Why do we call ourselves the descendants of Yan and Huang?

Yan Huang: The Yan Emperor Shennong and the Yellow Emperor have the Xiong clan, representing the ancestors of the Chinese nation. Descendants of the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor. Refers to the descendants of the Chinese nation.

There are two Chinese nations"Another name", one is"Sons and daughters of China", two are"Descendants of Yan and Huang"(Descendants of the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor, or just say.)"Descendants of the Yellow Emperor"）。These two terms can sometimes be used interchangeably, and both refer to the Chinese nation. But there are small differences in the same"Sons and daughters of China"The term "name" only appeared in modern times, and its meaning is more cultural (it is a group that shares Chinese culture); "Descendants of Yan and Huang"(or descendants of the Yellow Emperor) has been known since ancient times, and its meaning is biased towards blood (having a common ancestor).

Therefore, some minorities are acceptable"Sons and daughters of China"I don't want to accept it"Descendants of Yan and Huang"(or.)"Descendants of the Yellow Emperor"Saying.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yellow River valley in China was inhabited by many scattered people. They formed clans according to kinship, and many clans in turn united to form tribes. The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor were the leaders of two of these large tribes.

At that time, people's ability to resist natural disasters was very low, and when there was a flood or drought, they had to move. Once, when the Yandi tribe was moving, they came to the place occupied by the Yellow Emperor tribe, and when they saw that the conditions there were very good, they decided to stay for a long time.

The wife of the Yellow Emperor personally taught the people of the Yandi tribe to raise silkworms and reeling silk, and the Yellow Emperor asked them to teach them the techniques of making cars and shipbuilding. Emperor Yan also gave the Yellow Emperor wooden ploughs and herbs. They get along very well.

Later, they united to form the Yanhuang Tribal Alliance, and the Yellow Emperor became the leader of this alliance. The history of the Chinese nation began from this point. Therefore, the Chinese respect the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor of the Chinese nation and call themselves "the descendants of Yan and Huang".

The Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor is in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, China, on a mountain full of pine and cypress, and now every year during the Qingming Festival, there are many seas, and the descendants of the Yellow Dynasty go there to worship their ancestors.

Because we are the descendants of the Yandi Shennong clan and the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clan.

The descendants of Yan and Huang, also known as the descendants of Huang Yan and the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, are the self-proclaimed names of the Chinese nation and are known as the sons and daughters of China.

"Yan Huang" refers to the leaders of two different tribes in China's primitive society, the Yan Emperor, surnamed Jiang, was the leader of the Yan Emperor tribe, who entered the Central Plains from the west as nomads and had a long-term inter-tribal conflict with the Jiuli tribe, which was especially led by Chi.

In the end, he was forced to flee to Zhuolu (present-day Hebei Province).With the assistance of the Yellow Emperor clan, he attacked and killed Chiyou. The Yellow Emperor's surname was Ji and Xuanyuan, and later the Yan and Huang tribes had three major conflicts in Hanquan (it is said that Hanquan was in Huailai County, Hebei), and the Yellow Emperor tribe defeated the Yandi tribe and entered the Central Plains from the northwest.

The Yellow Emperor and the Yandi tribe, and the Yi people living in the east, the Li people, and part of the Miao people in the south, gradually merged, forming the Chinese people in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Han people were called the Han people after the Han Dynasty. Among the ethnic groups and tribes in the Central Plains at that time, the Yellow Emperor tribe was stronger and more cultural, so the Yellow Emperor tribe became the representative of the Central Plains culture. Therefore, we Chinese sons and daughters are called"Descendants of Yan and Huang"。