"Shi Hai Shen Hook Issue X: Classic Books" - Author: The Stars Fall

Among the countless works of the past and present, "The Distinction between Regional Culture and Ethnic Groups", written in the 16th century, is undoubtedly a work with the status of an ancestor.

This book is known as an authoritative book for understanding the differentiation and distribution of the maritime ethnic groups in Bourbon in the 16th century and even before, and also created a new genre, and provided many methods and references for the establishment of ethnic groups in later generations.

So what exactly is the title of the book?

In fact, the content of the book "The Distinction between Regional Culture and Ethnic Groups" is not complicated, and the book is divided into five parts:

The first part is the preface, mainly thanking the sea god for his grace, explaining why he wrote this book, and nagging to summarize the author's experience of writing this book, as well as the hardships encountered along the way, and finally very patiently introduced all his family history and life.

The second part is the division between regional culture and ethnic groups, which tells the author's point of view, and he believes that regional culture is divided into ethnic groups, and this part is all theoretical text.

The third part is empirical, and the author puts all his findings, summaries, and impressions in this chapter, which is the most important and valuable chapter in the book today.

The fourth part is the marginal groups, which records some ethnic groups that do not belong to the Bourbon family, which enriches the content of the book and makes the whole book more complete, and clearly records the Bourbon sea ethnic groups in the 16th century.

The fifth section is the Lost Races, which chronicles some of the ethnic groups that once appeared but disappeared while the author was alive, as well as the surrounding uncivilized ethnic groups.

The author of the book was a 16th-century North Poutu who was known as the "ethnologist" of Lul Schats, who died from 1610 to 1692 at the age of 82.

Lul himself was born in the Hechu of the Edonan Peninsula, which was under the jurisdiction of Poli at that time, but in fact, the Middle-earth forest colony where the Hechu was located had great autonomy, and it was difficult for Poli to have influence in the local area.

The House of Chatters in Luhr were originally Bourbon from the Old Channel, defected to the Bourbon during the rebellion against the Bourbon in the Forest Colony, and were eventually canonized as nobles and settled down in the local River.

In addition to "The Distinction between Regional Culture and Ethnic Groups", there are two commendable events in Lull's life, one is that under his voyage, Polly came into contact with Laventica, and the other is that he had a good son, "Sage" Solit, although the "ethnologist" Lull is now more famous than "Sage", but at that time "Sage" Solit was a more famous person than Lull.

In his youth, Lull had been an official, and according to the preface to The Divisions of Regional Cultures and Ethnic Groups, Lull served as a parliamentarian and diplomatic representative in Laventica, and then took charge of foreign affairs in his homeland, but later resigned in his fifties, believing that his idle career as an official was too boring to reflect his value.

Judging from the information available today, it is certain that Luer was a parliamentarian and a diplomatic representative, but Luerdang's parliamentarian was removed in the election very early, and judging from the position and age of Luer after he was replaced, it is not a pension position in his hometown, but more like a position that was dismissed and assigned.

And in Luer's more than 30 years of official career, only these two positions can be determined, and there is no obvious information to prove that other positions are him.

As a result, the prevailing view in academic circles is that after being removed from the parliamentary seats, Luhr was not reused, and therefore he left in his fifties, rather than "failing to reflect his worth" as his preface claims.

In the preface, he also says that he cultivated himself for several years, and began to write this step of the famous work in 1663. Due to the lack of information, this can only be said by him, and no one can offer other advice.

Beginning in 1663, it took 23 years for Luhr to write the book "The Divisions of Regional Cultures and Ethnic Groups", and it was not until 1686 that Luhr officially published the book, and six years after its publication, Luhr died.

The timing of Lull's death is certain because after his death, his son "Sage" Solit erected a statue of him at Katara College, indicating the year of his birth and death and Solit's eulogy.

However, it is a pity that this statue of historical value was destroyed by Polly in the later naval war of Bourbon, so future generations did not have the opportunity to see it. The only thing that is fortunate is that many of the ancients who visited Katara College had a record of the statue, which was indeed engraved with the words "Year of birth and death: 1610-1692"

Returning to "The Distinction between Regional Cultures and Ethnic Groups", let's talk about the first part, the general preface.

The preface is very valuable, and the first eulogy thanking the god of the sea for his grace gives us an idea of how the people of North Poutu prayed in the 16th century, providing an argument for later generations. As for the meaning of this book, it can be skipped.

And Luhr's introduction to his life is also worth a look, which can give people a glimpse of the life of the nobles of that era, and it is also an important source for later generations to study the early experience of the "sage" Solit, and some scholars who study the disintegration of Bourbon will also cite some materials from here.

The second part is the division of regional culture and ethnic groups, and tells the author's own views. Many of the arguments in this section are now clearly wrong, reactionary, and unclear, but at the time they prompted the scholars of that time to think about this aspect.

"How did the North Boutu, Bourbon, Poly, Southern Boutu, Pokan, Potru, and Boemi separate from the ancient Bourbons? How did they evolve from an ancient Bourbon culture into an independent ethnic group, and where should the distinction between regional culture and ethnic groups be?"

In this part, there are two places that have made the greatest contribution to future generations, one is to raise the question of "where is the boundary between regional culture and ethnic groups", which is still torn up today, some say that the whole world is united, and some say that it is pure foolishness to divide so many ethnic groups.

The second place was even more influential, and even became a common Bourbon idea, that is, the concept of the ancient Bourbons was proposed.

