Chapter 1064 The Eighth Thought of Shan Hai Jing: Heaven's Punisher

A book friend strongly requested me to write about Xingtian, so don't blame me for shattering your dream.

In fact, according to my plan, it is not my turn to write about Xingtian, because I haven't had time to write about Huangdi and Jiutian Xuannu.

My plan is to write about these two first, and then write about Yinglong and Zhulong, so that Xingtian can be explained.

Then outline the legendary epic of Xuanyuan's enthronement.

However, now that the new book has been published, it will probably take a long time for Shanhaijing to update one more chapter. Let's satisfy the book friend's wish to read Xingtian.

There is actually not much to say about Xingtian, and his story is not as important as Jiutian Xuannu.

First of all, one thing to remember is that the name Xingtian should have been given after his death.

From the pictographic oracle bone script and bronze script, the word "Xing" is an execution platform with a head clamped, plus a big knife next to it. Public execution means "Xing".

Needless to say, "Tian", adding a horizontal line to the head of a person means that the sky is above the head of the person.

Sometimes, it also refers to the head of a person, because the head of a person is as important to a person as the sky. The human head is also located in the "sky-like" part of the human body.

So Xingtian is probably the oldest and most stylish way of expressing the word beheading.

When used as a name, it can be derived to mean "the one whose head is separated from the human head". Or it can mean "Xing Yutian", which means "the one beheaded by the heaven".

If people in ancient times said "that Xingtian", they might actually refer to the "first person to be publicly beheaded" that year.

Xingtian, who has such an honor, may not necessarily be the reason for being the "first", but may also be because of his noble status or unforgettable.

Then, even if his name is forgotten, everyone uses the title "Xingtian" to refer to him.

What is this like?

Do you know Yi Ya? A famous chef in the pre-Qin period. And Pao Ding, also a famous chef of his generation, is a master of butchering cattle.

So when later generations respect cooking skills, they all say "Yi Ya's way".

And when talking about knife skills, they call it "Pao Ding's technique".

Xing Tian is in a similar situation. He was definitely not called Xing Tian, ​​but because his public beheading was so famous and impressive, after his death, the ancients spread his deeds and called him Xing Tian.

The name used was a particularly nice term for the public beheading, which was used to replace his real name.

As for what Xing Tian's real name was, it is no longer possible to verify.

Some say he was a subordinate of Chi You, and some say he was a subordinate of Yan Emperor, but there is no basis for this. In fact, there is only this record of Xing Tian left, and other pre-Qin documents did not mention this person at all.

So why is Xing Tian unforgettable? He was just a loser, a beheaded guy without even a name.

The reason, I think you all know, Xing Tian danced with Gan Qi, and his fierce ambition was always there.

He became famous because he died.

He shocked the world because he died.

So no one remembered his name when he was alive, and it disappeared in the long river of history. But the shock of his death was forever engraved in the hearts of people at that time, and eventually became famous through the ages, leaving behind the legend of Xing Tian.

So what is the earliest source of this legend?

There is no doubt that the Classic of Mountains and Seas: "Xingtian and the emperor came here to compete for the god, and the emperor cut off his head and buried it in the Changyang Mountain. He used his nipples as eyes and his navel as a mouth, and danced with a halberd."

The ancients wrote a few words, and an unyielding will jumped on the paper.

This is also the only record of Xingtian.

I still believe this record because it continues the consistent cold style of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

There is no praise for Xingtian's performance, or description of its principle.

Why did Xingtian still dance there after his head was cut off? Is it because his fierce will is always there, and his indomitable will supports him? It is not written, not mentioned, and not hinted.

That's right! Who knows what he is thinking?

In comparison, the sentence "Kuafu did not measure his strength" mentioned by Kuafu... makes me feel that it is not objective, and it is obviously processed by later generations.

Most of the records in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are cold and straightforward, a very honest style of writing.

This section of Xingtian is more in line with it.

The content is very straightforward, I think you can understand it without translation.

The only thing that needs to be explained is the meaning of some specific words in it.

In different eras, words have different meanings in different national conditions.

