Yandi activity area

As the backbone of the early Chinese nation, Yan Di tribe, in the process of its development from weak to strong and from small to large, its migration and activity space is bound to expand from point to surface, and many places have left legends and historical sites about Yan Di's life, birthplace and activity area. Among them are Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places. As far as the birthplace is concerned, Baoji in Shaanxi, Jiuyi Mountain in Hunan, Suizhou in Hubei and "Qianzhong" (that is, west of Yuanling in Hunan, including the current Huiji) have great influence. Among them, "Baoji Theory" should be more convincing.

Among them, Emperor Yan of Baoji, Shaanxi Province is mainly engaged in millet farming, so he is the representative of millet farming in the north and the pioneer of agricultural civilization in the north, which can be called "Northern Emperor Yan". Because there were no words in the era of Emperor Yan, let alone historical records. Thus, the founder of China farming civilization. Only Yandi in the north is famous for its legends; Due to various historical reasons, "South Yan Di" (the founder of south china agriculture) was limited by the northern-centered cultural communication mode in early China, and its influence scope and popularity should be relatively inferior to that of "North Yan Di". There must be Yan Di in the south, and its contribution to China's farming civilization is absolutely no less than that of Yan Di in the north, because thousands of years ago, Hunan discovered artificially cultivated rice 65438+2000 years earlier than Yan Di. According to the historical records and the investigation by some experts in Hunan Huitong in May 2009, it can be preliminarily concluded that the theory of "Yandi's hometown" put forward by Yang Guosheng, a Hunan folklore scholar, is well-founded, and Hunan Huitong is the birthplace of "Nanyan Emperor". The Book of Jin (Volume 92) and Biography of Wen Yuan say that Emperor Yan was born in the middle of Guizhou, also known as Lianshan. It provides historical evidence for the birthplace of Emperor Yan. According to the evidence of "New Theory on Yan Di's Hometown Meeting" provided by Yang Guosheng and the on-the-spot investigation of some experts at the Hunan Meeting in May 2009, the evidence of "Yan Di's Hometown Meeting" is more sufficient. There is also Changyang Mountain in Huitong, which is not only the birthplace of Emperor Yan, where Emperor Yan lived, but also the place where Emperor Yan tasted a good valley of herbs. According to Yang Guosheng, the "Herba Lysimachiae" tasted by Emperor Yan is called Gelsemium according to Compendium of Materia Medica. Gelsemium is only suitable for growing in some areas south of the Yangtze River. "Yang Guosheng believes that Lianshan is today's Huiji Lianshan according to his own textual research and textual research on ancient books and ancient place names; Yangshan, the hometown of Huayang, where Emperor Yan was born, refers to Bashu area (Huitong is in its place), Yangshan refers to Yangshan, and now Huitong is connected with mountains. There are "Shennong Mountain" and "Shennong Temple" in Ma 'an Township, which is separated from Lianshan by a mountain. According to legend, Emperor Yan invented "tea", and a "tea pavilion" is still preserved in Lianshan (the remains seem unknown in the hometown of Emperor Yan in the north, and the "tea pavilion" preserved together just illustrates the characteristics of Emperor Yan in the south). The legend of Emperor Yan's "Japan and China are the city" is widely circulated, and it is called "catching Lianshan" in Huitong Lianshan area. Wait, all these have opened up new ideas for the study of Emperor Yan.