Is Shennong s Emperor Yan, and what is the relationship between Shennong s and Emperor Yan?

If we want to completely and accurately express the relationship between Emperor Yan, Shennong's clan and Yandi Shennong's clan, it should be divided into three meanings: first, Emperor Yandi is a comprehensive concept of "character, clan (tribe), and era"; The second is the meaning of Shennong, which is the title of the times, that is, the title of "a stage of the social form". From the perspective of historical order, Shennong's represents the historical period when human beings entered primitive agriculture after Fuxi and before the Yellow Emperor; In terms of tribes, it means the clan tribes that took the lead in farming; In later generations, this expression evolved into dynastic titles and historical figures.

The third is the meaning of Emperor Yan Shennong's is "Emperor Yan is the body name, Shennong's is the code name" (Warring States "Shiben Emperor Chapter"), later generations in order to simplify the name of Emperor Yan and Shennong, the title of the character and the times into one, the first generation of Shennong tribal leader Yan Emperor as "Yandi Shennong", over time, habit has become a natural saying. <>

After Fuxi, Shennong is another legendary figure who has made many contributions to the Chinese nation. In addition to inventing farming techniques, he also invented medicine, formulated a calendar, and pioneered water conservancy and irrigation technology that connected nine wells. Because he invented farming technology, he was called Shennong, but he was also known as Emperor Yan, Emperor Chi, and Lieshan Clan, and he became the leader of the world with the Yellow Emperor.

For a long time, the question of whether Shennong's clan is the Yan Emperor has been unresolved. "White Tiger Tongyi" said that Shennong's family was able to create agricultural tools such as Laizhao according to the appropriateness of the time and the benefits of dividing the land, teaching the people to farm, so that the people could obtain great benefits, so it was called Shennong. Zheng Xuan's note on "Li Ji" in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Wei Zhao's note on "Chinese" in the Three Kingdoms both say that the Lieshan clan is the Yan Emperor.

Historical Records of the Five Emperors is a metaphor that Emperor Yan and Shennong's are not the same person, saying that when the Yellow Emperor, the era of Shennong's has declined, the princes invade each other, tyrannize the people, Shennong's can not be conquest, so the Yellow Emperor "Xiude Zhenbing", crusade against the most harmful Yandi and Chiyou, after the two of them were destroyed, the prestige was greatly boosted, so there was the world on behalf of Shennong. <>

Emperor Yan is the name of a person, and Shennong is the honorary title of Emperor Yan. The Yellow Emperor is a personal name, and Suiren is the honorary title of the Yellow Emperor.

Shennong is the Emperor of Yan, and it is usually expressed in this way, because everyone can understand it. Strictly speaking, this expression is incorrect.

…This clan of the Shennong clan shows that it is the identity of the human line. The name represents the meaning, Shennong, related to the land, related to planting, related to plants. After the death of the emperor in the later era, later generations refer to his life as a contribution and give him a nickname, which represents what he did in his life.

In tribal times, names meant deeds. Shennong was the leader of the tribal alliance in a certain period, so from the name, it can be inferred that he promoted agricultural civilization.

…In that era, the talent was divided into southeast, middle and northwest, and the emperor was in charge of the sky. The earth is divided into the middle, the west and the east, and the latter rules the earth, and it is the god of heaven and earth who governs the heavens and the earth. Before the Great Flood, the descendants of the dragon were called Han who could communicate with heaven and earth, Han was a witch, and Han and the dragon system formed one of the three major forces of heaven and earth, the Dragon and Han forces, and the Dragon and Han unified the world and formed Tianfu, the power center of heaven and earth.

In this era, after leaving office, the tribal leader of the human race is likely to seek a position in the heaven and earth system.

…Emperor Yan, the fire in the south. It is wrong to say that Emperor Yan is a tribe in the south, Emperor Yan is at the level of the Heavenly Emperor of the Five Directions, the Emperor of Heaven does not lead the tribe of the human race, and Emperor Yan is in charge of the southern part of the sky.

…The human race administratively belongs to the tribal alliance leader, the Han administratively belongs to Huayang (Shennong), and the god administratively belongs to Tianfu (Yandi).

