Chapter 53: The Social Foundations of the Great Migration Process

Anthropologists believe that human ideology, religion and social management systems are the foundation of the three major civilizations of society, because we can better grasp the state of human civilization and the development context before and after the Great Migration by studying the ideological, religious and social management methods of human beings before and during the Great Migration.

However, due to the lack of readily available literature and information, we can only analyze and make inferences about these issues based on the archaeological results and research results currently available. For example, the Australian aborigines, American Indians, Pacific island countries and other early human beings, they were separated from the human subject after the glacier thaw and sea level rise during the last ice age, and these human beings were able to inherit and retain the human ideology, religion and social management methods before and after the great migration of human beings relatively completely, so the study of the traditional culture of these peoples can get a very close to the real answer.

The process of human migration is a planned, prepared, steady, and gradual process, human beings always migrate to the next destination after they have successfully migrated in a region, so human beings have established many settlements, villages, cities, societies and countries on the great migration routes, many of these villages, cities and countries are still preserved to this day, some have died out but they have left a large number of historical relics, so studying these human civilization achievements and historical relics, we can be real, A detailed and systematic grasp of the state and development trend of human thought, religion and social control before and after the Great Migration.

About 4.5 years ago, the last ice age warming period began, due to the melting of glaciers, geological changes and sea level rise, the coastal areas and low altitude areas of the last ice age were inundated by seawater, resulting in the interruption of the land bridge between Australia and the New World of Southeast Asia, so the Australian indigenous people began to separate from the human subject. Based on the research of archaeologists and anthropologists on the traditional culture of Aboriginal Australians, as well as archaeological discoveries in Australia, anthropologists and sociologists have deduced that Aboriginal Australians already have shamanic-like religious ideas, customs, rituals and lifestyles.

The religious thought of the Australian aborigines believes that all things have spirits, spirits exist in immaterial ways, spirits have an immortal nature, spirits have good and evil natures, and the results of spirits' actions are also divided into good and evil, good is rewarded, and evil is rewarded; The omnipotent spirit is God, the ignorant and impotent spirit is the soul, and God is the master of the soul. The world is divided into three levels, i.e., heaven, earth, and underworld, God dwells in the upper level, which is heaven, and people and all things are in the middle level, that is, the human world, and after people die and all things disappear, their souls enter the underworld, and the souls receive offerings, oracles, practices, judgments, or ascend to heaven, or reincarnation, or go to hell in the underworld. This worldview, values, and outlook on life is the core idea of shamanism. Therefore, it can be presumed that the Aboriginal people of Australia believed in shamanism

Anthropologists believe that during the last ice age, human subjects lived in the last glacial New World (referred to as the Ice Age New World Southeast Asia) composed of the islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, as well as the South China Sea, southern China, and Indochina Peninsula.

After the outbreak of the last ice age warming period, because many areas of the New World of Southeast Asia were submerged by seawater, most of the human beings in the New World of Southeast Asia relocated to southern China and the Indochina Peninsula to settle and reorganize their societies, so that the region was able to inherit and develop the earliest human civilization very completely and systematically. Thailand is one of the oldest countries in Indochina, and the Thai people are also the oldest people in Southeast Asia, so the study of Thai culture and Thai language can obtain rich and systematic information about early human civilization.

According to the research results of linguists, Thai Chinese, Laotian, Vietnamese Dai Nong, Chinese Dai, Chinese Zhuang and so on belong to the same very closely related language family, this language family is called the ancient Thai language family, ancient Thai is the earliest agricultural people in Southeast Asia and the unified language of the settled residents, with the great migration of agricultural peoples to all over the world, the ancient Thai language has also spread to all over the world, forming a wider range and more complex branches of the ancient Thai language family. After hundreds of years of research, linguists believe that various languages in Eurasia have been more or less profoundly influenced by the ancient Thai language, such as Sino-Tibetan, Tungusic, Altaic, Indo-European, Arabic, American Indian, etc. Therefore, if we study the connotation and development relationship of the ancient Thai language family, we will be able to grasp more information about ancient human civilization.

The linguistic research results reflect that due to the beginning of the great migration of farming peoples in Southeast Asia, the ancient Thai language has been differentiated for the first time, and the earliest ancient Thai language families such as Thai Chinese, Chinese Dai language, and Chinese ancient Yue language (the Zhuang language system in southwest China has comprehensively inherited the ancient Yue language, so we can have a good grasp of the ancient Yue language by studying the Zhuang language).