There are countless interpretations for this sentence alone: ​​"To compete with the emperor for the gods".

There is no need to talk about the emperor. I have talked about so many emperors before. The emperor is the common ruler of the world.

So what about the gods?

Many experts in the mainstream academic community believe that the emperor is the god when interpreting the Shanhaijing, and it is a special name for the gods of the sky by the Chinese people.

This is obviously wrong, and I don't agree with it anyway.

When I interpreted it before, I said that the Shanhaijing is a strictly classified historical and geographical book.

I think it is the earliest work of mankind that uses taxonomy!

It is a person, a god, a mountain, a water, an animal, a bird... The author has classified them one by one. Whether it is right or not, he at least classified them according to his understanding.

The record is extremely calm, just like an academic report. If you just look at the Wuzang Shanjing, one mountain is connected to another, and what is in each mountain is clear and rigorous in format!

This is a great tool for me to interpret the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Therefore, I know that Jingwei is just a bird, neither a god nor a human.

Respecting this format, this classification principle, and this ancient sense of ritual are the cornerstones of my interpretation of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

I once said that the gods in the Classic of Mountains and Seas may not be what we have now. At least they should be retro and cannot be exactly the same as the current meaning.

At that time, I said I would explain it later.

Now it can be explained.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is filled with a large number of categories such as "You Shen" and "You Shen Yan".

For example: "There is a god with a human face and a snake body and a red body. His eyes are straight and straight. His silence is dark and his vision is bright. He does not eat or sleep and does not rest. The wind and rain are the homage. This is the nine-yin candle, which is the candle dragon."

This is a typical existence classified as a god.

The old rule is to explain God by tracing back to its most ancient meaning.

As for the most ancient meaning, we have to look at oracle bone inscriptions.

Bronze inscriptions are from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and oracle bone inscriptions are from the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Because our country has a hieroglyphic writing system, it has the same origin and the meaning can be understood from the hieroglyphs.

So how to write the word "god" in oracle bone inscriptions? You may not believe it when I tell you, but that word is "electricity".

You may want to say, aren’t you talking about the word “divine”? How to turn off the electricity?

But yes, in Oracle, these two words are the same!

Pictographically, it’s like a bolt of lightning!

''It probably looks like this, a reverse S. I really can't type it.

In short, it is the word "电", and it is indeed used to mean electricity.

But why should we say that it is also a divine word? It is because in some oracle bone inscriptions, it is indeed used as a divine word.

Many of the additional meanings of oracle bones can be deciphered by relating them to context.

The Yin merchants were a superstitious tribe, and they used the word "神" a lot. Therefore, scholars looked at the context and found out why the place where the word "神" should be was written with "电" instead.

From this we can see that in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, another meaning of the word electricity is God.

Strange, didn’t Yin merchants worship birds? Why is electricity considered a god? This side evidence proves that before the oracle bone inscriptions, there must have been earlier writing!

Oracle bone inscriptions are definitely not the earliest form of Chinese. It must have a more primitive system.

I'm going too far. In short, relevant experts explained that it is normal to regard electricity as a god.

In Chinese, there is often one word that represents multiple meanings. After all, our writing system is like this, with pictograms, extensions, broad senses, narrow senses, nouns and verbs.

The ancients could not explain the natural phenomena, and the wind, rain, ice and frost felt magical. Among the natural phenomena, the most shocking one was undoubtedly ‘lightning’!

Therefore, after the ancient people invented the word "electricity", they extended the meaning of "god" to express concepts such as incomprehensible to humans, admirable, full of power, and incomparable miraculous.

This is the mainstream explanation. Well, I can't refute it, this is probably the most reasonable explanation.

I personally support this explanation.

The meaning of the word "god" in our country originated from the ancients' incomprehension of lightning. It makes perfect sense.

In later bronze inscriptions, the divine characters changed based on the electric characters.

People in the Zhou Dynasty added a radical to the word "electricity", which is a pictogram of using an altar to offer sacrifices.

An altar on the left and a lightning bolt on the right.

This is the word "神" in bronze inscriptions, and it also laid the foundation for later seal scripts, official scripts, and even modern Chinese characters. After that, the pictographic structure of bronze inscriptions was simplified, so that it became our current word "神".

