Extra Story: Chang'e the Ascended

This is one of the series of interpretations of Shanhaijing written in Lanbaishe a long time ago. Because the plot involves more and more, it is convenient for new readers to understand, so I moved it to the new book.

You can watch it if you want to calm down and take a look, and skip it if you don't want to.

It's really just a simple personal interpretation, but when I interpret it, it always diverges very far, and the clues and ideas involve a lot of knowledge.

And some knowledge points, if they are detailed, they will appear bloated, and if they are not detailed, I am afraid that you will not know...

So I have to write some extras for the 'Shan Hai Jing Interpretation Series'...

Although my interpretation does not use documents other than Shanhaijing as evidence, they can be ideas.

The ancient documents are there, and the modern information is so developed, you can search and investigate if you are willing, and then come up with your own opinions.

Combine other people's understanding and his character and political stance to judge what he describes and what will be biased. Comparing the Shanhaijing again, it can be inferred which ones in the Shanhaijing are fake, and which ones are likely to be the original appearance of ancient times.

At the same time, by comparing other documents, we can know what evolution a legend has undergone and in what direction, and then reverse it to get what its original appearance might be.

There is no doubt that the ancient documents of the pre-Qin period are the most convincing, and the documents of the Han Dynasty and later are not so credible.

Either a lot of artistic processing was added, or political purposes were implanted, or it was deleted directly.

Coupled with the wars and turmoil in the past dynasties, and the loss of many precious documents, it is too difficult to understand the real situation of the ancient Five Emperors.

Don't trust Baidu Encyclopedia, and don't even trust the arrangement of various formal channels. The things they organize are only for reference, not reality.

Twenty percent of it matches the reality of thousands of years ago, which is not bad.

Because their basis is also derived from the literature after the Han Dynasty.

The only ones that can be trusted are archaeological artifacts, the physical analysis of ancient ruins. But with this, we can only know the tip of the iceberg.

So, in fact, there is no truth, the truth has long been buried, and we will always only have the 'truth' as ​​understood by individuals.

Everyone has their own human history in their hearts. My interpretation may not be accurate, and even some opinions have long been thought of.

Closer to home, many people think that Shanhaijing is more absurd, so why is it more credible?

And it may be written by the people of the Warring States period, not recorded in ancient times.

Why should I consider the Shanhaijing to be the most authentic?

First of all, let me admit that I love Shanhaijing very much. Second, the reason why I insisted that there must be a part of the text in Shanhaijing was recorded by people in the very ancient times, and it was definitely not written in the Warring States Period or even later.

The reason is that Shanhaijing can often overthrow the Warring States Period and what was officially believed after that, and there are cultural relics to prove it.

I read the Classic of Mountains and Seas a long time ago, and I really began to think that it was a historical, at least more reliable opportunity than what has been said since the Qin and Han dynasties. One day I saw a report on the Sanxingdui Bronze Sacred Tree.

No one is more detailed than Shanhaijing describes, even the "Nine Songs" in the Warring States Period only mentioned that the sun shines from the fusang in the east.

It is completely different from the Shanhaijing, which has long been described as living on the lower branch for nine days and living on the upper branch for one day.

When the bronze sacred tree was excavated, only the Book of Mountains and Seas confirmed it.

After this, I frantically checked what other cultural relics and Shanhaijing were confirmed.

Then I found out that Oracle has it.

Nearly 70 years ago, the Ministry of Culture obtained a batch of oracle bone inscriptions and kept them in the National Library of China until today.

Among them is a bull shoulder blade from the time of King Wuding of the Shang Dynasty, engraved with oracle bone inscriptions. The content has been deciphered, offering sacrifices to "Sifang Si" and "Sifang Feng".

"The east is called Xi, Feng is called Shao. The south is called Jia, Feng is called Kai. The west is called Yi, Feng is called Yi. Only know that word, there is '宀'.

This is the "name of the four sides" and "the name of the four sides" written by oracle bone inscriptions during the Shang Dynasty.

Note that the Shang Dynasty Feng did not write the word for wind, but only 'phoenix', because the Shang Dynasty, like Shaohao, Xihe and other countries, worshiped birds, and the word for wind was derived from the word for Feng, and the oldest pictogram of wind was the phoenix. .

Shaohao's totem is a mysterious bird, and Yin Shang's totem is also a mysterious bird. I seriously doubt that they are descendants of Shaohao.

The Mysterious Bird of Destiny, descended to give birth to Shang.

If this sentence is translated according to the language habit of Shanhaijing, it is actually a Xuanniaoshengshang.

Similar to 'Zuanxu's happy head', the Zhuanxu Kingdom spawned the Penguin Kingdom.

Therefore, Shaohao, that is, the Xuanniao Kingdom derived the Yin Shang Kingdom. The Yinshang of the Dongyi family destroyed the Yuxia of the Yanhuang family, causing huge damage to the civilization of the Xia Dynasty. The Erlitou ruins are full of obvious signs of damage, and there are almost nothing intact. It is conceivable that when the Xia Dynasty perished , many things were completely destroyed.

Going farther, then the Quartet wind recorded in the oracle bone inscriptions three thousand years ago, is there in the Shanhaijing?

Of course there is, the format is the same...and more detailed.

"The Great Wilderness Eastern Classic": "The east is called analysis, and the wind is called Jun, and it is in the east to get in and out of the wind."

"The Great Wilderness Southern Classic": "The south is called the cause, the wind is praised by the people, and the south pole is used to enter and exit the wind."

"Western Classic of Great Desolation": "Some people are called Shiyi, and the wind is called Wei, and they are located in the northwest corner to measure the length of the sun and the moon."

"The Great Wilderness Eastern Classic": "The north is called ?, the wind that comes is called 錣, and it is located in the extreme corner of the east to stop the sun and the moon."

In the end, the north was placed in the east longitude, which should have been a mistake made by Liu Xin when he was revising the book, or in later generations.

In short, the Shanhaijing records are almost the same as the oracle bone inscriptions.

Some people may think, which is the same? Wrong a lot alright.

