许多研究者以为炎帝就是神农氏,是培育粟谷,发明耒耜,教民耕稼的“农业之神”。在他们看来“如果分开炎帝与神农氏……炎帝则因缺乏与农耕文化有关的功德,所剩的只是打败仗的记录,而会变得空洞”.(1) 笔者认为,炎帝并非“农业之神”神农氏,而是对史前时期中国畜牧饲养业做出巨大贡献的“畜牧之神”。 Many researchers think that Yandi is Shennong’s family and is the god of agriculture that cultivated Sugu and invented food and agricultural products. In their view, “If we separate Yandi and Shennong’s ... Yandi lacks records of defeat because of the lack of merit associated with farming culture.” (1) In my opinion, Yan Emperor is not “God of agriculture ” Shennong, but rather to the great contribution to the livestock husbandry industry in China during the prehistoric “god of animal husbandry.”