Chapter 22 4. Shepherd whip and command knife

A strong leadership core must be a man, and it can only be a man. Man is a masculine animal, but also an ambitious animal.The establishment of patriarchy may seem wrong today, but it was imperative at the time.When the sea is full of dangers, what the ethnic group needs is not gentleness and honesty, but an iron fist, iron blood and iron face. Therefore, the new tribe needs not only ambitious men as the core, but also strong and powerful animals as totems. Such as cattle. Vigorous cattle, especially bulls and bison, are undoubtedly more effective than docile sheep.In fact, the Yandi tribe could become one of the ancestors of the Chinese nation because they were outstanding at that time and were more enterprising than other tribes.Only in this way, they will escape from the West, just like the branch of the apes that came out of the forest.Perhaps, the sheep once made their totem.Perhaps, other Qiang tribes remaining in the west will still use sheep as their totems.But these reformers who have gone far away must change their banners.

Of course, they would not have imagined that this replacement would be epoch-making. The prehistory of the Chinese nation has gone through three historical stages: the birth of clans, tribes, and nations.Expressed as cultural patterns, they are respectively reproduction worship, totem worship and ancestor worship.Ancestor worship is an extension of totem worship, which we will talk about later; totem worship is a revolution in reproductive worship, which is what is happening now.It probably happened on the way of Jiangren's eastward migration.The replacement of sheep by cattle means the success of the revolution.

This is not a simple migration.Its significance is no less than the 25,000-mile Long March of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants. Reproduction becomes a totem, how can it be a revolution? First of all, reproduction worships the equality of men and women, and even women come first and then men; but totems only worship men, and men are superior to women. Second, reproduction worships animism.Fish, frogs, and the moon for women, and birds, snakes, and the sun for men, are all objects of worship.Totem worship is based on one statue, and each tribe has only one totem, and they will be unified sooner or later, just like the eagle Horus after the merger of Upper and Lower Egypt.More importantly, reproductive worship represents the clan age, and totem worship represents the tribal age.The head of the clan is the matriarch, and the head of the tribe is the chief.The chief of the clan is a laborer with a shepherd's whip in his hand; the chief is a leader with a command knife in his hand.

Isn't this a revolution? It is now difficult to know with certainty what happened at that critical juncture of the revolution.Perhaps, everything was quiet, and no files were created.Only in this way, what will be left to history will be complicated and confusing. For example, are snakes, sheep, and cows symbols of reproductive worship, or objects of totem worship?Both, and neither.A snake, if it didn't become a totem later, it wouldn't become a dragon.The cow would not have become a totem if it had not been a symbol of reproductive worship.It can be seen that the same thing has different identities in different periods. If they are confused, it is not the fault of history.

What's more, the clue is also very clear, that is, there was female reproductive worship first, then male reproductive worship, and then turned into totem worship.Therefore, the sheep of the Jiang people and the Qiang people must change again and again.First it was the Shepherdess, and this is Ginger.Then there is the shepherd, this is the Qiang.The next step should be to become a shepherd dog, like the Panhu of the She and Yao peoples; or a shepherd god, like the Pan of ancient Greece.Unfortunately, this link lost the evidence.As a result, he jumped and directly turned into a cow. As a descendant of the shepherdess, Qiang or Jiang came to a fork in history.Some of them stayed in the west and became the Qiang people; the other part came to the Central Plains and became the Yandi people.The Yandi people brought their own Xirong culture, and also integrated the native culture of the Central Plains, including the Dongyi culture or Nanman culture introduced by the Fuxi people to the Central Plains.

At that time, Fuxi handed over the baton. The age of the Horde has begun.Emperor Yan with the head of a cow cut the ribbon for the unveiling, and the banner of the cow totem fluttered high. With a flick of a finger, the world has changed.