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At noon, I watched the video “Is 5000 years long?” posted by Henan Tuanzi on Station B. Experience Chinese Civilization·Xuanyuan Culture in 330 seconds! Dragon pulse fire, everything grows! “ , which reminded me of Qu Yuan’s “Heavenly Questions”. After looking through it, I found that “Heavenly Questions” was not only a question about the sky, but a question about the entire mainstream world view at that time, including the origin of the universe, “mythical stories” and “modern times”. history” doubts. Most of the myths and stories seem to come from “Shan Hai Jing”, which is said to be derived from “Shan Hai Tu”, which was before the appearance of words. Are myths really just stories?
Judging from “Heavenly Questions”, there is no clear distinction between mythology and “modern history”, so I can’t help but make some guesses.
1. Before the invention of writing, history existed in the form of pictures and word of mouth. The pictures are “Mountain and Sea Map”.
2. There has been a serious gap in the inheritance of pre-written history, which has led to more and more outrageous oral traditions, which have gradually become mythical stories, such as “Nuwa repairs the sky”, “the sky tilts to the northwest, and the earth sinks to the southeast”. And the interpretation of “Shan Hai Tu” was lost, and it was not forced to be interpreted until a long time later, and became “Shan Hai Jing”. And “Mountain and Sea Map” itself was lost.
3. The Chinese civilization lasted for 5,000 years, and 5,000 years ago or even longer ago, it was a matrilineal society. In the matriarchal society, the civilization of gathering gradually changed to farming civilization, and the calendar appeared in the process.
4. The process of transforming from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society is by no means peaceful, and will inevitably be accompanied by violent conflicts, which may be inter-tribal wars in form. In this wide-ranging war that lasted for many years, a large number of civilization achievements were destroyed, inheritance was cut off, and history became a myth.
History is by no means a simple linear development, and regressions are common.
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