This article mainly talks about whether the head of the ox is the Yan Emperor or the Yellow Emperor. It's about personal opinions, and if it doesn't match the general opinion or the reader's opinion, then you're going to hit me. The location is Yingzhao Cave on Huaijiang Mountain.
First of all, we need to understand whether the person with the head of the bull exists, or whether it exists. It is generally believed that this is a fiction, because the ox represents agriculture, and the human body of course represents society, and the ox head and human body are shaped by the traditional Chinese farming format. However, in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there have been a large number of gods that make us feel incredible and impossible to exist, and many of these gods are composed of a variety of creatures.
Lao Yan's favorite example is Yingzhao. He was a man on the upper body and a horse on the lower half, covered with tabby, and had a pair of huge wings. It appears to be a combination of four animals: horse, man, bird, and tiger. This combination seems impossible to us today, but those who have a little insight know that what is impossible today does not mean that it will not be possible in the future.
Because if our biological science breaks through the reproductive isolation between species, it is entirely possible to create organisms with the characteristics of several species at the same time. Of course, this kind of manufacturing is high-tech, even to the extent that we are helpless at present. So there are so many creatures in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that are like a combination of several creatures, is it that era with high technology?
The answer is yes. This kind of high-tech was brought by Fuxi Nuwa from other planets. In addition to being able to combine various gods, it is also clear in ancient legends that these gods were made of clay. This is the origin of the story of Nuwa making people out of the soil.
It is confirmed that throughout the world, the word man originally referred to God. Just as the Bible refers to Adam as that man, Adam is in fact God. About 7,000 years ago, the creatures made of clay by Fuxi Nuwa in the land of China were called gods, and the creatures transformed from the high-IQ animals on the ground were called humans. In foreign countries, man and God define change even later.
Since these organisms are made from clay, they are silicon-based organisms. There is a lot of evidence in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that they are indeed silicon-based creatures. Lao Yan has talked a lot about it in his previous articles, and he has proved this argument in detail, so I won't talk about it here. If you need to know more about it, please pay attention to Lao Yan's columns "Descendants of God" and "New Chinese Legends".
Moreover, there are two very miraculous phenomena in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", that is, almost all gods have human characteristics. This is the first one. The second is that the abilities of those gods are related to their physical makeup.
For example, Ying Zhao wants to cruise the four seas, and the four seas add up to millions of square kilometers, he can't rely on running, he can only rely on flying. So he has a pair of huge wings. At the same time, he is also the manager of the hanging garden, and he has to run up and down the whole mountain, so he has the lower body of a horse. Horses are very good at running.
At the same time, since he is a manager, he has to prevent the encroachment of other fierce beasts and the like, so he has the genes of a tiger, which shows that he has a very strong fighting ability. Finally, to deal with the affairs of the four seas and the affairs of the hanging garden, he needs to have the ability to find problems keenly, and the ability to decisively judge problems and take action. And at that time, there was no doubt that the intelligence of human beings was the highest except for God. So he was given a human head.
It's not just the tricks that are like this, it's the other gods like that. Therefore, we can completely see that Fuxi Nuwa's biotechnology has reached the point of being free to do whatever she wants, and can create creatures according to needs, and can combine various creatures on the earth, and draw on the strengths of these creatures to form a new creature.
Since there is such a technology, if you want to combine a god with a bull's head and a human body, the problem is solved. So is the god of the bull-headed human body the Yellow Emperor or the Yan Emperor?
There are two main theories about the body shape of the Yellow Emperor. One thinks that he is a human-headed snake body, and the other believes that he has the same appearance as ordinary humans, and nowhere does it say that the Yellow Emperor is a bull-headed human body.
There are many records of Emperor Yan's image of the cow's head. So why did Emperor Yan design it as a bull-headed human body instead of other shapes?
In the legend, Emperor Yan is the Shennong clan, and the Shennong clan is the person who taught the human beings to cultivate at that time, that is, the riser of Chinese farming culture and the ancestor of Chinese farming culture. This culture has influenced China for thousands of years, and even today we still have hundreds of millions of farmers.
So does the design of this god as a bull-headed human body indicate that he has the power of an ox?Logically, it looks like this. Oxen are used to plow the land in agricultural production, which means that Emperor Yan has the ability to plow the land. It stands to reason that it can be analyzed in this way. However, whether it is Emperor Yan or Shennong, he is the leader of the tribe or even the leader of the tribal alliance, and his role is to study technology, observe the sky, and study the relationship between crop growth and climate change, rather than turning over the land himself. Therefore, the image of Emperor Yan's ox head is definitely not from the creation of Fuxi Nuwa, but the artistic creation of later generations, creating this image as a totem of agricultural culture.
The image of the head of the ox head of the Yan Emperor first appeared in "Historical Records: The Five Emperors Benji Justice": "There is a divine dragon head that touches the Yan Emperor, and the human body is the head of the ox." "But "Historical Records" and "Historical Justice" are not the same thing, "Historical Records of Justice" is a book of annotations and supplementary materials for the "Historical Records" by the Tang Dynasty. In other words, the record of the head of the Yan Emperor appeared quite late.
This also shows that the image of Emperor Yan's ox head is post-processed, not the original image of Emperor Yan. It is the re-creation of the gods and the irrational imagination of the gods on the premise that people can no longer understand the biological attributes of the gods in ancient times.
Of course, someone will say, "You're so arrogant!".The people of the Tang Dynasty can't understand it, can you understand it?”
Yes. Lao Yan has studied the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" for nearly ten years, and basically figured out the ancient civilization. The Classic of Mountains and Seas records the origin and development of Chinese civilization.
List of high-quality authors