There is a passage in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness Western Classic": "There is a country of mutual people. The grandson of Emperor Yan is named Ling Ke. Ling Ke gives birth to mutual people, and they can go up and down in the sky. There are fish that are dry, She is called the Fish Woman. When Zhuan Xu dies, he revives. When the wind blows from the north, the sky is filled with springs, and the snake turns into a fish. She is the Fish Woman. "Zhuan Xu revives when he dies." This is strange and difficult to understand, and has not been known since ancient times. There is the explanation of Tongtai. Guo Pu's annotation is: "Huainanzi says: 'Houjilong was in Jianmuxi, and his dead body was revived, and half of it was a fish.' This is what it means." Based on the resurrection of people's death in a certain place, it explains "Zhuanxu's death is that time" "Resurgence", interpreting myths with myths, and interpreting grotesques with grotesques, is tantamount to no interpretation, and the result is still strange. Mr. Yuan Ke quoted Guo Pu's annotation and then added the following: "Guo's annotation quoted the article "Huainanzi·Zhuixingpian". The current version says: "Houji Long is in the west of Jianmu. The man was revived from the dead, and half of the fish was in it. .' Therefore, Guo notes that the dragon should be ridge, and the shape of the word is incorrect. According to the meaning of the text, the fish woman is the transformation of Zhuan Xu, so it is called 'fish'. The woman's body may be caused by the wind blowing up and the snake turning into a fish, and the fish merges with it and revives. Half of her body is still a human body, and the other half has turned into a fish, so she is called the "fish woman". "Resuscitation, also known as 'half of the fish is in it', it is known that such strange stories have been spread among the people since ancient times" (Yuan Ke's "Shan Hai Jing Annotation" page 417). Mr. Yuan Ke said that the fish woman is Zhuanxu and Shi Yufu "perhaps because the wind caused the spring to surge and the snake turned into a fish, the fish merged with it and revived. Half of the body is still a human body, and the other half has turned into a fish." Its true meaning has not been understood and it is absurd. The ancients had this "strange anecdote" and regarded it as unfounded and unexplained. Mr. Lu Sixian said: "Zhuanxu is the 'fish wife' and the personified fish god. The so-called 'resurrection after death' refers to the hibernation habit of aquatic animals, also known as 'death in winter and life in summer'" ("Mythology and Archeology" by Lu Sixian, page 65, Cultural Relics Publishing House 1995). He also said: "This is a myth about the spring society activities held by the ancestors when winter turns to spring. In ancient mythology, Zhuanxu is the Northern Emperor of Heaven and the sun god on the winter solstice. "Zhuanxu will be revived after his death", which means that the winter that causes the death of all things is about to pass, and the spring that restores life is coming. "There is a fish that is withered, and it is called a fish wife." This is a record of a fish that is hibernating. Its body is stiff from the cold and is in a "withered" shape, but the belly of the female fish is already full of roe, waiting for spring to lay eggs. She turns into a small fish, so she is called the 'fish wife', which is also the mother of the fish..." (Page 171 of "General Theory of Astronomy and Archeology" by Lu Sixian and Li Di, 1st edition of Forbidden City Press, November 2000). Mr. Lu previously said that Zhuanxu For a fish wife, "death means resurrection" means that aquatic animals (fish wives) "die in winter and live in summer" does not match the original meaning of "die in summer". "Death in winter means resurrecting" after half a year, and "die in summer". There is no time interval between "revival", so they are not connected. Mr. Lu later said that Zhuanxu and the fish wife were separated, thinking that Zhuan Xu was the northern emperor of heaven and represented winter, and the fish wife was the female fish. After winter, the female fish would revive and lay eggs. This theory combined " The original text of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is fluent, but there are still problems: the five emperors Taihao, Yandi, Huangdi, Shaohao, and Zhuanxu were paired with five directions in "Huainanzi", but Guo Pu cited "Huainanzi" to explain "Zhuanxu's death is the resurrection" But it is: "Hou Jilong is in Jianmuxi. His body is dead and resurrected, and half of it is a fish. "It shows that using Zhuanxu to explain "Zhuanxu will revive after his death" for the Northern Emperor is probably not consistent with the original intention. Considering that the sentence "There is a fish that is dry, called a fish woman, Zhuanxu will revive after his death" is preceded by "There is a country of mutual people, the grandson of Emperor Yan" ..." and "Huainanzi"'s annotation on "Zhuan Xu's death is the resurrection", the two are arranged as a paragraph in the "Shan Hai Jing" and are closely connected. It can be considered that the original meaning of "Zhuan Xu's death is the resurrection" may have something to do with Emperor Yan. . Due to the harvest of archaeological excavations and the basic identification of the Dahe Village type clan, it is now possible for us to know the original meaning of the phrase "Zhuan Xu's death means resurrection"