Indeed, Dongfeng oracle bone inscriptions write '劦', and Shanhaijing writes 'Jun'. The southern oracle bone inscriptions write 'jia' and 'kai', and the scriptures of mountains and seas write 'in' and 'people'. There is also the west wind 'Yi', which is written as 'Wei'.

However, the characters in the northern oracle bone inscriptions have been damaged, and there is only one '宀', but the Shanhaijing has written it as '?'. This word has long been used, but it is actually the word Wan with a bird on it. It is very in line with the habit of Dongyi.

In addition, regarding the writing of Kai in the oracle bone script of Nanfeng, other paragraphs of Shanhaijing have been supplemented, "Shanhaijing Nanshanjing": "Four hundred miles to the east, as for the end of the mountain, in the south there is a valley called Yuyi, and there are many strange birds. Kaifeng comes out naturally."

In other words, Shanhaijing also believes that the south wind is called Kaifeng.

In short, the mistakes made by Shanhaijing can actually be regarded as mistakes made by later generations in sorting and copying.

The ancient book of Shanhaijing has long since been found, and now I am looking at the version that I do not know how many times it has been copied. Some words have also changed, which is normal.

It's okay to make a typo, just say the same thing.

Everything is afraid of comparison, and you will understand the mistakes made by other literatures.

The "Dian of Yao" in the Warring States period has a description of the four directions, saying that the Emperor Yao sent people from east, west, north and south to observe the celestial phenomena, and he was in charge of the four directions and the four seasons. Because of the people, birds and beasts are greedy." "Jue people are barbarians, and birds and beasts are hairy."

Is it obscure? It's okay, you don't need to understand what it means.

Because of the setting of the truly ancient Sifang Division and Sifang Wind, the people of the Warring States Period have long forgotten.

I don't understand the meaning, so it's written like this, "taking it for granted".

They were probably confused when they saw the oracle bone inscriptions left by the Yin merchants 'Dongfang Yuexi, Feng Yue Shao'.

Because the word 'wind' in the oracle bone inscriptions is 'phoenix', and then it is directly understood as a bird... Looking at the literal meaning again, I think that this is a bird and a beast.

If you look at the structure of the word '劦', you also know that it means that everyone cooperates, and then according to the literal meaning, it is associated with the meaning of 'joint'.

Therefore, the people of the Warring States period combined the birds and beasts in front of them and wrote the bird and beast 'he tail'.

The good Sifang Division and the Sifang Wind have become the Sifang Division in different seasons, the changes of birds and beasts...

What about the wind? It doesn't matter if you follow the trend.

Yao Dian is the first chapter of the "Shangshu", a Confucian classic. In the Han Dynasty, its status soared, so Sima Qian chose the Yao Dian when he wrote the historical records.

As for Shanhaijing's statement, Sima Qian did not adopt it, saying: 'I dare not speak. ’

Therefore, from the Warring States period onwards to modern times, Yao Dian's statement is orthodox.

Until the last century, the oracle bone inscriptions on Shang Dynasty cultural relics were deciphered by scientific and systematic pictographic analysis.

Only then did I discover that orthodoxy has always been wrong, and Shanhaijing is right.

Three thousand years after the words were engraved on the bones in the Wuding period, only the Classic of Mountains and Seas has completely recorded the ancient Quartet wind.

Of course I can wash it.

People in the Warring States period did not understand oracle bone inscriptions, they deliberately tampered with them.

Or deliberately grafting, merging the cultures of Yan and Huang Dongyi, and inserting a large number of Dongyi cultures into people of the Yanhuang family such as Di Yao.

They did not choose to copy, but took inspiration from the Dongyi culture, processed it, and passed it on to Emperor Yao.

After completing the national integration, Yanhuang and Dongyi were completely integrated.

Di Jun became Di Ku, Shaohao became the son of Huang Di, and the ancestor of Yin Shang was Di Ku's second son...

I'm not saying it's wrong, the effect is positive.

But whether it was intentional or unintentional.

Objectively speaking, the understanding of the ancient times in the Warring States period is that there is no realism of Shanhaijing, no truth of Shanhaijing, and no honesty of Shanhaijing.

Regarding ancient things, the Warring States documents have academic purposes, and the Han Dynasty documents have political purposes. for reference only.

It was rumored that someone sent a parrot from the Western Regions when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but Emperor Wu of the Han looked confused and didn't know him. In the end, Dongfang Shuo took out the Classic of Mountains and Seas and said it was called a parrot.

"Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing": "There is a bird, its shape is like an owl, with green feathers and red beaks, and the human tongue can speak, it is called a parrot."

Although I have not found this record in the official history, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a large number of parrots have been introduced and sold.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Miheng's only famous work was to write a "Parrot Fu", which sang this bird that no one has ever sang in the past. And pretended to be a parrot to express the depression that no one knew his talent.

And the name of the parrot has continued until today.

The names of many animals are different in ancient and modern times, but the name of the parrot has never changed, which can be proved that after the Shanhaijing and before the Han Dynasty, no one named the parrot, and they did not know it at all.

It was the people of the Han Dynasty who learned that it was called a parrot long ago from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and they used it all the time, which kept the name unchanged because there was a common source of the name.

If there is no Shanhaijing, then there will be people in various places, giving the parrot different names. Northerners see a parrot and take a name. When southerners see a parrot, they may take another name.

Then into the twenty-first century, parrots will have a variety of official names.

However, this did not happen, indicating that before the Han Dynasty, no one had seen a parrot except for the contemporaries of the author of Shanhaijing.

In addition, there are documents recorded that during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, there was an ancient stone chamber in Shangjun that collapsed, and the image of "anti-binding and robbery" was engraved on the stone wall. No one knew what it meant until Liu Xiang, who was 'correcting' the Shanhaijing at the time, and Liu Xin's father, pointed out that he was a 'official minister'.

"Hai Nei Jing": "The minister of Er Nei is called Wei. Wei and Er Nei kill Susui, the emperor is the mountain of the sparse family, shackles his right foot, ties his hands and hair back, and ties the wood on the mountain. Northwest of the opening question. "

Therefore, the people of the Han Dynasty know a hammer in ancient times... They don't know parrots, but they know a lot about the Huangdi, Yaoshun and other five emperors, as if they have seen it with their own eyes.

