Chapter Forty-Nine: The Ran Clan of the Fish Clan

Guyong is one of the birthplaces of Chinese witch culture. Wushan in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River was called Lingshan in ancient times. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the West" says that there are ten witches in Lingshan, and they have all been proved to be early mediocre people. Subsequently, the most powerful of the Ten Wuxians, the Wuxian tribe, established a "Wuxian State" (in the area of present-day Wuxi County). Among the ten witches, Wu Xian and Wu Peng were both ministers of Shang King Taiwu. Wu Peng is proficient in medicine, and Wu Xian is not only proficient in medicine, but also proficient in astronomy and musical instruments. Wu Xian and Wu Peng's research on medicine, astronomy, and musical instruments have had a profound impact on Chinese civilization. Yongguo belongs to the western part of Jianghan, before the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are records of "people believe in witches". Many of these regions still retain a lot of witch culture, and the witchcraft used is basically the same. These witchcrafts have a long history and are deeply rooted. Another aspect of witch culture is the culture of Chinese herbal medicine. The folk herbal medicine in the border areas of Hubei, Chongqing and Shaanxi has local characteristics and has accumulated valuable experience. I am afraid that this is the same as the above-mentioned witchcraft, and it is inseparable from the continuation and development of the ancient Yongguo witch culture.

Yong people can also sing and dance, and invent drums and other musical instruments, so the ancients sometimes called the big drum "Yonggu". The mediocre people are good at singing and dancing, and their clues can be seen in the "Book of Songs". Some of the works in "Jianghan" and "Yongfeng" in the "Book of Songs" are likely to come from the mediocre style. There is a saying that "Jifu composed poems", Yin Jifu was the minister of King Wu of Zhou, and his place of origin was the vassal land of the Yong State. The songs and dances of Yongguo later developed into mountain songs and dramas. The two bamboos are high-pitched, the grass gongs and drums, and the noisy flower drum tunes, the main source is the song and dance of the ancient Yongguo.

As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Yongguo people began to eat tea and use lacquer, and took tea and lacquer as tribute. The origin of "Ba" actually includes the Three Gorges area of Yongguo, that is, the later Xiazhou, Yizhou and other places. In the Three Gorges area, the tea culture of the mediocre people was later inherited by the Chu people.

Yongguo is also one of the birthplaces of Chinese salt culture. The prosperity of the ancient Yongguo has a lot to do with its real estate salt. As early as the Xia and Shang periods, the Yongren developed salt springs to boil salt, and opened the salt road to Chu, Qin and other places. Qin had little salt, and after Chu destroyed Yong, he occupied the salt spring of the Yong people in order to control Qin, and Qin sent Bai Qi to occupy the land of Yuyi and seize the salt spring. According to historical records, the Qin-Chu War first began with the competition for mediocre salt resources.

In terms of science and technology, Yongguo is rich in hardware, is a big country in bell casting, and has advanced bronze technology, so it is also called "Yongren". Many tripods and bells of the Shang Dynasty are the masterpieces of mediocrity. At the same time, the mediocre people are called "Yong people" because they are good at building cities and houses, the rulers of the Zhou Dynasty have invited the mediocre people to build the capital in Luoyi (Luoyang, Henan), and the city wall of the ancient Yongfang city ruins in Zhushan County has been eroded by wind and rain for more than 3,000 years, and still stands, which is enough to prove that the architectural art of the mediocre people is indeed superb.

Shu, located in the Sichuan Basin, is bordered by Yongguo in the east and Zhou and Qiang in the north. He is one of the Eight Divisions of Makino.

The Shu civilization is divided into several periods: Shushan Clan, Silkworm Cong Clan, Baiguan Clan, Yuyu Clan, and Enlightened Shu Clan (Shu is a Hehua people). The Shu people were a different ethnic group from the Huaxia culture in the pre-Qin period (the Huaxia people were also a Hehua people).

