关于炎帝与神农氏究竟是一人还是两人的问题,直接影响到我国上古史的深入研究。笔者认为,炎帝确非神农,那种把炎帝和神农看作一人的观点乃附会托古所致,既不符合文献记载的内容,又与历史真实相去甚远。本文拟分别就下面几个方面对此予以疏证,以就教于学界同仁。第一,从文献记载的演变来看,战国以前,有关炎帝的文献典籍只言炎帝,未言及神农,更未将两者相提并论。例如,成书于春秋末期的《国语》和《左传》,是迄今所知的有 The question about whether Yandi and Shennong are one or two people directly affects the in-depth study of our country's ancient history. The author believes that Emperor Yan Dao is indeed a non-Shen Nong. The idea of ​​treating Yan Emperor and Shen Nong as a single person is due to the attachment to the Tugu and does not conform to the contents of the documentary record nor to the historical truth. This article intends to be the following aspects of this to be evidentiary, to teach in the academic colleagues. First, judging from the evolution of the documented records, before the Warring States Period, the documents on Yan Emperor were only Yan Yan emperor's words, without mention of Shennong, and they were not compared in the same way. For example, “Mandarin” and “Zuo Zhuan”, which were written in the late Spring and Autumn Period, are so far known