There are many examples. All in all, since ancient times, Shanhaijing has corresponded to a large number of cultural relics and real things.

Whether it is animals, mountains and rivers, murals, oracle bone inscriptions, or Sanxingdui cultural relics, as well as Erlitou ruins, Taosi ruins, Shimao ancient city that I have not mentioned yet...

A large number of real things, more or less, confirm the realism, authenticity and honesty of Shanhaijing.

The past and present have changed so much that it is useless to be realistic.

Times are changing, and it's really useless.

And it's too honest, so honest that it didn't praise anyone, didn't convey any truth, didn't preach any kindness and righteousness, and maybe even touched some bad luck and made some taboos.

When Liu Xin deservedly repaired the book, he reduced half of the Shanhaijing repair.

Throughout its ancient and modern status, Shanhaijing has always been embarrassing. Its content, throughout history, often differs from official orthodoxy.

This is a lonely book, so lonely that no one can prove what it says is true except for the splendor that has been buried in the earth.

Almost every article I have, I have to criticize Liu Xin.

If you didn't know him before, you probably knew him very well.

I repeat, Liu Xin, the great master of Confucianism!

The first person who systematically organized pre-Qin literature, the founder of ancient literature and classics, and was appraised by the literary circles of all dynasties as the first great man and master in the academic circle after Confucius.

I do not deny his contribution, but he is really not objective to academics and has no respect for literature.

The Western Han Dynasty royal family's collection of books, filled with bamboo slips in more than a dozen palaces and warehouses, was originally extremely scattered and unorganized. Countless people could not sort them out for two hundred years. It was him Liu Xin alone! Organize it into a book so people can read it.

Dozens of palaces and dozens of ancient documents have been compiled and circulated, all thanks to him.

However, Liu Xin also "lost" more books...

"Shan Hai Jing" is missing 14 chapters, "Xun Zi" has 322 chapters, and only 32 chapters remain.

There are also three changes. After him, only Zhouyi remains.

"Lianshan" and "Gui Zang", these two books, together with "Book of Changes", are collectively called the Three Changes. They are the "Yi" used by the people of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties in divination and discussion.

We all know that "Yi" describes various natural phenomena and historical events, using metaphors to convey ideas, teach truths, gain insights into life, and assess good and bad luck.

Similar things happened in ancient times, and the result was fierce. Then you took this opportunity and happened to do similar things again, so you are also fierce.

Of course, it's just an example, it's not that simple, "easy" is very complicated, and I don't understand it, but it must be all-encompassing and record all kinds of things in the world.

Why am I bringing this up?

Because of the matter of Chang'e, from our perspective, the earliest book with clear documents is "Guizang".

However, from the author of Huainanzi, to some scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then to the Jin and Tang Dynasties, some people say that the earliest source of Chang'e is "Shan Hai Jing".

This is strange, I have ripped through the Shan Hai Jing, and I haven't seen the incident of Chang'e and Heng'e flying to the moon.

Yi does have it, he is a super genius, we will talk about it later. In short, the Classic of Mountains and Seas does not mention that he has a wife named Heng'e, nor does Chang'e fly to the moon.

Therefore, among the documents that have been found, it is the earliest mention in Guizang.

And "Lianshan" and "Gui Zang" have been lost for more than a thousand years.

The first calamity is to burn books and pit Confucians.

Of course, Shi Ji said that all the Confucian classics were burned, but this is not always the case. There are doubts about the ancient school of research, and it is believed that Qin Shihuang burned the book of witchcraft and killed alchemists.

I don't know what books Qin Shihuang burned, but don't forget, even according to this argument, "Lianshan" and "Guizang" are books of witchcraft. And it's the 'Bible' of the Umbre.

The alchemist deceived Qin Shihuang, and he should have taken the ancient things about the return of Lianshan to Tibet as the theoretical basis.

Whether it is Lianshan, Guizang, or Shanhaijing, the medicine of immortality is mentioned.

It's a pity that the alchemist can't come up with the immortality medicine, and it's not easy to say anything.

In order to unify ideology and take a sigh of relief, Empress Qin Shi came to directly burn a large number of books about ancient mysteries and overseas customs, and went to such a special overseas fairy mountain!

Incidentally, many ancient books of the six countries were burned to promote the pace of the same text.

It is conceivable that the Classic of Mountains and Seas should also be hit hard because of this...

Some people say that when Confucians accuse Qin Shihuang of burning books and defrauding Confucian scholars, they are chaotic.

Here, I would like to say something to the Confucianists, why did the Confucians madly blacken Qin Shihuang's actions?

I won't talk about other reasons. I don't know which ancient books of the six countries were burned. I just say that he burned the Book of Changes, and that's enough.

The Zhouyi of the Three Changes is the first of the Five Classics of Confucianism. The Qin army went from house to house to search for books. How many Confucian scholars must die in order to protect the Book of Changes? In the burning of books and Confucianism, the Book of Changes suffered a devastating blow.

In the second robbery, Xiang Yu set fire to Xianyang.

This wave is really hurt, no matter what book he has, it will burn you all!

Qin Shihuang swept the palace, and Xianyang collected countless treasures from the six countries plus precious classics.

A fire burned in darkness. This is the reason that led to a large reduction in the classics of the masters. Qin Shihuang has more of the blame.

How much is the loss? In the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wenjing collected a large number of ancient books, but found that many books were directly lost. For example, "Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Yi Li", "Shan Hai Jing" and other literatures.

Of course, it's not completely lost. There are also some charred fragments left, some with a few words left, and some with only a few bamboo pieces, all scattered and scattered one by one.

Here, let me say something to Qin Shi Huang. Shi Huang burned books and left you with fragments? Therefore, only Xiang Yu and Fencheng could save some.

These bamboo slips piled up more than a dozen palaces. During the Wang Mang period, many ancient pre-Qin texts were sorted out.

Among them, "Lianshan" and "Gui Zang" have not been lost. It was the Wei and Jin Dynasties that were lost, and literati of all dynasties and dynasties were looking for it, but could not find it.

In the Western Han Dynasty, these two books were still there, but why did they disappear in the Wei and Jin Dynasties? These are two extremely important books! As widely circulated as Zhouyi, these two books should be circulated as widely!

