Lecture 41 Yanhuang Marriage Match
In ancient times, there were only a few primitive people on the ground. They used animal skin leaves as clothing, and some lived in caves, some perched on large trees, and lived in shacks like birds and finches. Tens of thousands of years later, it gradually multiplied and flourished, and built earthen walls and grass huts on the beach of the Yellow River, forming clans and tribes.
Primitive tribal diagram
On the south bank of the Yellow River, there are two clans, the patriarch of one clan is very yellow, people call him "Huang Grandpa"; the patriarch of the other clan is red in the face, people call him "Yan Grandpa".
In the village where they lived, there was a big tree hugged by six people, and after many years, the trunk was empty, and a large hole appeared in the root. The cave can accommodate eight or nine people. Once when the wind blew, the big tree was uprooted, and Grandpa Huang knew that the wood would float when it entered the water, so he used a stone knife and a stone axe to repair this big trunk, made a canoe, dragged it into the river, and rowed it with branches. Later, I made a "scratcher" like a duck's foot, and it was more flexible to use.
Emperor Yan (left) and Yellow Emperor (right)
One summer, suddenly thunderstorms, for more than ten days. The flood flooded the village, and people drowned, only Huang Lao Grandpa, Huang Lao Niang and a son and a daughter, sitting in a canoe, floating on the water. The canoe (chuān, yin wear) to the edge of a mountain, just happened to meet the worried Old Grandpa Yan, the old lady of Yan and a son and a daughter, and Grandpa Huang beckoned them to get on the canoe. Four men and four women in the boat, eating dry food and roast meat, spent seven days and seven nights before the terrible flood receded.
After this catastrophe, only two of them were left on the ground and eight families, and the Huang family and the Yan family married each other, and the next child (lower child: Wu dialect, referring to the descendants. Next, read ō. Slowly unfold. Later, the Yan family produced a "Yandi Shennong Clan", and the Huang family produced a "Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan Clan". Because the eight mouths are in the same boat and regenerate the human world, when Cangjie made the word, the word "boat" was used next to "boat" and "eight mouths" were added.
Cangjie character diagram
We often say that we are the descendants of Yan Huang now, and the canon is here.
The Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan and his subjects created a splendid Chinese culture and ushered in the era of great unification at the beginning of civilization. The story of the Yellow Emperor has been passed down through more than 5,000 years of vicissitudes. The spirit of Pioneering and Innovative, Fearless of Hardships and Dangers, unity and cohesion of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor has always inspired every Son and Daughter of China.