Wu, the ancestor of Wu people.

Wu people hunt for a living, so they have faces and tigers. Tianwu is the water god in ancient myths and legends of China. Why is Tianwu called Water God? Do you know any legends and myths about Tianwu? Wu people belong to the Yanhuang clan and originally lived in Shanxi and Shaanxi. As the ancestor totem of Wu people, "Tianwu" is the result of the primitive hunting nation worshiping tigers, and there are not many traces of Wu people in today's era.

Tianwu's analysis

Tianwu

A country in the Zhou dynasty

The Classic of Mountains and Seas

Shui Bo

totem

The original meaning of the word "Wu" refers to a person shouting while running and looking back, which means the call of the original hunter. The primitive hieroglyphics of Wu characters: run, turn and shout. "Wu" is a knowing word, which consists of two parts: vector and mouth. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chinese characters were standardized. The "vector" department has begun to be changed to "day".

"Shan Hai Jing" cloud: Tianwu, eight poems and eight faces, eight feet and eight tails tiger, bluish yellow, spits clouds and manages water. "Overseas East longitude" records: "Chaoyang Valley, God said' Tianwu' for water." There is a similar record in the wild east longitude. According to the book, this is a huge monster with eight heads, eight legs, eight tails, a face and the body of a tiger.

Tianwu has a tiger face, which is closely related to the hunting life of Wu people. Wu people hunt for a living, and "the tiger is the king of hundreds of arms." Therefore, Wu people worship an animal similar to a tiger, which may have become rare and extinct in the pre-Qin period. Wu people regard danger as their totem, and the prototype of "Tian Wu" is danger. In the previous explanation of Wu characters, we pointed out that hunters often use tiger skin as dance clothes when harvesting prey to disguise and celebrate the imitation of animal movements. Therefore, like Wu Changjia's "production" is "worry", "Tianwu" is not only like a tiger, but its name is also called "Dayu" in Nanshan Jing and Yexi Jing. "Li Yu" is characterized by running very fast, which is closely related to the word "Wu" and is the same as the hunting life of Wu people. But "Tian Wu" is human. From here, we can see the combination of animals and people, and we can also see the transformation from people to gods. At the same time, we also got an unmistakable message that "Tian Wu" is also a human being and the ancestor of Wu people.

Since "Tianwu", as the ancestor totem of Wu people, is the result of the primitive hunting nation worshiping tigers, why is it said in Shan Hai Jing that "Tianwu" is a "water god"? There is a huge historical change hidden in the middle, and the ancient Wu people migrated from the mainland to the southeast coast on a large scale.

Wu people belong to the Yanhuang family.

Originally lived in present-day Shanxi and Shaanxi. People leave their names, geese leave their voices, and Wu people have left many place names named after Wu or Yu in this area, such as Wu Shan, Yushan and Yucheng. Around Yanhuang, with the eastward expansion of clans and Huangdi tribes, Wu people were forced to move eastward on a large scale. By the time of Yaoshun, many branches of Wu people had moved to the Yangtze River Delta in the southeast coast. In this way, Wu people bid farewell to the dense virgin forest and saber-toothed tiger and began to conquer the rolling sea. The "Tianwu" clan god who used to bless the descendants during hunting will certainly become the "Shui Bo" to protect the safe harvest of Wu's son and grandson when dealing with rivers and lakes. It is precisely because of this subtle change that the clever creators of China characters sometimes associate the Wu family with fish. Now, Wu Can's "Wu" is used as "?" Yes Even the word Wu is sometimes written as "",just like a fish. No wonder Mr. Wu misinterpreted the word "Wu" as the shape of a fish in wuyue's Cultural Theory, and regarded the fish as the totem of Wu people. Things happen for a reason.

"Wu Tian" or "Wu Tian" is a common "Yu" in the documents of the pre-Qin and Qin and Han dynasties, also known as "Yu Yu". "Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Bei Jing" records: "There are rare beasts, as big as tigers, colorful tools and long tails, called Wu Li, which travel thousands of miles every day." It can be seen that the ancient Wu people were also named after worshipping an animal called Yu or Yu Yu. After this animal was named "Yu", it was honored as a totem and national god by Wu people and became a "heavenly witch"-a great and sacred Wu.

"Shan Hai Jing Overseas East longitude" once recorded that Wu Yao married Gu Huai and gave birth to four daughters, all of whom broke up. In other words, Tianwu married a woman and gave birth to four daughters. They shared the characteristics of Tianwu equally. This woman has two faces on her head.

The Great Panic in the Classic of Mountains and Seas says that there is a woman named Wu Chu in Tianwu, and there is a passage that goes like this: Chu Wusheng hates flint and goes out at sight, for unknown reasons. But the totem statue of the Marquis in the south of this town says that the Marquis in the south of this town is on fire, so they can't meet each other. The Southern Marquis of this town fought with this Wu Chu for a long time, and finally killed Wu Chu and was buried in this crypt. Bodies should be separated. "(fortune-telling)

Why is Tianwu also called the water god?

The reason why Tianwu is also called the water god is because of historical changes, and the ancient Wu people migrated from the mainland to the southeast coast on a large scale.

Wu people belong to the Yanhuang clan and originally lived in Shanxi and Shaanxi. People leave their names, geese leave their voices, and Wu people have left many place names named after Wu or Yu in this area, such as Wu Shan, Yushan and Yucheng. Around Yanhuang, with the eastward expansion of clans and Huangdi tribes, Wu people were forced to move eastward on a large scale. By the time of Yaoshun, many branches of Wu people had moved to the Yangtze River Delta in the southeast coast. In this way, Wu people bid farewell to the dense virgin forest and saber-toothed tiger and began to conquer the rolling sea. The "Tianwu" clan god who used to bless the descendants during hunting will certainly become the "Shui Bo" to protect the safe harvest of Wu's son and grandson when dealing with rivers and lakes. It is precisely because of this subtle change that the clever creators of China characters sometimes associate the Wu family with fish. Now, Wu Can's "Wu" is used as "?" Yes Even the word Wu is sometimes written as "",just like a fish. No wonder Mr. Wu misinterpreted the word "Wu" as the shape of a fish in wuyue's Cultural Theory, and regarded the fish as the totem of Wu people. Things happen for a reason.