Daqin: Zulong's Traveling Frog

Chapter 299
Among the major historical mysteries in China, the Yellow Emperor's battle with Chi You and the mysterious demise of the ancient Loulan Kingdom are the most eye-catching.But few people really understand the story behind it. Even between these two historical mysteries, there was some kind of connection that was cut off by the long years. "Loulan" tells the story of how the once-prosperous Kingdom of Loulan was mysteriously annihilated by the long stretch of yellow sand.In order to find the divine object and save Loulan from the crisis, Prince Aowen of Loulan embarked on the road to the yellow sands of the desert. He happened to meet an enemy woman and fell in love. Later, he was helped by the mysterious Han son Xiao Yang and the goddess. Together, they began to fight against the curse of Loulan. of struggle.Mission, conspiracy, truth, love, friendship, in the face of fate, where will the protagonist go and what choice will he make?

The wind is fluttering on the edge, and the vastness is boundless.The mountains and rivers are bleak, and the strong men rush to the crown.Guanshan is thousands of miles away, with sword energy in all directions.There are hundreds of battles in the yellow sand, but Loulan is brave.The descendants of the Yellow Emperor of the Central Plains lived and died together with the heroes of Loulan, and sang a wonderful song together...

Loulan became a major country in the Western Region. As the meeting point between the East and the West, Loulan civilization flourished for a time.The descendants of the Cang brothers have already been scattered throughout the Western Regions, and have established dozens of new tribes and countries.However, with the weakening of blood ties, for the sake of power and interests, later generations have long forgotten the past friendship between the ancestors who once joined Jinlan to create a new world.

In the ancient times a long time ago, when chaos began to emerge and the universe was first formed, there were only two brothers and sisters, Fuxi and Nuwa, living together under the Kunlun Mountains between heaven and earth.Legend has it that Kunlun Mountain is the center of the world and the home of hundreds of gods.The place where the mausoleum is located at the end of the mountain is higher than the sun and moon. The mountain has nine levels, each level is different from the other.
Going thousands of miles, there are clouds, looking up from below, it looks like a city gate, and there is wind on all sides, and the immortals often ride dragons and cranes to play in the meantime.

Because there were no other human beings in the world, the Fuxi brother and sister discussed getting married in order to reproduce, but they felt ashamed.In order to get rid of the dilemma, Fuxi and Nuwa went through all kinds of hardships and climbed to the sacred mountain Kunlun. On the mountain, they prayed to the sky: "If God allows my brother and sister to get married, please merge the clouds in the sky into one ball; Otherwise, let the clouds disperse." As a result, the clouds in the sky immediately formed a ball.Fuxi and Nuwa thought this was God's will, so they got married.

After that, on the land of the Central Plains, human beings began to appear, living endlessly, forming clans and tribes of all sizes.Fuxi taught humans how to weave nets, engaged in fishing, hunting and animal husbandry, married and married people, used Lippi as a gift, created gossip, created book contracts, and replaced the knotting government. This is how Chinese civilization originated, and Fuxi became the earliest co-owner in the world.

After Fuxi, Nuwa became the leader of the world. She invented musical instruments such as the sheng and the reed, which were the beginning of music. From then on, human beings learned to dance in music.

At that time, the world was still in the prehistoric era, and there were far more rivers than land, and the rivers often flooded, posing a great threat to human survival.Just at this time, Gonggong, the god of water, and Zhurong, the god of fire, quarreled for some reason, and then fought.Zhu Rong finally defeated Gonggong, and Gonggong, ashamed and angry, slammed into Buzhou Mountain in the west.Buzhou Mountain is a pillar supporting the sky. After being knocked down by Gonggong, half of the sky collapsed and a big hole appeared.Large cracks also appeared on the earth, the mountains and forests were on fire, floods gushed out from the ground, and some dragons, snakes and ferocious beasts also took the opportunity to sneak out to devour humans, and humans were facing an unprecedented catastrophe.

Witnessing such a strange disaster, Nuwa was determined to end the disaster.She found all kinds of five-color stones, melted them with fire, and then filled the hole in the sky with this five-color stone slurry.Then he cut off the four legs of a big turtle and used them as four pillars to prop up the collapsed half of the sky.They collected a large number of reeds and burned them to ashes, which stopped the torrential flood.Nuwa also captured and killed the black dragon that cannibalized humans, and stopped the arrogance of the beast.

