The Chinese nation seeks its roots and asks its ancestors

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-01-31

Zhongtiao Mountain - the sacred place where the Chinese people seek their roots and ask their ancestors.

Zhongtiao Mountain lies in the territory of Yuncheng City on the bank of the Yellow River in southern Shanxi Province. This is an ancient mountain range that gave birth to the ancestor of mankind 45 million years agoThis is a magical mountain range that started the use of fire by humans 1.8 million years ago!This is a civilized mountain range, 5,000 years ago, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Yao Shunyu, sacrificed to the heavens and the earth to worship the ancestors, and carried out political meditation, and called this mountain range Leishou Mountain or Yaowangtai.

Yaowangtai, also known as Yaodu, is located on Zhongtiao Mountain in Shuiyukou Village, southwest of Yongji City, Yuncheng City. According to the "Yongji County Chronicles" in the twelfth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, it is recorded: "Yao was in Pu. Water Jing Note: Lei Shou, also known as Yao Mountain, there is an old city on the mountain, also known as Yao City, Yao Chang is also with this, and then moved to Pingyang. King Yao elected Shun as his heir in his old age, and Shun took the same method to give up the throne to Yu who had meritorious service in controlling the water, and this method of promotion was the "Zen let" in history. Yaowangtai was once Emperor Yao's sacrificial platform and Zen platform. Yao Chan let Yu Shun and Shun Chan let Yu Yu were all held on the Yao Wang Stage. The three existing ancient temples on the mountain, "Jade Emperor Temple", "Patriarch Temple" and "Yao Shunyu Sanyuan Temple" are witnesses. According to historical records: Shun "was born in Zhufeng, cultivated in Lishan, Tao in the riverside, fished in Leize, and was in Puban."

The Jade Emperor Temple is at the highest point of Yaowangtai and has a large scale.

The Temple of Ancestors is close to the Temple of the Jade Emperor, mainly to worship the Yellow Emperor and other ancestors of the Chinese nation.

Sanyuan Temple is dedicated to Yao Shunyu, and it is also the place where Yao Shunyu holds Zen teachings.

There is an old man on Yaowangtai, who lives on the stage, has devoted himself to studying the history of Yaowangtai for many years, and claims to be the secretary of the party branch and villager of Yaowang Village, directly under the leader. He said that after years of research, he firmly believes that this is the ancestral land of the Chinese nation.

He said that Dayu divides the world into Kyushu, the first is Jizhou, including the whole territory of Shanxi and Hebei, most of Shaanxi and Gansu and part of Liaoning Province, Yuncheng is the center of Jizhou. The Yellow Emperor's battle against Chi especially occurred in the salt pond east of Yaowangtai. The Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, and in order to ensure that the salt pond was used by the tribes, he built a castle on Leishou Mountain in Zhongtiao Mountain. Yao is the third grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and the history books record that Yao lived to be 128 years old. Yao is old and obtains the opinions of the leaders of the tribes, Zen Shun, Shun is old, and Zen Dayu. There are three temples on the stage: the Jade Emperor Temple, the Ancestor Temple, Yao Shunyu Sanyuan Temple, this star is the witness of the three ancient emperors of Yao Shunyu to implement the "Zen concession system", it is the soul of China, the "public world", the witness of the ancient harmonious society, and the root of the Chinese nation. From ancient times to the present, every year, the descendants of the Chinese nation come to worship and ask their ancestors.

Yaowang Pavilion is a place for observing the stars and formulating a calendar in ancient times.

The ancient street on Yaowangtai.

The dragon totem of the mountain pass on the platform of Yaowang.

A corner of Yaowangtai Ancient Street.

The ancient street and Yaowang Pavilion and three temples on the mountain witness the ancestral history of the ancient and great Chinese people!

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