In order to study and illustrate the aspects of the Old Thai language family, we will list the words and cultural concepts of Old Thai that may come from the Old Thai language families such as Zhuang, Thai, and Dai, and we will label these words and cultural concepts in Hanyu Pinyin, and they all refer to their origin as Old Thai or Old Yue.

Now, let's use Old Thai or Old Vietnamese to explain the earliest religion of mankind, shamanism. In ancient languages such as Old Thai, Old Vietnamese, Indo-European, Altaic, Tungusic and other ancient languages, sa means 'know, wisdom', ma

It means 'person, someone', so the shaman is a wise man, but also a shaman, a priest, and a priest, and the shaman has the ability to communicate with the gods and speak for the gods. When the ancients who believed in shamanism encountered difficulties, confusions, difficulties, difficulties, diseases and disasters, they must consult the shaman about God's will and the solution to the problem. Solving the problem is that the shaman involves a set of basic ways to solve the problem according to the possible consequences of the development of things, that is, the sign, and randomly obtains one of the signs through a certain divination method, and the shaman answers the solution to the problem to the consulter according to the sign. If there is a religious ritual in the process, the shaman team will go into battle to handle the ritual for the consultee.

In regions such as Southeast Asia and India, shamanic sama

It is called Salmon Shame

, sa and sha agree with the same sound, both mean knowledge, wisdom, mage, etc., ma

with me

Near-sound, but with a different meaning, ma

It is an ordinary person, in the ancient Thai word me

It means "heaven, god", hence the shame of shamon

It means "the wisdom of the gods", and the way Shamen is called is more of a mystical religion. Both Jainism and Buddhism admit that they have inherited the basic ideas and teachings of Shamanism, so many cultural concepts of Buddhism can also be explained in ancient Tai, such as Bodhisattva pusa, pu in ancient Thai refers to a certain type of people in the prefix words equivalent to Chinese words such as "class, department", etc., the ancient Thai language uses the definite postposition in grammar, so the meaning of Bodhisattva pusa means "teacher, mage", before the emergence of Buddhism, the duties of the Bodhisattva already existed, in the Shamanism, the Bodhisattva is specifically responsible for receiving religious advice from believers, For believers to dispel disasters and doubts, divination of good fortune and future, and to preside over various religious rituals for believers. After the development of Buddhism, the bodhisattva's duty evolved into "universal sentient beings", the specific content of the bodhisattva's duty has changed, but the essence has not changed, and the bodhisattva's duty is still to help the believers.

Archaeologists and anthropologists believe that the Australian aborigines attach great importance to burial, they bury their deceased relatives and patriarchs, the deceased before the burial of the deceased into a curly shape like a fetus in the mother's womb, and then wrap the deceased with a mat or animal skin, when the deceased is placed in the tomb, let the deceased face the tribal totem, east or west, and bury the deceased's life, life and favorite items and ornaments with the deceased. This is typical of primitive shamanic burial of the dead. According to shamanism, the grave is the incubator and the dwelling place of the dead in the afterlife, and the deceased live in the same life as the present life in the form of a soul, so the deceased must be given food, household items, and tools for earning a living. And having the dead face the tribal totem means that the soul of the dead can find its way home; Facing east means to reincarnate the soul of the dead as soon as possible, and the ancients believed that the place where the sun rises is the place where life is generated; Facing the West means entering the Western Elysium of immortality for the soul as soon as possible, and the ancients believed that the place where the sun sets is the place where all things and souls will receive eternal rest and happiness.

After the burial, in order to make the deceased still have food and use in the next life, the relatives of the living should regularly go to the grave of the deceased to pay respects and offer offerings such as incense, wine and food to the deceased.

In the past one or two centuries, archaeologists have found this funeral method of the ancients in Southeast Asia, Chinese mainland, Siberia, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, the Americas and other regions, and the great migration of humans brought primitive shamanism and other ideas and cultures to the world, and made shamanism the mainstream religious belief in these regions.