Well, very reasonable, but it is incompatible with the classification of Shan Hai Jing.

Because according to this view, the gods in the eyes of the ancients before the Xia Dynasty refer to gods, immortals, supernatural beings, and the meaning of incomparable miraculousness is the same as in our modern times.

So it would be strange to connect it to the entire Classic of Mountains and Seas.

For example, "There is a god with the face of a human and the body of an animal, and his name is Plow."

This god called Plow, its characteristic is that it has a human face and an animal body... Well, the ancients couldn't understand it when they saw this thing. They felt it was very magical, and they thought it was awesome and were in awe, so they called it a god?

So why "there is a beast, its shape is like a leopard with a long tail, a human head with the ears of an ox, and one eye, and it is called Zhujian." But it is a beast?

There is also "There is a beast. It looks like a dog but has a human face. It is good at throwing. It smiles when it sees people. Its name is like a mountain. It moves like the wind. When you see it, there will be a strong wind in the world."

They all have human faces and animal bodies, and they are even very supernatural. Why are they not gods? But ‘there is a beast’? But beasts?

Some people may ask, maybe that thing is more like a human being, so it is called a god.

OK.

"The Republic of Yu is located in the southeast of it. Its people have long heads and feathers on their bodies."

"There is a country of Niu Li. There is a man without bones, the son of Dan Er."

"There is a man with three faces. He is the son of Zhuanxu. He has three faces and one arm. People with three faces will never die."

Why are these humans, equally weird, and why are they humans, gods, and beasts? So clearly distinguished?

Is it because of power? Does God have great power?

First of all, we exclude the real supernatural, that is to say, the thing called God, is it because the ancients seemed to think it was awesome?

OK.

"South of the West Sea, on the shore of quicksand, behind the red water and before the black water, there is a big mountain called Kunlun Hill. There is a god with a human face and a tiger's body, with writings and tails, all white, and underneath it there is a weak water. There is a mountain of fire outside it. There are people wearing hats, tiger teeth, and leopard tails. The cave is called the Queen Mother of the West."

Note that combined with other descriptions of Lu Wu in the Book of Mountains and Seas, we can know that this god with a "human face and a tiger body" and "a text and a tail" is the gatekeeper god of Kunlun, Lu Wu.

According to other descriptions about Kunlun in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, we also know that the owner of Kunlun Hill is the Queen Mother of the West.

The classification of Queen Mother of the West here... clearly states, 'someone'! ‘Someone’! ‘Someone’!

The Queen Mother of Kunlun West is a human being, while the god Lu Wu is the gatekeeper.

What's going on? What's wrong with the author? Why didn't he classify the Queen Mother of the West as a god?

This is the Queen Mother of the West! Three thousand years after the author of Shanhaijing, countless descendants worshipped her as a god. As the author of Shanhaijing, how come you, as an ancestor, have a different understanding from us? You actually said that she is a human?

Well, I can't say: "You are just the author of Shanhaijing, you know nothing about Shanhaijing."

This is ridiculous.

As I said, everything is based on Shanhaijing as the truth and as the basic premise.

Then we can see that the author of Shanhaijing is very calm in writing!

A human is a human, and a god is a god.

Whether the shape is weird or not, whether it is understandable or not, whether it is powerful or not, it has nothing to do with classification.

So, here I want to mention that there is a new saying that is popular now, that is, wizards.

All the gods in Shanhaijing are wizards. They wear makeup, tattoos, feathers on their heads, horns, and animal skins. They are weird and deceive the people and call themselves gods.

Therefore, there are so many "gods" in Shanhaijing, but in fact, they are all wizards in our eyes.

OK, this explanation is reasonable.

But unfortunately, I don't agree with it.

Maybe the ancient wizards did fool the people at that time, but they definitely couldn't fool the author of Shanhaijing!

It's very simple. In Shanhaijing, there is a category of "witch"!

If gods are witches, then why is there a category of witches? Isn't this repetitive?

