Huangdi defeated and integrated Yandi. Why are we called descendants of the Chinese people and not descendants of the Chinese people?
Historical Records of Five Emperors: At the time of Xuanyuan, Shennong declined. When a vassal invades and despots the people, Shennong can levy. Therefore, in order not to enjoy the levy, Xuanyuan was used to fighting, and the vassals and salty guests followed. This means that when Xuanyuan was in power, the descendants of Shennong had declined, and the princes attacked each other to fight violence, but Shennong had no power to conquer them. So Xuanyuan practiced martial arts and conquered the vassals who didn't pay tribute, and the vassals all came back.
According to historical records, Yan Di is not a person, but the name of the chief of an ancient tribe. It is the same reason that Qin Shihuang later invented the title of emperor to call the supreme ruler. The history of Yan Di tribe appeared much earlier than that of Huangdi tribe.
Shennong, as mentioned here, is the first Yan Di recorded in historical records and the first tribal leader in Yan Di before the Yellow Emperor. The well-known story of "Shennong tasting a hundred herbs" comes from Shennong, who discovered herbs and grains, sowed them with grains and began the history of farming nations. Why Yan Di?
Because it was still a tribal alliance in primitive society at that time, people in Yan Di used fire to cook food, so it was called inflammation, which means inflammation has fire. The word "two fires" means "inflammation" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, and inflammation in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is also two fires.
Huangfu Mi, a famous scholar in the Three Kingdoms period, wrote a book called "The Age of the Emperors", one of which said:
Imperial century: Shennong reigned for one hundred and twenty years, and there were eight generations: Cheng, Lin, Ming, Zhi, Lai, Ai, and. According to this statement, Shennong reigned for 120 years, and was later passed on to the eighth generation of descendants, namely, Emperor Cheng, Emperor Lin, Ming Di, Emperor Zhi, Emperor Lai, Emperor Ai, and Emperor Di, who were the eight leaders of the tribe, and the Emperor and the Yellow Emperor were contemporaries, that is, Emperor Yan was defeated by the Yellow Emperor and then merged.
This also proves that Yan Di tribe is much earlier than Huangdi tribe. According to the emperor's century, the Yan Di tribe was more than 400 years earlier than the Huangdi tribe, which was also the emperor's century in Huangfu Mi. This book holds that there were three dynasties before the Xia Dynasty, which can also be called tribal alliance, namely, Fu, Shennong and Xuanyuan.
Fu is a human being, the cultural ancestor of the Chinese nation and the elder brother of Nu Wa. Fuxi and Nuwa created the Chinese nation together, but Fuxi's mythology is too strong. In the emperor's century, it is said that Fu passed on 16 generations, which means that Fu's descendants, as the leader of the Chinese tribal alliance, passed on 15 generations, plus Fu.
Xuanyuan Huangdi has been handed down for seven generations, namely, Shao Hao, Zhuan Xu, Di Ku, Imperial System, Tang Yao and Yu Shun. It also existed for more than 400 years and was replaced by Xia Dynasty.
Shun was followed by Yu, whose son Qi established the Xia Dynasty, so Yu was also called. Then the history of China entered the dynasty, followed by Shang, Zhou and Qin. The rulers of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties are basically descendants of the Yellow Emperor, so where did the Yellow Emperor come from?
According to historical records, the Yellow Emperor was the son of Shao Dian, the leader of the Bear Tribe, which was composed of five core tribes and lived in ancient China.
Mandarin Today: Shaodian married Yougao and gave birth to Huangdi and Yan Di. The Yellow Emperor was made of water, and the Yan Emperor was made of Jiang Shui. Merits are different, so the Yellow Emperor is discipline, not ginger. The two emperors used their teachers to help each other, which is why they are different in virtue. According to "Guoyu", Shaodian married Gao and gave birth to Huang Di and He. Huangdi grew up in Jishui (now Qishui River in Wuzhi, Shaanxi Province), so Huangdi's surname is Ji, and he grew up in Qingjiang River in Baoji, Shaanxi Province, so his surname is Jiang, Huangdi is Tude, Huode, and Yanhuang sent troops to rescue him.
If the Yellow Emperor's brother is Yan Di, then the Yellow Emperor is also from the Yan Di tribe, or the tribe that married Yan Di. There are no more records about the history books of the Yellow Emperor, but what is certain is that during the period of the Yellow Emperor, the tribes in Yan Di weakened, so the Yellow Emperor began to conquer everywhere by relying on his own virtue and force. The Yellow Emperor defeated his brother Yan Di in the Battle of Hanquan, and the two tribes began to merge. Later, Yan Di and the Yellow Emperor joined hands. In the battle of Zhuolu, the Chiyou tribe from the East was defeated and some Dongyi tribes were integrated. In addition, some Chiyou tribes did not want to be integrated, so they left the Central Plains and came to the south, called Sanmiao.
According to historical records, when the Huangdi tribe conquered China, it reached the East China Sea in the east and Mount Tai in the west. Now it's Pingliang West in Gansu, and it's Jitou Mountain. Now it is zhenyuan county, Qingyang, Gansu Province. Later, Qin Shihuang also climbed Jitou Mountain on his westward journey, crossing the south of the Yangtze River, boarded Woong San (now Shenlong Frame) and Xiangshan (now Junshan, Dongting Lake, southwest of Yueyang City, Hunan Province) and headed north.
The Yellow Emperor established China's initial sphere of influence. China's ancestors included not only Yan Di and Huangdi, but also Chiyou and Sanmiao. Because the Yan Di tribe existed much earlier than the Huangdi tribe, China was also called the Chinese people, not the Chinese people. As for why Chiyou and Sanmiao were not included, the names were too long to record.
In addition, the word Yanhuang has something to do with the Han Dynasty. There is also a fairy story about Liu Bang, the emperor gaozu of Han Dynasty. It is said that Liu Bang killed a white snake in Mangdang Mountain. A woman said that he was the son of Bai Di's son Chi Di, and Liu Bang was the son of Chi Di. Chi Di is Yan Di, Liu Bang is Yan Di, and Bai Di is the God of the West, representing the Qin Dynasty, and is a water virtue.
In the early Han Dynasty, the theory of "water virtue" was continued, and it was changed to "earth virtue" in the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. The Yellow Emperor was a Tude, and Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, was obviously the son of Emperor Yan, so Yan Di was revered in the Han Dynasty. Although it inherited the virtue of the Yellow Emperor in the period of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, it was also behind Emperor Yan. When Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han regime, he claimed to be "fire virtue", which is the attribute of Emperor Yan, and
Therefore, for the Han dynasty, inflammation comes first, yellow comes last, and inflammation is heavier than yellow, so it is called yanhuang. The reason why the Yellow Emperor is more famous than Yan Di is only because he unified the tribes in China. The exact history of China began with the Yellow Emperor, including the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties when Qin Dou was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, so the visibility of the Yellow Emperor was relatively high. Although Yan Di's popularity is relatively low, its appearance in the history of China far exceeds that of the Yellow Emperor, including the Yellow Emperor himself.