It is Liu Xin who is in charge of sorting out the three changes. That's right, it's this person again.

You don't have to guess that he deleted Lian Shanguizang, he wasn't so mad, he wouldn't dare to delete these two books even if he had a hundred courage.

But the fact is... After Liu Xin finished sorting, the scholars of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded: '"Lianshan" is hidden in Lantai, and "Guizang" is hidden in Taibu'.

During the Han Dynasty, there was a stone room for books in the palace, which served as the central archives and classics library, called Lantai.

Taibu is a subordinate of Taichang, the head of the nine ministers, and is responsible for divination for national affairs.

It's hidden... Liu Xin has compiled dozens of ancient classics, all of which have been circulated. In fact, this is exactly the purpose of making his books easier to spread.

As a result, the two classics used by Xia and merchants, which were side by side with the Book of Changes, were put on the shelf...

Then, you know, if it is not widely circulated, it is easy to be lost.

The third robbery has come.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo set fire to Luoyang...

I don't know if I burned these two books. After all, there were many literati at that time, such as Cai Hu, who went to rescue a lot of books.

"Gui Zang" is relatively remote, and may be missing, but "Lian Shan" is an important library in Lantai and should be rescued.

Unfortunately, it's not over yet.

In the fourth robbery, in the fifth year of Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty, the Huns and others attacked Luoyang, killed more than 30,000 Jin officials and civilians, captured Jin Huai Emperor, burned Luoyang City, and turned Luoyang into ashes.

Okay, no one will rescue him this time. Last time Dong Zhuo moved the capital, this time it was a massacre. I don't know how many books were destroyed.

Since then, "Lianshan" and "Gui Zang" have been lost.

Having said so much, you may be surprised that they have all been lost. Why do you still say Chang'e, the earliest written record is "Gui Zang"?

Because of this book, after being lost for more than a thousand years, in the year I was born, it was dug up from Lake North...

It was a Chu tomb during the Warring States Period. Except for the coffin, there was no bronze, no gold, no jade, only some pottery, and a pile of bamboo slips.

Among the bamboo slips, there are ancient documents from Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, among which is Shang Zhiyi's "Gui Zang".

In the past dynasties, there have been countless wars and chaos, and I don’t know how many ancient documents have been lost, so that today, we can see very few documents from Xia, Shang, Zhou and even ancient times.

So much that we understand the ancient ancestors, most of them can only be understood from what people in the Han Dynasty and later said.

However, the people of the Han Dynasty understand the ancient times of a hammer.

So thanks to the burial system, we dug up the pre-Qin things ourselves. Although it is a waste of social wealth, if everyone should listen to Mozi and practice thin burial, then everything will be lost.

I'm really looking forward to when will a book of Shanhaijing from the Zhou Dynasty be dug up.

When you get here, you must be very annoyed: I want to see Chang'e, what are you talking about with me?

As I said, this is an extravaganza of the Shanhaijing Interpretation Series, not the main text of the Interpretation Series...

Because there is really no Chang'e in the current version of the Shanhaijing, although many people say that Chang'e originated from the Shanhaijing, but at least it does not exist now.

To sum up, apart from the descriptions of Chang'e in the earlier editions of Shanhaijing, which have been lost, then we know only the book Guizang, which has the most say in the affairs of Chang'e.

Assuming the reliability of Shanhaijing is 100, then the reliability of Guizang is at least 70 or 80.

"Gui Zang": "In the past, Heng'e stole the medicine of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West, and took it with the moon. It will go, and the pieces will be in You Huang. There is Huang Zhanzhi, who said: 'Good luck. Darkness, don't be scared, don't be afraid, and then you will be in great prosperity'. Heng'e then put her body on the moon, she is a toad."

You can all see it, you don't need to take out something from the Shanhaijing, and the version of the Shang Dynasty can directly refute the claim that Chang'e stole the elixir of immortality.

In the Shang Dynasty, it was clearly written that Heng'e stole the medicine of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West! Has something to do with Dayi?

In addition, there is another detail here, that is, Chang'e is going to go to the moon after taking the elixir of death, but she hasn't gone yet. Before she goes, she finds someone to do a divination!

This again refutes the claim that Chang'e flew to the moon involuntarily after taking the elixir of immortality.

She can go or not, go wherever she wants.

In this state, there is a high probability that Chang'e had a motive and premeditatedly stole the elixir.

"Take it for a month, and you will come."

That is to say, after stealing and eating, and after eating, prepare to go to the moon.

But she panicked, provoked the Queen Mother of the West, and stole the elixir of immortality. According to Shanhaijing, we know that this is obviously a very serious matter!

Because it is recorded in Shanhaijing that someone stole the elixir of immortality and was directly executed.

Therefore, Chang'e was worried that she would get cold. Although she really wanted to go to the moon, she asked a person named 'Youhuang' before leaving: What will happen after my trip?

The 'Youhuang' said: "Good luck and good luck, we will eat chicken tonight. You will fly back this time, and you will be heading west alone again. Don't panic when you encounter a gloomy weather, and there will be great light in the future."

Note that Guimei in Pian Pian Guimei is a hexagram in Guizang, which has a special meaning.

It's hard for me to explain the specifics, but 'Guimei' can generally be considered as: 'Women marry and be concubines of others, they must be patient, and they can walk on one leg', 'If you are dissatisfied, don't be irritable, you can see with one eye',' The date of marriage has been postponed, don't worry, a new date will be better'...

All in all, I talked about forging ahead, opening one eye and closing one eye, and an optimistic attitude towards life.

This also corresponds to the following statement. When encountering dark weather, don't panic. After you pass it, there will be great light.

Chang'e was very happy after hearing this, so she settled down on the moon and became a toad.

Above, this is what we can see, the earliest legend of Chang'e.

Make a bold guess, steal the undead pill, why go to the moon? Thinking about it logically, there must be something in the moon that makes her particularly want to go.

She risked her life and stole the elixir just to go to the moon.

It may be very risky, very dangerous, but after the darkness, there will be infinite light!

That is to say, when she gets to the moon, she can have the life she dreams of having by virtue of her status as an immortal medicine.