"There is a sacred mountain, Wuxian, Wuji, Wupan, Wupeng, Wugu, Wuzhen, Wuli, Wudi, Wuxie, Wuluo, ten witches, rise and fall from here, and hundreds of medicines are here."

It is clearly written here that the "ten witches" rise and fall here, go up to the sky and come down.

This is a witch, they play with herbs, and the author of Shanhaijing understands it very clearly.

"There is a person named Baigao, who goes up and down here, as far as the sky."

You see, the existence in this paragraph is said to be a person again. Obviously, this person named Baigao can also go up and down.

Why is he not a witch? Why isn't he a god?

Why is he a human?

In summary, we can know that the classification of human gods has nothing to do with shape or status.

It is texture! It is a material classification. It is another kind of "living thing" that people at that time could distinguish and clearly know is not a human, not an animal, and not even a flesh and blood body.

"There are many fish of He Luo among them, with one head and ten bodies, and its sound is like a barking dog. Eating it will cause carbuncle." I have said this, it is an octopus.

Although this thing has one head and ten bodies, it looks extremely strange.

But ask yourself, when you see an octopus, do you think it is a god?

No, even a child knows that it is an animal.

It is not because adults teach it, but the texture.

It is the kind of lively life breath.

Let me give another example, such as a bear and a teddy bear.

They look the same, and they both move, but they both cry.

But I think no one can tell which is the little bear and which is the big teddy bear, right?

Now let's distinguish the following description objects.

There is a beast, its shape is like a giant dog, black body, canine teeth, it walks upright, and its bark is like a tiger.

There is a god, its shape is like a bear, its bark is like a tiger, and its arms are folded over its head!

May I ask, what are they? This example, I think is clear enough, raise your hands if you don't understand!

Those who raised their hands upstairs, go and bully her!

In short, don't treat the ancients as fools.

The ancients just had a sparse vocabulary, but the sparseness was refined!

When they saw monsters they had never seen before, no matter how terrifying or magical they were, at least the author of Shanhaijing calmly recorded... There is a beast!

Because he knew that it was an animal! It was an animal! It was an animal!

Living things and non-living things give people a different obvious feeling, texture! A kind of difference that the ancients could see, internal, essential, different!

Countless people call Shanhaijing weird and disordered, but I can see two words from the gaps between the words!

Reason!

This is an encyclopedia with rigorous classification.

That era had its own national conditions, the "conventions" of that era, and the common sense of that era!

Just like the author of Shan Hai Jing never explained "dragon", "human", or "fish".

So he did not explain what "god" was in Shan Hai Jing.

Because this is common sense, the author believes that as long as you know the characters, you can understand its meaning. Why read Shan Hai Jing if you can't read?

So for the same image of a human head and a beast body, he only needs to add a sentence "there is a god" in front, and people of that era will understand it.

Because the category of god itself already contains a huge amount of information! It has already introduced the "texture" that is difficult to describe in words.

What does this look like? Just like our report says: "There is a machine that looks like a dog, it can run and bark by itself."

"There is a person who looks like a dog, he can run and bark by himself."

Isn't this in the same vein? When we describe something, shouldn't we say from the beginning that there is an XX?

Let's give a category first. This kind of grammar that we are used to has been used a lot in Shan Hai Jing!

If we don't add this sentence, just look at 'It looks like a dog, it can run and bark. '

Who knows what it is! People of that era would misunderstand it!

But if we add a category, we can understand it.

In summary, I think 'god' is not an animal.

Because it is neither a ‘human’ nor a ‘beast’, let alone a flower, grass, fish or bird.

For people of that era to have a separate ‘god’ category, it is conceivable that its texture must be very special, probably like dead objects such as stone or iron.

But! It does not use the term ‘stone’ or the like.

So gods must not be ordinary dead objects, they may move, or have a special structure, special meaning, and special function.

After this elimination method, I can only think of… tools.

There is no category of ‘tools’ in Shanhaijing.

Maybe there is, but it is called a god.

Let’s go back to the sentence I posted earlier: “There is a god, with a human face and a beast body, named plough.”

Oh my god, it’s too short. If it is defined as a god, how can this thing be a god?

