Mr. Zhuangzi compared the land of China to the Northern Underworld, the Chinese Wenyin to the Thousand Miles of Kun in the Northern Underworld, and the great ideas of the Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period to the soaring Dapeng. The Roc soared to 90,000 miles and flew south to the ocean of truth (Nanming).

Before writing about the Spring and Autumn Period, I will first narrate the history of China as the Northern Underworld.

Five thousand years ago, in the ancient land of China, the Yellow Emperor tribe defeated the Yandi tribe, unified the various tribes in China, formed a powerful tribal alliance, and at the same time ushered in the era of the Five Emperors.

According to the general view, the "Five Emperors" refer to "the Yellow Emperor, the Emperor, the Emperor, the Yao, and the Shun". The latter four emperors were direct descendants of the Yellow Emperor; Although Shun's successor Yu also continued the bloodline of the Yellow Emperor (Yu is the grandson of Zhuan), Yu was honored as "King Xia" by his son Xia Qi, so Dayu was classified into the Xia Dynasty by later generations and did not enter the list of "emperors".

The Xia Dynasty was destroyed by Shang more than 470 years after its establishment. The merchants declared that their ancestors were sons of heaven; Jian Di, the concubine (wife) who was called the emperor, swallowed a swallow egg, so she became pregnant and gave birth to a contract.

The Shang Dynasty was destroyed by the Zhou Dynasty after its establishment 630 years later. The Zhou people claimed that their ancestor was also a son of heaven; It is also known as the merchant who is not right, the concubine of the emperor is not Jian Di but Jiang Yan. said that Jiang Yan stepped into one of the footprints of a giant back then, so she was pregnant with a sense of heaven and gave birth to abandonment.

If these legends are true, then the style of the emperor's family is worth people's imagination. However, legends are legends after all, and many great nations and figures in history regard God or God as their ancestors, probably because the era in which Jian Di and Jiang Yan lived was still in a matriarchal society, and people knew their mothers but not their fathers; And their illustrious descendants wanted to arrange a high political status for their first grandmother, so they dragged the emperor in.

The Zhou Dynasty was the longest dynasty in Chinese history, 790 years long; The Zhou dynasty eventually fell to Qin. The Qin people still claim that their ancestors are sons of heaven; However, their first grandmother did not need to be attached to the consortment of any emperor to elevate her status, as she was the granddaughter of Emperor Zhuan.

Qin was followed by Han. Han's ancestor was Yao, the son of Emperor Yu. Why didn't the Han people take Emperor Yu as their ancestor, but chose the younger generation of Yao? That's because the Liu family was originally a branch of the surname Qi, and the ancestor of the surname Qi was Yao instead of Emperor Yu.

The first five dynasties of Wenyin in China were ruled by the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan and Huang families were each other's in-laws, which is why we call the Chinese nation "the descendants of Yan and Huang".

Zhou Zhizu, his ancestor is no longer able to be tested (even if he is examined, he may be a son-in-law such as "Jiang Ji"), his ancestor is the legendary "Jiang Yan", a woman from the Tai family, and the wife of the emperor.

Jiang Yan had no heirs for a long time after marrying the emperor. By chance, she found the footprints of a giant in the mountains and forests, so she was so excited that she poked her toes into it, and when she returned, she was pregnant.

Pregnant in October, the melon is ripe, Jiang Yan looked at this cute little baby but was not happy at all, it turned out that the emperor had been out on patrol for two years, and after returning to the palace, he found that he had a big fat boy, what kind of scene would it be? Thinking like this, Jiang Yan had the intention of abandoning this baby.

She abandoned her son in the market, but she saw the oxen and horses walking around him; Abandoned in the mountains, a group of lumberjacks ran out of nowhere to watch over him; Abandoned on the frozen river, a hundred birds circled around him and cried, covering him with their wings, as if they were watching over their descendants.

Jiang Yan couldn't bear to abandon the baby for the fourth time, so she took him back to the palace and raised him carefully, and named him "Abandonment". Abandoned the habit of farming since childhood, and gradually became a well-known agricultural expert. The land he supervised was not invaded by pests, wild grasses did not grow, and the grain was abundant.

Heavy agriculture is the traditional concept of the Chinese nation, and because of his great contribution to agriculture, he was appointed as a "farmer" by Di Shun, and inherited his mother's clan, called "Youtai Clan". Taidi is in the west of Wugong County, Shaanxi.

The core of power of the Emperor Shun regime are all famous historical figures, in addition to the ancestor of Zhou "abandoned", there are also Xia Zu "Yu" surnamed Ji, Shang Zu "Qi" surnamed Zi, Qin Zu "Bo Peng" surnamed Ying, and "Bo Yi" surnamed Jiang.

Abandoned his dedication to agricultural development and had to do everything himself, he worked hard for his work, and finally died in the fields. After his death, he was revered as "Houji" (i.e., "Ceres"), and his clan descendants held a grand sacrifice ceremony for him every year. Houji's status in religious sacrifice is only ranked after heaven and earth.

After Yu's son Qi established the Xia Dynasty, the leader of the Tai clan served as the farmer of the Xia Dynasty for generations; The descendants of the deed were forced into exile because of their opposition to the Xia royal family. When Ji was in power, the Ying family rebelled against Xia Jiyin and helped Shang Tang fight Xia Jiyin; After the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, the Ying family was a doctor of the Shang Dynasty for generations. Therefore, the saying "Zhou is a summer official, Qin is a business official" later appeared.

In the Xia royal family's continuous squeezing out of the Shang clan, the Tai family has always played an important role. Therefore, when Shang Tang established the dynasty, the Tai family became the first target of the merchants' liquidation. In the face of the impending catastrophe, the Tai clan felt that they could no longer gain a foothold in China, so the patriarch "Bu Yao" led the clansmen to cross the Yellow River west and return to the Tai clan's hometown. There is a history of Tai's westward migration, known as "not scurrying in Rongdi".

At the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, the Hexi region was full of forests and wastelands, a paradise for tigers, leopards and jackals, as well as a paradise for nomads. The Tai Homeland had been abandoned at this time (because most of the people had moved to the hinterland of Hedong China several generations earlier), and the aliens occupied the land and enslaved the remnants of the Tai clan.

The Tai army expelled the aliens from outside, freed the enslaved people, and then settled in the old place.

The Tai clan drove away tigers, leopards and jackals, reclaimed a large amount of land, established a defense system, made armor, trained the army, educated their children, fought hostile tribes by force, and united friendly tribes with marriage.

It is impossible to verify how an exiled clan of the Chinese farming nation took root in a strange and difficult living environment that was surrounded by enemies on all sides. But what is certain is that the Tai clan must have brought their strength, determination, and wisdom to the extreme.