Why do Chinese people worship snakes

The living fossils on the ball have lived on the earth for hundreds of millions of years, far more than China's 5,000 years of cultural history, and they have been the "old master" of the Earth when the ancestors of mankind. The ancient people in our country took the snake as the teng map at the earliest, such as Fuxi and Nuwa appeared on various murals in the form of a human head and snake body.

"Lizi" records: "Bulli, Nue, Shenlong (Nong), Xia Hou, snake body human face, ox head tiger nose." Most of the dragons in Chinese mythology evolved from snakes, and the mountain gods all took snakes, which shows the status of snakes in Chinese traditional culture.

In ancient Chinese folk culture, the snake used to be a symbol of beauty, because it is the earliest totem of the Chinese nation, is a primitive religious god, later known as the first ancestor God.

In the primitive totem worship, one of our ancestors of the Dongyi Taihao (Taihao refers to Fuxi) in China worshipped snakes, and the legend of Fuxi is also the human head and the snake body.

In some relief works in ancient China, Nuwa and Fuxi are human faces and snake bodies. It shows that the history of snake worship is very long. The myth of Nuwa and Fuxi, which are widely known in our country, is recorded in the literature of Han Dynasty that Nuwa and Fuxi are brother and sister.

Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty said in "Shuowen Jiezi" : "Min, southeast Yue, snake species." This is to say that the Minyue ethnic group in Fujian was the Southeast Yue at that time, and their totem was the snake.

Chinese deity modeling, experienced the process of human animal body and god man shape. Snake totem worship is the god of man and beast, demonstrating that the Chinese nation is a brave nation.