After defeating Chiyou, Huangdi established a tribal alliance, and Huangdi was elected as the leader of the tribal alliance. He led everyone to develop production, grow grain, domesticate animals, smelt copper and iron, and make production tools; And make clothes for Princess Lei Zu. In the process of dressing, Lei Zu and three other people under the Yellow Emperor made a specific division of labor: Hu Chao was responsible for making the crown (hat); Apollo is responsible for making clothes; Responsible for making shoes (shoes); Rezu is responsible for providing raw materials. She often leads women up the mountain to peel bark and weave hemp nets, and they also peel off the fur of various wild animals hunted by men for processing. Before long, the leaders of all tribes put on clothes, shoes and hats. My mother got sick because of overwork. She doesn't want to eat, and she is getting thinner every day. The men and women around are anxious. Several women guarding Leizu tried their best to cook a lot of things that Leizu usually likes to eat. Who knows Lei Zu always shakes his head and doesn't want to eat at all.
One day, these women talked quietly and decided to pick some wild fruits for Lei Zu to eat. They went into the mountains early in the morning, traveled all over the mountains and picked a lot of fruits, but they tasted them with their mouths, and they were either sour or not delicious. Until it was getting dark, I suddenly found a small ginkgo in a mulberry forest. They thought they had found good fresh fruit and were busy picking it, and no one took a sip. After everyone picked up the basket, it was dark. Afraid of the wild animals on the mountain, they hurried down the mountain. After coming back, these women tasted the small ginkgo, which had no taste; I bit with my teeth again, and I couldn't bite any more. Look at me, everyone. I look at you. No one knows what fruit this is. Just after the deadline, the shipbuilder came and found several women standing there speechless, and hurriedly asked what had happened. The women told them the story of Lei Zu picking small ginkgo from the mountain. Hearing this, Gong Gu smiled and said, "You silly women, now we have a fire and a pot. Cook in water if you can't bite! " As soon as he said this, he immediately reminded several women to quickly pour the picked ginkgo nuts back into the pot, add water and cook them with fire. After cooking for a long time, I fished out one and bit it with my mouth, but I still didn't bite. Just when everyone was worried and didn't know what to do, a woman picked up a wooden stick and put it into the pot to stir. While stirring, she said, "See if you are rotten or not, and see if you are ripe!" After stirring for a while, I pulled out the stick, which was wrapped with many white lines as thin as hair. What's going on here? The women continued to stir and entangle, and without much effort, all the small white fruits cooked in the pot turned into white filaments, which looked dazzling and soft. They told Leizu this strange thing at once. Leizu is a hothead. He wouldn't listen, so he went to see it at once. In order not to let her walk, these women brought the thin thread wrapped around the stick to her. Lei Zu is a very clever woman. She carefully looked at the thin thread wrapped around the stick, and then asked which mountain and tree the white fruit was picked from. Then she happily said to the woman around her, "This is not fruit, you can't eat it, but it is very useful. You have made great contributions to the Yellow Emperor. "
Strangely, Leizu started to talk about it every day when he saw this white silk thread, and he became less and less sick and began to want to eat. Soon, she recovered. Despite the Yellow Emperor's dissuasion, she personally led the women up the mountain to see what had happened. Lei Zu observed this kind of small white fruit in the mulberry forest for several days, only to find that it is an insect's mouth, spitting filaments, not the fruit on the tree. When she came back, she reported it to the Yellow Emperor and asked him to order the protection of all mulberry trees on Qiaoguo Mountain. The Yellow Emperor agreed.
Since then, under the initiative of Lei Zu, the history of planting mulberry and raising silkworms has begun. In order to commemorate this achievement, Lei Zu was honored as the "First Silkworm Queen".
Leizu's hometown
The Historical Records of the Five Emperors records that "the Yellow Emperor lives in Xuanyuan Mountain, and the daughter who married Xiling is Leizu, and Leizu is the princess of the Yellow Emperor." Lei Zu, a great silk inventor in China, is the great mother of China people recorded in historical records at the same time as Emperor Yanhuang. Where is the hometown of Leizu, the imperial concubine of the Yellow Emperor, and his wife? Yanting County, Sichuan Province was founded in 405 AD, the first year of Yixi, in Dong Jin 'an. In the Western Wei Dynasty, Yanting was named "beside the salt well". There are not only a large number of unearthed silkworm and mulberry cultural relics, fossils, Lei Zu cultural relics, and sacred monuments in Lei Zu in the Tang Dynasty, but also many legends about the discovery of worms, sericulture and silk-making in Lei Zu. The Leizu Cultural Research Association in Yanting, Sichuan Province has proved that Yanting County in Sichuan Province is the birthplace of Leizu, which has solved the eternal mystery that puzzles the historians.