And Chang'e knew what she would get, so she took the risk, desperately trying to steal medicine, and wanted to go to the moon to fight her fate! Either doomed, or fate changes!

But once you go, there is no turning back! So she panicked again, so she asked a very authoritative person, a person who was not afraid of the Queen Mother of the West at all, and her status was no less than that of the Queen Mother of the West: What will happen when I go to the moon this trip?

The man told Chang'e: You will succeed, don't be in a hurry, don't panic, don't be afraid, everything will pass, and your future is bright!

It's a pity, after all, this is a Book of Changes. Although it tells the story of Chang'e, it must express a certain attitude towards life and philosophy of life...

So what exactly is on the moon, and why Heng'e is fighting this, although I can continue to speculate, but it will appear very unfounded.

Therefore, I will stop for a while and talk about how the story of Chang'e recorded in Guizang has evolved since then.

Then, according to the law of its evolution, I will make a reverse inference, and I will reverse the Chang'e incident that "may be recorded" in the ancient text of the Shanhaijing that "has not been found."

That is to say, according to the development law of the story after returning to Tibet, combined with the consistent writing style of Shanhaijing, and the possible background of the five emperors in ancient times, it can be inferred that if the ancient Shanhaijing really recorded Chang'e, what would it be like.

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When it comes to Chang'e, Dayi has to be mentioned!

But through Guizang, we know that Chang'e did not steal Dayi's immortality medicine, but that of the Queen Mother of the West.

In Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Questions" in the Warring States Period, Yi was written, but Chang'e was not mentioned.

It is recorded in the "Huainanzi" of the Western Han Dynasty: "Yi requested the medicine of immortality to the Queen Mother of the West, and Heng'e stole it to fly to the moon, and was disappointed and mourned, and there was no way to continue it."

It means that Dayi asked the Queen Mother of the West to give him the elixir of immortality, but it was stolen by Heng'e. Dayi was very uncomfortable and could not continue.

Let’s talk about the mainstream understanding first. Most people think that Dayi got the immortality medicine from the Queen Mother of the West and was stolen by Heng’e to run to the moon. Dayi was very uncomfortable and never married again.

I'm sorry, but I don't agree with this statement. This is the understanding of later generations who were first misled by myths.

To interpret this sentence, one must consider the context of the time.

First of all, this sentence does not say that Heng'e is Dayi's wife!

Some people may think: Don't they all say it's very uncomfortable, haven't they remarried since then? Doesn't this prove that Heng'e was originally Dayi's wife?

No, this translation is wrong, and 'no continuation' should not be translated as no continuation.

When did the allusions to the sequel appear? On Baidu Encyclopedia, it is written that the continuation string originated from the story of Boya Ziqi. But the classics holding this statement were written by a Qing Dynasty author. I think he is completely justified, and based on the words "continued string", he imposes that it is Boya Ziqi. Please don't trust Baidu Encyclopedia.

As early as in the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhang Hua's "Natural History" wrote the real source in the second volume: "When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the state of the West Sea offered five taels of glue, and the emperor paid it to the outer treasury. Afterwards, Emperor Wu shot at Ganquan Palace, the emperor's bow string was broken, and the servant wanted to make more. , in order to inject the broken string, the two ends are connected, and the injection string is connected to each other. The emperor ordered the warriors to lead each of them, and they would not be separated. The western envoy said: 'You can shoot, all day long.' Said: 'Continuation of the string glue'."

This paragraph is very long. Anyway, after this incident spread, later generations gradually used this allusion to make up for broken relationships and marital fate, and then it was derived into a continuation of marriage.

So when was the author of Huainanzi? The author is Liu An, King of Huainan, the uncle of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. This book was compiled with a group of disciples in order to target the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the early days of his enthronement and oppose the reform of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

After Liu An rebelled, he was defeated and died. When he died, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was only thirty-four years old.

It was also the year that Liu An died. For the first time, Emperor Wu of Han learned from Zhang Qian, who had returned from an envoy to the Western Regions, that there was a trade route leading to India from Shuchuan.

To sum up, when "Huainanzi" wrote "Yi was disappointed and lost, there was no way to continue it", there was no allusion of "continuing the string"!

Because, taking 10,000 steps back, even before the book "Huainanzi" was written, the envoy of the West Sea Kingdom had already met Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the two people had a "continuation of the string", and that time was not enough to spread the word to the world and form an allusion.

You must know that the matter of continuation of string glue has nothing to do with marrying a wife. It must have been well-known first, and as time gradually fermented, it gradually derived the meaning of 'remarrying and marrying a wife'.

Therefore, in the book "Huainanzi", this allusion would never be used so naturally. The social background at that time did not translate these four words into "marry a wife again".

So what does it mean?

It is very simple, it means to continue, to continue.

"Erya": continue, continue also.

"Zhou Li · Towel Car": 'Continued at the age of more'.

"Records of the Grand Historian: The Chronicle of Xiang Yu": the continuation of the death of Qin.

Before the Han Dynasty, if the subject was a person, an animal, or a country, it generally meant the continuation of time.

So what does 'nothing' mean? It means 'nothing can...'. Unrequited, that is, there is nothing to repay.

To sum up, the meaning of being unsustainable is 'nothing can last his time', and depending on the context, it means 'no longer can continue his life'.

In the first sentence, there is another detail that has been misunderstood throughout the ages.

That is 'invite the medicine of immortality to the Queen Mother of the West', it is 'please', not 'get'!

If you want to express that Yi got the elixir of immortality, you should write "The Queen Mother of the West gave Yi the elixir of immortality, and Heng'e stole it to fly to the moon".

In this case, the meaning is clear, Heng'e stole it from Yi.

However, it is not, what is written here is, "Yi invited the Queen Mother of the West for the medicine of immortality, and Heng'e stole it to fly to the moon".

If it is written like this, Yi may not have obtained the immortality medicine... He may still be requesting.

Therefore, regarding the "Huainanzi": "Yi asked the Queen Mother of the West for the medicine of immortality, and Heng'e stole it to fly to the moon. She was disappointed and lost, and there was no way to continue it."

