涿鹿两战的性质及历史影响

The Nature and Historic Influence of the Ancient “Two Wars” in Zhuolu

黄帝战蚩尤,是平定叛乱的军事斗争;黄帝战炎帝,是反对分裂的军事斗争。黄帝总结了两战发生的经验教训,加速了肇造大一统国家制度的历史进程,建立了中央集权的国家制度,并开始实行了选贤任能的“禅让制度”。

The war of Huangdi fighting against Chiyou is a military struggle of put-ting down a rebellion, while the war of Huangdi against Yandi is a military struggle ofobjecting to splitting. Having summarized the lessons of the two wars, Huangdi fastenedthe historic course of building a system of a unified domain —— established a centralizedstate system, and began to carry out “power-abdicating and handing over” system ofselecting the worthy and promoting the capable.