Once upon a time in the state of Qi, there was a man who was timid and a little neurotic. He often thinks of some strange questions, but

It makes people feel inexplicable.

One day after dinner, he sat at the door with a big cattail leaf fan and assessed his future, saying to himself:

"If one day, the sky falls, what should I do? We have no way out, we will only be crushed to death alive.

Is it too wrong to die? "

Since then, he has been worried about this problem almost every day, and his friends have seen him in a trance all day long and his face is haggard.

Worried about him, but when everyone knew the reason, they all came to persuade him to say:

"Dude! Why bother yourself about it? How can the sky fall? Said that even if it did fall,

That can't be solved by you alone. Relax! "

However, no matter what others say, he doesn't believe it, and he will always worry about this unnecessary problem.

Later, according to the above story, people extended the idiom "worrying about the sky", whose main meaning is to wake people up.

Children should not worry about some unrealistic things. It has roughly the same meaning as "much ado about nothing"

Ancient Nuwa

Nu Wa is the goddess in China's historical myths and legends. With Fuxi brothers and sisters. According to legend, the five-color stone is refined to make up the sky, making people out of soil, making wedding ceremonies, continuing human life and creating everything in the world. Nu Wa is the great mother of the Chinese nation. She created us kindly and bravely took care of us from natural disasters. It is the creator god and ancestor god widely worshipped by people for a long time. She has magical power and can create at least seventy things every day.

"Peaceful Magnolia": Before Nu Wa made people, she made chickens on the first day of the first month, dogs on the second day, sheep on the third day, pigs on the fourth day and horses on the sixth day. On the seventh day, Nu Wa made a small clay figurine out of loess and water, imitating her own appearance. She made batch after batch, and thought it was too slow, so she used crutches. In order to make human beings pass on forever, she created a wedding ceremony, acted as a matchmaker herself, let people know the method of "making people" and carry on the family line by her own strength. Another legend, unique, is that Nu Wa and Fuxi are brother and sister. At the beginning of the universe, there were only two brothers and sisters between heaven and earth. At the foot of Kunlun Mountain, there was no one else in the world. I want to be husband and wife, but I am ashamed. My brother and sister immediately went to Kunlun Mountain and cursed: "If God agrees that my brother and sister are husband and wife, please gather all the clouds in the sky or disperse them. So the clouds in the sky immediately closed, and they became husband and wife, and the Chinese nation was their descendants.

In Huai Nan Zi, we can find the record of the goddess mending the sky: In the flood era, the water god Gong Gong and the fire god Zhu Rong fought for some reason. Finally, Zhu Rong defeated Gong Gong, and Gong Gong, the water god, was ashamed and resentful because of the defeat, and ran into the western hills without island. I didn't know that it was a pillar supporting the sky, but Wudao Mountain was broken, and the pillar supporting heaven and earth was broken. The sky fell in half, and a big hole appeared, and the ground sank in. Mankind is facing an unprecedented disaster.

Nu Wa witnessed such a strange disaster and felt very painful, so she decided to mend the sky to end it. She chose various colored stones, set them on fire and melted them into mud, filled the hole with this mud, and then cut off four feet of a chinemys reevesii as four pillars to support half the collapsed sky. Nu Wa also captured and killed the black dragon, which killed the people, and stopped the arrogance of the dragon and snake. Finally, in order to prevent flooding, Nuwa also collected a large number of reeds, burned them into ashes and buried them in the flood that spread everywhere.

After some efforts and rectification by Nu Wa, the sky was finally filled up, the land was filled up, the water stopped, the dragons, snakes and beasts disappeared and the people lived a happy life again. But after all, this catastrophic disaster left its mark. Since then, the sky is still tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon and stars naturally return to the west, and because the ground is tilted to the southeast, all the rivers gather there. When the rainbow appears in the sky, it is the colorful light of our great Nuwa.

Nu Wa has worked hard. In Dou Yun Shu Yuan Ming Pao in the Western Han Dynasty, Nu Wa and her brothers Fuxi and Shennong were listed as Huang San at the beginning of the Chinese nation. They tasted hundreds of herbs and saved countless lives.

According to historical records, the Yellow Emperor married Lei Zu, the daughter of Xiling family who invented sericulture, as "Lei Zu's first sericulture". Lei Zu is the yuan princess of Xuanyuan, the legendary leader of northern tribes. She gave birth to Xu Anqi's second son, Changyi. Changyi married the daughter of Shushan, gave birth to Levin, and inherited the world. This is the "Zhuan Xu Emperor" among the Five Emperors.

According to the Book of Rites of Sui Shu, Lei Zu was honored as the "First Silkworm" in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. "Biography as a Mirror" records: "Lei Zu, the daughter of Xiling family, is the emperor's princess. She began to teach people to raise silkworms and make cocoons for clothes. " "History of Taoism" said: "Fuxi turned to silkworms, and the daughter of Xiling family, Lei Zudi, became a concubine, and began to teach people to raise silkworms and treat cocoons as clothes." "History of Taoism" said: "Fuxi turned silkworms into silkworms, and Xiling family began to raise silkworms. Therefore, "Huainan Silkworm Classic" said that Xiling family advised silkworms to breed crops, and it was only when they were close to silkworms. " This statement became popular after the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

Lei Zu and Mo Mu, another concubine of the Yellow Emperor, helped the Yellow Emperor to rule the world. Leizu died while traveling around the world with the Yellow Emperor, who named Leizu the "ancestor god".