My translation is: Dayi asked the Queen Mother of the West to give him the medicine of immortality, but the Queen Mother of the West told him that the medicine was stolen by Heng'e and went to the moon. So Yi was disappointed and sad, very uncomfortable, and there was nothing to continue his life.

Of course, it's okay to not translate it into life extension, just use the simplest meaning of extension, which can be translated as: he is very uncomfortable, and there is nothing that can make him continue.

If this continues, it is likely to go further and get the "follow-up" that he should have.

Like a promotion and a raise... just kidding, but it could mean that.

Yi is the one who should be qualified, take the medicine of immortality, go to the moon, have some kind of follow-up, and change his destiny.

The result was cut off...

"Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Jing": "Emperor Jun gave Yi Tong a bow and Suzui to help the country, and Yi was the first to deal with the difficulties of the land. ’

In fact, this is not the only place where Yi is written in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Because it is not the main lecturer Yi, otherwise the space is too long to be written here, so I will paste this paragraph.

In short, Yi is a great hero, he was assigned by the superior to help the people on earth and deal with various disasters.

And obviously, Yi is also known to everyone, and belonged to the 'common sense level' in ancient times.

He is extremely powerful in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. How strong it is will be discussed later.

Back to Chang'e.

Yi's merits were even qualified to become emperor, but maybe he was unwilling, or for other reasons.

Anyway, he is absolutely qualified to get the elixir of immortality. When the mission was sent to him, he promised him: after you do those things, they will give you the elixir of death, send you to the moon, get out of here... become one of us.

In Shanhaijing, the Queen Mother of the West is in charge of the medicine of immortality. The first batch of immortal medicines was basically asked for by the Queen Mother of the West.

All in all, Yi's task was completed, and the credit was in place. He came to the Queen Mother of the West and asked her to give him the elixir of immortality.

In the end, Yi came happily and left in despair.

You may have questions here, what's the matter, only one immortality medicine?

First of all, it may indeed be very rare, because the emperor sent Yi to perform the task and agreed to give the medicine, so he approved one and kept it in the Queen Mother of the West, waiting for Yi to complete the task to receive the reward.

Secondly, the immortality medicine and 'some kind of follow-up to the moon' are a set. And this place has been occupied by Heng'e. And it has been for a long time, and there is no way to go back.

By the time the next batch arrives, Da Yi may have already died of old age, so he said 'there is no way to continue it'. For a while, nothing could survive.

The third possibility, that is, my previous speculation that Yi was promised to be administered, is wrong.

The emperor just sent him to work, but did not promise him anything.

Yi's credit is enough to be an emperor, but he wants the medicine of immortality more, so he doesn't want to be the emperor. He wants to take this credit and ask the Queen Mother of the West to exchange for the medicine of immortality.

To sum up, it is a joint interpretation of Guizang and Huainanzi.

You will find that the perspective changes from Heng'e to Yi.

On the one hand, what Heng'e did, and on the other hand, what happened from Yi's perspective after Heng'e was done.

This story begins to shift from the heroine to the hero.

So what's next? After the Western Han Dynasty, what happened to the legend?

they got married……

Heng'e officially became Dayi's wife in the literature.

The first person who said Chang'e was Dayi's wife was a man named Gao Yu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He annotated "Huainanzi" and added his own interpretation.

In fact, in the age of Gaoyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the allusions to "continued strings" should have already begun to be used.

People at that time, according to the description of "Huainanzi", then began to spread in the society that Chang'e stole her husband's immortality medicine, which is what I called the "mainstream understanding".

All the high lures who have this kind of thinking are annotated on it: Heng'e, Yi's wife.

Dangdang! Just these four words have far-reaching influence! Directly issued marriage certificates to the two ancient figures!

Since then, the folks of the Wei, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties are simply overjoyed, yo! love story! And stealing her husband's immortality medicine? I ate this melon!

The related legends are getting richer and richer, and the process of the two from falling in love to parting is becoming more and more detailed! Even who the third party was and why they were stealing the medicine became more and more clear as time went on! Have a name and a surname! The lines are rich and colorful, and the psychological activities are getting deeper and deeper!

From then on, until today, everyone thinks that Chang'e and Dayi are husband and wife.

I won't go into the specific mythology, you all know it.

Do you feel like Nuwa Fuxi? At first, the two seemed to have nothing to do with each other, then the stories of the two were brought together, and then the two got married. The man was the protagonist with countless halos, and the woman was a vassal, or even a character who was criticized.

Therefore, the further back, the legend of Yi became more and more abundant.

It is worth mentioning that the people of the Tang Dynasty began to add drama to Chang'e again, referring to Chang'e as 'moon spirit', which actually means the moon god, don't get me wrong.

In addition, she began to say that she ate it not to steal the medicine, but to protect it from being taken away by the bad guys. As a result, he couldn't help himself and flew to the moon.

But as I said earlier, the Shang Dynasty's "Gui Zang" clearly stated that Heng'e was ready to go to the moon after eating, but she had not yet left. When she was about to leave, she would find a person named 'Youhuang', fortune-tellers, and tell me How will this trip.

From this, it can be seen that there is no such thing as involuntary ascension.

In addition, it is absolutely impossible to protect medicine. The earliest record is 'stealing'. All the records about Chang'e before the Tang Dynasty were all 'stealing medicine', and 'stealing' was the most central key word in this story.

Chang'e briefly rose to prominence through the Tang Dynasty, and then continued to be reduced to a vase. In general, the protagonist is Yi, and Chang'e is the vassal.

That is to say, conversely, in the period of the Five Emperors in ancient times, if the Shanhaijing recorded this incident, then Heng'e should be the central character of the whole story.

In the tombs of the Han Dynasty, there is a picture of Chang'e flying to the moon. In the picture, Chang'e has a human head and a snake body, and even a human head and a dragon body, because it has legs like dragon claws.

And the moon she was flying towards had a toad in the middle. This is in line with "Gui Zang".

However, it didn't turn into a toad, but there was a toad on the moon where Chang'e went.

Note that this is a cultural relic, reflecting the Han Dynasty, when they believed that Chang'e, like Nuwa and the Queen Mother of the West, had the head of a human and the body of a snake.

