Story of Gun: In ancient China, people were displaced by floods, so Gun stole "rest soil" from the sky and laid it on the river bank, successfully resisting floods. However, because the theft violated the dogma, the Emperor of Heaven ordered the shooting in the Far North. The gun died, but the body never rotted. Later, the emperor sent someone to visit the gun sealed in the icicle, only to find that his body became a yellow dragon and jumped out of the icicle, and then the dragon became a man-jade. The story of "Yu": Floods are still all over the world. Yu inherited his father's business and guided floods according to the terrain. He works hard every day, but he hasn't entered the house three times. In order to cut the gables, Yu became a powerful bear. Jade will return to her original shape before her wife delivers meals to her husband every day. One day, Yu was so involved in his work that he forgot to make a prototype. His wife saw a giant bear at the scene when she was delivering food for him that day, and immediately turned and ran away. Bear-shaped, thinking that his wife is in danger, has been chasing after him. Yu's wife turned pale with fear when she saw the bear chasing after her. At this time, Cai Yu realized that he had made a big mistake because of negligence, which made him lose his wife and children at the same time. He knelt by the stone and shouted, "Give me back my son! At this moment, the stone cracked and a living baby appeared inside. Therefore, Yu named this son "Qi", which means born from the opening of a stone.
Because these ancient myths have various versions, and China people have always regarded the Xia Dynasty as a part of ancient history, so many scholars have drawn their own "history" from this pile of ancient books without archaeological data. However, TG has always believed that, as far as mythology is concerned, although history has its precious value, it must not be over-derived; Because the names of people, things, dynasties and other elements in mythology correspond to some people and things in history, which is quite absurd. Just as many people want to "verify" from this pile of records of the mythical period: Shun held high Yao, Yao killed his gun, Yu imprisoned Shun, usurped the throne for profit and so on. This is not so much a "historical" argument as a "romance novel" creation. L4O。 =*P 1
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However, if we look at the whole thing purely in the sense of "myth", there are still many interesting topics to discuss. In the study of myth, there is a phenomenon summed up by experience, that is, the later the times, the more complete the story of myth. The two paragraphs quoted at the beginning of TG are of course quite late stories. However, the later myths are not completely "re-created" after all, but repackaged many original elements. We can still get some interesting things from the later stories. ["Mr ["xDHD
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About the two stories at the beginning of this article, the earliest written records that TG can find are as follows. /! Ay 12lKE}
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There is a passage in Mandarin. Today, I told Duke Jinping ... The old man disobeyed the emperor's orders and drowned in Yushan, turned into a yellow bear and entered the Yuyuan Garden. "Shan Haijing. "The Classic of the Sea" said: "Guns and thieves are rampant and don't wait for the emperor's orders. The emperor ordered Zhu Rong to kill the gun in the feather suburb. The gun revived Yu. The emperor ordered Yu Zu to pave the soil for Kyushu. "Chu ci. Tian Wen "... turns into yellow energy. How can a witch live? "The above is the source of the story of the gun, all of which are accounts of the Warring States period. O22Q g
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There is a passage in Hanshu in which Emperor Wu visited Songshan Mountain and saw a "stone after summer". In the Tang Dynasty, Yan Shigu quoted it as: "The initiator is the summer. His mother is Tu Shanshi's daughter. -Hong's "Shui Tong Tun Yuan Shan" turned into a bear, saying that Tu Shan Shi said, "If you want to be rewarded, you can only hear the drums. Jade jumped off the stone and didn't beat the drum. When Tu Shanshi went there, he saw that Yu Fang was a bear, and he left in shame. He was born when he turned into a stone at the foot of Songshan Mountain. Yu said, "This is my son's." The stone broke through the north and was born. "This is the source of Yu's story to Qi. This is the account of the Tang Dynasty. Although Yan Shigu claimed to be from Huainanzi in the Western Han Dynasty, there has never been such a specific story in Huainanzi. _(zZrUHB
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Therefore, we can see that the two kings who established the Xia Dynasty were matched with the image of "yellow bear". Later, the story circulated among the people (that is, the fairy tale version that TG saw when he was a child) said that the shooting became "Huanglong" and after the shooting, it would be changed from "yellow bear" to "Huanglong" to make the myth look more in line with the lofty symbol in people's minds of his time. uniform
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However, we also noticed that in the circulation of ancient books and the narration of the same story from different sources, "Xiong Huang" sometimes wrote "Huang Neng". Therefore, another version of the word "yellow bear" in Guoyu is "turning guns into yellow energy" There have been two versions of the meaning of "energy". In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, it is interpreted as: "Neng, Xiong, like a deer. Can, the beast is strong, so it is called a sage. This is a mutual training of "energy" and "endurance"; If we adopt Shuo Wen's statement, it is not surprising. No matter what we see is "Xiong Huang" or "Huang Neng", it is the same meaning. ho-#Xbq#g
2010-07-1414:16 However, in Erya. Release the fish, "we said." The tortoise has three legs, so it can. This means it can be an aquatic turtle, but it has only three feet. But it is also in "Er Ya Shi Beast" that there is such a saying: "Bear, tiger is ugly. The "bear" here is a beast like a tiger. Therefore, the two narratives of "energy" and "bear" in different versions of The Tale of Kunyu are completely different. 1942 A precious cultural relic "The Silk Book of Chu" unearthed in Changsha, Hunan Province-The myth of Chu's creation in the Warring States period appeared at the same time as the words and pictures of the four seasons and the moon. Here, Fuxi, who created the world, gave birth to four sons, one of whom was named "Huang Huannan". Silk even lists the "god in charge" of 12 months, and the words are almost the same as those in Er Ya. The god of September, that is, the god of autumn, is written as "Xuan", that is, the son of Fuxi, "Huang Nan", and the attached picture shows a four-legged god with two snake heads.
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In Yang Kuan's analysis, he thinks that this god named "Huangnan" is also called "Xuan", and the image is a two-headed turtle. Because in different versions of "gun", the right side is changed to "Xuan". The ancient "Xuan" and "gun" sounds are similar to today's "Kun" sounds. And "Yan" is the word "slaughter" in later generations, so "Huang Yannan" means "Huang Nan who was killed (resurrected)". The ancient sounds of "Nan" and "Neng" are the same, so "Huangnan" here is the "Huangneng" in other ancient books. 4Q/
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To sum up, "gun" and "Xuan" correspond, and "Huang Nan" and "Huang Neng" also correspond. Its mythical image is "two-headed turtle". In this series of discussions, Yang Kuan thinks that the two statements of "three-legged turtle" and "bear" should be the result of misinformation.
In addition, if we look at the images on Chu silk, the "Xuanwu" of later generations is also the same as the mythological prototype of Xia Ying. Because of the "mystery" in silk, its head shape is two snakes sticking out their tongues, which are shaped like four-legged turtles. The symbols of "snake" and "turtle" are special symbols of today's "mysterious god" gods.