Australian aborigines also have tattoos, adult circumcision and other customs, these customs also exist in Southeast Asia, Chinese mainland, Siberia, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, the Americas and other regions of the ancient peoples, this cultural phenomenon shows that tattoos, adult circumcision and other human customs have been formed 45,000 years ago. According to the research results of anthropologists, because the ancients often only knew their mothers, and did not know other relatives and clans, and the ancients were considered adults at the age of 7 to 8, and they had to leave their mothers to forage for food by themselves, in order to be able to find each other in the future, the ancients invented tattoos, and the early content of tattoos was clan marks, mother marks, personal name marks, etc.

Circumcision may have originated from the "birth control operation" to control the rapid growth of the population, and castrations were a very common phenomenon in ancient societies, and the current shemales around the world are the remnants of ancient eunuchs. In the era of gathering and hunting, the ancients had to go hungry frequently, and in the event of natural disasters, starvation was a common thing, in this case, the increase in population was a terrible disaster for the ethnic group, so the first clever social administrators used shamanism to circumvent the genitals of adult men and women.

These cultural phenomena show that 45,000 years ago, early humans already had the means to manage interpersonal and tribal relations, and the measures to manage the effective and safe functioning of the entire tribe and society.

Shamanism is prevalent in the ancient peoples living in Eurasia, Africa, North and South America, this cultural phenomenon shows that before the great migration of human beings, 45,000 years ago, shamanism is the common religion of all mankind, any religious form today is evolved and improved on the basis of shamanism, at present, human thoughts, culture, customs around the world still retain the core ideas of shamanism, Chinese folk in sacrifice, ask the gods, divination, resolve good luck, Shinto rituals and customs, such as the practice of eliminating disasters, have a shadow of shamanism. Southeast Asia, India, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe also retain strong shamanic customs and beliefs.

The primitive religious thought comes from the ancients' understanding of the essence of life and death, gain and loss, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, interests and harms, and life and death, it is the spiritual power of human beings to be self-reliant, work hard, transform the world, and create a better world. In the primitive society of cruel competition, it was ruthlessly eliminated. Correct and beautiful thinking can help mankind overcome natural disasters and cruel competition, and forge an excellent nation of mankind.

Migration is different from fleeing, migration is a premeditated relocation operation of human beings without hastiness, and it is also a very systematic and complex adventure. In order to succeed in migration, the ancients had to have sufficient knowledge of geography and climate, and be able to formulate a well-thought-out and feasible plan of action, which included the development of a route of movement and a relocation plan, a field trip to the destination in advance, and only after the destination could arrange the life and production of families and tribes, then send a small force to develop at the destination, and only after their life and production in the destination were fully successful, the whole family and tribe gradually moved to the destination.

Archaeologists have found a second burial burial of Paleo-Indians in North America, which is 27,000 years old, which shows that 27,000 years ago, the warming of the earth intensified, and many parts of the earth became very humid and muggy, and this climate would cause bones to rot. In order to prevent the bones of the ancestors from rotting, shamanic believers, after 3 to 5 years of burial, they pick up the bones of the ancestors and put them into a burial urn according to the sitting posture of the person, and then bury them separately, which is called the second burial.

At present, secondary burial is still popular in Southeast Asia, southwest Chinese mainland and other regions, according to the research results of archaeologists, the remains of secondary burial of ancient people have been found in the American continent, Chinese mainland, Siberia, the Middle East and Europe. This cultural phenomenon shows that around 25,000 years ago, due to the intensification of global warming, the sea level rose sharply, resulting in a large number of people living in Southeast Asia, southwest Chinese mainland and other regions to migrate to other parts of the world.

Paleoclimatologists believe that after 15,000 years, the rate of warming slowed down, when the Bering Strait land bridge, which connects Eurasia and the Americas, was completely submerged and human migration slowed. By 11,000 years ago, global warming had completely stopped, and the Earth's climate had begun to stabilize, so the great migration of humans was basically over.

Since 45,000 years ago, the gatherers, hunters, farmers, nomads and maritime peoples in Southeast Asia and southern Chinese mainland have basically migrated to the world in this step-by-step and steady way. They completed this great migration for a long time of 30,000 years, and the great migration created a brilliant Chinese civilization for human beings in the Pearl River Basin, Yangtze River Basin, Yellow River Basin, Liao River Basin, Heilongjiang River Basin and other regions of Chinese mainland; Due to the migration of the main body of human beings in Southeast Asia to the South Asian subcontinent, the yellow race merged with the red race and the white race, thus giving birth to a rich and colorful Indian civilization. After migratory humans settled in the Two Rivers region of the Middle East, the human beings who developed in Central Asia and the Middle East created the Sumerian civilization and the Babylonian civilization; Subsequently, new humans from Central Asia and the Middle East migrated to the Mediterranean region, settled in the Nile Valley region of northern Africa, and created Western civilizations such as ancient Egyptian civilization, ancient Greek civilization, and ancient Roman civilization.