However, "Huainanzi" didn't even mention this.

After thinking about it, there is only one possibility, that is, the authors of "Huainanzi", including scholars of the Western Han Dynasty, feel that this is not important, it is just a legend passed down by old people, saying that Heng'e is the head of a man and the body of a snake.

Even the Western Han version of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" describes Heng'e as a human head and a snake body! So Western Han scholars know this image.

But they don't know why the human head and snake body came from and how this image came to be.

Who is Heng'e, is she an ancestor? No, what did she invent? Stealing the immortality medicine of the Queen Mother of the West, it is not to repair the sky, nor to control the water, nor to shoot the sun.

So just focus on the key points, extract Chang'e's deeds, and integrate them with Dayi's story. The story of stealing medicine will be told from the perspective of Dayi, with Dayi as the protagonist.

In addition, there is another possibility that can be explained, that is, the Western Han people think that Heng'e is Chang Xi. You should all know this statement. Chang Xi was born in December, and Heng'e is also the moon god, so they are actually the same person.

In this regard, I have a lot to refute, but if I can't write it down here, I won't talk about it.

All in all, get down to business.

According to the evolution of Heng'e's image, the legend evolves, and the status evolves. We can infer that in ancient times, or in the ancient version of Shanhaijing.

First, Heng'e is the core character, and even her status may be very high, at least she can't be an ordinary person with certain abilities, otherwise how can she steal medicine? It's just because she 'left'... So there isn't much news about Heng'e's past, only the story of stealing medicine and flying to the moon.

Second, Heng'e and Dayi were not husband and wife, and they didn't even know each other at all. At most, they knew Dayi and the Queen Mother of the West had medicine, so they stole it. Long after stealing, the raw rice was cooked. Yi Cai went to the Queen Mother of the West to ask for the medicine of immortality.

The two, in fact, do not intersect! This point is reflected in "Gui Zang", let alone "Shan Hai Jing"?

However, it may be because Dayi asked for medicine and learned that the medicine of the Queen Mother of the West was stolen by Heng'e, and then he knew that there was such a person, and then Dayi passed it down.

If Dayi hadn't spread this story, the Heng'e incident would probably have been extremely obscure and secretive, and it would have been limited to people like the Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, and the common people would never have known about it.

Remember when I said that there was a record in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that someone was executed for stealing medicine?

It may be that Heng'e's success in stealing the medicine made many people want to follow suit, and ended up hitting the gun.

Third, Heng'e's human head and snake body should be mentioned in "Shan Hai Jing". However, after the Western Han Dynasty, this text was lost.

Fourth, Heng'e was not able to fly after taking medicine, which was a saying only in the Tang Dynasty.

Before that, it was only said that stealing medicine to the moon, Heng'e should have some way to land on the moon. This kind of channel may require an immortal medicine to pass through.

Fifth... At this point, it's time for me to reveal a fact that I concealed earlier.

That is the record in Guizang. Actually, I changed two words.

In the bamboo slips of the Chu Tomb in the Warring States Period, the real text on "Guizang" is actually: "In the past, I always stole the medicine of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West, and took it with the moon. It will go, and the piece will be in You Huang. You Huang Zhanzhi said. : 'Ji. Go back to my sister elegantly, and go west alone. When the sky is dark, don't panic, don't be afraid, and then you will be very prosperous'. Heng I will hold my body in the moon, it is a toad."

That's right, it's not Heng, and it's not E!

In the Shang Dynasty Book of Changes, "Gui Zang", it is recorded as 'Heng I'.

Is it male or female, I don't know!

If called Heng I, it should be a male!

Later generations, for some purpose, defined this existence as a woman. After the sex change, I began to think that 'I' was actually a shorthand for the word 'e'.

So Heng I became Heng'e.

Because of the taboo of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Liu Heng, the word Heng was changed to Heng.

Later, it was synonymous, and Heng Ging became Chang'e as we know it in later generations.

Glyph changes can be used to make complex characters less and more concise. Few of the original pictographs are simple, but later evolution has become more complex.

Especially the female side, it is almost impossible to abbreviate it. Other characters can be abbreviated, but the female side is different, because important surnames in ancient times all have 'female'.

Will 'Ji' be shortened to 'Chen'? Will 'Si' be abbreviated to 'E'?

There has been the word 'e' a long time ago. This word is a commonly used word. I have never seen a character written as "My Queen".

Also, the oracle bone inscriptions with the word 'I' and the word "e" are evidenced by the excavated cultural relics. The oracle bone inscriptions of the two characters are actually very different... Female is a radical that must not be missed.

Of course, everything is not absolute, it may be shorthand, and I am not an authority.

But here, let me think that, "Guizang" is written in this way, then the more ancient "Shan Hai Jing" is written in this way.

So, what does 'constant me' mean? In the oracle bone inscriptions, the word 'I' is the pictogram of the person who holds the dagger, that is, the meaning of the royal family and the nobility.

E's oracle bone inscriptions mean royal women, noble women.

Constant, it is the appearance of the pictographic moon gradually filling up. It means lasting, permanent, lasting.

In terms of meaning, staying in front and making use of it means 'make me eternal'!

'I' is a royal family, which can be extended to mean 'make me an eternal royal family'!

Combined with the core of the story of "the old man always stole the medicine of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West, and took it with the moon".

Those who steal medicine may really be called 'Heng I', which has no special meaning.

If there is a special meaning, it means that he is actually an 'anonymous'.

Gender unknown, deeds unknown, name unknown. But 'constant me' is a dream that every nobleman wanted to achieve in ancient times.

Take the medicine of immortality, land on the moon, enter the toad, and hold on to me!

This is a set of semi-public secrets and procedures that were circulated among the royal families at that time, and many people want to complete the road to the sky.

And this dream, the normal channel, is like Yi, relying on merit and virtue.

Abnormal channels are stealing!

And 'Heng I' was the first person to steal. It turned into a human head and a snake body, passed the channel verification that humans cannot pass, entered the toad from the moon, and left.

Who is this person, the world almost does not know, and it is even possible that the Queen Mother of the West does not know!

Yes, I don't know who stole it. If I knew, I should have failed in the end.

