一如何看待嫘祖的传说嫘祖故事的发生是和黄帝的传说联系在一起的。黄帝和嫘祖的传说至迟在战国、秦汉时期已在民间广为流传。成书于战国时期的《左传》、《国语》、《竹书纪年》、《山海经》、《庄子》等著作中均有若干黄帝史事的记载,《山海经》、《世本》等著作中已有有关嫘祖史迹的部分记载。然而,囿于先秦时期文献资料的极度贫乏和先秦时期史料固有的复杂性,加上当时人们历史观念的局限,有关黄帝和嫘祖的传说,有争议的地方甚夥。西汉时期杰出的历史学家司马迁依靠其所掌握的先秦文献 How to treat the ancestral legend 嫘 ancestral story is linked with the legend of the Yellow Emperor. The legend of the Yellow Emperor and Tzu Zu at the latest in the Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties has been widely circulated in the folk. Some books on the history of the Yellow Emperor, such as “Zuo Zhuan”, “Guoyu”, “Bamboo Slip Records,” “Shan Hai Jing” and “Zhuang Zi”, which were written in the Warring States period, The writings have been recorded in part on the historical relics. However, due to the extremely poor literature and information in the pre-Qin period and the inherent complexity of the historical materials in the pre-Qin period, coupled with the limitations of people’s historical concepts at that time, the controversial places about the legends of the Yellow Emperor and the T’u-dynasty were very different. Sima Qian, an outstanding historian in the Western Han Dynasty, relied on the pre-Qin literature in his possession