But what if a god is a tool? A machine?

Is this god named plow… the one who plows the land?

I don't know. I only know that a large number of gods in Shanhaijing were born by emperors such as Huangdi, Zhuanxu, and Shaohao.

"Born", as I explained before, means creation and derivation.

So it is actually the emperors who invented various machines and tools, and they are called gods.

To be more rational, then, I can say that in ancient times, the so-called gods were nothing more than the crystallization of national wisdom, but special products created by great leaders, magical man-made objects!

It can be a magnificent wonder, a mechanism that can guard a place, or a device that benefits the people.

There can be gods that shine like candles, gods that can drain water, gods that can turn mountains and split the earth, and gods that are immortal.

In the era created by the ancient emperors, gods were just tools.

...

In fact, it is best to end here. Alas, it is so annoying. I was asked to interpret Xingtian...

As I said above, it is best to interpret Huangdi, Jiutian Xuannu, Yinglong, and the classification of "Gods" before interpreting a small story like Xingtian...

It's a bit regrettable.

Regarding the above explanation of God, there are actually many things I haven't said, after all, it is not specifically about God.

The above is a more realistic face of God. Many people may not have thought that the God of our nation has never been a supernatural thing.

It is difficult for us in modern times to believe that the meaning of our God is not some weird thing, but a very practical wonder, a very practical project, and a very practical tool.

It specifically refers to the created thing!

We have been a creative nation since ancient times.

Rather than a nation gifted by God!

Gods, not people, are created.

It's just that we have forgotten the wisdom and rationality of our ancient ancestors.

The humanistic thoughts of our nation were all laid by them. Man will conquer nature, break the connection between heaven and earth, do not succumb to nature, and persevere. These are the spirits that have appeared since then.

What is a god? Is it higher than the emperor? The emperor is the king of great merit!

All the gods were born by the emperors. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the gods guarded the Nine Wells Rock of Kunlun, the four gates, and the fields of the emperors.

The Queen Mother of the West, the Lord of Kunlun, is great, but it is humans, how magnificent!

The scenery behind this, and the humanistic thoughts of that era, how profound, modern people may not be able to imagine.

After reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas, I can fully understand this feeling, and also understand why we are a nation that can cut off the connection between heaven and earth.

Maybe we have lost and forgotten too much, but the spirit has been engraved in our bones.

From the gods in oracle bone inscriptions to the gods in bronze inscriptions, the biggest change is to add an altar next to the lightning!

I never expected that the most superstitious Shang people did not add it, but the Zhou people with thick eyebrows and big eyes added it...

Once this altar was added! For thousands of years, the word "god" began to develop towards our definition today.

Alas, in summary, this is my most rational interpretation.

As usual, let's do something sci-fi.

Why did the word "electricity" represent God in the Shang Dynasty?

What happened? From the perspective of Shanhaijing, the more I think about it, the more confused I get.

Could it be that the Shang people thought that the greatest, most shocking, and most magical invention in ancient times was... electricity?

First of all, I have to state that I do not object to the mainstream explanation of oracle bone experts that I introduced to you earlier, because it is very reasonable.

I am just making another bold guess here that God was created in the Shanhaijing era and in ancient times.

But not all created things can be called gods. They must also be related to electricity.

For example, it needs to be driven by electricity... or it can control electricity... at least, it carries electricity...

Therefore, when the author of Shanhaijing classified, he did not use the word "device" because it was not comprehensive enough.

He chose to use the word "electricity". Because they are "electrical appliances".

This word was used for a long time, and by the Shang Dynasty, the technology of electrical appliances had disappeared, so the word "electricity" had the meaning of gods.

Shan Hai Jing is full of "gods". Could it be "electricity"?

Or, does he mean that this thing is an electric object?

Electricity-driven creations can move, make sounds, look strange, have special functions, and even have a little intelligence.

In this way, many gods in Shan Hai Jing can be explained.

The body of a living being with flesh and blood, no matter how strange, is called a beast.

The body of a metal instrument, no matter how mediocre, is called a god.

Gods are created by humans, and beasts are born by nature.

Then Zhulong...

