What is the Battle of Zhuolu?

In ancient China, it is said that the Huangdi and Yandi tribes united and fought a large-scale war with the Jiuli tribe of Chiyou. Because the war took place in the wilderness of Zhuolu, later generations will refer to it as The legendary battle is called the Battle of Zhuolu.

During the patrilineal clan society period in China about four to five thousand years ago, the Huangdi and Yandi tribes that arose in what is now the Guanzhong Plain and southwest Shanxi merged and developed along the north and south banks of the Yellow River to the western part of the present-day North China Great Plains. The Jiuli tribe of Chiyou, which arose in the border area of ??present-day Hebei, Shandong and Henan, developed from east to west. The two major tribal alliances launched a long-term war in the Zhuolu Wilderness to compete for areas suitable for grazing, hunting and shallow farming.

The Chiyou people are brave and strong, and are good at fighting with horns. They united with the giant Kuafu tribe and the Sanmiao tribe to first drive away Emperor Yan, and then took advantage of the situation to march north to Zhuolu and attack the Huangdi tribe. Legend has it that Chi You led his 72 clans to use the thick fog to besiege the Huangdi clan. The Huangdi people led the people with totems such as bears, scorpions, wolves, leopards, and heirs, and they were invincible in countless battles. Later, with the help of the Xuannv tribe, he blew horns and drums, took advantage of the Chiyou tribe's confusion and shock, broke through the fog, defeated Chiyou, and finally captured and killed him in the wilderness of Zhongji (now part of Hebei). Huangdi, the leader of the tribal alliance who won the war, became the common ancestor of the Chinese people.