As mentioned earlier, since the time of the Shang king, the foreign Baiguan Qiang people have been ruling the Sichuan Basin.

At the end of the Shang Dynasty, there was a Maba River in the territory of Wanchun Town, Wenjiang River, which was very large in ancient times, the river was 360 zhang wide, and the water depth could not see the bottom. At that time, there were two tribes on the north and south banks of the river, the north bank was the Baiguan Qiang tribe, and the south bank was the indigenous Ran tribe. In this tribe in the south, there is a middle-aged man Du Yu, who is both smart and brave, and the fishermen admire him very much, so they support him as a fisherman, and is called "Yuyu" by the people.

The king of this tribe is fierce and greedy, and the taxes are heavier and heavier each time, and the life of the common people is becoming more and more annoyed. The fisherman couldn't help it, and with a heart, he led the people to overthrow the king and re-establish a tribe. Because everyone is fishing, fishing to use fishing nets, harpoons, but also by feeding the fish eagle into the water to catch fish, the fish eagle is a kind of wild duck, the ancient name of the fish, so this tribe is named the fish tribe, the head of the fishing is called the king of the fish. Since then, the fishermen's taxes have been lighter, and their lives have been getting better and better, Du Yu has been called "Pubei" by the clansmen, and the heart of the king of the fish has become bigger and bigger, and he has occupied Xipu, Huayuan, Deyuan, and Pengzhou in Pixian County.

Du Yu, the king of fish, participated in the war of King Wu and was known as Shu. The ancient Shu army was one of the most combat-effective teams in the Expedition Alliance, and was an important force in overthrowing the tyrant King Yin. This form of civilization is different from the Huaxia people, and it is called the Shu people by later generations. This is the first time that the character Shu has appeared in history books.

Qiang, that is, Qiang Fang, located in the southeast of Gansu, was once very powerful, the Shang Dynasty from the time of Wuding, until the time of the Xin Dynasty to fight with it many times, at this time joined the Zhou Wuwang coalition army of the Shang, one of the eight divisions of Muye.

Mao, located in Beisheng (Yongsheng County, Lijiang, Yunnan), joined the army of King Wu of Zhou of the Jammers, and was one of the Eight Divisions of Makino.

Wei, located on the south bank of the upper reaches of Weishui, is located in Baojimei County, Shaanxi, and is not the same country as Weiziguo, which is located in Lucheng, Changzhi, Shanxi. At this time, he joined the allied army of King Wu of Zhou, who joined the merchants, and was one of the eight divisions of Makino.

Peng, originally the Great Peng State (Xuzhou, Jiangsu), which was destroyed by Wu Dingping. After the destruction of the Great Peng Kingdom and the Fenwei Kingdom, there was no one to control Dongyi from then on.

After the destruction of the Great Peng Kingdom, his descendants took the country as the surname, which was the origin of the Peng surname, and after the destruction of the Wei Kingdom, his descendants also took the country as the surname, which was the source of the Wei surname. During the Zhou Dynasty, a descendant of the Peng family served as an official in charge of money and grain in the Zhou Dynasty, and later took "Qian" as the surname and became the surname branch of the Peng family, so it has always been called "Qian Peng family", that is, Peng Wei Qian is really a family.

The surname Wei is derived from the surname Peng, and the surname Peng is derived from the surname Hou, so the descendants can be surnamed Hou or surnamed Peng and Wei, just like Jiang Ziya's surname Jiang and surname Lu, the former ancestral surname, the latter national surname.

The descendants fled in all directions, and there were traces of their migration in the north, south, and west. One of them moved south, arrived in Lin'an, Zhejiang, Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, and finally arrived in Guangxi, integrated into Baiyue, and became the ancestor of today's Zhuang people, and the Zhuang people surnamed Duowei are their descendants. The one that migrated north integrated into the northern Donghu and became one of them, and became one of the Murwei tribes.

Among them, the ancestors of the branch that moved south to Wuyi Mountain were Peng Wu and Peng Yi.