Chapter 85 The Fourth Idea of Shanhaijing: The only and True Supreme God
The Classic of Mountains and Seas has thousands of threads and covers a vast area, and its interpretation cannot be accomplished in a day.
I have many ideas about it, but if I say one, it will involve many, and the clues between them are complicated and the connections are cumbersome. To interpret one paragraph, you must lead to another paragraph of testimony, and why it can prove it, you must first understand why the other paragraph is interpreted in that way. And if you want to do this, you have to involve other paragraphs. All these are really numerous and confusing. Know where to start.
Of the several thousand words, I can only excerpt a very few bits and pieces to interpret, and I can’t say too much at once.
Therefore, I don’t even know how much I will write about my personal interpretation of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
After thinking about it, I realized that some readers may not even understand some of the most basic things, which would make it very troublesome for me to interpret. In case the things mentioned are a bit unfamiliar, or you may be misled by many later literatures and misinterpret some of them. If the wrong thing is regarded as common sense, and then it is different from what I understand, it will not be suitable for the channel.
Therefore, I must also mix in some popular science, so that you can first understand my "understanding outside the scriptures", and then follow me into the "understanding within the scriptures".
And since the Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient matter from the period of the Five Emperors, we decided to start with the ‘Emperors’.
Let’s not talk about what the emperor’s abilities are, how powerful he is in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and whether he has any supernatural powers.
Let me start with the simplest identity of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
As everyone knows about the emperor, the title created by Qin Shihuang means that he is more powerful than the ancient emperor and the ancient emperor.
The person with high merit is the emperor, and the person with great virtue is the emperor. The former is the ancestor of mankind who has made unparalleled and significant contributions to 'all mankind'. The latter is the supreme leader who has great virtues for many clans and is respected by all clans in the world.
Everyone knows about the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, but unfortunately, there is no mention of the Three Sovereigns in the entire Book of Mountains and Seas, and there are more than five emperors.
The Three Emperors and Five Emperors were first mentioned by Confucianists in the Han Dynasty. Because of the Five Elements Theory that emerged during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, five popular emperors were selected from the "Emperors" in history, corresponding to the Five Elements and the Five Virtues.
As for the Three Emperors, there were initially the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Earth, and the Emperor of Thailand. What achievements they had, I don’t know.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, humanistic thought was extremely developed, so the sages began to assign more ancient ancestors to the status of emperors.
To put it bluntly, in the real ancient times, there was no such title as ‘Emperor’. Imperial titles were ‘posthumously granted’ by later generations to ancestors who had made significant contributions.
So one after another, various emperors began to appear.
At this time, the emperor refers to the ancestor of great merit, not necessarily three.
Later, there were three, probably to correspond to Tiandi Tai, or Tiandiren.
First of all, there are different opinions on which three emperors. The more mainstream ones are ‘Fuxi, Nuwa, and Shennong’, and the other is ‘Suiren, Fuxi, and Nuwa’, and ‘Fuxi, Shennong, and Huangdi’.
The above are all recorded from relatively formal sources. As for some informal ones, such as those that include Gonggong and Zhu Rong, they are purely family opinions in a very late period.
After all, as I said, the emperor is a posthumous title. It was originally given by future generations. Any ancestor with meritorious service can be named emperor. Later generations can list whoever they want as the three emperors. Even if modern people list nine emperors, one hundred Emperor, what can I do? It can only show that we are filial...
In the ancient times, there was no title of emperor, only emperor.
The so-called Three Emperors simply select three popular ones among the many ancestors who are qualified to be called emperors, so that they can be praised from generation to generation to show their respect.
So what is the earliest statement of the Three Emperors?
The earliest statement is from "Zhuangzi": there are Chao family, Suiren family and Zhisheng family.
That's right, there is no such thing as Fuxi or Shennong. The three unknown ancestors who invented house building, fire making, and production tools are the Three Emperors defined by Zhuangzi.
Who is it? I don’t know, but the meaning of these three names is: there must be the first person to build a house, and he is called Youchao. There must be someone who was the first to make fire, and he is defined as Suiren. There must be the first person to make tools, and he is called Zhisheng.
It can be seen that Zhuangzi did not have as many political goals as Confucianism, and he did not consider popularity. He directly selected the three most simple ones and listed them as the three most respected emperors. It can be understood as the imperial champion, the imperial runner-up, and the imperial third runner-up.
But of course Confucianism would not use Zhuangzi’s title of champion and runner-up.
