Yao is the legendary holy king in ancient China. Later generations said that his name was Tao Tang and his surname was Qi Yi, so he was also called Tang Yao. Both Shangshu and Shiji say that his name is Fang Xun.
Yao's father is the emperor and his mother is Chen Feng's daughter.
Emperor is the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, who reigned for 70 years. "The sun and the moon shine, and the wind and rain come, and he has to obey." After his death, Yao's half-brother succeeded him to the throne.
Zhi was in office for 9 years, but he gave up Yao because of his poor political achievements.
Jin Huangfu Mi's "Imperial Century" said: "Pingyang, the capital of Yao, is a poet in the Tang Dynasty". Later generations have the saying "Pingyang, Du Yao". Pingyang is now Linfen City, Shanxi Province, and the Tang State mentioned in the Book of Songs is in Shanxi Province. Today, Linfen still has Yao Temple built in Jin Dynasty and Yaoling built in Tang Dynasty.
Yao's quality and wisdom are extraordinary. "Its benevolence is like heaven, and its knowledge (wisdom) is like god. Like the sun, it looks like a cloud. Rich but not arrogant, expensive but not comfortable. " Therefore, after he acceded to the throne, the situation changed greatly: first of all, to recommend the sages of his family with both ability and political integrity, to make the people closely unite and achieve the "sum of nine families"; It is also necessary to examine the political achievements of officials, distinguish between high and low, reward good and punish evil, and make government affairs orderly; At the same time, pay attention to coordinating the relations among ethnic groups, educate people to live in harmony, and achieve "harmony among ethnic groups, harmony between people and the times", so that the world is at peace, politics is clear, and the world is at peace.
According to legend, in the Yao Dynasty, the calendar was formulated for the first time, which enabled the working people to engage in production activities on time and quarterly without delaying the farming season. Han farming has a long history and attaches great importance to farming time. What about Shangshu? 6? Yao Dian (1) recorded this in detail. Yao Dian said:
Yao Ming's family and He's family made calendars according to the movement of the sun, the moon and the stars, and then promulgated the world, so that agricultural production had laws to follow, which was called "respecting the people".
He sent people to live in a place called Xungu on the east coast to observe the sunrise, and took a day divided equally between day and night as the vernal equinox, and corrected it according to the position of the stars.
Uncle Percy lives in a place called Du Ming. He observes the movement of the sun from north to south, regards the longest day as the summer solstice, and corrects it with reference to the position of Mars.
Pai and Zhong lived in a place called Unknown Valley in the west, observed the sunset, and took the day divided equally between day and night as the autumnal equinox, and corrected it with reference to the position of the imaginary star.
Pai and Shu lived in a place called Youdu in the north, observed the movement of the sun from south to north, took the shortest day as the winter solstice, and corrected it with reference to the position of the Pleiades.
Yao decided to take 366 days as a year, set a leap month every three years, and use the leap month to adjust the relationship between the calendar and the four seasons, so that the annual farming season is correct and there is no business trip.
It can be seen that the ancients regarded the era of Emperor Yao as an era of rapid progress in farming culture.
Yao's era is also a legendary flood period. "As soon as the soup is flooded, it will be cut. Hu Aishan Xiangling Mountain is crumbling and has a huge momentum." The water is huge, roaring, flooding the hills, rushing to Gorkon, endangering the world and making people uneasy.
Yao was worried about this and asked Siyue who could control the flood. April recommended guns. Yao thinks Gun is unreliable and often disobeys orders, which harms one's own interests and is not suitable for this important job. But in April, he insisted on giving Gun a try, saying that it was really impossible, and then he was dismissed.
So Yao appointed Gun to control the flood. I have been refining water for 9 years, and I have achieved nothing. This is a political mistake in Yao's legend, and there are still similar shortcomings. In a word, Yao's era was not perfect, so Shun made great efforts to govern it.
In all kinds of philosopher's books, there are legends about Emperor Yao's martial arts. Both the interlayer and the martial arts are perfect, so Yao is the ancient holy king.
"Lu Chunqiu? 6? "1 summoning class" said: "Yao is at the edge of the fresh water pool, subduing that savage. "He once crusaded against the gangs in the south and went into battle in person.
Huainanzi? 6? 1 Ben said: "When Yao was born, he came out on the 10th, burning crops and killing them, but the people had nothing to eat. Anger, tooth digging, nine babies, strong winds, meditation and snake repair are all harmful to the people. " Yao sent a hand to kill those wild animals and shot them for nine days.