Chapter 5140 The Evolution of Matriarchy and Patriarchy
Xuanwu said thoughtfully: "What you mean is that the Murong tribe also originated from the Dongyi tribe, a nomadic race outside the Great Wall, so they may be related to the Tiandao Alliance like the Shang tribe?"
Baihu said calmly: "The tribes of Dongyi are just a collective name for the ancestors of various tribes who lived on the eastern coast in ancient times. Just like the nomadic barbarians we see on the grasslands, in fact, there is no affiliation between their tribes.
But because the living environment is close and the living customs are similar. But I don’t know when it started. It may be some tribes that delve into witchcraft, channeling, soul magic, etc., their wizards and priests, and the spiritual power between heaven and earth in ancient times.
There are plenty of spirits and gods walking around in the world, and they have mastered many spells to cultivate immortals and control souls. Gradually, they will make the leader of the tribe become a god as the goal of his survival."
Qinglong laughed: "In ancient times, there were few people and many beasts. They had no food to eat and were precarious. They were always threatened by poisonous insects and beasts. Of course, they wanted to escape from the sea of suffering early, ascend to godhood, and live a life without worries about food and clothing.
This obsession with living a life without being attacked by other wild beasts probably became the source of motivation for the original leaders of the Tiandao Alliance to study various secret arts and witchcraft."
Bai Hu said solemnly: "The various records in ancient times seem to us like myths, but after experiencing these things we have seen with our own eyes, we should now believe that many records are not groundless, such as riding beasts to fight, having gods
Demons help each other, etc. However, after the Battle of the Gods, starting from the Zhou Dynasty, we entered the era of humans. Human beings dominate the world instead of the gods and demons before. Because we have not seen these for a long time,
So these things from ancient times are regarded as just myths."
At this point, Bai Hu changed his tone and continued: "As for the various tribes of Dongyi, among the ancient princes, there should be someone who has researched the secret soul technique. These are the earliest sources of the Tiandao Alliance. Of course, it may not be called this at that time.
Names, but gradually, these tribal leaders will take these secret techniques for their own use. In the earliest period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the world was a commonwealth, and even the inheritance of the leaders was not inherited by fathers and sons. These secret techniques and soul skills were probably all
Luotong, slowly, as the tribe evolved, various divisions of labor began to appear. Priests and wizards became full-time people responsible for offering sacrifices and communicating with the spirits of ancestors. The leader of the tribe was often the one with the strongest military ability and the most powerful.
A man who can organize all the manpower."
Qinglong's eyes suddenly lit up: "This sounds too similar to those barbarian Hulu in Mobei. Just like He Lanmin, isn't she the tribal priest and witch chosen for generations? And she does have her own merits in this regard.
What’s unique about it.”
Xuanwu said solemnly: "In ancient times, tribes were often matrilineal, because women were giving birth and offering sacrifices had their own specialties. In a tribe, the continuation of the descendants and the blessings of the ancestors is the basis for its continuation. And
The number of people was very small, so there was little chance of encounters and conflicts between tribes, and there was not as much demand for strong men as there would be later."
"So the sacrificial matters, the duties of wizards and priests are often performed by women who are tribal leaders. The earliest members of the Tiandao Alliance may also be mainly women. However, later on, as the population of heaven and earth multiplied, the number of tribes increased.
As the population increases, various tribes that mainly engage in hunting and gathering begin to meet more and more frequently. These encounters will inevitably be accompanied by competition for territory and population, and then lead to conflicts and wars.
As a result, strong men gradually took over the dominant position, and tribal leaders gradually changed from women to strong men who could command battles."
"Just like a group of monkeys or a herd of beasts, the strongest and most majestic men will be particularly liked by women, willing to mate with them, and produce offspring. This is an important change in our human race from matrilineal to patrilineal, because matrilineal
The leader of the tribe only knows his mother but not his father. He will regard everyone in the tribe as his father and all of them as relatives. But if the leader becomes a man, he will gradually fix his own spouse and no longer allow other tribes to marry him.
If a man possesses it at will, the child will know his parents, and the concepts of offspring, bloodline, and family will be born.”
Bai Hu laughed: "Yes, the emergence of this kind of small family will divide the entire tribe. As the leader and senior men, they will gradually possess more women, have children, and their descendants will become
The powerful assistant of his father and ancestors, when there are contradictions and conflicts within the tribe, he will definitely turn to his father, not other tribesmen. Therefore, some leaders have groups of wives and concubines, while most tribesmen do not even have the right to mate.
It also prompted these tribes with patrilineal military leaders to start waging war and expansion, and the purpose of expansion was no longer simply for territory or food, but to plunder women."
Qinglong sighed: "Isn't this what the prairie barbarians do every day? They fight and kill just to steal women and children. They kill all the men of other tribes and steal the women to become their wives, concubines and slaves. Since ancient times,
It has been thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, but the basic etiquette, justice, integrity, benevolence and morality are still not understood. What is the difference between such people and wild beasts?"
Xuanwu said calmly: "If you want to transform a person from a beast into a human being, you must first have enough food and clothing. The so-called etiquette can only be understood in a warehouse. If there is no fixed place to live, wars are constant, and it is difficult to survive, then
They can only behave like wild beasts, and all their actions are just to avoid starving to death, to have children, and to reproduce the tribe. To put it bluntly, the earliest purpose is to increase the number of tribes and expand the scale of the tribe, whether it is hunting and gathering or facing foreign enemies.
, all have more manpower to fight."
"So, in the ancient times of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the classics say that it was a beautiful land, a paradise of kings, and everyone was morally noble. But in fact, as long as you make a little judgment, you will know that this is just made up by Confucian masters in order to make people abide by etiquette.
A beautiful lie. Look at the barbarians from all parts of the grassland. How can they be moral and know benevolence and righteousness? In order to survive, they can do anything. This is the cruel fact of ancient times."
Bai Hu nodded: "Yes, so in order to give yourself more competitive advantages, you must not only have children, but also expand the size of the tribe. This is to find a way on living people. In addition, find a way
Using various witchcraft and soul techniques, the dead souls of ancestors can be transformed into evil gods, and they can also return to the human world to help themselves. This is to find a way from the dead, from ghosts and gods." (End of this chapter)