60 kilometers south of Yanting County, at the junction of Jinji Town and Gaodeng Town, there is a mountain called Leizu Mountain, the Leizu Cave of Leizu Mountain, which is said to be the birthplace of Leizu Mountain. Legend has it that Leizu was born in the ancient Xiling Kingdom 5000 years ago, and his hometown is Leizu Cave in Qinglong Mountain, Jinji Town, Yanting County, Sichuan Province. As a teenager, Lei Zu showed unusual intelligence. One day, when Lei Zu was picking mulberries, he came across the yellow cocoon of mulberries and took it off and put it in his mouth to play. Because saliva soaked and heated to dissolve the colloid, Lei Zucai inadvertently sorted out the silk thread in the cocoon. Touch it with your hands, it's quite strong, not as easy to break as spider silk. The clever Lei Zu has a wish, that is, weaving silk instead of making clothes out of skins and leaves. Later, Lei Zu turned wild silkworm cocoons into domestic ones, invented some reeling tools, and realized her dream of making clothes with silk. Since then, the era of clothing civilization of Xiling tribe has been opened, and the lifestyle of wearing leaves and skins has ended. From then on, the young Leizu was famous for inventing silk and was admired by the Yellow Emperor. He married the Yellow Emperor Alliance, traveled around the world, taught sericulture, and popularized sericulture and silk culture. Assisting the Yellow Emperor, unifying the Central Plains and laying the foundation for the country is to call her Niang. Nowadays, every place name related to silk weaving in Yanting has a story about sericulture in Lei Zu, and there is still a folk custom of offering sacrifices to Lei Zu every year.
Related records
Leizu, or Leizu, also known as Leizu. According to legend, it is the Xiling family of Huangdi Yuanfei.
Shan Mei Jinghai Neijing said: Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor, was born with Chang Yi.
Guo Pu noticed in Shiben that the Yellow Emperor was married to the Xiling family, and was called the ancestral ancestor.
Yuan Ke's case: "The Last Five Years of Taoist History" said: Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor, was born in Xiling, so she worshipped silkworms first.
"Historical Records Guan Chan" also said: The Yellow Emperor married the daughter of Xiling family as Lei Zu. Lei Zu, daughter of Xiling family, imperial concubine of the Yellow Emperor. She made clothes from cocoons, and later made sacrifices from them.
"The History of Taoism in the Last Five Years" says that Lei Zu, the wife of the Xiling family of the Yellow Emperor, worshipped silkworms because she was the first silkworm. The so-called first silkworm is the god who first taught people to pick mulberry, raise silkworm and weave silk, also known as the first silkworm god. Later, it was also called a ceremony to sacrifice silkworms.
"Set Words to Explain the Truth" says: Pray for silkworms, and call them silkworms first. Generally speaking, Luo Zu is the daughter of Xiling or West Ji Jing of Xiling (Kunlun). In addition, China, which owns the clothing industry, has always attached great importance to sericulture. Since silkworms are raised by women, they have worshipped the silkworm god since the Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the silkworm god was the princess of the Yu family.
According to Li Xian's note, "Han Yi" says: Spring silkworms are born, and the queen is close to mulberry. Sacrifice to the silkworm god, the concubine of a woman in danger, Gulsen. In the Northern Qi Dynasty, in order to live in harmony with women, Princess Yuan of the Yellow Emperor was enshrined as the first silkworm god. Later Taoism; People regard it as the silkworm god and worship it to this day. Now there is an ancestral temple dedicated to Lei Zu in Yanting County, Sichuan Province. It is said that there are many believers and the incense is particularly strong.
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Judging from historical records and folklore, Lei Zu was born in Xiling, Yanting County, Sichuan Province. On the basis of a large number of historical materials and respecting history and legends, the author of Lei Zu reproduces the immortal historical achievements of the mother of the Chinese nation with the genre and vivid pen and ink of Zhang Hui's novels, allowing readers to see the arduous entrepreneurial spirit of Emperor Yanhuang, Chiyou and Lei Zu in creating the living environment of ancient human beings, and even the primitive social conditions of labor, marriage and war, which has benefited a lot. It is worth noting that Chiyou was naturally defeated in the war with Emperor Yanhuang. However, he is also a hero of Chinese civilization. No matter in the war, or he led the Miao people to move south to start a business, he made immortal contributions to the country and the people. [Han Dynasty] Chiyou and Huangdi were revered as the God of War, and it was a historical prejudice that Chiyou was said to be a villain.
