Why do we Chinese people worship the sun god?

We are the Chinese nation.

The worship of the sun can be said to have been practiced since ancient times, and many sun gods have been found in archaeological excavations.

The stone statues and some sun-patterned stone carvings, especially some cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, show the worship of the sun by our ancients in a physical way. Even today, we still have a good impression of the sun, we say that a person is sunny, and when we say that he is energetic, he is a compliment, and these words are all related to the sun. Our worship of the sun god is actually determined by our social conditions.

1. The worship of the sun god in ancient times.

In ancient times, there was no scientific knowledge, and people's understanding of nature could only rely on what they saw with their eyes and what they heard. People see that the growth of crops depends on the sun, and the growth of plants and animals also depends on the sun, so they have a blind worship of the sun. And that time natural disasters.

Frequent, often floods, droughts, these natural disasters can easily cause crop yield reduction or even no harvest, but also cause some devastating blows to human beings, so people at that time had a sense of fear of nature, so they worshiped the sun god, thinking that as long as they serve the sun god well, they will reduce disasters, the wind and rain will be smooth, the grain will be high, and they will not be hungry. So slowly a kind of sun god worship was formed. And there are many myths and stories related to the sun, such as Kuafu chasing the sun and Houyi shooting the sun.

And so on, we can see the importance we attach to the sun. <>

2. Now people worship the sun.

We still have a sense of worship for the sun today, and with the advancement of science and technology, we know that all things grow.

Relying on the sun, we need more from the sun, solar power, solar cells, etc., we get too many benefits from the sun. Food and water, which are inseparable from human survival, are produced smoothly by the sun, so even today, we still maintain a kind of worship of the sun. <>

In the ancient period, the worship of the sun god in Chinese civilization ran through thousands of years from Fuxi to Yanhuang Emperor, spanning the stages of Fuxi fishing and hunting, Shennong collection and planting, and Yanhuang Emperor's reclamation. Emperor Yan, Emperor Huangdi, Gonggong, Zhurong, Shang, Zhou and other "Huaxia" main tribes all worshipped the sun god as their ancestral god, while Fuxi, Yellow Emperor, Taihao, Taihao, Taihao, and Emperor Yu were originally the honorific titles of the sun god.

I don't know which of the sun gods is depicted on this stone carving. But it is the earliest and most freehand image of the sun god at present. During the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, it was exhibited to the world in the "City Footprint Pavilion" together with forty or fifty cultural relics from more than 30 provinces and cities across the country.

Maybe it's sunshine and energy, so this is to worship them.

In previous Chinese mythology, first of all, the sun did not actually appear as a god, we all know that Nuwa in Chinese mythology is a human-headed snake body, and some other gods are mostly half-beasts and half-humans, so it can be seen that Chinese mythology worships animals more than the sun. <>

In addition, there is a Hou Yi shooting the sun in Chinese mythology, because the sun always shines on the farming farmers, so people are malicious to the sun, they do not want the sun to appear, which can understand why there is no sun worship in Chinese mythology.

The reason for totem worship is different from Western mythology, they believe that the sun is a symbol of god and power, such as the big Arcana in the tarot card, which includes the sun and the moon, most of the Western mythology is derived from these observable celestial bodies, and most of the Chinese myths originate from the side, such as Dayu to control the water, such as Nuwa created man, these myths generally contain things that we can usually see, and various ethnic groups in China have different totem worship.

Their worship is purposeful, for example, some ethnic minorities will have fish totem worship, because fish have many children, and fertility is simple, women at that time worshiped the fertility talent of fish, so we can also see that totem worship is for a reason. <>

As for why there is no sun worship, I think it is because the distance between the sun and humans is too far, people in Chinese mythology are generally labor-oriented, and they pay more attention to the animals or flowers around them, rather than looking up at the sky, and the ancient Chinese idea is "the sky is round and the place is round", they rarely imagine things in the sky, so they will not worship the sun. <>

In general, totem worship is generally to worship some characteristics of animals, and the sun is not so obvious to people, so many people will choose snakes or fish as their worship, which is why there is no sun worship.

Sun God (the sun god in ancient Greek mythology).

The true sun god in Greek mythology is Helios, according to Hesiod's Theogony, the son of the Titans Hyperion and Thea, the brother of the moon goddess Selene and the dawn goddess Eos. In later mythology, he and Apollo were gradually conflated. In Rome he was called sol.

The sun has an inseparable relationship with the survival of all things in the world.

The moon, the gods, the earth, all things have gods, but they are only themselves.

Because there are many places where people rely on the sun to live, the so-called watching the sky and eating is not like this.

In Japanese mythology, the sun is the god Amaterasu, the ruler and sun goddess of Takamagahara.

Because the sun can bring light and give life to animals and plants, it is not possible without the sun.

The sun is an even more sacrosanct existence, and the Egyptians worshipped the sun to the point of almost fanaticism, and he had the supreme authority to create the heavens and the earth, which are the source of all happiness and warmth in the world.

In the early civilizations of the world, the sun was a very important totem.

The sun is the energy source of all things, and it is an existence that the ancients could not understand.

Because in the early days the sun was still a very important totem.