Chapter 15 3. A revolution is a dinner party

Inviting God to dinner is actually a game. Doing the game is also forcing the situation.Just as reproductive worship is frightened by too many dead people; inviting gods to eat is frightened by hunger.At that time, the productivity was really low, and the ancestors did not eat the next meal, and it was even more difficult to have reserves.Once food and cooking are cut off for a long time, the ethnic group will face a catastrophe. Hunger is the sweet smile of the goddess of death. This requires finding a way, and the most practical way is to develop productive forces.As a result, various production tools were invented one after another, including Wanggu (read like Wanggu) used as hunting and fishing gear, and Lei Lei (read like Sibai) used as agricultural tools.These inventions and creations, which should have won the first prize of scientific and technological progress, were later attributed to Fuxi and Shennong.This is certainly well deserved and well deserved.So, Dan, what does it have to do with the snake, what does it have to do with the sheep?

Sheep throw themselves into the net during the hunt.Primitive hunters like sheep the most, because wild boars and bison are not easy to hunt, rabbits and voles run too fast, and fish, shrimp, shellfish and crabs can't satisfy their hunger.Only sheep are big and fleshy, flocking in groups, weak in resistance, and low in IQ.This can not only make an idea, but also outsmart it.For example, masquerading as sheep to infiltrate the flock, and then lead them into the encirclement.Sheep are stupid and like to follow the crowd, how can they not be fooled? That's right, this is the earliest "pretend", and Fuxi pretending to be a sheep is the earliest "sheep man".This is also the earliest "bureau", but it is little known.The following things are much simpler: the endless sheep are raised in pens, and the hunter Fuxi also becomes the shepherd Fuxi.At this time, he is of course still a sheepman.

Fuxi, who has tasted the sweetness, makes an inch.He decided to set up a bigger game, to fool the gods and the earth. This is inviting God to a meal—a meal. Dinner and hunting are actually the same thing, both for food.If there is nothing to eat, if there is not enough to eat, they must either grab it, which is war, which is the Xi of oracle bone inscriptions; or beg, which is sacrifice, which is the Xi of bronze inscriptions.Its significance is no less than reproductive worship.Reproductive worship prays for the continuation of the race; asking God to eat is for the survival of the race.The former hopes to have many children and grandchildren, while the latter hopes to have enough food and clothing; the former thinks about future generations, and the latter thinks about the present.Which do you think is important?

all important.But now there is something to eat, more urgent. Invite God to dinner, you have to do it.Those mountain gods, river gods, forest monsters, and land fathers control the beasts in the mountains, the birds in the forest, the fish in the water, and the crops on the ground.It's just that if you want to take what you want, you must first give it, and you have to serve God well.You know, even if Fan Zeng wanted to kill Liu Bang, he had to throw a grand banquet first. Obviously, this can only be Fuxi's business.Only he who invented hunting tools and hunted sheep is qualified to serve as the chef and host of a meal for God.Therefore, in the sacrificial ceremony, he still had to wear a sheep's horn and a sheepskin as a goatman.However, at this time, he was no longer a hunter, but a priest.At the same time, he is no longer the Xi of oracle bone inscriptions, but the Xi of bronze inscriptions.The xi in the bronze inscriptions above is righteousness.Righteousness is the original character of Yi (Yi), that is, Wei Yi or etiquette.Moreover, just because the original character of yi is yi, the original version of xi is xi.

(Both forms are clear at a glance, that is, weapon (I) plus sheep. It means either to kill the sheep or the person who kills the sheep. Why kill the sheep? Please God to eat.) Fuxi's secret is clearly revealed. At the same time, his status has been rising steadily. As we all know, in the primitive era when there was no concept of political power, law, state and citizen, ethnic groups were formed naturally.The bond is not so much a blood relationship as a shared food.Mother and child are the relationship between eating and being eaten; brothers are people raised by the same mother.In fact, primitive humans lived in groups for nothing more than to solve the problem of eating.Therefore, if the father has milk, the father is the mother; whoever feeds him is the boss.

He who holds the spoon must become the ruler.Fuxi, a rising star, wants to ask Nuwa for an explanation.

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