According to legend, her mother's name was Ren You. One day when she visited Huashan Mountain, she saw a dragon, and her body reacted immediately. When she came back, she gave birth to Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan was born in a stone chamber in a fierce mountain, and grew up in Jiang Shui. He was virtuous and respected by fire, so he was named Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan is few and intelligent. He can talk in three days, walk in five days, and know about crops in three years. He has done many good things for the people in his life: teaching the people to farm, so that the people can have plenty of food and clothing; In order to protect the people from diseases, he tasted all kinds of medicinal materials, so that he was poisoned 7 times a day. He also made musical instruments to make people understand etiquette, which was praised by later generations. The original activity area of its people was in the south of Shaanxi today, and later it developed eastward along the Yellow River, which clashed with the Yellow Emperor. In the Battle of Hanquan, Yandi was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, and the Yandi tribe and the Yellow Emperor tribe merged to form the Huaxia tribe, so today China people call themselves "descendants of Yanhuang".
In historical legends, Emperor Yan was a great figure, who developed primitive agriculture in China and was the founder of farming culture. Legend has it that he created wooden plows, taught people to farm and increased the yield of crops. Legend has it that he tasted all kinds of herbs, treated human diseases, and was the first discoverer and user of Chinese herbal medicine. Not only that, but it is also said that he used fire to benefit mankind, made musical instruments, and advocated material exchange ... In short, Yan Di Yan Di is a god who is inseparable from inventions in agriculture, industry, commerce, medicine, literature and other fields in historical legends, and has been greatly admired and sacrificed by the descendants of the Chinese people throughout the ages.
why is it called emperor Yan?
When the center is yellow, the Yellow Emperor is the correct name; The south is red, so Emperor Yan is nicknamed Chi Di. However, there is a flaw in this statement. The birthplace of Emperor Yan should be in the Weihe River basin in the north, which is similar to the Yellow Emperor area. Later, it developed to the south, and it should not be named Emperor Yan until it arrived in the south.
The Emperor's Century says, "There is virtue. King Yan De, hence the name Yan Di. " What is Yande? "Zuo Zhuan Zhao Gong Seventeen Years": "Yan Di's family remembered fire, so it became famous for the fire master." It turned out that he reformed Fuxi's timing method, invented the fire calendar based on fire discipline, and worshipped the sun god, so he was honored as inflammation. I think it may also refer to the clan who is good at using fire. Emperor Yan, namely Chi Di, is the son of Apollo, namely Vulcan.
The meaning of Yan Di's nickname "Gao Xin's" and "Gao Xin" was not clearly understood in the past. According to people's explanation, "Xin" is the original word of "salary", and the image of Xin in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the shape of analyzing wood with an axe (Zhu Fangpu's Interpretation of Yin and Zhou Characters). If you have Xin (salary), you can have fire, so the original meaning of Gao Xin's name should be Vulcan.
the legendary ancient emperor Yan Di. Because fire is the king, it is called Emperor Yan. After Nu Wa, he became the world's * * * master. Legend has it that he was the inventor of farming and medicine, and he also created the five-stringed harp, and began to offer wax sacrifices and markets. Since then, China has entered the farming society.
Legend has it that he was a tribal leader in ancient times and was the ancestor of the Chinese nation together with the Yellow Emperor. "Guoyu. Jin Yu" contains: "In the past, the Shaodian family married the insect Qiao family and gave birth to Huangdi and Yandi. The Yellow Emperor became Ji Shui, and Yan Di became Jiang Shui. In the Song Dynasty, The History of the Road and the Name of the Country stated: "After Emperor Yan, the country was called Jiang, and now there is Jiang's City in Baoji and Jiang Shui in the south". The legend of Emperor Yan has been circulating in Baoji for a long time. There are Yandi Temple and Yandi Mausoleum in Baoji City and yangshan in the southern suburbs, and the descendants of the Chinese people at home and abroad hold grand sacrificial ceremonies in Tomb-Sweeping Day and on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.
Yandi tribe engaged in gathering, fishing and hunting in the early days. Because of the invention of agriculture, it began a semi-settled agricultural migration life. The migration route is along the east of Wei River, reaching Henan and Hubei. Yandi tribe has made great contributions to the agricultural development in China. Emperor Yan "tasted hundreds of herbs" and found edible plants and cultivated them into crops; Invented production tools, replaced slash-and-burn cultivation, and created the history of agricultural civilization. At the same time, improving the diet structure and understanding the therapeutic function of plants created the history of medicine in China.