We often say that we are the descendants of Yan and Huang, and "Yan Huang" represents two outstanding tribal leaders in ancient times, Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang. We also all know the story of Shennong tasting all kinds of herbs, and if it weren't for him, our ancestors would probably have more people who died from eating poisonous fruits by mistake. Many people may have always thought that Emperor Yan and Shennong have nothing to do with each other, they are two different people, but there has always been an opinion that Emperor Yan and Shennong are related.

The two views are very different, but is there a relationship between them?

To figure out this problem, let's first take a look at what "Yandi" and "Shennong's" mean.

In the encyclopedia entry, these two are introduced by the same entry, that is, it is believed that Emperor Yan is Shennong, called Shennong. Emperor Yan's original surname was Jiang, and because the leader of his surname was good at using fire, he got the throne, so he was called Emperor Yan. It should be noted here that "Emperor Yan" does not refer to a single person, but to this sedan chair leader, that is, anyone who becomes the leader of a tribe surnamed Jiang will be honored as "Emperor Yan".

Just as the rulers of later generations are called "emperors", this is a referential title, not just a single person.

And Shennong is considered to be a number of Emperor Yan. This "number" does not mean that many of us are now socializing**, in addition to a large number that is often used, there are many small "numbers", and later ancients will have "words" and "numbers" in addition to their names, which can almost be understood in this way. The Shennong clan, the Kui clan, and the Lianshan clan are all the names of Emperor Yan.

From this point of view, Shennong's clan is indeed the same person as Emperor Yan, although "Emperor Yan" refers to a group of tribal leaders, but the meaning has not changed after all.

Emperor Yan's regime was divided into two major branches, one was the Kui clan regime and the other was the Shennong clan. Although it is said that it is divided into two factions, it does not exist at the same time, but after seven generations of the Kui clan, it was replaced by the Shennong clan.

As for the other party's view that Emperor Yan has nothing to do with Shennong, because there are many and messy records in ancient books, almost every book is different, so I will only pick one here to talk about it.

According to the Historical Records, during the period of the Yellow Emperor, the Shennong clan declined, and there was no way to conquer the princes who destroyed the peace, so the Yellow Emperor raised troops and eliminated the most harmful Yandi and Chiyou, thus replacing the Shennong clan as the leader of the world. Think about it, if Shennong's clan and Emperor Yan are the same person, then why did the Shennong's clan, who "has no intention of harming each other" in other books, become a tyrannical person who had to fight with the Yellow Emperor many times before being defeated? Therefore, the statement that Emperor Yan is equal to Shennong's clan is quite untenable.

However, due to the lack of written records and archaeological data in ancient times, it is still inconclusive whether Emperor Yan and Shennong are the same person. But aside from these, their contributions to the development of society in ancient times are also worth commemorating.

Introduction to Shennong's Are Emperor Yan and Shennong the same person

Shennong, the leader of an alliance of ancient Chinese tribes, whose tribe was mainly agricultural, ended an era of famine. And he is also known as the ancestor of medicine, and I have compiled a brief introduction to Shennong's in China below.

Shennong: The leader of the ancient Chinese tribal alliance. As the last god of the Five Clans, he ended an era of famine.

Because it is mainly agricultural, his tribe is called the Shennong tribe. Through the hard work of the Three Emperors, China has made great progress, but people's lives are still very difficult. At this time, great figures of various gods came into being.

Just after the Three Emperors, after a long period of time, the following five clans appeared: the Chao clan, the Suiren clan, the Fuxi clan, the Nuwa clan, and the Shennong clan. The original meaning of the "clan" of the five clans is also a deity, but the divinity is less than that of the "emperor", and it can be included in the third level of deity.

Shennong's family, because of the cultivation of vipassana, can internally observe the movement of various plants in the stomach. In this way, you can distinguish what plants can be eaten and what plants cannot be eaten, what is the effect of eating, how they are transported in the human body, and taste the herbs to identify the medicinal properties of plants. In this way, he wrote the earliest work of mankind, "Shennong's Materia Medica", taught people to plant grains and raise livestock, so that the ancient Chinese agricultural brother structure was completed.

According to legend, Shennong, the inventor of agriculture and medicine in ancient Chinese myths and legends, invented and manufactured a variety of agricultural tools such as the plow, and taught the people to farm, reflecting the progress of China's primitive era from gathering, fishing and hunting to agricultural culture.