Let's talk about "Hu Ren" and "Hu Ren". "Fish wife". Guo Pu annotated "the country of mutuality" as "a human face and a fish body". Guo Pu annotated "Huainanzi" "Hou Jilong is in Jianmuxi, and its people are resurrected from death, and half of them are fish". There is no reason. The former talks about things related to Emperor Yan, and the latter talks about things related to Zhuanxu. Both of them are related to "fish". It can be seen that among the ancients, Emperor Yan, Zhuanxu, and fish were It is closely related, and even has a very ancient origin (of course it is unlikely to be the fabrication of Guo Pu and "Huainanzi"), although "human face and fish body" and "people are resurrected after death, half of them are fish" are all weird. , is an impossible thing. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Hai Nei Nan Jing" says: "The Di Ren Kingdom is in Jianmuxi, and its people have human faces and fish bodies, and there are no feet. "Mr. Yuan Ke believes that the "country of Huren" in "The Great Wilderness West Classic" is the "country of Diren". He said: "Hao Yixing said: "The country of Huren is the country of Diren in the south of the sea. The two characters "Di" and "Hu" cover it. The shape is close but wrong, and the common words "Di Zheng" and "Zheng" are used as mutual characters. Wang Niansun and Sun Xingyan both revised and revised each other's works. They are the Huren Kingdom in the Great Wilderness West Jing, that is, the Diren Kingdom in this Jing Dynasty, and they are the descendants of Emperor Yan. There are word errors. They are all in the west of Jianmu, and they are all people with human faces and fish bodies. They undoubtedly refer to the same thing. According to Guo Pu's note "Zhuan Xu will be revived after his death", he quotes "Huainanzi" as saying "Hou Jilong is in Jianmu" In the west, a man resurrected after death, half of which was a fish." We know that "Zhuan Xu resurrected after death" must be related to the descendants of Emperor Yan. There are indeed "mutual things" and "mutual people" recorded in ancient books, and they are related to fish. "Zhou Li Tian" "Guan" said: "Turtles and turtles take objects from each other's palms, offering fish, turtles, mirages, and miraculous things in season. They offer turtles and mirages in spring, turtles and fish in autumn, and sacrifice ticks and ticks."

"Zhou Li·Di Guan" said: "The palm mirage collects the mirage of each other, and uses the mirage of the 霉鹹, the mirage of the mirage as a sacrifice, and the mirage of the Baisheng." "Mr. Lu Sixian's interpretation of the "Great Wilderness Western Classic" "A country with mutual relations..." says: "The surname Jiang of the Qiang tribe of Emperor Yan originated in the Qiang River, near today's Baoji, or on the human-mask fish pattern unearthed at the Beishouling site in Baoji. It is related to the Yan Emperor lineage. The "Huren" of "Huren's Country" is dressed as a "human face and fish body", and his name is Ling Ke. He should be a wizard who harmonizes heaven and earth in sacrificial activities. The "Huwu" used in later generations' rituals should be based on " "Huren'", and paraphrase this quote from "Zhou Li Tianguan" and "Diguan" "Huwu": "These Huwu that are offered to heaven and earth are all aquatic animals, and fish is only one of them." The criteria for selecting mutual things are quoted from Zheng Sinong: "Huwu means that there are armors and full beards." "The image of nails and scales, beards and beards, and a human face with fish patterns on a slope is indeed 'with armor and full of beards', which should represent the 'mutual things' or 'mutual people' that can go up and down in the sky." (Lu Sixian's " "Mythology and Archeology" pp. 128-129). Mr. Lu's two paragraphs of interpretation are indeed accurate. They are related and consistent with the phenomena of human faces and fish patterns unearthed in Banpo and Jiangzhai, indicating that the relevant documents are indeed true. The historical and cultural background exists, and it is by no means fictitious. Therefore, it is speculated that the "fish wife" in "there is a fish that is dry, and it is called a fish wife" is probably meant to be a "fish wife", that is, a group of people or "hu people" who use fish as mutual objects. , that is, the descendants of Emperor Yan, then "there are fishes that are dry, and they are called fish wives. Zhuanxu will revive after his death." This may mean that the Yandi tribe became active and revived immediately after the end of Zhuanxu's rule. Guo Pu notes that "Zhuanxu revived after his death." "The quote from "Huainanzi": "The Dragon of Houji was in Jianmuxi, and its dead body was resurrected, and half of it was fish." It has a similar meaning. The ancients' interpretation obviously has its origins but cannot grasp the true nature of things. In Therefore, it is necessary to look at what "partially dry" means.

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