The story of Huangdi and Yan Di
"Mandarin Today" 4 said: "In the past, the Shaodian family married the Yougao family and gave birth to the Yellow Emperor and Yan Di. The Yellow Emperor was made by Ji Shui, and the Yan Emperor was made by Jiang Shui. Merit is different from virtue, so Huangdi is Ji and Yandi is Jiang. " According to this statement, the two clans, the Huang clan and the Yan clan, are descendants of the intermarriage between the Shaodian clan and the Yougao clan. Huang Heyan first lived on the Loess Plateau in today's northern Shaanxi, and then gradually moved eastward. The migration route of Huangdi nationality is northward. After crossing the Yellow River eastward, it has been along the mountainsides of Zhongtiao Mountain and Taihang Mountain to the present northern Hebei. The migration route of Yandi people is slightly south, along the banks of Weihe River and Yellow River to reach today's Henan, southern Hebei and northeastern Shandong. In the process of migration, they fought against the indigenous tribes in the areas where they moved in. The Records of the Five Emperors said that the Yellow Emperor once chased meat porridge in the north, and Yizhoushu Tasted Wheat said that Yan Di people had a fierce conflict with the Chiyou people who originally lived in Lu Yu and were defeated by Chiyou people. At the request of Yan Di clan, Huangdi clan fought a protracted war with Chiyou clan. Shan Hai Jing Huang Da Bei Jing said: "Chiyou fought against the Yellow Emperor, who made Ying Long attack the wild land of Jizhou. Ying Long livestock water, Chiyou please Fengbo rain division, longitudinal wind and rain. The goddess Huangdi said that when the rain stopped, she killed Chiyou. " Chiyou people are closely related to Shao Hao people, so Huangdi people also fought against Tai Hao people and Shao Hao people in the East and won.
After defeating Chiyou, Huangdi made friends with Tai Hao and Shao Hao, and expanded its influence in the Central Plains. However, the Yan Di family tried to compete with them for the dominance among tribes, so the Yellow Emperor "Xiu De mobilized the army, treated the five kinds of qi and art, cared for all people, and taught bears, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs." Tiger, in order to fight with Emperor Yan in the wilderness of Sakamoto ". The Battle of Hanquan was fought three times, and the Yan Di clan was defeated and surrendered to the Yellow Emperor. Since then, the Huangdi clan and the Yan Di clan have joined forces to occupy a dominant position in the vast Central Plains, and their influence has become increasingly extensive.
In the late Neolithic period, the influence of Huangdi clan was further expanded. During the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, people summarized and sorted out the development of Huangdi clan. Sima Qian described such a system in Historical Records of the Five Emperors: in ancient China, people's names, ethnic names and place names were often combined into one. Most names in the above system should not be regarded as names, but as surnames. According to legend, the 25 sons of the Yellow Emperor are actually 25 clans bred by the clan of the Yellow Emperor. In the ancient literature of China, almost everyone praised the great influence of the Yellow Emperor, and it is likely that a tribal alliance with the Yellow Emperor as the core had been formed at that time. In the ancient history of China, the Yellow Emperor, Zhuan Xu Emperor, Di Ku, Emperor Yao and Emperor Shun were called the Five Emperors, and they were the most influential tribal alliance leaders.
Legend has it that in the late primitive society, the leader of the Central Plains Ji tribe was called Huangdi and Xuanyuan. The first one is a bear. According to legend, he led the Ji tribe to defeat He Chiyou in Hanquan (now southeast of Zhuolu, Hebei Province) and Zhuolu, and became the leader of the tribes in the Central Plains. Tribes form tribal alliances and tribes. This tribe later developed into the predecessor of the Chinese nation, and the Yellow Emperor was honored as the ancestor of the Chinese nation. Legend has it that many inventions, such as sericulture, boating, writing, temperament, medicine and arithmetic, all began in the period of the Yellow Emperor.
Emperor Yan is the legendary leader of the tribe named Jiang in the late primitive society, named (Lishan). He first lived in Jiang Shui, then moved to the Central Plains and developed agriculture (Emperor Yan was once called Shennong). Later, it was defeated by the Huangdi tribe and joined forces with Huangdi and other tribes to form a tribe. Therefore, together with the Yellow Emperor, it is called "Yanhuang" and is honored as the ancestor of the Chinese nation. Therefore, we often call ourselves descendants of the Chinese people.