After some painstaking efforts by Nuwa, mankind once again lived a peaceful life.However, this catastrophe still left many traces: the sky tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon and stars naturally returned to the west; while the earth tilted to the southeast, so all the rivers converged to the southeast; and after the rain, the sky cleared , the five-color stones patching the sky will glow again, and a rainbow will appear in the sky.

The No. 70 Seventh Emperor who was directly related to Emperor Fuxi and Emperor Nuwa was Shaodian. He married Youshi and gave birth to Emperor Yan.Emperor Yan was named Shennong, and he was born in Jiangshui. He invented farming and medicine, which benefited the people and became the common master of the world.He also created the banjo and started wax festivals and markets.Since Emperor Yan, the Central Plains has entered a farming society.

Because Fuxi, Nuwa, and Emperor Yan are representatives of the origin of Chinese civilization, they are honored as the "Three Emperors" by later generations.With the growth of human desires, various tribes began to attack each other, the wars were incessant, and the lives were devastated. Although Emperor Yan was the ruler of the world, he could do nothing about it.

At that time, there was a Jiuli tribe in the south, who were good at smelting. They were the only tribe on the land who could smelt copper and iron at that time. They made various weapons such as knives, halberds, bows, and crossbows. These sharp weapons were very sharp at that time. Rare and extremely powerful.The leader of the Jiuli tribe is named Chi You, who is ambitious and powerful.He also has 81 brothers, all of them have the bodies of ferocious beasts, with copper heads and iron foreheads, and they eat sand and stones, and they are extremely ferocious.Chi You wanted to annex the princes and unify the world, so he began to harass other tribes wantonly.

Once, Chiyou marched northward and occupied Emperor Yan's land.Emperor Yan raised his troops to resist, but Chi You had excellent weapons, and Emperor Yan was no match at all, so he was defeated by Chi You.Emperor Yan had no choice but to flee to Zhuolu and asked his half-brother Huangdi for help.

The Yellow Emperor's surname was Gongsun. Because he was older than Jishui, he changed his surname to Ji.Because he lived in Xuanyuan Hill, he was named Xuanyuan; because the country was founded in Youxiong, he was also called Youxiong;He was born with a vision, he could speak a few days after he was born, his thinking was quick when he was young, he was honest and capable when he was young, and he was smart and resolute when he was an adult.The Yellow Emperor's tribe first lived near Jishui in the northwest, and later moved to Zhuolu in the Central Plains to settle down, and began to develop animal husbandry and agriculture.

The Yellow Emperor had many wives and concubines, including four concubines and ten concubines.

The four concubines are called Yuan, Er, San and Si respectively.Among them, the concubine Yuan was from the Xiling family, named Leizu, and she was the cousin of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang.The second concubine, Fang Lei, was named Nujie.The third concubine is Tongyu.The fourth concubine's mother, ugly in appearance, was deeply respected by the Yellow Emperor because of her noble virtues.

The Yellow Emperor had a total of 25 sons, only fourteen of whom were given surnames. According to the location of their fiefdoms, each of them took the twelve surnames of "Ji, You, Qi, Ji, Teng, Wei, Ren, Xun, Xi, Ji, Zhang, and Yi" .At that time, surnames were given by virtue, and only two sons were able to follow Huangdi's surname Ji because of their virtue.

Lei Zu, the concubine of the Yuan Dynasty, had two sons: the eldest son Xuanxiao, also known as Qingyang, who lived in Jiangshui; the second son Changyi, who lived in Ruoshui.Leizu himself was extremely intelligent. At that time, silkworms were only wild, and no one in the world knew the usefulness of silkworms. Leizu accidentally discovered that cooked silkworm cocoons could spin silk, so he began to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, and taught the people to weave.Since then, there have been silk and silk in the Central Plains.In order to commemorate Leizu's achievements, later generations honored her as "the first silkworm empress".

Huangdi had one of the most knowledgeable officials under his command, the historian Cangjie, who created ancient writing.The characters in the Central Plains were all recorded on turtle shells at that time. It was because floods flooded during the Great Famine and turtles were everywhere, and turtle shells were easily available. This is what later generations called oracle bone inscriptions.Cangjie also had a brother named Cangsheng, who was the most valiant general under Huangdi.

The Yellow Emperor was becoming increasingly prosperous. After listening to Yan Emperor's story, he decided to fight against Chi You and shoulder the responsibility of stabilizing the world.He united various tribesmen to prepare for a decisive battle with Chi You in the wilderness of Zhuolu.

(End of this chapter)