Bangu of the Eastern Han Dynasty listed "Fuxi, Nuwa, and Shennong", and now these have become the most mainstream three emperors.
Shennong refers to Emperor Yan, so I won’t talk about it yet.
There is only one sentence about Nuwa in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas": "There are ten gods, named Nuwa's intestines, who turned into gods and lived in the vast fields of millet and across the road."
There are only so many in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", no more.
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" does not directly describe Nuwa, but only talks about Nuwa's intestines, which turned into ten gods and appeared in the crop fields.
There are only two reasons why I only write about Nuwa's intestines and not about Nuwa herself. One is the definition and description of Nuwa in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which was deleted when Liu Xin revised the book as I mentioned before.
Another reason is that even for the earliest author of the Book of Mountains and Seas, the word "Nuwa" is common knowledge. It is a person who should know it and does not need to say more.
There are many similar 'common senses', such as people, such as dogs, sheep, cows, snakes, fish, birds, and...'dragons'.
There is no definition of dragon itself in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and there is no such thing as "there is a beast named dragon".
Instead, when describing various animals, strange beasts and even gods, words such as 'dragon head', 'dragon body' and 'dragon tail' are directly written.
The words are used casually, as if dragon is a common knowledge, along with words like 'sun', 'mountain', 'sea', 'dog head', 'human face', and 'fish tail'.
Do we still need to explain what human beings are in the scriptures? If the reader doesn’t even know what a person is, how can the author write about it?
Therefore, just as the author did not intend to explain "people" at all in the beginning, he simply felt that there was no need to provide any explanation for words like "dragon" and "Nuwa"!
No explanation! Because they are common sense.
In other words, Nuwa has been a familiar, common sense-level existence in people's eyes since ancient times, as early as the Yao, Shun, and Yu periods.
So besides the Classic of Mountains and Seas, what is the earliest document describing Nuwa?
In academia, it is recognized that the earliest description of Nuwa was the "Shi Zhou Pian" of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Although this book itself no longer exists, its content was cited in many other later books.
This has been verified, so I won’t explain it. In short, the word ‘Wa’ has a Chinese character, which means ‘the ancient sacred goddess who transforms all things’.
This is the earliest legend of Nuwa. From ancient times to the Zhou Dynasty, she was the god who transformed all things.
It’s not about creating humans, it’s about creating all things!
The earliest record of the legend of Nuwa creating humans was in the Song Dynasty, but it was already too late.
The legend of refining stones to mend the sky is much more credible. It first came from "Huainanzi" in the Western Han Dynasty, and this book originated from the legend of the Pre-Qin period. Regarding Nuwa, there are also records that she turned seventy in one day, had a human face and a snake body, and invented the sheng reed, harp, xun, etc.
The so-called seventy transformations a day means that she is evolving various things every day.
In fact, it corresponds to the "transformation of all things" in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Combined with the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it also means that Nuwa's intestines turned into gods. Even the intestines, let alone the rest.
It is conceivable that in the eyes of people during the Classic of Mountains and Seas period, Nuwa's whole body and body may have been transformed into all things in the world. Any god can be regarded as one of the countless incarnations of Nuwa.
In other words, the earliest legendary image of Nuwa we know is a being who created gods and created all things.
As for refining stones to mend the sky, it is not mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, so I won’t talk about it. "Huainanzi" is so detailed that it must have been artistically processed. But for such a big thing as the sky falling, writing about Nuwa to deal with it also shows that Nuwa is the supreme god in people's common sense from the pre-Qin period, and even all the way back to the period of the Five Emperors in ancient times!
A being who embodies all things and is the mother of gods.
Some people may ask, Nuwa incarnates all things and derives gods, but what about Pangu? Where did Pangu go?
Pangu actually appeared too late, and his legend only existed during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Moreover, it was written by the literati of Wu State, probably through the legends of the Baiyue people in the south.
There is no text before Han Dynasty that mentions Pangu. There were no tombs in the Han Dynasty, and Pangu was painted...
On the contrary, in the tombs of the Han Dynasty, we have now excavated pictures of Nuwa fuxi, Chang'e flying to the moon, and pictures of the Queen Mother of the West...
There is even Chang'e flying to the moon, but there is no Pangu opening the sky, which is enough to show that Pangu has never been the creator god of Zhuxia.
Nuwa is the creator god! It is the supreme belief of the Yanhuang people since ancient times.