Shennong is also revered as the ancestor of medicine, and once tasted herbs with his mouth, invented medicines and taught people to cure diseases. Later generations said that Shennong's exquisite jade body could see its lungs, liver, and five organs, so it could dissolve a hundred poisons, and it was said that he died because he tasted centipedes (a said broken intestine grass), and could not detoxify it. There is also a legend that Shennong's is the Yan Emperor.

The "Shiben Emperor Lineage" is the first to tie Emperor Yan and Shennong's together and call it "Yandi Shennong", which means that Emperor Yan is Shennong's, Emperor Yan's body name, and Shennong's code name. But the historical records obviously say that the two people were different, because by the time of the Yellow Emperor, the Shennong clan had already declined.

Who is Shennong? Shennong's is another legendary figure who has made many contributions to the Chinese nation after Fuxi. It is said that Fu Xi invented animal husbandry, while he invented agriculture and medicine.

The legend of the Shennong clan.

There are many legends about Shennong's family, such as that he was born with a crystal belly, and he can see the food he eats. In ancient times, people lacked common sense of life and often ate indiscriminately, which led to a variety of diseases, and even died. Shennong was determined to taste all the herbs, so he put what he could eat and what was delicious in his left pocket, and put what he couldn't eat and what was not delicious in his right pocket, and then told people.

It was from this time that the pharmaceutical industry in China began to appear.

During the Shennong period, the population had gradually flourished. The prey that can be eaten is getting less and less, and people are slowly starting to run out of food. What can I do?

Shennong's was worried. One day, he saw a bird with a red body, and a grain of grain in its beak fell to the ground. Shennong's family buried the millet in the soil casually, and later a piece of millet grew.

Shennong tasted it and thought it was delicious. In addition to the surprise, he taught the people to cut the messy grass, use some simple production tools, and began to reclaim the land and plant millet. With millet to eat, it is natural to solve the hunger problem of some people, but how can we have more millet?

Shennong began to distinguish between grains and weeds. He tried to plant the same, screened the same, and finally picked out five kinds of millet, millet, wheat, rice, and beans, and later people respectfully called him "the lord of grains" and "the lord of agriculture".

Who is Shennong? Is Shennong's Emperor Yan?

Many ancient Chinese books and historical materials regard Shennong and Emperor Yan as one person, such as "Shiben Imperial Lineage", "Huainanzi Shi Zexun", "Notes on the Water Classic", etc. But are Shennong's and Yandi really the same person? Scholars throughout the ages have been doing this for a long time.

After various historical research, scholars have raised questions: after 70 generations, some say that the Shennong tribe has experienced 17 generations, and it declined when the Yellow Emperor tribe rose. However, Emperor Yan was the leader of a tribe of the same era as the Yellow Emperor, and this Tinghui tribe existed for about 8 generations according to historical data.

According to the calculation of 30 years in ancient times, the Shennong tribe should be around 500 to 2000 years, and the Yandi tribe should be around 240 years. How could two tribes with such a big difference in time be the same person?

In addition, in "Zhuangzi and Thieves", it is said that Shennong's "has no intention of harming each other", and "Shang Junshu and Painting Strategy" also supports this statement. According to this, the Shennong clan should be a ruler who loves the people and has no intention of fighting with weapons, how could he compete with the Yellow Emperor for power and power like Emperor Yan, so that he has to fight with the Yellow Emperor three times? Not only these two books, but also "Historical Records: Feng Zen Book" and "The Legendary Era of Ancient Chinese History" divide Shennong and Emperor Yan into two people.

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From ancient times to the present, the Yan Emperor, who is regarded as the symbol of the ancestor of the Chinese nation, is the Yan Emperor Shennong, who is as famous as the Yellow Emperor.

Legend has it that the leader of the tribe surnamed Jiang was called Emperor Yan because he knew how to use fire to get the throne. From Shennong, the Jiang tribe has a total of nine generations of Emperor Yan, Shennong Emperor Kui, Kuisheng Chaos Argument Emperor Cheng, Chengsheng Emperor Ming Li Song, Ming Sheng Emperor Zhi, Zhisheng Emperor, Emperor Wai, Mourning Emperor Ke, Kesheng Emperor Yu, 530 years of succession.