Master Archaeologist

"Shan Hai Jing Hai Hai Dong Jing": "There is a hibiscus in Tanggu, which is bathed for ten days, and it is in the north of Hei Chi. In the water, there is a big tree, which lives in the lower branch for nine days and the upper branch for one day."

"Shan Hai Jing Da Huang Dong Jing": "There are valleys called Wenyuan Valley and Tang Valley. There are supporting trees on them. They arrive in one day and come out in one day. They are all recorded in Wu."

This is the record about the sun in "Shan Hai Jing".

To be precise, there should be records about the "Golden Crow Divine Bird".

In the Jinsha Ruins, which was later than Sanxingdui, a gold ornament of the sun bird was once unearthed.

The entire gold ornament has an outer diameter of 12.5 cm, an inner diameter of 5.29 cm, a thickness of 0.02 cm, and a weight of 20 grams.

The whole device is round and the body is extremely thin.The pattern is expressed in a hollowed-out manner, which is divided into two layers: an inner layer and an inner layer. The inner layer is a circle, and there are twelve rotating tooth-like rays of light distributed equidistantly around it.

The outer pattern surrounds the inner pattern and consists of four identical birds flying counterclockwise.

The four birds are headed back and forth, flying in the same direction, which is opposite to the rotation direction of the inner vortex.

Obviously, this gold ornament vividly reproduces the myth and legend of the ancient human beings "the golden crow loses the sun".

Four divine birds fly around the revolving sun, going round and round, going round and round, endlessly.

It embodies the strong worship of Jinsha people to the sun and birds!

This shows that at least the related legends about the Golden Crow bird in the "Shan Hai Jing" and the myths and legends about Hou Yi shooting the sun and ten days in the same sky should have been born very early.

At least in the late Shang Dynasty, it was born.

Ten days in the same sky, the legend of Hou Yi shooting the sun was once one of the most widely spread myths in our country.

The Sanxingdui civilization resembles the "Fusang" bronze sacred tree, and the Jinsha site, which inherited the Sanxingdui cultural blood, unearthed the famous sun god bird gold leaf.

All of this shows that the ancient Shu people are very likely to be the origin of Chinese myths and legends about the sun.

"Junior Brother Chen, do you think the god worshiped by people in Sanxingdui on a large scale is the Emperor Jun in myths and legends?"

Zhuang Yunpeng frowned, and suddenly came up with a bold idea.

The Sanxingdui civilization is likely to be related to an ancient god recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing"-Di Jun!
Di Jun is a very special deity.

In Chinese legends and myths, Emperor Jun is a mysterious and divine figure.

His deeds are neither recorded in official history nor passed down by scholars.

The only pre-Qin book that once recorded the god "Emperor Jun" is the "Shan Hai Jing".

Di Jun is the first god in "Shan Hai Jing".

In the world of Shan Hai Jing, he is the husband of the sun mother Xihe and the moon mother Chang Xi, the father of the sun and the moon, the boss of Dayi, and the ancestor of the agricultural countries such as Baimin, Sanshen, and Black Tooth.

Simply put, Di Jun's setting in "Shan Hai Jing" is simply the main god who supports the whole world.

Without him, there would be no sun and moon.

However, the records about him can only be seen in the "Shan Hai Jing", especially concentrated in the two classics of "Dahuang" and "Hainei".

However, Chen Han disagreed with Zhuang Yunpeng's guess.

He frowned and said, "Di Jun should be the god of the Dongyi Group, it is impossible to contact Shu."

The legend of Di Jun does not belong to the Yandi lineage at all, nor does it belong to the Huangdi lineage. It is a legend independent of the Yan and Huangdi lineages.

In "Shan Hai Jing", he appeared as the ancestor god of the Eastern tribe in ancient times.

In fact, it is equivalent to the ancestor god of Dongyi.

Because the "Shan Hai Jing" records that most of the emperor's activities and the country of his descendants are in the east.

Most scholars now believe that Di Jun's believers were members of the early Dongyi Group.

Dayi and Kuafu are their members.

Colorful birds are their totems.

The Dongyi people have advanced farming techniques, are good at singing and dancing, worship the sun, use advanced solar calendars, and have birds as their ancestors.

It was only later that the rise of the Yan and Huang groups defeated and conquered the Dongyi people. Later, the Dongyi people scattered and integrated into the Yanhuang tribe.

By the way, Chiyou, or the Chiyou tribe, is now considered by many scholars to be a member of Dongyi.

Some scholars believe that the prototype of the phoenix is ​​the envoy of Emperor Jun, the god of the Dongyi tribe, the "colorful bird".

Later, the Chu people used the phoenix as a divine bird, perhaps because the ancestors of the Chu people were the descendants of the Dongyi people who migrated south after the defeat.

That's why they inherited the worship of Dongyi's gods, so they used the phoenix, the divine bird, as the totem of Chu.

Just, about the theological research of these gods and gods.

Chen Han has always been insensitive.

He didn't think at all that by studying the inheritance of the Chinese gods, he could figure out the history of China's pre-Qin period.

Because the legend of China's god system is too messy.

And the earlier it is, the more chaotic it is.
Take this Emperor Jun as an example.

According to the Shan Hai Jing, he was omnipresent in everything from east to west, north to south, and almost all important inventions in ancient times came from his descendants.

The most important thing is that many clans, including the surnames Ji, Jiang, and Yao, were separated from him.

However, neither the people of Zhou nor the later state of Qi had a culture of worshiping emperors.
In the tombs of the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties unearthed in various places, and the tombs of the Qi State, there is no written record about "Emperor Jun", or the worship of totems and utensils.

However, in the "Chu Silk Book" unearthed in Chu, there is a written record of "Emperor Jun (Jun) is a journey of the sun and the moon."

This is also the earliest record about Emperor Jun.

Obviously, there is no way to confirm the legend of Emperor Jun in "Shan Hai Jing" and the unearthed reality.

Moreover, in fact, there are related records of Hou Yi, or "Yi" in "Shan Hai Jing".

However, unlike the records in other classics, Hou Yi in "Shan Hai Jing" is Di Jun's subordinate.

"Emperor Jun bestowed Yitong with a bow and plain mat to help the country, and Yi was the first to relieve the hardships of the country."

In "Shan Hai Jing", Dayi is not a human being, but a deity sent by the god Emperor Jun to save the world from suffering.

But in other classics of later generations, the object of Dayi's allegiance has become the human emperor Yao.

"Emperor Jun" seems to have disappeared in all the classics except "Shan Hai Jing".

Chen Han shook his head, and said with disinterest: "I'm not interested in studying the Chinese gods at all."

"Just relying on the bronze sacred tree, there is no way to connect it with the Golden Crow, with the ten suns and the same sky, and with Dijun."

"The golden crow on the bronze sacred tree doesn't even look like a crow."

"The crow's beak is short and straight. Like a dagger."

"The beak shells of birds unearthed in Sanxingdui all have a downward arc at the tip."

"More like an osprey than a crow."

"That's right, it's the animal in the name of the ancient Shu king "Yufu". The osprey is the yufu."

"I see that the bronze sacred tree, the sun wheel below, is indeed a worship of the sun, but the nine birds parked on it should be ancestor worship."

"The object of worship is the Yufu king of the ancient Shu people, or the Yufu tribe."

"Don't talk about Emperor Jun, the more you do it, the more illusory it will be."