Some readers privately asked me some professional questions, especially "Yi" and gossip, and I thought about it, it would be better to write something a little bit to explain, but when the manuscript came out, I found that it was a preface, a postscript and something like that, so there was a late preface. (I feel more like a postscript, but it's not exhaustive, and then changed to a preface.) ）

In the first two years, I liked Hong Huangwen very much, but after reading it, I often think about cluttered things that have nothing to do with the characters in the novel, such as Chinese myths and legends.

Another day, I was wandering around the Internet for nothing, and I saw a class of middle school students on the website of a middle school talking about the flood in China, and even thought that the "flood famine" was the ancient myth of China......

Naturally, I don't agree with this perception. Because the blueprint of Honghuangwen is "The Romance of the Gods", it is a novel made up of part real historical figures + part folklore + apocryphal, written in the Northern Song Dynasty during the Longqing and Wanli periods, and the emergence of Buddhism in it is destined not to be a purely local myth in China.

Buddhism has a history of more than 3,000 years and is the state religion of India, and is a foreign sect in the Central Plains; some say that it was introduced to the Central Plains during the Han Dynasty, and some say that it was even later. However, one thing can be confirmed: In the great era when wise men of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period frequently emerged, Buddhism had no place to stand, let alone advance eastward, in the face of a hundred schools of thought contending with a high degree of literary thought......

Could it be that before Buddhism spread to the East, or even before the hundred schools of thought contended, there were no legends in China? The greatest possibility is that there were myths and legends, and after Buddhism came, they were drawn together and assembled into the "Romance of the Gods." It is impossible to distinguish what the original appearance was, which was a legend, and which was a fabrication.

I suddenly became curious about the pure Chinese myths and legends before Buddhism and before the emergence of the Hundred Schools of Thought, which should not be limited to the Tunnel People Clan's drilling wood for fire and the Jade Emperor. But what exactly is this local myth? I am deeply ashamed of my loneliness, because I have long since become "illiterate."

After all this nonsense, I put it down and continued to work on the design, so busy that I forgot about it.

In 09, I had an illness, and after persevering, some of the roots of the disease were still prolonged, so I carried out a lot of recuperation. Normal work is stagnant, but there is more time to recuperate, and when I think of these miscellaneous things, I slowly consult materials and some Taoist books (of course, I am not studying, let alone cultivating, I can only be regarded as just looking at the flowers). On the other hand, I'm really idle.

China's native sect, Taoism was the first to be promoted.

The basic Taoist classics are "Tao Te Ching", "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Jing", "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed", and "Zhou Yi". (I read Baidu Encyclopedia)

China's ancient mythology is most likely to be derived from Taoism and other schools of thought, and it is the Tao Te Ching and Yi ...... The legend before it. I watched some Hongshan culture and Longshan culture...... but there is so little I want to know.

So I turned to look up some Taoist classics, "Yi", and gossip, and I also checked them. Although it wasn't the material to become an easy student, it still made me find a little trace.

The combination looks like this:

The appearance of Yi originated from the earliest ancient Chinese tribes of the Zheng and divination, which at first only burned tortoise shells and observed cracks to foreshadow good luck and evil...... Later, it developed into a complete nine Zheng (of course, in the middle, there are also different opinions).

The indication of the cracks of the burnt tortoiseshell refers to the horizontal, vertical and oblique patterns formed by the distribution of cracks, as well as the distribution and matching of these stripes; these predictive cracks have been recorded by the altars of various tribes from generation to generation, and have become a "hexagram" record.

As a result, these hexagram records have also become the most secret treasures of the altars of the major tribes, and they have only been passed on to the tribes to sacrifice the clansmen, and have become the "textbooks" used for the sacrifice and divination of the tribes.

Hexagram was formed, and with ready-made templates available, tortoiseshell divination gradually withdrew from the stage of history. In the future, people can use bone needles, cards, and even wooden sticks to throw them on the ground, and take the various hexagrams that are produced at the end to check and compare the records of the past dynasties, and they can quickly predict the good and bad (then I understand: the original gossip was here).

