In our cognition, the Yellow Emperor is a common ancestor recognized by the world, but with the passage of time and scientific progress, later scholars discovered that the Yellow Emperor is likely to be a foreigner, because the Yellow Emperor is a nomadic nation and moved all the way east. In the Yellow River Basin, there was a war with Chiyou Yandi in the Central Plains. Later Huangdi defeated Yandi and Chiyou and became the overlord of the Yellow River Basin. However, some advanced technologies were brought by Huangdi, such as cars that could greatly increase productivity. So what are the identities of Huangdi and Chi You?

Are Chi You an aboriginal in the Central Plains?

Generally speaking, the common ancestor of the descendants of Yan and Huang Di is the Yellow Emperor. In fact, this is a general term. We have a vocabulary and a trace in ancient times. Generally, if the name is a little bit higher, this person's credit is greater, so we often Among the descendants of Yanhuang and Huangdi, the most recognized one should be Yandi and then Huangdi, but the Huangdi was too conspicuous, so we later regarded the Huangdi as our common ancestor.

In fact, there are some details here. In the early days of the war between Emperor Yan and Huang Emperor, Yan Emperor was old, and there was a difference in governance, which caused the human race to be in danger. The "Shan Hai Jing" once mentioned this crisis, which is a very serious problem. I will explain the fantasy crisis in detail in the future, and the Yellow Emperor stood up and resolved this crisis. He didn't want to have another war with the Yan Emperor. The Yan Emperor was defeated. The largest tribal alliance under the Yan Emperor is the tribal alliance dominated by Chi You. A rebellion occurred. Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang jointly suppressed Chi You and eventually defeated Chi You. Because Chi You commanded his troops well and had strong combat power, after being beheaded by Ying Long, he was regarded as the master of the army for later generations, and Chi You was the master of the army.

As for whether the Yellow Emperor was a nomadic people, Confucius once talked about Dayu, saying that Dayu had the ancestry of the Western Qiang, and Dayu was a direct blood relative of the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor was in a line with the earliest Xirong ancestors, so the Yellow Emperor was a nomadic origin. Nation is very possible, and history has one thing in common. Often nomads can overwhelm agricultural countries in terms of war, but the ancient Chinese Central Plains dynasties are very clever, either the Great Wall, the pass, or the intricate and complicated The cities that are connected to each other give the nomads little hands. Looking at the ancient war history in Europe, you will understand how miserable the nomads were. Therefore, it was normal for the Yellow Emperor to defeat Yandi and Chiyou back then.

As for Chi You, it was once the largest tribal alliance under Emperor Yan, and the orthodox situation in the Central Plains is true, otherwise there is no such thing as the later Li people.

Before the Han dynasty, Chi You, who worshipped Chi You instead of the Yellow Emperor, was a denial of the Yellow Emperor?

Before the Han Dynasty, there was a saying that Chiyou was sacrificed to Chiyou instead of the Yellow Emperor, but it was relative. In the pre-Qin period, because the legend and legacy of the time were much richer than now, people at that time were not like now, only worshiping the Yellow Emperor. It's the Baidi, the Qingdi, the Huangdi, the Chidi, and the Heidi all are offering sacrifices, but the five emperors are also different when offering sacrifices. For example, the Chidi is the Shennong clan, and people worship him when they pray for a good harvest. I won't talk about it here, I will talk about Chi You here.

"Historical Official Book": "Chiyou's flag is like a comet and then tuned, like a flag. When you see it, the king will conquer the Quartet." At the end of Qin, the world was in chaos. When people raised their troops, they were very particular about sacrifices. Heaven, that is, to please the good luck. For example, when our Han Gaozu Liu Bang rebelled in Pei County, he sacrificed Chi You:

"Yu Pei, for Pei Gong, then ancestral Chiyou, provoking drums and flags."-"Book of Feng Chan"

"The Yellow Emperor in the temple worships Chi You Yu Peiting, while provoking the drums and flags, the flags are all red."-"The Benji of Gaozu"

Later, Liu Bang went smoothly in fighting the world. In the Chu-Han struggle, after he defeated Xiang Yu to seize the world, in addition to offering sacrifices to the five emperors, Bai Qing, Huang, Chi and He, he was still at the Chi You Temple in Chang'an. In other words, worshipping Chi You was before the army set off. , The sacrifice to heaven, bless the army victorious in every battle

In other words, in the pre-Qin, even in the Qin and Han dynasties, when people were offering sacrifices, the Yellow Emperor was only one of them, but with the development of history and the passage of time, as well as the integration of the cultures and bloodlines of various ethnic groups, or the loss of part of the culture Gradually, worshipping the Yellow Emperor became the mainstream.

Here, I am not saying that the Yellow Emperor is not orthodox. My history and culture of Huaxia 5000 is the history and culture of 5000 years. The integration of various ethnic cultures and bloodlines makes my Chinese civilization more diverse. Because of this, we need A spiritual belief that leads history and culture, gathers national unity, and is not insulted by foreigners is the Yellow Emperor. It is because of his existence that the Chinese nation has stood in the far east for 5,000 years.