In ancient times, Nuwa had the highest status! none of them.
The evidence is very simple. Qu Yuan in the Warring States Period wrote in "Tianwen": "Nuwa has a body, who made it?"
There are two interpretations of this sentence. The first one is: Nuwa’s body is so strange. Who designed it?
Second type: Nuwa actually has a body? Who created it?
Under the first interpretation, Qu Yuan was wondering why Nuwa had the head of a human and the body of a snake.
In fact, I'm more curious, why didn't Qu Yuan write that Emperor Yan had a body? Isn’t it strange that Yandi’s horns are there?
Under the second interpretation, Qu Yuan's doubt became, wasn't everything in the world created by Nuwa? So who made Nuwa's body?
But no matter which interpretation it is, it proves one point! That is, in Qu Yuan's understanding, Nuwa is the highest, and there are no other gods above her.
If Pangu existed, or any other god with a higher status than Nuwa existed, then Qu Yuan would not have asked this question.
Rather, we should ask, if Pangu had a body, who was the craftsman who made it?
The subtext of Qu Yuan's question about Nuwa already shows that Nuwa's divine power has reached its peak.
However, after the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty only respected Confucianism, which led to another emperor replacing Nuwa's position.
He is Fuxi, the first of the three emperors and the first of a hundred kings as we now know him.
What I am going to say next may be subversive to some people.
Because the Fuxi you understand does not actually exist.
This may not be appropriate, but to put it another way: there is still a prototype, there really is Fuxi, and he is indeed a meritorious ancestor, but he was not that important in ancient times, let alone as great as passed down from later generations.
Since it is the Classic of Mountains and Seas, is there Fuxi in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?
The answer is: zero.
The Book of Mountains and Seas, which records the most legendary figures and ancient emperors, does not contain even a single word about Fuxi!
So do archaeological artifacts from before the Warring States period contain anything about him? The answer is: zero.
So are there any records about him in the classics before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? The answer is: zero.
The first of the three emperors and the first of a hundred kings, there is no mention of him in any classics of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and neither Mozi nor Mencius mentioned him. Including Qu Yuan's "Tianwen", which I have always loved, Fuxi is not mentioned.
You must be curious about how Fuxi became the leader of the Three Emperors.
The answer is of course because of Confucius...
In Confucius' "Book of Changes·Xici", it is mentioned: "In ancient times, when Fuxi ruled the world, he looked up to observe the phenomena in the sky, looked down to observe the laws of the earth, observed the patterns of birds and beasts and the suitability of the earth, and took things from his body and from far away. Then he created the Eight Trigrams to understand the virtues of the gods and the feelings of all things..."
There is more to it, I won't post it, it means to describe his achievements in knotting ropes to make nets and teaching people to fish.
In short, Confucius meant that the reason why Baoxi in ancient times could become a king was because he created the Eight Trigrams... and also had the credit for making nets.
But it's mainly the Eight Trigrams. After Baoxi died, Shennong continued to evolve, Shennong died, Huangdi evolved... and now it has become the Book of Changes. And my favorite Duke Zhou said something about this...
The above is the earliest description of Fuxi.
Confucius' influence was of course very great. After that, in the middle and late Warring States period, some wise men began to mention Fuxi in their classics, and his deeds began to appear.
For example, the Chu Silk Book, a cultural relic from the late Warring States period, is the earliest physical cultural relic that describes the legend of Fuxi. It says that he and Nuwa created the world, which also shows that Nuwa is really the supreme creator god.
However, this national treasure is abroad, and there are only copies in China.
There is also a mention of "Zhuangzi" in the late Warring States period. I won't post the original text. It just mentions the name. It is mentioned together with various ancient ancestors who created objects and made inventions. The status is not high, or even very low. Among dozens of ancestors, Fuxi ranks second to last...
It can be seen that the legend of Fuxi actually began when Confucius began to praise him, and then his legends appeared in the middle and late Warring States period.
And at that time, Fuxi's name was uncertain. Some called him Paoxi, some called Baoxi, some called Fengxi, and some called Fuxi...
And Nuwa has always been called Nuwa.
From this, I think that in the middle and late Warring States period, the legend of Fuxi had just emerged and was being processed and sorted out by people...
It was not until the Western Han Dynasty, when Confucianism was the only school of thought, that Fuxi's name was determined, and his legend suddenly became rich in details!
