Including Qingji, Wu Zixu, Sun Wu and others, after hearing Sun Li's explanation, they can be regarded as having gained insight and opened their eyes.

Why are there several versions of "Song of the Yue People"?

Because the language is different in each place.

The historical status of "Yue Ren Song" is not low.

This is the first translated poem in China, one of the sources of Chu Ci.

This "Song of the Yue People" is also related to the gentleman of Chu State.

Zihui is the protagonist of it.

As far as Qingji knows.

During the reign of King Chu Ling, that is, more than 20 years ago, Zibi took advantage of his brother King Ling's absence, killed the remaining prince, and established himself as king, and his disciple Hui became Ling Yin, but the coup failed after only ten days.

After King Chuping seized the throne, Zihui held a boat trip when he first arrived in the fiefdom of Hubei.

The Punggun (oar) Yue people, on the other hand, take pride in knowing and serving the new lord.

At the event, the Yue singers sang to the Ejun.

A Yue Ren who knew Chu translated this "Yue Ren Song" for Zihui.

Zihui was moved by this sincere singing, and according to the etiquette of the Chu people, he put his hands on the shoulders of the Fuyue people, and solemnly draped a satin quilt embroidered with beautiful patterns on him.

The Chu people and the Yue people are really different Min people.

Chu, originally the largest country in the south.

Yue is a huge ethnic group in the south.

The Chu people are generally considered to be the Jianghan Min people, but in fact they are not Jianghan natives, and the real Jianghan natives are the Yangyue (Yue) people, that is, the tribe of the Bangfang Yue people.

In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Eguo period between the Jiang and Han Dynasty was inhabited by the Yangyue people, who were the natives who lived in the ancient Jianghan region before the Chu people.

The Chu people were the first to communicate with the Yue people, but they could not be integrated from beginning to end.

In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Xiong Yi, the ancestor of Chu who was given the title of viscount by King Cheng of Zhou, was still secluded in Jingshan, with blue wisps on the road, and came to the grass everywhere, trekking through mountains and rivers, and doing things for the Son of Heaven.

The Chu people only picked arcs and lost thorns, and lived an extremely hard life in order to share the king's affairs.

By the time of King Zhou Cheng, the royal family was in decline, and the princes of the Central Plains were in dispute, which finally made the Chu people wait for the opportunity to develop in another way.

Where to go?

To the north and east, there are many heroes, and Chu can not resist them, and to the south, one can avoid the restraint of the Zhou royal family and the intervention of the princes of the Central Plains.

Second, the rivers are surging, fertile fields for thousands of miles, and the people who live in the place are different from the Central Plains The society has not yet been fully developed, and the towns are lined with small cohesion, which is ideal.

The Chu people chose the main direction of attack, exerted diplomatic skills, and expanded political influence, which is what the "Historical Records" said "Xiongqu won the peace between the people of Jiang and Han".

At that time, the west of Jingshan was a mediocre country, and it was not very powerful, but it could be set on fire in the backyard.

Therefore, Chu went south from Jingshan to plunder Jianghan, Yangyue and Hubei first, and was the first to cut down Yong to relieve his worries.

After obtaining Yangyue and Edi, Xiongqu quickly divided his three sons into places to consolidate the results obtained.

When Xiong Qu was the monarch of Chu, it was when King Zhou Yi was king, that is, more than 300 years ago.

Xiong Qu said: "I am a barbarian, and I don't have a relationship with China." ”

Naili his eldest son Kang is the king of Ju Kang, the middle son Hong is the king of E, and the young son is the king of Yuezhang; All of them are in the land of Chu on the river.

That "famous saying" was really not created by King Chuzhuang, but he carried it forward.

The monarch of Chu who really shouted this sentence was Xiong Qu, this guy can even be a king of his own son, how can it not be regarded as arrogance?

Of course, when King Zhou Li was king, Xiong Qu was also afraid of being requisitioned by the Zhou royal family, so he had to cancel the kingship of his sons.

However, it is conceivable that the Chu people have always adopted a policy of restraint and pacification and harmonious coexistence for the tribes they conquered.

After the Chu people occupied the land of Yangyue, the Yangyue people could continue to recuperate in their hometown in eastern Hubei.

And retain the original organization, customs, freedom and personal self-esteem, and speak their own language, Vietnamese, freely across the wave or engage in other professions.

"The second and third sons, the widow wants to implement the Wu language (Yayan) after banning the various small countries and tribes in Baiyue, so as to unify the language of various places, I don't know what the second and third sons think?"

Qingji said with a frown.

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers and doctors present fell into deep thought.

The language of each place, or most countries, is different.

Ten miles are not customary, a hundred miles are different, nothing more than that.

Linguistically, Chinese is mainly derived from the Chinese language.

The language of the Chu people is different from that of the Chinese.

Huaxia is monosyllabic, Chu is polysyllabic, and the words are more than two sounds, such as cricket, mosquito, instigation, twisting mud, etc., which was originally Chu language, and later became a Chinese vocabulary.

Chu has the pronunciation word "Qiang", etc., and the epilogue word "Xi" and "some......

But generally speaking, the Chu language and the Chinese spoken by the Huaxia language family still belong to the same language system, and the aristocratic class of the Chu State is basically familiar with the Chinese language spoken by the Huaxia people.

The Yue language is an independent language system, which is not only different from Huaxia, but also very different from Chu.

The language of the Yue people is called "the language of the tongue bird" by the Huaxia people in the Central Plains.

Wu is an isolated language with one word and one sound, while Yue is a glue language with one word and one sound.

The Yue people not only can't talk to the Chinese people, but it is also difficult to talk with the neighboring Chu people, the so-called "birds and birds call, and the words are different".

Qingji has been in the Lingnan land for a period of time, and has talked with the local Yue people, so he knows that most of the Yue people's languages are light and fast, so although there are occasional people who speak late, the foreigners are still called Xu.

This is related to the pronunciation habits of the Vietnamese language, so most people are known for it.

After the conquest of Lingnan by the Wu State, the number of bilingual people who spoke Wu and Yue gradually increased among the two Min tribes.

However, the upper nobles of the Wu State still popular the Central Plains Chinese pronunciation, while the ordinary commoners of the Yue nationality basically only spoke their own language, Yue.

Anyway, translators abound, and communication is not a problem.

Qingji couldn't understand Yue many times, so he was able to immediately summon an interpreter as if he was looking for something.

At the same time, there are many people who can speak the languages of Wu and Vietnam.

This is the result of the Wu and Yue people living together and the frequent needs of daily life.

Qingji wants to mix up the whole world, so that the big country has no borders, how can this language not be unified?

"The king, the minister thinks that he can vigorously promote the Wu language in the land of Lingnan, so that the communication between the people will not be a problem."

Sun Wu bowed down and replied: "If the language can be unified, it can invisibly enhance the Baiyue people's sense of obedience to our Wu country, regardless of each other, and the contract is also a family." ”

"However, the body of bosom poetry, ancient and modern, Hu and Yue families, there are people who are not capable of doing it, and they must not be left behind with their distance and cheapness."

"The king may be able to promote the Wu language, but he must not force the Yue people not to keep their own dialects and customs, and change customs."

"Good!"

Qingji bowed his head slightly and agreed.