Chapter 26 16. Suspected cases of destruction of environmental protection

Hydra is a relatively well-known monster in Chinese history. Although this kind of monster has never been seen before, in myths and legends, this kind of monster often jumps out and attracts our attention.The earliest record about this monster comes from a book. The minister of Gonggong is called Xiangliu, with nine heads, who eat at Jiushan.Where Xiangliu arrived, it was called Zexi.Yu Xiangliu, whose blood is bloody, cannot be planted with five grains.Yu Juezhi, who stood up three feet and fell down three times, thought that he was the platform of the emperors.In the north of Kunlun, in the east of Rouli.Xiangliu has nine human faces and a snake body with a green face.Don't dare to shoot north, afraid of the platform of Gonggong.The platform is in the east.On all sides of the platform, there is a snake in the corner, the color of a tiger, headed to the south.

——"Shan Hai Jing Overseas Bei Jing" It is said here that the minister of the gods and gods is called Xiangliu, and there are nine heads, and the nine heads eat food on the nine mountains.Wherever Xiangliu's touched, they dug into swamps and streams.Dayu killed Xiangliu's family, and the place where the blood flowed gave off a stench, and the five grains could not be grown.Dayu dug and filled this place, filled it up many times and collapsed many times, so Dayu used the excavated soil to build the Emperor Terrace for the emperors.This Emperor Terrace is to the north of Kunlun Mountains and to the east of Rouli Kingdom.This Xiangliu family has nine heads and human faces, and the snake's body and face are blue.Archers dare not shoot to the north because they are in awe of Gonggongtai where Gonggong Welling is located.Gonggongtai is in the east of Xiangliu. The platform is square, with a snake on each corner. The markings on its body are similar to those of a tiger, with its head facing south.

This story is relatively complete, with a beginning and an end, and the emotions of the narrative are relatively strong. Look at our emperor Dayu, how difficult it is for him to kill the nine-headed monster, but the blood of the monster is still polluting the environment. Buried, but the ground always collapses, which makes our emperor really suffer... But what is the original version of this story? This story describes a mysterious case in the era of Dayu. According to the story, during Dayu's reign, there were still a group of people who advocated returning farmland to forests, environmental protection, and forestry development. They had great influence among the masses and had many followers.But Dayu felt that these people were obviously trying to steal the limelight from him, which was what Dayu hated the most.

In order to prevent these environmentalists from seizing his power, Dayu accused these people of being monsters to prove the correctness of Dayu's actions. It is said that this matter has been clarified, but it is not over yet, and there are similar contradictory records in the book.Gonggong minister named Xiangyou, with nine heads and snake body, rings himself, and eats on nine soils.What it deceives and protects is the source of water. It is not hard but hard, and there is no beast to get rid of it.Yu obliterated the flood and killed Xiang Yao. His blood stinks and no grain can grow; his land is full of water and cannot be lived.Yu Yanzhi, three feet and three depressions, thought it was a pond, and the emperors thought it a platform.In the north of Kunlun.

——"Shan Hai Jing Da Huang Bei Jing" We have already said that whether it is the records in "Shan Hai Jing Dahuang Bei Jing" or "Shan Hai Jing Hai Hai Nan Jing", there are pictures first, and later generations use the pictures to write, and this picture is clearly An ancient Chinese mural, on which there are mountains and waters, birds and beasts, people and countries, there are two Gonggongtais here, which are clearly symmetrical at both ends of the mural, and there is a painting at each end of the mural. High platform, but the words on the two platforms are obviously different, so there is such a specious record.

This record in the Great Wilderness Northern Classic says: There was a minister of Gonggong named Xiangyou who had nine heads but snake bodies, circling and forming a ball, greedily occupying the nine holy mountains and asking for food.The place where he stayed immediately turned into a big swamp, and the smell was either acrid or bitter, and none of the beasts could live here.Dayu blocked the flood and killed Xiangyou, but Xiangyou's blood was so foul and smelly that the crops could not grow; the place was flooded and people could not live there.Dayu filled it up, filled it up repeatedly and collapsed many times, so he dug it into a big pool, and the emperors used the excavated soil to build several high platforms.Zhudi Terrace is located in the north of Kunlun Mountain.

This Xiang Yao is clearly Xiang Liu.But if it's Xiangliu, why didn't you explain that Xiangyou is Xiangliu after all?I think this book is only ten thousand words in total, and the most cutting-edge intellectuals in the Western Han Dynasty studied this issue, researching and studying, but they studied it like this. This is obviously because Xiang Liu and Xiang Yao are not at all. one thing. Analyzing it, this phase Yao and Gun should have some kind of relationship.In the history of ancient Chinese mythology, Gun was the first person to control the water. He was killed because he stole the soil. As a result, Dayu came out of Gun's stomach. This kind of thing is seen in many myths, but in actual history. The meaning is nothing more than the failure of Gun and the achievement of Dayu's imperial foundation.

Just as Gun gave birth to Yu, but Gun made Yu the Great, so here, Yu killed Xiang Yao, which also has historical symbolic significance. This story is about how Gun and Yu came into conflict. From the story, it can be seen that Gun is roughly equivalent to the leader of the opposition party under the modern political system, exercising the legally endowed supervisory power over Dayu's governance.Earlier, there was a record that Gun put down the rebellion of Dayu's son Xia Qi, but Gun and Dayu's enmity was due to their different philosophies.Dayu wanted to strengthen the power in his hands, which can be seen from his setting of the tripod punishment.But Gun obviously held the opposite view. Gun believed that he should bear hardships and be burdened by himself, so for Dayu, Gun's point of view was "hard work without suffering", which was particularly harsh, and made Dayu particularly disgusted.

According to the story, this Gun is actually the leader of the nine opposition groups, and should actually be the chief of the nine tribes. These nine chiefs cooperated with each other, supported each other, and echoed each other. Get along personally.But since Dayu can figure out so many ways to harm the common people, does he still care about the chiefs of your nine primitive tribes?So Dayu secretly urged his son Xia Qi to rebel, and at the same time made a big noise in the court, demanding to enter the state of military combat readiness and implement military control. kill.According to the story, the whole of China was caught in the chaos of war at that time, the crops were not harvested, and the people were in dire straits. It was extremely tragic.But Dayu didn't care about this issue. What made him depressed was that many ordinary people knew the root cause of his secret killing of the leaders of the nine opposition groups.

Then block the speech and completely erase this period of history. As mentioned above, under this environment, it took three generations for people to gradually forget about the murders of many opposition leaders. These historical facts caused Dayu's reputation to plummet. In any case, it would be difficult for a bloodthirsty leader to leave a good reputation.When Dayu was depressed, the leaders of small neighboring countries came to court one after another to learn from Dayu and ask him how to be a leader.It turned out that during this process, Dayu's reputation spread like wildfire, and he became the idol of many power-obsessed people.

The metaphor of this story is: the power of the people and the ruler are opposite but unified. The higher the prestige of the ruler, the more he needs the support of the people.