Sima Qian in the early Western Han Dynasty was quite decent. The Records of the Grand Historian did not give too many records of Fuxi. He thought that Fuxi's records were not true and did not adopt them. He only mentioned one sentence in his preface: I heard from my ancestors that Fuxi was very pure and honest, and created the Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes.
Meaning: I heard from my ancestors that Fuxi was very pure and honest, and created the Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes.
That's all Sima Qian's description of Fuxi's achievements...
No wonder the academic community believes that the Records of the Grand Historian is already a very decent and reliable history, and Sima Qian is still relatively objective.
So here I also believe that Fuxi must have existed, one of the ancient kings, and an ancestor from ancient times. It's just that this ancestor, among hundreds of ancestors, cannot be ranked. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, he was not famous at all. His greatest achievement was the creation of the Eight Trigrams.
If the Book of Changes had not become more and more popular later, and the Zhou Dynasty had not reached its peak, coupled with Confucius's promotion, Fuxi's popularity among many human ancestors might not have been ranked in the top 30...
The earliest Fuxi's status was not even the 30th emperor, let alone the first of the Three Emperors.
But as Confucius' status improved and Confucianism became the mainstream, Fuxi's popularity also rose. After all, the Book of Changes is one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, and Fuxi is the earliest originator of the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams.
For example, Liu Xin, the guy I have always criticized for editing the Classic of Mountains and Seas by half.
He pushed Fuxi to the highest peak: "Paoxi succeeded the sky to become king, and was the first of all kings. The first virtue began with wood, so the emperor was Taihao."
This is also the first time that the "Taihao" that has been passed down from ancient times to the present is directly linked to Fuxi.
Note that before Liu Xin, Taihao was Taihao, also known as Dahao. And Fuxi was Fuxi, and the two have nothing to do with each other.
Confucianism has defined it this way from generation to generation, and it has become the truth to us now.
Dahao was mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but there was no such thing as Paoxi or Fuxi, nor was there any mention of who created the Book of Changes.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas·Hai Nei Jing records: "There is a country called Ba in the southwest. Dahao gave birth to Xianniao, Xianniao gave birth to Chengli, Chengli gave birth to Houzhao, and Houzhao was the first Ba people."
I don't see any relationship between him and Fuxi. All the remarks about Dahao being Fuxi suddenly appeared after the Han Dynasty promoted Confucianism. The Chu Silk Book of the Warring States Period did not mention this at all. It can only be said that Confucianists are too good at "editing books".
As for the wood virtue, I won't explain it.
As we all know, the five elements are always said to be bound to the ancient emperors, which is a very typical far-fetched behavior.
In addition to Liu Xin, Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty also helped to put Fuxi on the altar.
Ban Gu's "Baihutongyi" wrote: What are the Three Emperors? They are Fuxi, Nuwa, and Shennong.
In one breath, Fuxi was promoted to the first place!
At this point, Fuxi became the supreme emperor, surpassing Nuwa, and ascended to the top of the hundred kings and the top of the ancestors.
And his life story also appeared. Huaxu gave birth to Fuxi in Lei Ze.
Well, Huaxu was directly involved. The Chu Silk Book of the Warring States Period never mentioned Fuxi's life story. In that creation myth, he and Nuwa jumped out of chaos directly.
In Confucius' eyes, Fuxi was originally a human ancestor. He wrote the Book of Changes and was praised. He never mentioned any relationship between him and Nuwa.
As a result, a hundred years after Confucius' death, later generations turned him into a human head and a snake body, and then rolled him up with the supreme god Nuwa, becoming brother and sister, saying that he and Nuwa created the world together.
At this point, Fuxi and Nuwa became brother and sister.
In the murals unearthed from the tombs of the Han Dynasty, there is a double helix diagram of Fuxi and Nuwa with human heads and snake bodies, one male and one female, harmonious yin and yang, two supreme ancestors, perfect!
But his achievements are a bit few, just relying on the Book of Changes and fishing, the style is a bit low. Although he coexists with Nuwa and has gained some popularity, his achievements are indeed not as good as Nuwa.
So in the Jin Dynasty, Fuxi's achievements increased to: succeeding the sky as king, creating the Eight Trigrams, creating written contracts, making 36 strings of the harp, making wedding ceremonies, and taking sacrifices for the kitchen.
Among them, making the harp and making weddings were originally the achievements of Nuwa...
From mixing life and merits with the supreme god Nuwa, it developed to directly transferring Nuwa's achievements to Fuxi...
