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China is one of the oldest countries in the world, with 5000 years of civilization, history and culture. In ancient legends, there were five emperors in ancient times. They are Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi, Yao and shun. They are all leaders of tribes in the late primitive society. This period is also called prehistoric period.
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It is said that in ancient times, there was no heaven and earth, only a silent and dark chaos. In chaos, a Pangu came out, and he split the chaos with a big axe. Then, the light air rises and becomes heaven; When the heavy gas sinks, it becomes the ground.
After the emergence of heaven and earth, Pangu’s height increased by one foot every day, and the distance between heaven and earth also increased by one foot every day. After 18000 years, the sky has risen very high and the earth has become extremely thick. Of course, Pangu has become an indomitable giant.
After Pangu’s death, all parts of his body were dissolved into the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, vegetation, and so on. This is the myth of Pangu’s creation.
This is just a myth. After long-term research, scientists around the world have proved that the earliest ancestor of human beings was an ape man evolved from ancient apes with fossils excavated from the ground.
The fossils of ape man bones and relics excavated by Chinese archaeologists in various parts of the motherland prove that human beings lived in China 1.7 million years ago. They are called Yuanmou people in Yunnan, Lantian people in Shaanxi Province 800000 years ago and Peking people fourorfive million years ago.
Ancient ape man was called human because they could make and use tools, such as sticks and stones.
Chinese ape men use this most primitive tool to collect fruits, dig roots and eat plants. They also fought against wild animals with sticks and stones, hunting for food and seeking survival.
??2. Mountaintop cave man
Ape man and nature have evolved continuously after hundreds of thousands of years of hard struggle. According to archaeological findings, the “cave man on the top of the mountain” who lived in the cave on the top of the keel mountain in Zhoukoudian, Beijing, is no different from modern people.
Compared with the tools used by their predecessors, their labor tools have been greatly improved. They can not only beat stones into stone axes and hammers, but also grind the bones of beasts into bone needles. People use small bone needles to sew animal skins into clothes to keep warm and keep out the cold.
Mountaintop cave people live a social life fixed according to their lineage, and each member of them is a common ancestor.
??3. Yao and Shun abdicated
After the emperor, there were three famous tribal alliance leaders, namely Yao, Shun and Yu.
In his later years, Yao, the tribal chief, summoned the leaders of Sifang tribe to discuss the issue of his successor. Everyone unanimously recommended Shun and explained the reasons.
Shun’s father is called Laosu (meaning blind old man). Shun lost his mother in his early years, and his stepmother was very bad. The stepmother’s younger brother was named Xiang, and he was extremely arrogant, but his father was very partial to him.
Even so, Shun is very filial to his parents and friendly to his brother. Therefore, everyone believes that Shun’s virtue is very good.
Yao was very satisfied with everyone’s opinions, so he married his two daughters, e Huang and nu Ying, to shun, built a granary for Shun, and gave him a lot of cattle and sheep. This made Shun’s stepmother and brother jealous, so they designed to secretly harm Shun with the old man.
He asked Shun to repair the top of the granary. When Shun climbed up the ladder to the top of the granary, he withdrew the ladder and set a fire to burn Shun to death. Seeing this, Shun held up two hats and fell to the ground unharmed like a parachute.
The old man and the elephant also called Shun to dig the well, and then threw stones into it, trying to bury Shun alive in the well. Shun dug a passage from the shaft wall and went home safely.
Since then, Shun still treated his parents and brother well as usual.
After listening to everyone’s introduction, Yao inspected him personally, and finally thought that Shun was indeed a reliable successor, so he gave the leader’s seat to shun. This way of passing the throne was called “abdication” in history.
??4. king yu combating the flood
Great floods often occurred in the Yellow River Basin, and the lives and property of residents were greatly threatened. Yao ordered the tribal leader of chongdi to control the floods.
After he was ordered, he built a dam to block the flood. As a result, when the flood came, the dam was washed out. In this way, it took nearly nine years to build the dam repeatedly, which not only failed to achieve results, but also caused more and more floods and floods.
After succeeding the leader of the tribal alliance, Shun killed Gu with his dereliction of duty and ordered his son Yu to control the flood.
Yu learned the lesson of his father’s failure in flood control, and took the method of dredging instead of building embankments, opening canals for drainage, dredging rivers, building water conservancy, and irrigating farmland.
Dayu was ordered to do his duty and care about the suffering of the people. In the 13 years of flood control, he passed through his house three times and didn’t bother to visit his family. After years of efforts, Dayu finally overcame the flood and led the flood into the sea. Disclaimer: the above content originates from the network, and the copyright belongs to the original author. Please inform us if your original copyright is infringed, and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.