Wei Zi stands for Ying Long.

Shan Hai Jing is a masterpiece of ancient myths in China, from which most ancient myths in China originated. However, the language of this book is obscure and the content is complex, and many truths are unknown to future generations.

Just like who is the Emperor of Heaven in Shan Hai Jing, it has always been controversial. Understanding the true identity of heaven and earth in The Classic of Mountains and Seas will not only help us understand ancient myths, but also help us understand the historical truth of mutual competition during the Yanhuang period.

Myth is a reflection of history. Many records in Shan Hai Jing seem absurd, but in fact many of them have realistic basis.

There are two "heavenly emperors" mentioned in Shan Hai Jing, one is the Emperor and the other is the Yellow Emperor.

Shan Hai Jing mentioned the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou. It is said that Chiyou has eighty-one brothers, all of whom are bronze heads. They can eat sand and make weapons, and no one can stop them. The Yellow Emperor fought against it, and Lien Chan was defeated. Later, "God sent Xuan Nv to grant Huang Di-bing the power to believe in divine symbols and subdue Chiyou to control all directions".

An ancient book is quoted in "Peaceful Magnolia": "The Yellow Emperor and Chiyou are invincible in nine battles. The Yellow Emperor returned to Mount Tai, and it was foggy for three days and nights. There was a bird-headed woman, and the Yellow Emperor bowed down and dared not get up. The woman said,' I'm Xuan Nv. What do you want?' The yellow emperor said,' the boy should win every battle.' Then I got the tactics. "

The first mention of "heaven", the second object that the Yellow Emperor prayed for in Mount Tai, actually refers to "the emperor".

In the Romance of Gods, the God of Heaven is called the God, and that God is actually the Emperor, and he is also the first mythical human emperor in China mythology.

What makes Di Jun a "god"?

According to Shan Hai Jing, Emperor Yi Jun had three wives. The first wife named E Huang gave birth to a country called Three-body. Everyone in a three-body country has a head and three bodies. They can drive away tigers, leopards and wolves.

E Huang also just, gave birth to only mortal soldiers. Di Jun's second wife and third wife are really awesome.

Di Jun's second wife named Xihe gave birth to ten sons, and these ten sons are ten suns. Sunrise and his son cruise on Sunday in a magical car driven by six dragons every day.

The emperor's third wife was Chang, who often gave birth to 12 daughters, that is, twelve moons. Chang 'e takes his twelve daughters to take a bath every day, which is also called "Chang 'e bathing on the moon" in mythology.

Later, ten sons were too naughty to listen to their mother and ran to play together, so that there was a drought and their lives were destroyed. Under the prayers of Emperor Yao Di, the son of heaven on earth, the Emperor sent the gods down to earth, bowing and shooting arrows, shooting down nine suns, leaving only one to shine on the earth, which restored peace.

Because a tribal leader in Xia Dynasty was proficient in archery and admired the reputation of Yi Shen, he called himself "Hou Yi". Later generations confused Hou Yi with the god who shoots the sun and passed it on, so there was the saying that Hou Yi shot the sun. In fact, it is Yi, or righteousness, that really shoots the sun, not Hou Yi.

The second heavenly emperor mentioned in Shan Hai Jing is the Yellow Emperor.

According to Shan Hai Jing:

Four hundred miles southwest, known as Kunlun Mountain, is the real capital of the emperor, managed by Lu Wu God. Its god-like tiger body and Kyubi no Youko, human face and Tiger Claw; It is also the death of God, the Nine Divisions of Heaven and the Emperor.

The meaning of this passage is that there is a Kunlun Mountain in the southwest of the world, which is the capital of the Emperor of Heaven below and is in charge of the God of Luwu. Luwu is a tiger, but he has nine tails, which look like tiger's claws. He is not only in charge of the nine departments of heaven, but also in charge of the garden of the Emperor of Heaven.

For this heavenly emperor, the academic circles recognized him as the Yellow Emperor.

