It is recorded in Shan Hai Jing Bei Shan Jing:
Two hundred miles to the north, it's called pigeon mountain, and there are many zhemu trees on it. There is a kind of bird that looks like a black bird. It has a head, a white beak and bare feet. Call jingwei, singing is inferior to shame. It's a girl named Nu Wa of Yandi who swam to the East China Sea and drowned, so she is Jingwei, who often holds the title of wood and stone in Xishan, so that she can be trapped in the East China Sea.
It is said that there is a Maodove Mountain in the north. There is a bird on the mountain. It has a patterned head, a white mouth and red claws. It looks like a crow. This bird is called Jingwei. It sounds like jingwei.
According to legend, Jingwei Bird was the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, named Maiden. The girl went to the East China Sea to play, drowned in the East China Sea, and became a Jingwei bird. She often fills the East China Sea with branches and stones from the Western Hills.
Generally speaking, when we talk about the story of "Jingwei filling the sea", we will sigh that Jingwei, a bird, symbolizes a fearless spirit of unyielding. However, is this really the case?
According to expert research, The Classic of Mountains and Seas was finalized in the Western Han Dynasty. But some characters obviously originated in the Warring States period, or even earlier.
For a long time, there has been a view that the author of Shan Hai Jing is the last emperor of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and some people say that the author of Shan Hai Jing is the right-hand man of Da Yu, Bo Yi. Dayu and Boyi were both great men in ancient times.
Why did they compile Shan Hai Jing? It is generally believed that Dayu Boyi sent people to inspect many places to control floods. After the flood was cured, he recorded all the mountains and rivers in the world, how the products were, the situation of birds and animals, and many important events in that period in Shan Hai Jing.
In other words, many so-called fairy tales in Shan Hai Jing reflect by no means virtual myths. They are either a true portrayal or a reflection of history.
There is a great history hidden in Jingwei Reclamation!
Looking closely at the original text, we can see that the protagonist of Jingwei's reclamation is very special. She is the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan. The ancients were very particular about names. However, the daughter of Emperor Yan here is actually called a girl, which is obviously not a formal title.
Female, representing gender, Eva, is this girl as naive as a doll.
What girls do is also very different.
In Shan Hai Jing, Emperor Yan is the god of the south, and the south is the fire, which is in harmony with the water phase. The sea refers not to the real sea, but to Huangdi, the sworn enemy of Emperor Yan.
According to Sima Qian's Biography of Five Emperors, in ancient times, there was a Yan Di dynasty that ruled the world for many years. The last Yan Di is called Shennong. Because the dynasty existed for a long time and could not control many princes, the Xuanyuan family took advantage of the situation and became the biggest threat to the Yan Di dynasty. The leader of Xuanyuan was the later Yellow Emperor.
In other words, Yan Di's youngest daughter, Nu Wa, went to the East China Sea to play. It is likely that the Yellow Emperor ordered his ministers to attack Yan Di, and Nu Wa was innocent and went to the Yellow Emperor.
What did the girl go to the Yellow Emperor for? Shan Haijing originally said that she was "traveling in the East China Sea", that is, she was going to play in the East China Sea, which obviously didn't mean anything.
Because Emperor Yan was orthodox at that time, the Yellow Emperor began to make trouble. Most girls went to see the Yellow Emperor to persuade him to give up the war and stop fighting.
As the saying goes, "It is impossible for the two armies to fight." The girl naively thought that even if the lobbying failed, her life would be safe. I didn't expect the result to be "drowning."
Perhaps the girl's words angered the Yellow Emperor, or there were other reasons. In short, the yellow emperor beheaded the girl, and the girl stayed with the yellow emperor forever.
Soon, the Yellow Emperor led a great army to fight against the Yan Di Dynasty, and finally Shennong surrendered, and the Yan Di Dynasty perished, and the Yellow Emperor became the Lord of all peoples in the world.
However, the Yan Di clan's resistance to the Yellow Emperor did not stop there. Although some Yan Di tribes surrendered to the Yellow Emperor, some people headed by Chiyou, Kuafu and Xingtian continued to compete with the Yellow Emperor for world hegemony.
Although these rebellions were strongly suppressed by the Yellow Emperor, the resistance of Yan Di tribes from generation to generation was quite shocking. Until the Yellow Emperor died of old age, his grandson Zhuan Xu succeeded to the throne, and the descendants of Yan Emperor * * * rose up again and overthrew Buzhoushan, which almost threatened the foundation of the Yellow Emperor dynasty.
In the story of Jingwei's reclamation, the girl's hatred of the sea did not end with her death. Time and time again, she brought a piece of wood and stone from Xishan to fill the sea.