And in the documents of the Tang Dynasty, Fuxi and Nuwa were not enough as brothers and sisters, they directly became husband and wife!
The records of the two being brothers and sisters are hundreds of years earlier than the records of the two being both brothers and sisters and husband and wife!
From no relationship, to brother and sister, to both brother and sister and husband and wife...
After doing this, all the merits of Nuwa, except for mending the sky, became assisting Fuxi.
Later, Fuxi invented many more inventions, in short, he became more and more awesome.
You can see it here.
The later the time, the more detailed the records of Fuxi...the greater the merits...the higher the status.
But Nuwa, on the contrary...her status plummeted all the way!
From the literature, not counting the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Nuwa was hundreds of years earlier than Fuxi.
And we are talking about the Classic of Mountains and Seas. According to my previous assumptions about the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there was an original author in ancient times who wrote the earliest draft and mentioned the words of Nuwa's intestines.
During the Five Emperors period, Nuwa was the supreme mother goddess of the Yanhuang lineage, who was believed by all the people. She originally transformed into all things and nurtured everything. At the same time, she was also the ancient emperor and the ancestor of humanities.
After all, the heaven and earth are connected, so the belief of the Yanhuang lineage must be the ancestor.
In short, Nuwa's godhood, personality, and emperorhood have always been extremely high! And the earlier the period, the higher it is!
The later the period, the lower it is. As time goes by, Nuwa's status is also declining step by step.
In the Qin and Han Dynasties, she had to refine stones to repair the sky herself.
This is fine, as it is in line with her status as the God of Creation.
But later, Nuwa's ability to incarnate all things was gradually weakened.
First, she had a brother, Fuxi, and then her achievements were transferred, from Nuwa making marriages to Nuwa assisting Fuxi in making marriages...
Later, Pangu came and directly replaced her status as the God of Creation.
In the Song Dynasty, the godhood dropped again, and there was a legend that Nuwa made people out of clay... From making all things, she was completely reduced to a tool for making people.
In the Ming Dynasty, she was teased by King Zhou in the novel, leading to the Conferred God. In modern times, she has become one of the girls who can be conquered in the prehistoric world.
It can be said that the Nuwa understood by modern people is not the earliest Nuwa.
Instead, Pangu, Fuxi and Nuwa should be combined into one, which is the Nuwa of the Zhou Dynasty and even earlier.
The reason for this situation may be that the establishment of a patriarchal society has caused the supreme Nuwa to fall step by step and become a vassal of gods such as Fuxi and Pangu. Over thousands of years, the status and contribution of Nuwa and Fuxi have shifted, probably due to the superiority of men over women.
So far, this is what I understand about Fuxi and Nuwa.
Nuwa gave birth to all things, and Fuxi began to write the Book of Changes. This is the original setting of the two, and the two have no relationship. The original documents did not mention each other...
Based on this, it is obvious to interpret the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
There is no emperor in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, because the emperor was conferred by later generations.
There is no Fuxi in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, because Fuxi was not famous in the Five Emperors era... Maybe he was not as famous as Kuafu...
There is Nuwa in the Classic of Mountains and Seas! Although her merits and deeds were not written or edited, and only the "Intestines of Nuwa" was mentioned in the classics, this is enough to show that Nuwa has a high status in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Nuwa's intestines turned into ten gods!
Don't think that this record is just the tip of the iceberg, which seems to have no nutritional value. In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is actually the most amazing side description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Nuwa is the only small part of the body in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that can turn into a god.
In the academic world, Queen Mother of the West, Huangdi, and Di Jun are recognized as the strongest in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. But in fact, these three seem to be far inferior to Nuwa who did not appear...
Huangdi and Di Jun also introduced their lineages, and Queen Mother of the West still had disheveled hair and looked fierce.
Nuwa had no other descriptions, only her intestines were mentioned, turned into a god, and appeared in the vast millet and wheat fields... across the road...
I don't know if this is a crop circle...
It's purely my imagination. First of all, the Classic of Mountains and Seas rarely describes the appearance of this god, the nature of the god, or anything else. It only says that it is Nuwa's intestines.
Looking through the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the recorder often writes the appearance, at least how it looks like, whether it has a snake or something.
There is no... no excessive description of Nuwa's intestines, so that we, the later generations, don't know what it is talking about!
So either the recorder couldn't describe its appearance at all, or the four words "Nuwa's intestines" have already described it, but we just don't understand it.
In summary, I personally think that the author of Shanhaijing actually wrote about "a special phenomenon" here.
