagles, and kites as banners.
The Great Dai Li Five Emperors also records:
Fight with the Red Emperor in the wilderness of Hansen, fight three battles, and then do his will.
It is not difficult to see from the historical data that the Yellow Emperor tribe and the Yandi tribe made full preparations before the war. Of course, the beasts mentioned in the text are not real beasts, but refer to the totems of the ancient tribes, and the two forces have fought a total of three battles in Hanquan, and in the end, it ended in the victory of the Xuanyuan clan.
The Chinese nation has been a multi-ethnic civilization since ancient times, in the Xuanyuan era, in addition to the Yanhuang Erbu, there is another force in the land of China, that is, the Jiulibu that divides the east, after resolving the internal contradictions, the next target of the Xuanyuan clan is the Dongyi Jiulibu led by Xuan You.
4600 years ago, between the two major forces, the Battle of Zhuolu broke out, and Ma Qian of the Taishi Company recorded it in the "History of the Five Emperors":
The worms are in turmoil and do not need the emperor's orders. Therefore, the Yellow Emperor was a prince of the Zhengshi Division, and fought with Xuan You in the wilderness of Zhuolu, so he killed Xuan You.
There were 81 tribes under the command of the Jiuli tribe led by Xuan You, and in order to seek development and move westward, they clashed with the Xuanyuan Huaxia Group, which occupied the Central Plains, and the two sides were competing for the target at this time, which should be Yuzhong. Because, at the beginning of the Battle of Zhuolu, Xuan you's attack target was the Yandi tribe located in eastern Henan.
Because the level of productivity was slightly higher than that of the Huaxia Group, the tribal alliance led by Xuan You was superior in weaponry and brave and good at war, so it was invincible, so it left the british names of "copperhead iron forehead" and "mighty world". The Yandi tribe could not resist, defeated and retreated, under the sweep of the Xuanyu army, the settlement was completely lost, not even a corner was left, in line with the principle that the same consortium should help each other, the Yandi asked for help from the Yellow Emperor, triggering the Battle of Zhuolu.
The Battle of Zhuolu and the Battle of Hanquan are not the same, the Battle of Hanquan is the main language of the internal contradictions of the tribes, and the Battle of chasing deer is the collision of two external groups, so this battle is very tragic, leaving many myths and legends for future generations. For example, the Yellow Emperor and Xuan You were invincible in nine battles, and Xuan You made a fog for three days and three nights, and after the Yellow Emperor's courtiers, under the inspiration of the Big Dipper constellation, invented a guide car before rushing out of the fog.
Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor, with the help of his niece in his predicament, made 80-sided drums, which are sacred beasts in the East China Sea, "like cattle, with a body and no horns", "when entering the water, it will be windy and rainy, its light is like the sun and the moon, and its sound is like thunder", and the Yellow Emperor uses its skin to make drums and the bones of thunder beasts as drumsticks, "sound for five hundred miles, to dominate the world".
The battle for the deer did not last long, and in the end, the Xuanyuan clan won the decisive battle of Jizhou, killed Xuan You, unified the nine states of China, and was later honored as the head of the Five Emperors. However, although the Xuanyuan clan was victorious, it also faced many difficulties after the war, and was endowed with many myths and legends by later generations.
For example, after the drought goddess stopped the great wind and rain, the divine power was greatly reduced, "it must not be restored", after Ying Long entered the war, it was also "not allowed to return", and the heavens "did not return to the rain", so that the earth continued to drought for several years. Of course, with the continuous advancement of science and technology, the stories behind these myths have been gradually unveiled.
Environmental archaeologists have shown that around 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, another period of great change in the natural environment, rising temperatures, continuous melting glaciers and rainfall have suddenly stopped. Around 5,000 years ago, from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Yangtze River Delta, there were remnants of sea retreat, and since then, there have been small fluctuations since 4700. The storms called for by witchcraft and the subsequent droughts in the Battle of Zhuolu coincided with the transition from stability to fluctuations in the climate, which shows that these myths are not entirely unfounded, but indeed condense the memories of the past.
The Battle of Hansen resolved intra-tribal contradictions and allowed kinship tribal alliances to evolve into new types of alliances, laying the foundation for the formation of the state in the future. The battle for deer is the embodiment of the assimilation and integration of different tribes in prehistoric civilization, providing fertile soil for the formation of the Han nationality in the future, and at the same time, expanding the territory of the Huaxia ethnic group.
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