The earliest record of Yi appears in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but it is relatively brief. One of the places said that Kunlun Ruins: "If you are not Renyi, you can't go up to the rock of Gang." "That is to say, if you are not a person like Yi Na, you will not be able to reach the octagonal rock next to Kunlun Ruins. Another place says that Yi killed a man named Chisel Tooth.
In the 18th volume of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a story about Emperor Jun giving Hou Yi a bow and arrow, and asking him to go to the lower realm to help the people. However, because volume 18 is confirmed to have been added by Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty, the authenticity of this statement is doubtful, and even more doubtful than many previous records about Hou Yi.
In addition to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there are many classics that talk about Guo Yi and Hou Yi. The main ones involved are the following stories.
The first is Hou Yi shooting the sun. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" does not talk about the sun of Houyi, but it talks about the 10 suns in ancient times, and tells us very clearly that these ten suns were made by Emperor Jun and his two wives in the case of dust and sand and howling winds in the Great Wilderness Era, which were used to imitate the scene of the stellar sun and the planetary moon shining on the ground, helping the Chinese nation to tide over the difficulties of about 1,500 years and make the Chinese nation continue.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas also tells the story of Kuafu's chasing the sun. Kuafu caught up with the sun, but he was too thirsty, so he drank the water of the Yellow River and the Wei River in one go. I wanted to go north to drink the water of Lake Baikal, but I was killed by Ying Long halfway through. And this contains the ending of one of the 10 suns, that is, it may be destroyed by Kuafu.
The other 9 suns, in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" does not introduce their endings, but when it comes to the time when there were still 10 suns, they gathered in the sky and burned a god called the harlequin to death. This shows that they did not have the task of saving the ancestors of the Chinese nation, and began to do misdeeds. And this kind of misconduct has brought great disasters to the world, and it is also the most important reason for Hou Yi's shooting.
Hou Yi's second story is Chang'e running to the moon. It is said that the Queen Mother of the West rewarded Hou Yi with some elixirs of immortality, but Chang'e stole them, and then Chang'e became lighter, and she couldn't control her actions, so she went to the Moon Palace. Whether there is a shadow or not in this story, it is clear that there is an element of post-processing. Because under no circumstances can a person fly in the day without relying on an aircraft.
The third story, "Historical Records", is halfway told, and the whole picture is told in "Warring States Policy". That was the time of the Xia Dynasty, Taikang was extravagant, so Hou Yi took advantage of his trip to seize the throne and support the puppet regime. Later, he took the throne by himself and became the king of Xia. But it was eventually overthrown.
Of these three things, the first thing that happened was the Houyi Shooting Sun, which was determined to have occurred in the Zhuan period. Because in the time of Zhuan, for an unknown reason, the gods of that time rebelled in large numbers. Of course, there are also some of them who follow Zhuan. The rebellious gods almost wanted to exterminate humanity. The part of the gods who followed, including the likes of Ying Long and Blazing Yin, fought against the rebels and eventually emerged victorious. He drove the rebellious gods back to the sky and became a Jedi celestial pass.
Later Yi's seizure of the throne of King Xia took place in the early years of the Xia Dynasty. Xia Houqi changed the marriage rules handed down by Fuxi Nuwa and allowed the gods and humans to marry. Some of the gods were stubbornly attached to the lineage of the gods, so they resisted this command. These gods were led by Hou Yi, the leader of the poor tribe. Hou Yi seized the throne of King Xia, that is, to reverse this situation. Of course, in the end, it didn't work out, and Shaokang regained the throne.
The story of Kunlun Ruins takes place after Taikang lost his country. After the failure of the seizure of power, the gods broke with the Xia Dynasty, and Yi took a group of gods to Kunlun Ruins and built a huge pyramid with a tight defense. At the same time, of course, they were here to resist the Aryans, who had become strong in the West. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" says that Yi fought in the field of Shouhua to chisel his teeth, and the chiseled teeth may be the leader of the Aryans.
The protagonist of the story told above is "Yi", which is called Yi in the classical original. The same is true of "Hou Yi". That is to say, it was called Houyi during the Zhuan period, and there were two titles of Houyi and Yi during the Xia Dynasty;The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is called Yi, and some of the other classics are called Houyi, and some are called Yi. From this title, it is impossible to tell whether the two are two people or not.
It is believed that it is Dayi who shoots the sun and Houyi's wife who runs to the moon, so these should be two people, and the main reason is that it is impossible for one person to live that long. But in fact, Lao Yan has introduced many times in other articles that the gods in ancient times were silicon-based creatures, and they had a lifespan of thousands of years. From the Zhuan era to the Xia Dynasty, there was only about 300 years, and for the gods at that time, 300 years was just a flick of a finger.
In addition, the name "Dayi" has never appeared in the classics, which was created by the present day in order to reflect the difference from Houyi.
Whether Yi and Hou Yi are two people can also be analyzed from the name. In ancient times, Hou and Si were the same word, and they also had the same meaning, referring to a person who specifically manages something. For example, Houji is the management of agriculture, and Houtu is the management of the surface land. The emperor governs the heavens, and the earth governs the earth, which is actually the emperor of the world.
Yi means to spin and fly upward. The two words Hou Yi together are to manage the people who are spinning and flying upwards. In the record of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there are indeed a few gods such as Yingzhao and Dijiang who can fly on their own, but most gods cannot fly. There is also no information showing that Hou Yi managed Ying Zhao and other gods. People believe that Hou Yi can shoot arrows, is the ancestor of archery, and the arrows also rotate and fly upward, so they think that Hou Yi is a person who specializes in archery.
The scope of the TOR is not important. The important thing is that the difference between Hou Yi and the previous Yi is not to distinguish between two people, but one with a position name and the other without a position name. Or one is the abbreviation, and the other is the full name. Just like the name of the country that Yu passed to Qi was Xiahou, but it was referred to by us as the Xia Dynasty.
To sum up, Yi and Hou Yi are the same person. The same God, to be exact.
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