Leizuling
Located in the place where Lei Zu was born and buried-Jinji Qinglong Mountain, the tomb is a gossip line with three sides exposed and five sides hidden. The side of the mausoleum is 24.95 meters long, which means 24 solar terms and the Ninth Five-Year Plan. The mausoleum, with a diameter of 60m and a height of190m, belongs to the First Mausoleum, the ancestor of Chinese women. For thousands of years from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Lei Zu was widely respected as a court official by people all over the world. She is considered to be the first silkworm, because she first domesticated silkworms and created the silk industry. In order to facilitate people's intuitive understanding, the wall of the temple is painted with a mural of "Lei Zu picking fruits, and Feng Qin discovering heavenly worms". There is such a written record in the temple: "the daughter of Leizu Erling's family, the princess of the Yellow Emperor. She first taught the people to raise silkworms, dressed them in cocoons, and later generations sacrificed them as silkworms. " There is a conference room without a conference table in the wing, and an easy-to-understand picture of Xuanyuan Huangdi courting Leizu is hung on the wall. The house imagined by the painter is far beyond the architectural style of the temple here, just like the palace in "The Legend of Lei". The Yellow Emperor in the painting is like a groom's official position in a play, and looks like an honest man, while Lei Zu is generous and measured, which is the performance of the painter standing on Lei Zu's position. The hall in the backyard is newly built. Climb a dozen stone steps to a platform behind, and the courtyard dam is full of vegetables. In the hall, the light cast by the lattice pane makes the hall look solemn because of its transparency and brightness. The sixth day of the sixth lunar month is the wedding anniversary of Huangdi and Lei Zu. In order to commemorate the contribution of Leizu, the 12th Leizu Festival was held in front of Leizu Palace, the ancestor peak of Xinzheng, in July 20 12.
The Leizu Palace, located at the top of Shizu Mountain, looks solemn. With the nine-gun salute, the ceremony of worshipping Lei Zu officially began. President of xinzheng city Huangdi Hometown Culture Research Association and relevant leaders from xinzheng city attended the ceremony, offering flowers baskets, cleaning hands, incense, chanting and singing carols to Lei Zu respectively, in memory of Hong Enhao, the mother of the Chinese nation.
In order to deeply cherish the memory of Leizu Hongenhaode and further publicize, protect and enrich the culture of Leizu, xinzheng city has held the Leizu Cultural Festival on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year since 200 1, which has been held for two consecutive times. The holding of the Leizu Cultural Festival will enable more Chinese and overseas Chinese at home and abroad to understand the Leizu, enter the Leizu, admire the Leizu, and participate in the worship of the common mother of the Chinese nation-Leizu Zhonglai.
According to expert research, Lei Zu is the daughter of Xiling tribe. In Juzi, on the sixth day of June, everything was thriving. She married the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, the monarch of Xiong State, as a princess. Because she invented sericulture, she was called "Leizu's first silkworm". Because more than two thirds of China people's surnames come from the descendants of Lei Zu, Lei Zu is also called the mother of the Chinese nation.
Leizu is the mother of the Chinese nation, and Leizu is the princess of Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of Chinese civilization. It was she who created silkworm breeding, smoked silk scarves and created clothing civilization, and was known as the "originator of silk"; It is she who started the civilized marriage custom of "eight worshippers get married". Men get married at the age of 30 and women get married at the age of 20, so she is called the founder of "marriage civilization" Ray Zu Er. Driving out of Xiling Gorge, overlooking Xiling Mountain, among the green trees in front of Wangniang Slope, there is a Leizu Memorial Hall to commemorate the mother of the Chinese nation.
Silk is in Xiling. Xiling has a vast territory. In the era of the Yellow Emperor, Xiling was recorded in historical books, with a history of more than 4,000 years. The ancient Xiling Mausoleum, which is centered on Yichang today, includes parts of eastern Sichuan, western Hubei, northern Hunan and Jingxiang. Xiling Gorge is named after Xiling Mountain, a famous mountain in Zhou Xia (now Yichang), which is located at the junction of the middle and upper reaches of the river. Xiling Mountain was listed as the first of the six scenic spots in Zhou and Xia Dynasties in Cun Wang's Records of Yuanfeng Nine Domains in Song Dynasty.
Yichang belongs to the territory of the ancient Xiling kingdom, is the distribution center of Xiling tribes, and is naturally the hometown of Xiling's daughter Leizu. In today's Xiling Mountain in Xiling Gorge scenic spot in Yichang, Leizu Cave beside Ancestor Creek, Xuanyuan Cave and Xiao Xuan Cave on Huangniu Rock, there are Leizu shrines everywhere. Lei Zu taught people to reel off silk and established the achievement of illuminating future generations. Xiling people have respected Lei Zu as the silkworm mother for generations. Every year on the 15th day of the third lunar month, Lei Zusheng holds a temple fair for sacrifice.