Promise me, don't say anything about Chiyou in Shandong, okay.
Chiyou is in the Kunlun region of Ganqing, and there are the following ten bases:
1.Chiyou mounts the iron-eating beast - the giant panda, which is only found around Gannan in western Sichuan.
2.The Dangxiang people of the old Chiyou tribe (who later established the Western Xia regime) have always been active in the northwest and western Sichuan.
3.The three seedlings of the old part of Chiyou have been confirmed by literature and archaeology to have lived in the Taohe River valley in Gansu.
4.Chi is especially the master of the army, and according to legend, he was the first to use bronze weapons. The earliest bronze in China appeared about 4,700 years ago, just a knife, unearthed in Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province.
5.Chiyou can summon meteorological disasters for use in warfare, and this "skill" is a very common witchcraft of the Yi people in western Sichuan.
6.Chiyou headdress is in the shape of the word "mountain". In fact, until the first half of the 20th century, this style of headdress was still worn on the head of the Sichuan ** Tusi lady. The horns on both sides are bull horns, which represent bull worship, while the horns in the middle are crowns.
7.Chiyou died in battle and turned into salt brine. Qinghai Lake is the largest open-air salt lake in China.
8.After Chi You's death, his subordinate "Xingtian" fought against the Yellow Emperor, and the story of Xingtian was popular in Gannan and Sichuan.
9.According to Han literature, the Yellow Emperor learned about the Five Elements Theory from Chi You, and the Five Elements are the five seasons in the Yi October calendar.
10.After Yu established the Xia Dynasty, he conquered the three seedlings of Chiyou's relics, and the Xia Dynasty established by Yu was also in Kunlun. Dayu Xing in Xiqiang, the starting point of water control in the Yellow River Basin is Jishi Mountain in Linxia Prefecture, where there is a river called Daxia River, and there are remnants of settlements that were washed away by floods 4,000 years ago on the bank. This is most likely the old place of the Xia Dynasty.
To sum up, Chiyou is in Kunlun in the northwest. So how did Chiyou's erroneous perception in Shandong come about?The authors speculate that this was mainly due to the transplantation of the Kunlun culture to the middle reaches of the Yellow River.
Ji Zhou brought the Kunlun culture to the middle reaches of the Yellow River, repeatedly promoted the Yellow Emperor and the Xia Dynasty, and the subjective description of the historical records of the Han Dynasty made more and more people believe that the middle reaches of the Yellow River were the center of the world, and it was natural to translate the coordinates of the Kunlun region to the middle reaches of the Yellow River. As a result, the description of the directions in ancient legends is seriously confused, and there are many problems that are seriously inconsistent with the actual situation.
What is speechless is that the approach of many talkers is to adapt the objective to the subjective. As a result, there are strange theories such as "the Yi people migrated from Shandong to the southwest" and "the Miao people were driven from Henan to Hunan by Dayu". But molecular anthropology does not support the conclusion that the Yi people ever went to Shandong, but only migrated from north to south. In addition, the population statistics found that there are quite a lot of Miao people in various places, but the Miao population in Henan is very small.
If we return the coordinate center and Chiyou to Kunlun, the migration doubts of the Yi and Miao people will disappear in an instant. If Linxia is the center, then it is natural for Tianshui to be regarded as Dongyi.