According to the research results of archaeologists and anthropologists, the above-mentioned cultural phenomena and civilization achievements of human beings in various parts of the world were spread and created by the Asian yellow farming peoples and maritime peoples who originally settled in Southeast Asia, southern Chinese mainland and other regions, between 45,000 and 15,000 years ago, in the process of great migrations around the world.

According to the research of archaeologists and anthropologists, human beings have mastered the knowledge of the astronomical calendar, mastered the climate laws of the earth, and mastered the basic methods of keeping time, day, month, year, and dividing the seasons in the process of migration. These knowledge and methods laid the foundation for the later formation of world-famous astronomical calendars such as the Chinese astronomical law, the ancient Egyptian astronomical calendar, and the Mayan astronomical calendar.

At the same time, the human beings in the process of the Great Migration, they have mastered the knowledge and means of geography in the east, west, north and south orientation and positioning, and have been able to draw quite accurate maps, the ancient Chinese book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a geographical chronicle, this book accurately describes the geographical situation of the world of human life during the Ice Age, perhaps the place described in this book is in the Southeast Asian continent of the Ice Age that has been submerged by sea water in many places today, so it is impossible to find the area corresponding to this book;

They develop systematic and precise language and writing systems, they are able to communicate information through language, and they are able to accurately convey information, ideas, practices and commands through documents, thus ensuring the connection between the migratory communities and the mother communities, as well as the communication, coordination and management within the migratory communities;

They mastered the most advanced techniques of the time, such as fire, kilns, food cooking, pottery, and metal smelting, as well as the whole set of techniques for the manufacture and construction of tools, weapons, ships, cars, household goods, roads, bridges, houses, villages, fortifications, castles, and cities;

They have mastered the use of salt water, alkaline water of plant ash, herbal decoction, to treat skin diseases, clean wounds and skin, and master the use of herbs and mineral herbs to treat colds, fevers, malaria, dysentery, plague, trauma and fractures and other diseases, these medical knowledge and techniques to ensure the health and safety of the lives of the migrants;

They have mastered a full set of navigation and fishing techniques, a full set of agricultural technology, and a full set of animal husbandry technology, and these production technologies have laid a solid material foundation for mankind to prosper.

According to our research results, the farming peoples who migrated from Southeast Asia and southwest China to the rest of the world have the following production and living standards and cultural characteristics: the early farming peoples around the world were all yellow people, and their early mother tongues were all ancient Thai or ancient Yue; The early farming people liked to live next to rivers and lakes, and liked to bathe and wash daily necessities; Master the use of fire, always have flint and flint, that is, fire sickle, like to drink hot water and cook food; master the use of drugs and herbal remedies to treat common diseases and epidemics; Master the techniques of making koji and brewing, and make and drink various brewed liquors such as rice wine, sweet sake and beer; master pottery-making techniques, manufacture and use all kinds of pottery; Master smelting technology, use gold, copper and other metal tools; Master carpentry and masonry skills, and be able to build pure wood structure and wood-stone and earth-earth structure housing; Pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other edible livestock and poultry were raised in family units, buffaloes, cattle and other animals were raised, cultivated land and transportation were improved, and ox carts became the most common means of transportation for early farming peoples. The farming peoples in the southern region grow rice, vegetables and fruit trees, while the farming peoples in the northern region grow barley, corn, wheat, vegetables and fruit trees. At the same time, our research found that non-farming peoples do not have the above-mentioned cultural characteristics and production and life skills, many of these ethnic groups do not know how to use fire, they like to drink cold water and eat raw meat, they have no concept of hygiene, they do not like to bathe and change clothes, they only seek witch doctors to cast spells when they are sick, and do not use drugs and herbs to cure diseases.

As a result, the early agrarian peoples around the world are representatives of the highest human civilization in their area, and they are very conspicuous and easily recognizable.