In The Classic of Mountains and Seas, there are five celestial emperors, namely, the central celestial emperor Huangdi, the southern celestial emperor Yan Di, the northern celestial emperor Zhuan Xu, the western celestial emperor Shao Hao and the eastern celestial emperor Fuxi.

Among the five emperors, Shao Hao, the western emperor, is the son of the Yellow Emperor, and Zhuan Xu, the northern emperor, is the grandson of the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor family occupies three seats in the five emperors. As for the Southern Heaven Emperor, he was not a Shennong who competed with the Yellow Emperor for the world, but a descendant of Shennong who surrendered to the Yellow Emperor.

The Yellow Emperor is obviously the emperor of the world and the leader of the tribal alliance. Why did he become the Emperor of Heaven?

This is actually a reflection of ancient real history.

At the beginning of the Yellow Emperor's army, his strength was not strong. Although he led the princes to defeat Shennong, he did not completely conquer the whole Yan Di tribe. In mythology, Chiyou, the descendant of Emperor Yan, claimed to have eighty-one brothers. In fact, the tribe commanded by Chiyou can get the support of many other tribes around him.

Many tribes commanded by Chiyou were not only brave, but also successfully developed the first batch of sophisticated weapons in history. The combat effectiveness of the army has been greatly improved.

Because of this, the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou were defeated one after another at the beginning of the war. The yellow emperor had no choice but to turn to heaven-that is, the emperor.

In ancient mythology, the emperor was the emperor of heaven, but in real history?

Di Jun is actually the king of Dongyi Xuanniao clan. Legend has it that Di Jun looks like a bird's head, his son is ten suns, and the noumenon of the ten suns is also a three-legged sun. He is also a bird family.

In other words, in order to defeat the Chiyou tribe, the rising Yellow Emperor had to turn to the Dongyi tribe for help, just as Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was a Turk when the Tang Dynasty was just established.

After the Yellow Emperor surrendered to the Dijun tribe in Dongyi, the Dijun sent a powerful army. Its leader is the famous Ying Long.

In ancient mythology, Ying Long was powerful. Under his command, the troops of the Yellow Emperor successively killed Chiyou and Kuafu, and completely defeated Xingtian.

Ying Long's body is a yellow dragon with ribbed wings, and it also has the characteristics of a bird family.

However, after defeating Xingtian Chiyou and unifying the Yellow River valley, the strength of the Yellow Emperor was greatly enhanced, even surpassing that of the Dongyi tribe, thus replacing the emperor and becoming the real leader of all ethnic groups.

Later, the descendants of the Yellow Emperor ruled the Central Plains for thousands of years. Dayu, the sixth great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and his son established the first slavery dynasty "Xia" in China. During the reign of the Xia Dynasty, the respect for the Yellow Emperor reached a peak, and the Yellow Emperor was also upgraded from a tribal leader on the ground to a new emperor.

Many years later, the Xuanniao clan established the Shang Dynasty. Presumably, everyone knows the legend of Xuanniao business. Legend has it that the ancestors of Shang dynasty swallowed the eggs of black birds. Of course, it is impossible for a person who swallows bird eggs to get pregnant. The ancestors of Shang Dynasty were actually descendants of the Xuanniao tribe in Dongyi during the Yellow Emperor period, and the totem they worshipped was Xuanniao. Because it is a descendant of the mysterious bird, heaven and earth were once again changed to the ancestor emperor of the mysterious bird.

However, many years later, Di Ku, the great grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and his descendants finally defeated the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty. The Zhou Dynasty ruled the world for 800 years and revised many cultures and histories of its predecessors. Even the emperor in ancient mythology was demoted to Di Ku, the descendant of the Yellow Emperor. This is also the main reason why many people confuse Di Ku and Di Jun.

The struggle between the Yellow Emperor and the Emperor did not stop there. Qin Shihuang, who destroyed the six countries and unified the whole country, was also a mysterious bird family. Unfortunately, the Qin dynasty ruled the world for too short a time, and the Emperor of Heaven worshipped by the Xuanniao clan was finally completely replaced by the Yellow Emperor worshipped by the Yanhuang clan.