Forget it, forget it, I'm off topic, let's get back to it, and I'll talk about it in detail later.

The above interpretation of gods is my personal interpretation. I haven't seen any similar statements so far. It's purely my own brain hole. Once this concept comes out, you can actually interpret the Classic of Mountains and Seas by yourself...

In short, after understanding these, we can now return to "Xingtian".

"Xingtian and the emperor came here to compete for gods. The emperor cut off his head and buried it in Changyang Mountain. He used his nipples as eyes and his navel as a mouth, and danced with Ganqi."

I don't know what Xingtian is called, and it may even be a tribe.

Who is the emperor? It is most likely the Yellow Emperor. I and the mainstream academic community both think so.

First, by elimination, he should not be the Black Emperor Zhuanxu.

Because the Black Emperor Zhuanxu also has a similar story: "Gonggong competed with Zhuanxu for the emperor".

Pay attention to details.

One is "competing with the emperor for gods", and the other is "competing with Zhuanxu for the emperor".

There is no doubt that the former was fighting for the god, while the other party had already claimed to be the emperor, and what they were fighting for was the god as an instrument.

The latter, however, all called him Zhuanxu, which shows that when Gonggong was fighting, Zhuanxu was not yet the emperor. They were fighting for the throne.

This is the difference between fighting for the god and fighting for the emperor.

Later generations did not know the meaning, so they spread the story that Xingtian rebelled against Huangdi, wanted to be the emperor himself, and was defeated and beheaded by Huangdi.

However, in my opinion, Xingtian was obviously not worthy of being the emperor, otherwise we should know more stories about Xingtian!

You should know that Gonggong has too many well-known stories, and there are many chapters in Shanhaijing that mention Gonggong.

By the way, the prototype of the legend of the battle between Gonggong and Zhurong is actually the so-called "Gonggong and Zhuanxu fighting for the emperor".

These two are the same story.

Zhurong is Zhuanxu. At least Zhurong of that generation was Zhuanxu.

This is an official position, a high position, but not an emperor's official position, equivalent to the Minister of Energy, a national-level cadre.

Before Zhuanxu became emperor, he couldn't have been a commoner! He was Zhurong before he became emperor and made great contributions. I will interpret this later.

In short, Gonggong fought with Zhurong and Zhuanxu for the throne. In the end, Gonggong didn't care about the lives of the people and released floods to lose the support of the people, so Zhuanxu won and became the Black Emperor.

In summary, Gonggong was an official position with a very strong presence in ancient times, and his clan often met the minimum requirements for being an emperor.

Throughout the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Gonggong always opposed the candidates for the emperor and lost every time.

Alas, Danzo.

Anyway, this can indirectly show that Xingtian is not worthy of being an emperor, especially competing with Huangdi. Why? Yandi and Jiuli were convinced.

In addition to dancing with Ganqi, what other stories does Xingtian have? No, this is a clan that was not very strong or very weak in that era, or even... an individual.

If it is a clan, then this is a story of a small tribe fighting against the Yellow Emperor, wanting the "god" created by the Yellow Emperor, such as Gundam or something...haha.

In short, if you want it, you fight. Then even if you lose, you still refuse to accept it, and you are indomitable and unyielding, and finally completely perish.

I don't like this statement. I tend to think that Xingtian is an "individual".

After all, from the original text, "Xingtian and the emperor came here to fight for the god. The emperor cut off his head and buried it in the Changyang Mountain. He used his nipples as eyes and his navel as a mouth, and danced with a Ganqi."

This is more like a person, not a tribe.

If it is an individual, there are several other statements.

For example, Xingtian was an unknown person. He wanted to rob the god created by the emperor, but he was publicly executed and beheaded.

According to the pictographic shape of the word " Punishment ", it is a person being placed on a torture device with his head clamped and a knife next to him.

So this must be a public execution.

And in this posture, it is normal for a person to be able to move after death. As long as he has a strong will, he can indeed struggle for a while after his head is cut off.

This may have been very shocking to the bystanders at the time, so this description was left.

The above is probably what you think of the interpretation, right?