According to legend, in ancient times, there was no agriculture. People lived by hunting, fishing and picking wild fruits, starved, frozen and in distress, and lived a primitive nomadic life. Emperor Yan was extremely uneasy when he saw the people's plight. He thought about it day and night and wanted everyone to live a well-fed and secure life. He thought that it would be nice if there was a kind of grass that produced more fruits and could be eaten. He took pains and risked his life, traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, tasted countless exotic fruits, and once ate poisonous fruits by mistake and almost died. Undaunted, Emperor Yan finally found the grass that he thought could bear a lot of fruits and eat in a beautiful place in the south. This is Hemiao. After trial planting, a load of crisp and fragrant fruits from Huang Chengcheng was harvested in the first year, and dozens of loads were harvested in the second year. Since then, word has spread from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, and more and more people are planting grain in all directions. In order to alleviate people's toil in farming, Emperor Yan taught people farming techniques.
The cultivation of grain by Emperor Yan has brought light and hope to mankind. In order to commemorate his achievements, people regard Emperor Yan as Shennong. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the place where Emperor Yan sought and planted grain was named "Jiahe", which is now Jiahe County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province.
Yan Di Yan Di made an important contribution to the survival, reproduction and development of the Chinese nation:
Jiang clan, a branch of Xirong nationality, was originally a nomadic people, and entered the Central Plains from the west at an early stage. At that time, at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan, there lived the Jiuli nationality headed by Chiyou (the Miao nationality with independence). The two sides had a long-term conflict because of tribal development, and Emperor Yan retreated to Hebei Province. It is said that because "Emperor Yan wanted to invade the princes", he fought three fierce battles with the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan clan Ji, which was considered as the first large-scale war of the Chinese nation, and it was called the Battle of Hanquan (Hanquan, now Hanquan Village in Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing). Facing the leader of the bear, the scorpion, the scorpion, the scorpion, Tiger is a powerful rival of totem tribe, but Emperor Yan finally lost, formed an alliance with it and submitted to it, and the Yellow Emperor ended the war with victory.
With the continuous expansion of the Yanhuang alliance, more and more tribes have submitted to it, but Chiyou has always refused to accept it, and a big war is inevitable. Chiyou led Jiuli to fight with the alliance in Zhuolu (now Zhuolu Village, Hebei Province), which was the second war in the legendary era, called the Battle of Zhuolu, and the so-called Zhuolu Central Plains originated from this. Finally, Chiyou was defeated. Since then, the ginger clan and the Yellow Emperor have settled down in the Central Plains. The word "descendants of the Yellow Emperor" refers to people's tracing and respect for the ancestors of Chinese civilization, Emperor Yan and Huangdi.
In ancient mythology, the Yellow Emperor was a great god who appeared later in Emperor Yan. Legend has it that he has four faces and can monitor all directions. He is the emperor of heaven in the center and rules the whole universe. Among the people, there are all kinds of legends about his and his courtiers' inventions. It is said in a book that the Yellow Emperor invented the car, so people called him Xuanyuan.
According to legend, the birthday of the Yellow Emperor is on the second day of February, and worship is held in Zhengzhou at this time every year. The ancestor of the Yellow Emperor was the Xiong family. Because people with Xiong's family advocate earth virtue and the earth is yellow, his mother named him Huangdi with a treasure. Living in the hill of Xuanyuan, because he grew up in Jishui, he took Ji as his surname and Xuanyuan as his name, so later generations also called the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. According to legend, at the beginning of Chinese civilization, the Yellow Emperor began to build cars, so he was called Xuanyuan. The word Xuanyuan refers to the car. In the era of myths and legends and the historical facts of myths and legends going back to ancient times, as one of the four great spirits in ancient China (the other three spirits are dragons, phoenixes and forests), turtles have infiltrated into the water culture which is extremely related to the farming people.
the first emperor of China, Huangdi, whose name is Xuanyuan, is the word "Tian Yun", which means "Li Tian", which means a deified turtle. No one can explain the word Xuanyuan. After studying ancient books, it is found that Xuanyuan may be the giant salamander. In ancient times, Xuanyuan and giant salamander were pronounced the same, and giant salamander was an aquatic animal. The Yellow Emperor uses the giant salamander as a totem, which shows that his totem is an aquatic animal. "(see <; < China Ancient History Lecture > > On, pp. 128-129, realistic publishing house, 1987). He further demonstrated that it is estimated that the Xia and Zhou dynasties and the Yellow Emperor are a system and related by blood. Because Xia's totem is close to that of the Yellow Emperor, Zhou also claimed to be from the giant salamander, and they all used aquatic animals such as dragons and snakes as totems. This theory finds out the meaning of Xuanyuan from the totem of ancient society. Scientifically explained why the Chinese nation is the so-called "descendants of the dragon".