Chapter 30 6. Wind exhibition dragon flag picturesque

What rose from the blood maple forest was the chariot of the Yellow Emperor. The chariot cruises between heaven and earth, with snakes on the bottom and phoenix on the top; ghosts and gods at the back, and tigers and wolves in the front; . Isn't Chi You dead?How did he become the Yellow Emperor's pawn again? This is not surprising.In ancient times, the patriarch and the clan, the chief and the tribe had the same name.For example, the patriarchs of the Fuxi clan are all called Fuxi, and the chiefs of the Yan and Huang clans are all called Yanhuang, just like the emperors after the Qin and Han Dynasties are all called emperors.Qin Shihuang said that he was the first emperor, and the people behind him were called the second, third, fourth, and finally ten thousand generations.However, Qin II died.Later emperors were no longer called II and III.When he was in power, he was called the emperor, and after his death, he was given a posthumous title (such as Emperor Wen, Emperor Wu), and then a temple name (such as Taizu, Taizong), so that they can be distinguished.

It's a pity that there is no such rule in ancient times.Fuxi and Yanhuang are not called Fuxi I, Fuxi II, Fuxi III, etc., nor do they have temple or posthumous titles.Besides, we don't know what the real name of the chief of the Jiuli nationality is, so he can't be called "Uncle Li", right? It had to be called "Chi You". Chi You also had one, two, and three lives.The one who was defeated and killed was the predecessor, and the one who cleared the way with the police car was the successor.Some of the rest were incorporated by the Yellow Emperor, and some were returned to the south.Until the Western Zhou Dynasty,.

The people of Li are also ancestors, and heroes must not be judged by success or failure. Therefore, the ancestors of the Chinese nation should be three representatives: Yandi, Huangdi and Chiyou. We are the common descendants of Yanhuang and Jiuli. It was the Yellow Emperor who united them. In fact, the Yellow Emperor became the most important ancestor of the Chinese nation because he was able to disregard previous suspicions, embrace everything, and engage in a united front.It was he who united all the ghosts and gods in the world, forming the embryo of the nation that was first called the Xia tribe, later the Hua tribe, and later the Huaxia nation.Although at this time, the Huangdi clan could not be called the Xia clan, or even the nation, but could only be called the tribe, or the prototype of the tribe.

On the chariot of the Yellow Emperor, there must be a dragon flag flying. It seems unnecessary to find out whether the dragon is the totem of the Yellow Emperor clan.That's right, the Youxiong family can't get involved with the dragon, and the totem of the Jiuli tribe may be a dragon and snake.If the Yellow Emperor could use the totem of the defeated totem as the main body of the new composite totem, the scale would be astonishingly large. In fact, there is no need to be serious about whether the dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, or even whether it is a totem.Indeed, such as various ichthyosaurs, beaulieurs, ornithosaurs, crocodile dragons, deer-headed fish-tailed dragons, and pig-headed therosaurus.However, Bilong may not be this dragon.What's more, even if it is, you can't prove that Huangdi will not use the past for the present, and then go public through a backdoor.For example, the snake was originally just a symbol of reproductive worship, but didn't it also become a totem later?

What's more, a nation always needs cohesion.This requires a core, a ritual, a symbol, an object on which one can place one's feelings.The significance of the national flag, national emblem, and national anthem, the significance of the Yangtze River, the Great Wall, Huangshan Mountain, and the Yellow River lie in this.Of course, they are not totems in the anthropological sense, but they can be regarded as "generalized totems" in politics and sociology, that is, symbols or Logos, just like the cross, crescent and David's star. Dragons, too. Therefore, there is no harm in "sacrificing as if you were there, and offering sacrifices to the gods as if you were there."In other words, since most Chinese regard themselves as "descendants of the dragon" and the dragon as "the totem of the clan", why not "take it as their own"?

In fact, there are so many sayings about the totems of the Huangdi clan, which just proves that in the later period of the Huangdi era, there was already a loose union of many tribes.Among them are the Yandi tribe, the Huangdi tribe, the Jiuli tribe, the Yi tribe in the east, the Rong tribe in the west, the barbarian tribe in the south, and the Di tribe in the north.Their relationship is inseparable, with wars and peace, as well as business and intermarriage. The era of tribal alliance is coming. Moreover, there are also three representatives in this era, they are Yao, Shun, and Yu.

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