357.Arrowland Tribe (1/5)

Walking along the way, Kirkra explained to them the history of the Arrowland tribe and the Zulu kingdom.

According to modern archaeology, the African continent is the origin of human beings, and the first humans walked out from this continent.

Among them, there were black tribes in South Africa as early as 2,000 years ago, and these tribes speak Bantu, and Bantu can be divided into two major language families, namely the Nguni language family composed of Zulu and Xhosa, and the Sotho language family distributed in central South Africa.

Among them, the Zulu and Xhosa groups are the two largest language groups in South Africa, the third is the Aphilica language, and there are more than a dozen other black lingua franca, and the situation is more complicated.

The most active of the many tribes were the Zulus, who were also the most ambitious, and the early Zulu king Chaka successfully united several Zulu tribes in 1819 AD to form a kingdom, the earliest Zulu kingdom.

The conquests between the black tribes resembled those of the Mongolian steppes, and they preferred to use scorched earth tactics to fight each other fiercely and brutally.

The Zulu army was one of the first powerful forces in the Zulu kingdom, and they were invincible and invincible in South Africa, suppressing the Xhosa and the Guhimansans, and also had many conflicts with the Boers and whites who had immigrated to South Africa in the early days.

The Boers speak Aphilica, a language based on the Dutch of the Middle Ages, which was a new language that blended some languages from Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Unfortunately, the fusion of the Aphilica language with the African language was so unsuccessful that there was a conflict with the Zulu-speaking Nguni language, for example, the father in the Nguni language family was equivalent to the baby in the Aphilica language, and the communication between the two sides was often conflicting.

In the early days, the contact between the two groups was not smooth, and Kirkla explained to the two: "We have a story here about the marriage of a Boer tribe and a Zulu tribe, which is a good thing, and eases the conflict between the two sides. As a result, everyone drank too much wine at the banquet, and the patriarch of the Boer people told the chief of the Zulus, who was much older than himself, that we would be relatives in the future, and that I would treat you like a father......"

"But the leader of the Zulu tribe heard that he was going to treat you like a child?" asked Yang Shubao.

That's right, the happy event turned into a funeral, and both parties drank at the time, so they directly drew their knives and killed them at the banquet. The relatives and friends who were drinking and talking happily just now became enemies of life and death the next moment. ”

At this point, Kirkla smiled wryly, a joke to outsiders, but a tragedy to the Zulus.

In conclusion, there are many contradictions between the Zulus and the Boers.

In 1835, the Zulu king Chaka died and was succeeded by his son Dinggang.

Three years later, the Boers, oppressed by the Zulu kingdom, migrated, and Ding Gang commanded the Zulu army to strangle the tribe.

But the Boers were brave and skillful, and their leader, Pretoria, was even more ruthless, and he commanded his people to fight a bloody battle against Zulu forces dozens of times his size, and the most famous battle of the Blood River in South African history began.

In this battle, the Zulu Kingdom was directly defeated, Ding Gang was killed by the rebels during his escape, and the entire kingdom fell apart into thirteen tribes, from which the Arrow Land tribe came.

'Arrowland' is a Zulu unit of length, the farthest distance an arrow can fly, and the Kirkra tribe is named after it to indicate that the tribe has many archers.

Actually, there is a chicken.

Since the birth of ruthless characters such as Makqin and Gatlin, archers and the like have hit the streets.

However, it is true that the land of Nongoma was taken by them with bows and arrows and has been guarded to this day, and the town is now under the jurisdiction of the South African government, but the chieftain still has a lot of authority and high status.

Every South African president comes to power and pays special visits to some of the chiefs in the country, among which the chief of the Arrow Land, Golden Shield-Zurutini, is one of them.

They chatted and walked all the way, and then they saw the Grand Palace of the tribe in a hollow surrounded by hills.

The Grand Palace was located outside the town, and there were also a number of houses up and down the hills, where most of the people lived were able-bodied black men.

"This is the samurai dwelling of our tribe, in fact, our tribe originally lived in these places, and then the government built the city of Nongoma, so the old chief arranged for the tribe to relocate to enjoy a more convenient life," Kirkla said. But the samurai dwellings were retained, as they were to guard the Grand Palace. ”

The samurai's dwellings occupy a favorable position on the high ground, and if an armed force wants to attack it, it must be attacked from the bottom up, which makes it more difficult to attack.

It's just that the Grand Palace was built in a hollow, so drainage is a problem.

Compared with the Forbidden City, the Grand Palace is indeed not big, but this is a king's palace, covering an area of considerable size, Yang Shubao stood on the hill and looked down, it is estimated that the area of the Grand Palace is also more than ten or twenty acres.

The Grand Palace is built of stone and is surrounded by a ring of high walls that are built of white granite.

The main building is a three-storey Jinluan Palace, with a golden roof in a herringbone shape, and the other buildings are distributed with red glazed tiles, which lead down the hill to the palace gate, and there are some stone statues on the roadside, including leopards, lions and hippos rhinoceros.

Kirkra was quite a member of the tribe, and there were constant patrols of samurai with swords on the road, and when they saw him, they would not ask, but would slap their right hand on their chest and bow slightly.

Yang Shubao was stunned, he was in contact with the traditional tribe for the first time, compared to the Tata tribe where Gil Allan Poe is located, it is simply a small village, and the people are the real Zulu tribe.

Zhang Jinjie was even more shocked: "My God, there is still such an original tribal culture in modern civilization? If it can be developed into a tourist resource, your buddy and I will definitely be developed!"

When they got to the door, they were stopped, and a black man in a white police uniform-like uniform said, "Brother Kirkla, have you made an appointment?"

"No, I've come to see the Golden Shield Chief temporarily, and I've brought with me two young and handsome Chinese friends, both of whom are working on construction in our province, and I think the chief will be willing to befriend them," said Kirkla. ”

The sturdy black man sighed, "Well, then you should make an appointment in advance, and the chief of the Golden Shield has asked Lamoni to see the little prince, you know, that fellow likes to pretend to be a ghost the most, and he may not be able to leave without an afternoon." ”

Kirkla said unhappily: "Why does the chief still trust him? I have already said that he should send the little prince to the great hospital in Johannesburg or Cape Town!"

The sturdy black man said in frustration: "The chief listened to your advice, he has been to Johannesburg, and the little prince has done many examinations, and I heard that he has been put into a machine that can swallow people and scan people, but the results are useless, and no problems have been found." ”

Another young man dressed in the same style but in blue came up and said, "The doctor said that this is an incurable disease, and doctors all over the world can't cure it.