Just because he didn't know, this person didn't even have a name, so he was named after 'Heng I'.

Yi went to the Queen Mother of the West full of hope. The Queen Mother of the West was also very embarrassed and careless. I never expected that these ignorant fools would actually steal their own elixir of immortality!

The Queen Mother of the West could only tell Dayi: Someone stole my medicine, landed on the moon, entered the toad, and left.

Yi was very desperate about this. He was suffering and depressed, because the short life of human beings was not enough for him to persist until the next batch of medicines.

All his hard work was in vain and this opportunity was missed forever.

At this point, the matter of 'Heng I' has been coaxed into the world. The kings and gods of all places have heard about this, and they said in their hearts: What? Can you steal?

But obviously, after this incident, it is impossible for humans to steal the immortal medicine again.

The first time is a fluke, there can be no second time.

The "Heng I" thing has become a swan song, so that it is used directly, specifically referring to the only successful person in that year.

Taking this road to the sky as the name, let this anonymous person have this unique name.

legend! The only legend.

His legend has been handed down all the time, but in the era when the ancient things have been forgotten, the world just thinks it is strange: what kind of ghost legend is this? Steal medicine? To the moon? What about next? Meaning? What's the point of educating? Greedy?

Therefore, this legend has not been taken seriously, but only as an example of becoming an immortal.

The ancestors of ancient times, if there are deeds passed down to the present, there must be virtue!

Even if it is a villain, there must be a decent side to be set off by it.

"Heng I steal medicine and fly to the moon", as a separate legend, spread to the Zhou Dynasty, and was finally used.

He began to fuse and interact with another hero involved in the immortality medicine, that is, Dayi.

And for this purpose, as a villain, he turned his sex into a woman.

Later, the old routine, you get married.

So, a brand new legend of Hengwo appeared, no, it should be the legend of Dayi, adding another stroke. Heng I blended into it and became a supporting role.

The values ​​of the Chinese have been gradually changing. Every dynasty, mythology will be biased towards the values ​​of that time.

So repeated enrichment, change, fusion.

A legendary ascension against the sky, so inexplicable, turned into a woman, married Dayi, turned into a 'hero beauty love family ethics drama', and was teased and played by Zhu Bajie!

At this point, you probably think it's over, right? Thirteen thousand words...

But no, because there is another key person that you should not ignore.

'There is yellow'!

As I said earlier, this story was spread because Dayi asked the Queen Mother of the West to distribute medicine, and then he learned about it and spread it out.

This is just a possibility.

The legend may have been spread from other sources.

Because before the "Huainanzi", there was no documentary record, Dayi asked the Queen Mother of the West for the elixir of immortality.

As I said, Dayi was forcibly pulled in by later generations to make up for the particularly unethical story of "Heng I steal medicine". Borrowing the inspiration from the story of "Hengwo Stealing Medicine", it only strengthened a wave of Da Yi.

Therefore, there is no big Yi in the story, and there is no big Yi from the beginning to the end!

The records in "Gui Zang" have clearly shown that, aside from 'Heng Wo' himself, 'Youhuang' is the only one who knows it!

do you remember? I pointed out a sentence earlier: Chang'e has found a person who is not afraid of the Queen Mother of the West, and whose status is not inferior to that of the Queen Mother of the West.

Why do I say this, because 'Heng I' dared to tell him about this, and asked him for advice: After I do this, what will happen to my trip to the moon?

This itself has already shown that the person 'Youhuang' is very powerful.

'Youhuang' is also very powerful. He told 'Heng I': "Children, go ahead! You will encounter darkness, but don't be scared, don't be afraid, in the end there is infinite light!"

'Heng I' was very happy and left.

Only those who are not guilty of the Queen Mother of the West, "Heng I" can believe him.

Of course, it is also possible that 'constant me' is a child of 'you yellow'.

But this incident can be handed down and recorded in "Gui Zang", which shows the confidence of 'you yellow'.

Even if 'Heng Wo' is a pseudonym, 'Youhuang' may be a pseudonym, but as long as there is no evidence, it will be fine.

And it is very likely that 'Youhuang' taught 'Heng I' to do this!

He told 'Heng I', when, where, and how to steal the undead medicine, what the undead medicine looks like, eat it immediately after getting it, and then go to the moon through what channel...

This series may have been secretly told to his children by 'Youhuang' after knowing it in a certain capacity.

Originally, there was no such method in the world, because it was a secret, so the Queen Mother of the West was not prepared, and then let 'Heng Wo' succeed by luck.

With this kind of confidence, this kind of source of information, and the descendants are mortal people, there are no more than five in Shanhaijing, or even fewer.

So who is 'You Huang'?

I guess it is the Yellow Emperor.

First of all, the 'Heng I' event must be a very early event. If it is too late, everyone will know about the medicine of immortality, but it will not be so easy to succeed.

Secondly, I said the name 'Youhuang', not everyone can use it.

'There' is an affix, usually added to the front of the name.

And 'yellow', which appeared many times in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, was sacrificed to a very high standard by the Shang kings of all dynasties, and was a high-status ancestor.

The "Yellow" in the Yin Shang's "Gui Zang" basically means that the Yellow Emperor did not run away.

And the Yellow Emperor is indeed true to the Queen Mother of the West, which is reflected in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Huang Di recorded this incident, and it was only after he died that someone discovered it and spread it one after another.

This is the only case in all the original legends throughout the ages, which clearly records the successful case of taking the elixir of immortality and ascending to heaven.

Besides, all the records in Shanhaijing are failure cases.

It is rumored that after the Yellow Emperor's merits were completed, the royal dragon ascended to heaven and rode away on the dragon.

Will it also become a human head and a snake body at the end?

There is no evidence for this, I should still be the Yellow Emperor and die in the end.

But although the Yellow Emperor died, he succeeded and let one of his descendants run to the dark and boundless space.

There is nothing more "gloomy" than the moon and space.

But on the other side of the long dark road is infinite light.

Persevere and endure, you can walk with one foot and see with one eye!

The night will surely pass, and the light will surely come.

This is the story of the only Ascendant against the sky and his father.

Later generations were called: "Chang'e flies to the moon!"

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