Fuxi: "Poetry Contains Shenwu", "The Book of Filial Piety" and other classics describe Fuxi as the son of the God of Thunder. It was his mother, Hua Xu, who stepped on the "Lei Ze" left by the God of Thunder. "Great miracle" was born. So we can reason like this: Thunder and lightning are one of the important materials for dragons. Lightning is the shape of dragon, thunder is the sound of dragon. Thunder God is the Dragon God. The son of Thunder God is also the son of Dragon God. Of course, the son of Dragon God is dragon.
Nuwa: When Wang Yi wrote annotation for the sentence "Nuwa has a body, who made it?" in "Songs of Chu·Tianwen", he said, "It is rumored that Nuwa has the head of a human and the body of a snake. She lives seven days a day." "Ten transformations"; his son Wang Yanshou's "Lu Lingguang Palace Fu" also says, "Fu Xi has a scaly body, and Nuwa has a snake body." Also, "Century of Emperors" talks about Nuwa's "snake body and human head", "Liezi·Huangdi Chapter" says that Nuwa's snake body and human face, Cao Zhi's "Nuwa Painting Praise" says that Fuxi's Nuwa has "human head and snake shape" ,etc. The snake is the important and main gathering object of the dragon.
In terms of image, the snake contributes its long and winding body and mysterious and changeable colors to the dragon; in terms of connotation, the snake contributes its transformation into new and endless "life consciousness" to the dragon. The dragon. The snake is the model of the dragon, and the dragon is the sublimation of the snake. The snake can turn into a dragon, and the dragon can turn into a snake. So, saying that Nuwa has a "snake body", "snake body" and "snake shape" is equivalent to saying that Nuwa has a "dragon body", "dragon body" and "dragon shape". Therefore, scholars often refer to the long-tailed images of Fuxi and Nuwa on stone portraits from the Han Dynasty and silk paintings from the Tang Dynasty as both "snake-body statues" and "dragon-body statues." Extended information
Fuxi, the founder of Chinese national humanities, one of the three emperors, is also the righteous god who bless the country together with Nuwa. Chu silk books record him as the creation god, and he is the earliest creation god recorded in literature in China. The surname Feng was also known as Fu Xi, Pao Xi, Bao Xi, and Fu Xi. It was also called Emperor Xi, Huang Xi, and Fu Xi in historical records. In later generations, it was merged with gods such as Taihao and Qingdi, and was officially called by the imperial court in later generations. As "Taihao Fuxi", there is also a saying that Qing Emperor Taihao Fuxi (ie the Eastern God). The son of the Suiren family, he was born in Chengji and his capital was in Chen.
The era is about the middle and late Paleolithic Age. Fuxi is the ancient legendary humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation, the earliest king recorded in ancient Chinese books, and one of the originators of Chinese medicine.
According to legend, Fuxi had the head of a human and the body of a snake. He married his brother and sister Nuwa and gave birth to children. According to the changes in the world, he invented divination and gossip, and created writing to end the history of "tying knots to record events". . He also knotted ropes into nets for catching birds and hunting. He also taught people how to fish and hunt, invented the harp and composed music. Fuxi died one hundred and eleven years after becoming king, leaving behind a large number of myths and legends about Fuxi.
It is said that Fuxi’s birthday is the 18th day of the third lunar month. In the Central Plains area, there is a custom of worshiping Fuxi on the 18th day of the third lunar month. ?[3-4]?
It is said that in ancient times, there was a girl named "Huaxu" from the Huaxu Kingdom. She went to a place called Leize and accidentally saw a huge footprint. She stepped on it out of curiosity, and she became pregnant. Twelve years later, she gave birth to a son with the body of a snake and the head of a human, named Fuxi. ?
In "Fuxi Kao" written around 1942, Mr. Wen Yiduo believed that Fuxi and Nuwa in Chinese myths and legends were the incarnations of gourds. This was based on the fact that early historical records called Pangu "Panhu". ", that is, gourd. In addition to the fact that "hu" and "gourd" have the same pronunciation, according to ancient legends, during the ancient flood period, Fuxi and Nuwa rode on a gourd to escape the flood disaster, so the gourd became an object of worship for the "Panhu" tribe.
(Note: Fuxi and Nuwa first appeared in pre-Qin documents, while the Huaxu family only appeared in later generations of documents. Therefore, whether Fuxi and Nuwa are children of the Huaxu family is still controversial in academic circles. It is generally believed that Huaxu is the descendant of the Huaxu family. The human attributes of "Fuxi and Nuwa" of the children of the Chu silk book are higher than the divine attributes. Fuxi in Chu silk books is the creation god and the earliest living creature. It has nothing to do with the Huaxu family and the thunder god. "Chu Ci" has nothing to do with Hua Xu)
Fuxi had sacred virtues and united all the tribes in China. He established his capital in Chendi and sealed Mount Tai. Fuxi took the body of a python, the head of a crocodile, the horns of a stag, the eyes of a tiger, the scales of a red carp, the legs of a monitor lizard, the claws of a goshawk, the tail of a white shark, and the baleen of a fin whale to create the map of the Chinese nation. Tenglong, the descendant of the dragon comes from this. ?
Fuxi looked up at the clouds, rain, snow, thunder and lightning in the sky, and saw strong winds and heavy fog on the ground. He also observed birds and animals. Based on the principles of the changes of yin and yang between heaven and earth, he created Bagua, That is, eight simple but profound symbols are used to summarize everything in the world. He imitated spider webs in nature and made webs for fishing and hunting. He also created words to replace the method of tying knots in a rope.
Fuxi formulated the human marriage system, implemented the male-female pairing system, and used deer skin as betrothal gift. They also used the animals they raised as surnames, or plants, residences, or official positions as surnames to prevent incest and incest marriages, so that Chinese surnames originated from this time and continue to this day.
Reference: Fuxi-Baidu Encyclopedia