Unfortunately, this is only the second level. I said that the author of Shanhaijing has a very calm style of writing.

He would not write down the words "using breasts as eyes" for no reason.

In my opinion, since this word is in Shanhaijing, it must have happened!

So the third level of interpretation, is Xingtian really a person?

In fact, after interpreting to this point, I should introduce some concepts proposed by Jiu Tian Xuan Nu when interpreting it. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to interpret Jiu Tian Xuan Nu...

In short, this text does not classify Xingtian, so it may be an "electrical appliance".

Xingtian is a robot, which can explain why he can still observe with the optical sensor on his chest after his head is chopped off, and can also speak with the speaker on his abdomen, and wield a shield and an axe with both hands.

Tsk tsk, intelligent machine crisis?

This also explains why a person who was chopped off by Huangdi had to be specially recorded...

This is not an ordinary person provoking Huangdi, but a "divine weapon" rebelling.

This artifact Xingtian, whether it was made by Huangdi himself or given by the sky, I don’t know...

Since the fourth layer will attack Huangdi, it is most likely given by the sky.

This can also explain why the "fight for the gods" is not because Xingtian is greedy, but to recycle.

The war is over, Xuanyuan has become the emperor, so Xingtian, according to his mission, should now recycle Huangdi's "equipment".

The so-called Xingtian may not mean "the one beheaded by the sky", but "the guillotine from the sky".

"The executioner of the sky!"

If the Yellow Emperor is not honest and does not return the "gods", then the Yellow Emperor's head will be cut off.

And as you all know the result, Huang Di was so daring that Xingtian, who was supposed to be the executioner, was publicly executed instead.

Huang Di refused to give it and Xing Tian asked him for it. Huang Di refused to give it and even captured Xing Tian and sent him to the guillotine.

This can also explain why Huangdi wanted to bury Xingtian!

After all, there is someone above. The executioner came from the sky and chopped him to death just because he didn't want to pay back. It must not be good.

so……

"Alas, everyone, it's not that I didn't want to return it. I was about to return it when he came up and attacked me. I had no choice but to catch him and chop off his head. Alas, it's so pitiful. There was an error in the program, right? Although he was the one who moved first. But I was also impulsive, so I might as well bury him..."

Diplomatic wisdom, conflict is okay, but don’t break up.

Huang Di probably wanted to study the body, so he buried only the head and left the body.

It's a pity that Huang Di still thought too much. He underestimated the group of people in the sky and thought that he could fight with the 'gods' given by the other party.

Although he destroyed Xingtian, Xingtian was just an omnimachine, and the people in heaven did not come to recover it in person.

And although the head was buried, the body did not lose its ability to move.

When Huang Di approached, Xingtian's chest suddenly lit up, and he spoke from his abdomen: "Return the equipment! I will bring the 'gods' back to the sky!"

After that, he waved his shield and ax in threats.

There is no record of what happened in the end, but if you think about it, you know that Huang Di would not be so stupid as to be stubborn.

Cutting off Xing Tian's head is already a side game, and it is most likely testing the bottom line.

Seeing that Xing Tian had no head, but eyes could still grow on his chest, and his mouth could still open on his belly, and he was brandishing weapons with both hands, Huang Di knew that he was invincible and that he still lacked too much information.

Even if he had a way to deal with Xing Tian, ​​he knew nothing about the group of people in the sky, and the time was far from mature.

So in the end, Huang Di probably gave in and must have compromised something.

After that, he started traditional entertainment and tricked children...

During the war, he used his daughter as a tool to win victory, which is the story of Jiutian Xuannv.

During the peace period, the ‘Eternal Self’ was used to send out undercover agents.

He is a sinister emperor. He may have been a puppet of God, but he has never forgotten to resist.

Everything is just to find a way to solve the problem of "Heaven and Man", break the pattern of "Heaven and Earth", and end the "Ten Days Era".

His cooperation, his appeasement, and his evil intentions are ultimately just for the sake of a certain future emperor who can expel Jiu Ri and gain access to heaven and earth.

After collecting intelligence and laying a solid foundation, Huang Di himself can no longer see who will stand up in the end.