In the Oracle bone inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, Sui Shu's ritual meanings include not only the words "mulberry", "silkworm", "silk" and "silk", but also 105 words from mulberry, silkworm and silk, which fully shows that before Shang Dynasty, there were silk fabrics and naturally there were silk clothes.

Silk in China:

Silk manufacturing in China was unthinkable for the Roman Empire as far away as BC. What puzzled the Romans was that China people actually picked out very fine "wool" from the leaves, which was also a mysterious mystery that had puzzled the Romans who didn't know how to raise silkworms for centuries.

In the first century BC, Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, showed off her luxury and beauty in front of everyone in a light, soft and transparent Sidon tulle rarely seen in the Mediterranean. Under the influence of this wind, Caesar also used expensive silk and was criticized. When Caesar went to the theatre in gorgeous silk. The appearance of Caesar made the theater boil, and the dignitaries looked forward to it, but they were not fascinated by Caesar, but envied the beautiful silk. At that time, the price of Roman silk once reached 12 two gold pounds, but it still could not stop the nobles' desire for silk. The Roman Empire imported silk and lost a lot of gold. Philosophers believe that silk is a symbol of corruption in the Roman Empire. They all know that silk is produced in a distant country-Cyrus, which means the country of silk. And this silk country is China. In the 6th century A.D., a Beijing disciple introduced silkworm worms into Europe by placing them among bamboo tubes. /kloc-it was introduced into Sicily from Constantinople in the 0/2nd century. In the fifteenth century, it was introduced to England.

Ancient Mo Mu-Princess Huangdi

It is mentioned in Historical Records that the Yellow Emperor married an ugly girl, Mo Mu, as his second princess, and Volume 5 of Postscript of Road History records that "Mo Mu, the second princess of the Yellow Emperor, is ugly but virtuous, so the Yellow Emperor married her as his princess. 」

Although Mo Mu was ugly, the Yellow Emperor trusted her and entrusted her to manage the harem. When the Yellow Emperor traveled around the world, Lei Zu, the princess of the Yellow Emperor, died of illness. The Yellow Emperor ordered Mo Mu to direct the sacrifice and manage the coffin. Mo Mu not only has extraordinary organizational ability, but also the Yellow Emperor awarded her the position of "Fang Shixiang" and used her appearance to exorcise evil spirits.

Shanggu Shennong

According to legend, the inventors of agriculture and medicine in ancient myths and legends in China invented and manufactured various farm tools, such as thunder, to teach people to farm, which reflected the progress from gathering, fishing and hunting to agricultural culture in primitive times in China.

Shennong is also considered as the ancestor of medicine. He once personally tasted herbs, invented medicines and taught people to cure diseases. Later generations say that Shennong's exquisite body can see its lungs, liver and five internal organs, so it can dissolve all kinds of poisons. It is also said that he died because he tasted the paedoptera (what he said was heartbroken grass) and could not get rid of its poison. Another legend says that Shennong is Emperor Yan.

Ancient Yan Di

Legend has it that in ancient times, the leader of the Jiang tribe, also known as He, was called Shennong (or the descendants of Shennong). According to legend, his mother's name is Ren You. One day when she visited Huashan, she saw a dragon, and her body immediately reacted. When I came back, I gave birth to Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan was born in a stone room in a mountain and grew up in Jiang Shui. He was virtuous and respected by fire, so he was named Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan is few and wise. He can talk for three days, walk for five days and understand crops for three years. He has done many good things for the people in his life: teaching people to farm and making them well fed; In order to protect people from getting sick, he tasted all kinds of medicinal materials, so that he was poisoned 70 times a day. He also made musical instruments to make people understand etiquette, which was praised by later generations. His initial activity area was in the south of Shaanxi today, and later he developed eastward along the Yellow River, which clashed with the Yellow Emperor. In the Battle of Hanquan, Yan Di was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan Di tribe and the Yellow Emperor tribe merged to form the Huaxia tribe, so today China people call themselves "descendants of the Yellow Emperor".

Huangdi in ancient times

According to legend, the common ancestor of all ethnic groups in the Central Plains, Ji surname,No. Xuanyuan, had bears. Huangdi, the son of Shaodian, is called Huangdi because of his virtue and yellow color. The Yellow Emperor invaded each other, and the people were miserable. The Yellow Emperor reorganized the army, unified the tribes by force, defeated Emperor Yan in Hanquan, captured and killed Chiyou, the leader of Jiuli nationality, in Zhuolu, and won the support of all tribes, thus being held as the co-owner of the alliance.

According to legend, there were many inventions during the Yellow Emperor period, such as sericulture, boating, writing, temperament, arithmetic, medicine and so on. Huangdi married Leizu, the daughter of Xiling family. The Yellow Emperor has twenty-five sons and fourteen sons with surnames, making a total of twelve surnames. After the death of the Yellow Emperor, he was buried in Qiao Shan (now huangling county, Shaanxi).

Upper ancient Cang Xie

One is Cang Xie, who is said to be the historian of the Yellow Emperor and the creator of Chinese characters. According to legend, there was a period of "tying a rope to remember" and "writing a piece of wood for writing" in ancient China. Archaeologists in China have found carved symbols (including a small amount of characters) in Neolithic sites 7000-8000 years ago, and a large number of characters have been found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions about 4000 years ago.

This shows that the appearance of characters is the product of long-term summary and innovation of ancient ancestors, not made by one person. "Xunzi. "Revealing the Secret" records: "There are many good books, but Cang Xie alone." It can be seen that Cang Xie may be the representative of ancient collating characters.