This situation will only occur when writing about phenomena that are not naturally formed and may not be seen once in a lifetime.
Moreover, the recorder probably didn't see it with his own eyes, but just heard it from others, so he simply recorded it.
I have never seen it, so I naturally don’t know how to describe it in detail.
According to other people’s stories, he could only write down the words ‘Nu Wa’s intestines’, ‘in the vast field of millet’, and ‘across the road’.
The meaning of the vast field of millet is the extremely vast and huge corn field. Across the road means lying across the road.
To be honest, I really want to guess directly: these are ten spiral flying saucers that have landed in the fields and blocked the road...
But I don’t have any evidence.
I have said in the previous few extras that the evidence will only be demonstrated and deduced by the content of Shan Hai Jing itself, plus the reality, or scientific knowledge, and reasonable logic.
Other documents only provide ideas.
So aliens, flying saucers, etc., just mention it, there is really no evidence.
And what really exists in reality and can be connected with Nu Wa’s intestines... I can only think of crop circles!
First of all, ‘Nu Wa’ is common sense, just like dragons, humans, birds, and fish, no explanation is needed.
Therefore, Nuwa is a known existence. For example, everyone knows that Nuwa created all things from heaven...
Then the four words "Nuwa's intestines" may have described something... something that was very vivid to the ancient people back then.
If it is so vivid, then the "god" that descended on the vast corn fields at that time either looked like intestines, or created a scene like "Nuwa's intestines" in the fields.
I don't know if everyone has seen crop circles. There are many wonderful geometric patterns, twisted and gorgeous, one circle after another, very complicated.
Many people sneer at crop circles and say that they are forged by people. In fact, those who say so don't understand the horror of crop circles at all.
There is not enough space here, I just tell you: the technology that humans have cannot create real crop circles. All the forgeries of people are very different from the real crop circles, just like the paintings of elementary school students and the works of top painters, there is a huge difference!
Essentially, that is a situation that human technology cannot achieve at all, because the wheat is not crushed, it is naturally, neatly smoothed by some electromagnetic force technology, and can continue to grow. And after the wheat is harvested, the wheat field will still automatically grow the pattern of strange circles next year, and it will not disappear naturally until two or three years later.
In short, I only believe in two theories about how crop circles are formed. One is that it is done by advanced civilizations, and the other is the Gaia consciousness hypothesis - the reaction of the earth's ecosystem itself.
Back to the point, there is a strange circle called "Flower of Life". This crop circle is very famous, and it is very difficult to describe from the ground. I can't put a picture here, so check it yourself.
In short, if the ancients saw this kind of crop circle, they described it as Nuwa's intestines, which I think is understandable.
Therefore, Shanhaijing records: "There are ten gods, named Nuwa's intestines, who turned into gods, lived in the vast field of millet, and lived across the road."
This is possible because crop circles have occasionally appeared on the earth since ancient times, but the number has increased in modern times.
Some people witnessed the formation of ancient crop circles during the Yao, Shun and Yu periods. For example, the witnesses recognized ten small aircraft from the "Nu Wa clan" falling from the sky into the corn fields.
Or the witnesses did not see who made the crop circles, but only saw the corn and wheat falling down automatically and forming out of thin air.
So the ancients imagined that the wheat fields fell down out of thin air to form patterns, as if there was an invisible god hovering on the roadside of the field. This must be the incarnation of Nu Wa!
Because the witnesses could not fly and could not look down, when looking at the crop circles from the ground, they felt that the crops that fell down neatly in circles of curves were like intestines, hovering on the road.
Therefore, it is called: Nu Wa's intestines.
Maybe it is a bit over-interpreted, but since it is an interpretation of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it should be analyzed as a real witness of the ancients and a serious record.
In summary, I can only give this answer.
After 8,000 words of nonsense, I have only finished talking about the Three Emperors, which are almost not in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Although there are almost no Three Sovereigns in the original text of Shanhaijing, I will use what I have mentioned in this article later.
Next, it is the Five Emperors, which have a longer chapter. Because Shanhaijing is completely the world of the Five Emperors!
Let’s talk about Zhuanxu in the next chapter, after all, he is the Black Emperor.
Among all the emperors, Zhuanxu is the one I know best.
Baidu Encyclopedia has huge errors. I really don’t know who wrote it. Don’t be misled by Baidu Encyclopedia.
As for what it is, I will talk about it next time.
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P.S.: Sorry.