Why can the Black Emperor Zhuanxu know how to drive away aliens? Is it possible to know the laws that aliens have been hiding?

Perhaps it stems from the move of Huang Di's help in "Hengwo flies to the moon".

In the story about Xing Tian that has been passed down from ancient times, what we see is only Xing Tian’s unyielding spirit and his determination to fight even if he dies.

He is in good spirits, but with only this kind of spirit, he is ultimately a reckless man.

True courage is to bow your head.

He keeps his head down on the surface, but in his heart he insists on one thought.

That thought is called raising your head.

Maybe we only pay attention to the most dazzling and shocking shadow in this story.

He didn't notice, hidden in the shadow, the terrible thoughts in Huang Di's mind that no one knew about.

No one knows what Huangdi was thinking at that time. He killed Xingtian and buried him.

He buried the head but spared the body. Waving his body around, what did Huang Di think about at that moment?

If he is stubborn, he will definitely die. He must have chosen to bow his head. I chose to keep my head down and develop without wavering.

I combined it with the record of "Everlasting I Fly to the Moon"...and I was thinking...isn't this just a layout?

Perhaps the Yellow Emperor suppressed extremely rebellious thoughts in his heart, and a certain sense of resistance had already awakened.

Why does the other party want to ‘fight for gods’? Why take away a powerful and magical creation? Are these machines important? Doesn't this make you afraid of me? Are you afraid of those of us who are treading on the loess? Maybe the gap with heavenly beings is not that big...

It is this kind of "evil thought" full of ambition that ignites the fire of resistance.

Perhaps, Huangdi was a born rebel.

‘Why can’t I betray you who help me dominate the world? ’

He cut off Xing Tian's head and took the first step of rebellion: testing.

Although he never ended the Tokagi Era throughout his life, he must have done a lot, secretly.

He laid down the first piece of the puzzle and laid out the first move.

The first piece is the most important.

I'm sorry to the book friends who asked me to interpret Xing Tian. In my eyes, Xing Tian has never been a great hero.

Xingtian's story is not a story of resistance, nor is it a story of stubbornly saying "I refuse to admit defeat" after being cut down.

After being trampled on by others, he chooses to bow his head, finally strengthens a belief, develops unwaveringly for a hundred years, makes countless sacrifices and finally rises up. This is the story of a true hero.

Maybe, this kind of spirit is very poisonous, but in reality, that's what I really think.

I remember when I first started interpreting the Classic of Mountains and Seas, I said that the Yellow Emperor in my heart was sinister and responsible.

Putting aside the science fiction version of the story, the same is true for the realistic version of him.

He is a man who has gone through the baptism of war and fought out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. He is the first king of the Ji family and the pioneer of the common people's system. He is by no means a kind old man!

So far, the stories about Huangdi that have been circulated since the pre-Qin period are all about benevolence.

But they forget that he was a founding monarch.

Xingtian, apart from the surprise left to the world at the moment of his death, has nothing else.

Perhaps it is this spirit of not having much merit that is quite attractive. After the Jin Dynasty, note that it was the Jin Dynasty that Xingtian finally had more stories. He became a minister of Chiyou for a while, a subordinate of Yandi for a while, and even in modern times, he became the so-called god of war.

But Xingtian, after all, only has the one credible record in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

No matter what the fight for god is, he is a loser.

The praise of him all originated from Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty. Tao Yuanming read the Classic of Mountains and Seas and attached a poem for him and Jingwei.

In the Han Dynasty that advocated great revenge, in the iron-blooded Qin Dynasty, and in the great struggle of the pre-Qin Dynasty, Xingtian was just a nobody.

Because he has no merit.

Well, this time, at the request of the book friends, I wrote about Xingtian. He will probably be disappointed.

However, the order of interpretation that I had originally envisioned was also disrupted. It’s hard to bear.

Fortunately, the story of the ‘Yellow Emperor’ in the era of the Black Emperor in the Blue and White Interface has begun.

The new book “Information Omniscient” has been released. Brothers who haven’t noticed it yet should quickly collect it.

The above.

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P.S.: Sorry.