At that time, the supreme leader of the tribe was called "king".

Later, the tribes were gradually unified, and the state appeared. Of course, the supreme head of the country considered himself to be higher than the "king", so there was a "emperor" or "emperor".

The emergence of the kingdom has also concentrated the secret records of the hexagrams that predicted divination in the altars of the original tribes, so some people started to integrate the idea.

The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade;

The achievements of the ancient sacrifices of various tribes were completed, and there were gossip, which were later studied from generation to generation and written as the Book of Changes, which became a symbol of the origin of Chinese civilization.

As for Fuxi or other people becoming gossip, although there is controversy, it seems here that it should be more of an integrated work, not an invention work.

The Book of Changes spread to the West first, even to India. Indian Buddhism spread eastward to the Central Plains after the I Ching spread westward.

The Book of Changes has also developed in India and Central Asia, and the Indian Qu Tan Siddha wrote the famous "Astrology" book "Kaiyuan Zhanjing", which was later introduced to the Central Plains and became a famous book of Zhan.

(The above is the personal opinion of the class to get the axe.) ）

I also used the Internet and physical books to find the previous accounts of Zheng and Taoism.

So, I discovered the "Divine Ancestor".

"Divine ancestor" is described in Taoist classics, is the supreme god in the ancient legends of ancient Chinese folk before the formation of various religions, and there is a heavenly monarch under it...... (Confidential)

Folk legend: the origin of the immortal is also its own doctrine, but a large part of the thought that it was born from the "virtuous", after the folk spread, the later generations became a separate word "immortal".

There is no detailed record of the before and after of the immortals and the ancestors, but some people say that the law is different, and I can't verify this.

Of course, the biggest gain in this is the "division".

The Shi family passed down the six arts, and only then did they have the civilization in the future, with teachers, masters, and masters, and they were all called "teachers" when teaching and solving doubts. (Note: The hexagram of the teacher in the I Ching is different from this teacher)

This is also an ancient legend handed down from ancient times before Taoism, which has not been publicly recognized. Shi's records are only briefly mentioned in Liao Liao's Taoist books, which are even less than the records of immortals and gods before Taoism. But I've been pleasantly surprised!

There is still such a saying about the origin of "division", which I never thought of!

However, the ancient myths of China are seriously scattered, and what can be passed on to future generations through the folk is only a few words; the clearest context is after the appearance of the Book of Changes; the Book of Changes is also called Zhou Yi, most of them say that it was written in the Zhou Dynasty, and the previous records of Xia and Shang are also Liao Liao Bufeng, thanks to the discovery of Xia and Shang ruins, so that future generations can see a little bit of the style of that time.

There is a saying: In the past, China claimed to be a 3,000-year-old civilization, but after the discovery of the Xia and Shang ruins, there was a physical evidence, and the history of Chinese civilization was pushed forward by another 2,000 years and became a 5,000-year-old civilization. (Most of this country is the eastern part of China, as well as some countries in Europe and the United States.) ）

After turning around, combined with some other information, there was the prototype of the book "The Great God Ancestor King": there are no foreign doctrines, and it is a pure "flood famine" in China.

Later, I figured out that it was better to classify it as a classical fairy. After all, the basis of "The Great God Ancestor King" does not have many historical figures like "Romance of the Gods".

"The Great God Ancestor King" is written about the "Book of Changes" and the Chinese legend before the Bagua, read this book, everyone should not compare the "Book of Changes" and Bagua. The main context is the earliest "Zheng", and there was no concept of "hexagram" at this time.

This postscript was written hastily and sent first. When "The Great God Ancestor King" ends one day, I will write a detailed afterword, clearly writing out some outlines that are currently inconvenient to disclose, and doing the final closing.

As for writing another book called "The Romance of the Gods," spare my life! I am too shallow in my knowledge to write any grand work.

Thank you for asking so many "difficult" questions about this book, and I can only write a postscript and give you the bottom in advance.

Straight up (12th Floor, 5 Cities), essay on 9 April 2014