The concept of ancient Bourbons has existed for a long time, and Luhr said in the book that he had heard this kind of expression in the academy in the past, but Luhr was the first to write this kind of expression into the book, and when later generations learned about the concept of ancient Bourbons, they also systematically understood it through Luhl's book.

In the book, he divides the history of Bourbon into two distinct periods, those that precede the year of the twenty-four consuls and those that follow the year of the twenty-four consuls. Before that, Bourbon was Bourbon of the Bourbons, and after that, Bourbon was Bourbon of the ancient Bourbons.

Taking the ocean as an example, Luhr believes that this world is "the back waves of the ocean pushing the front waves, the front waves dying on the beach, and the dead remnants that did not die are the ancient Bourbons".

Luhr also believes that "Bourbon" is not an ethnic concept of a family, and does not mean that the inhabitants of Bourbon are called Bourbons, so what should Bourbons be? Luhr believes that "Bourbon" is a pronoun, a rational pronoun, and the concept of Bourbon has no direct and necessary relationship with blood, but with personality.

In Luhr's view, the "Bourbons" represent civilization, justice, and piety, not because the Bourbons were "Bourbons" that established the Bourbon Sea, but because the Bourbons of the former republic became "Bourbons". When they degenerate to the point where they are unworthy of being called "Bourbons," their hegemony naturally dissipates.

So, as long as you are a "brave, just, civilized, and glorious" person, you are a "Bourbon", and a group of people like you control a country, you can build a new Bourbon Sea and inherit the "Bourbon Sea". And if you fall like the Bourbons of the past, then you will also lose the Bourbon Sea like them.

It is precisely because of this view that Luhr relegated to the Bourbon of the old channel at that time, calling it the ancient Bourbons, and he said so bluntly in the book, "To say that they are ancient Bourbons and not to be old Fairway people or something else is just to reward and praise them for being worthy of being called 'Bourbons', if they can regain their self-respect and rise to the new rise, of course they can take off that 'Gu', but it is obvious that those arrogant ancient Bourbons can't do it, so the crown of the Bourbons has nothing to do with them."

Luhr's reference to the "ancient Bourbons" of the Bourbons was a seedling of nectar after a long drought for the country of rebels at that time.

Because no matter how much they try to find legitimacy for themselves and claim to overthrow tyranny, the title "traitor" will always be inseparable from them, and as long as this sea is still called the Sea of Bourbon, then they cannot take off their crown as Bourbon traitors.

However, after receiving Luhr's theory, the Bourbon betrayers immediately seized the opportunity, and they inherited and developed Luhr's concept one after another, and quickly developed and perfected the concept of "ancient Bourbons".

That is, the Bourbons are the legitimate rulers of the Bourbon Sea, and only the Bourbons of high moral character can be called Bourbons, and in the late Bourbon period, the Bourbons have withered away in the Bourbons, so the inhabitants of Bourbon at that time are not worthy to be called Bourbons, but should be called ancient Bourbons, and they are not qualified to rule the Bourbon Sea.

So where did the Bourbon successors go? Moved to other places, Polly, Boris, these are all places where the Bourbons emigrated. Therefore, they are the "Bourbons" and have the right to rule over the Bourbon sea.

This theory results in two outcomes, one long-term and one short-term.

As a result, a theory of dominion was born among the Bourbon Sea nations, and whichever country had a "Bourbon" should rule over the entire Bourbon Sea. And "Bourbon" is not a Bourbon, "Bourbon" refers to a person who is "civilized, brave, and just".

In order to distinguish the word "Bourbon" from the Bourbons, the main ethnic group of Borris, the word "Bourbon" was later capitalized.

And the short-term result of this concept was the war of Willis.

If we want to talk about the war of Willis, it is necessary to explain in advance that "The Distinction between Regional Cultures and Ethnic Groups" was not published in one go, and the first edition was published in 1676 before the full edition was published in 1686.

There were only four parts in the first edition of '76, and the first three parts were basically the same as the complete edition, and the fourth part was a mixture of the fourth and fifth parts of the complete edition.

In the first three versions, the concept of "ancient Bourbons" was greatly admired by Polly and Boris, who tried to whitewash the legitimacy of the original independence rebellion, which caused Bourbon to resent, seeing it as a provocation and humiliation to himself.

At that time, Portloo used this as an excuse to intervene in Bourbon, and signed the "Friendly Trade Agreement between Portloux and Bourbon" with Bourbon in 1677, trying to borrow the port of Bourbon and set foot on Bourbon Island.

Portlou's move caused great displeasure between Boris and Polly, who were angry at Portlou's interference, and Polly had long regarded Bourbon as his own pawn.

Under these circumstances, in 1684 the Willis War between Pocom and Bourbon broke out, and Pokang declared war on Bourbon this time, with the tacit approval of Boris and Bourbon. Boris and Polly, despite the fact that they had long been locked in a cold war over the Laventica trade conflict thirty years earlier, joined forces again on the Bourbon side at this time, strictly forbidding Portlou to intervene.

The outcome of the war in Willis was disastrous, Bourbon was beaten only 6 main cities, if it were not for Boris's ill-intentioned mediation, Bourbon was likely to suffer the doom of annihilation, and Portlou's attempt to interfere with Bourbon Island was naturally destroyed in this war.

In his post-war justification, Bourbon quibbled that he wanted to ally with Potlou because he was stimulated by "The Divide of Regional Cultures and Ethnic Groups", and later generations called the Willis War a war caused by a book.

But in fact, some sources from later generations have shown that the two countries have been planning for a long time, and Luhr's book is just an excuse, but this can also be regarded as a joke.