Chapter 55: The Spread and Development of Chinese during the Great Migration
In the middle and late stages of the last ice age, that is, between 45,000 and 15,000 years ago, due to the warming of the earth's climate, glaciers melted and sea levels rose, so the human subjects living in the new continent of Southeast Asia began to migrate to the continental highlands during the ice age. The Great Migration Process spans 30,000 years, and the migration range involves almost all parts of the world, such as the Eurasian continent, the American continent and the African continent, so the migration process is a complex process of civilization spread, nation formation and civilization development. In order to have a systematic and correct understanding of the history of the development of human civilization, it is necessary for us to have a clear understanding of the basic situation of the spread of human civilization, the formation of nations, and the development of civilization.
According to archaeological evidence, there were modern ancient human activities in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province 35,000 years ago, indicating that early humans living in the New World of Southeast Asia relocated to the Lingnan region due to the flooding of their homes due to the inundation of their homes in the middle and late last ice age. Perhaps the early humans who entered the Lingnan region were the ancestral groups of ancient peoples such as the Yao, Miao, and Yi, who engaged in natural economies such as gathering, hunting, and fishing. With the intensification of warming and the improvement of the earth's ecological environment, 30,000 years ago, the farmers and herdsmen engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and other regions began to migrate to northern Vietnam, southeastern Yunnan and southwest Guangxi and other regions to develop settlements, agricultural areas and animal husbandry areas.
At present, the language that still systematically retains the ancient Thai culture is Thai Chinese, and the language that still systematically retains the ancient Vietnamese culture is the Guangxi Zhuang language, that is, Zhuang. Through a comparative study of the cultural customs and language of the Thai people in Thailand and the cultural customs and language of the Zhuang people in Guangxi, we can clearly see the epitome of the spread, evolution and development of human civilization in the process of migration.
Taitai is the name of the ancient Thai nation, in the Thai language the noble grandmother became tai or dai, equivalent to the "old lady" in Chinese, in ancient times human beings experienced a matrilineal clan society, female worship is a social system and social fashion, so the nation that can use the grandmother's name as a family name must be a descendant noble, is the ruling class of the ancient Thai national society.
According to the results of our research on the Zhuang people, as well as the Dai people, Buyi people, Vietnamese Dai Nong people and other ethnic cultures with the Zhuang culture and language, the Central Plains Dynasty began to have a relatively clear understanding of the ethnic groups and culture south of the Yangtze River during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. According to our survey, the Zhuang people call themselves 偻lou or You You , which means you as an adult man in the Buyi language. In our investigation of the names of people during the matrilineal clan period of the ancient Thai people, we found that the ancient Thai people were very detailed and systematic in addressing men and women. Prestigious female elders are called tai tai or dai, and prestigious male elders are called bobo; There are women who have children and raise the title of Yaya, the mother is called Mimie, and the father is called Bobo (there is no concept of father in matrilineal society, and there is a father's title after the emergence of patrilineal families); The adult female titles of the freedmen are yi (corresponding to the Chinese aunt, yi, yi), and the adult male titles of the freedmen are 偛lou, youyou, lao (in the matrilineal clan society, not everyone can become a free citizen, only the children of nobles and royal families are eligible to become free people.) Free people have free zones for residence, marriage, economy, movement, etc., and non-free people must enter the women's or men's villages set up by the tribe to live and work when they reach adulthood); Juvenile males are called cai cai or saisai, and juvenile females are called sister-in-law sao or 蒐 sou.
Judging from the fact that the ancient Yue people called themselves 偻 lou, You You and Lao Lao, the ancestors of the farmers and herdsmen who first settled in the southwest of the Lingnan region of China were the male descendants of the ancient Yue nobles and royal families. Through the study of modern Vietnamese and Zhuang languages, we found that modern Vietnamese retains a lot of words of Cham Pu (a southern Vietnamese dialect, very similar to Cambodian, which belongs to the Khmer branch of the Austronesian language family and belongs to the maritime ethnic language family), and Zhuang also contains a small number of Cham Pu words, which indicates that the ancient Yue people first arrived in the migration area of the sea people, gathering peoples, fishing and hunting peoples and integrated, so the ancient Yue people created different living habits and cultural customs from the ancient Tai people.
According to the comparative survey of the living habits and cultural beliefs of the Zhuang people and the Thai people, the Thai people advocate vegetarian food, they believe that eating meat affects health and longevity, so they worship their ancestors and Buddhas only with flowers, fruits and vegetarian snacks, etc., absolutely do not use meat, they believe that the gods hate killing and bloody meat. In terms of culture, they advocate a gentle and elegant female style, like light singing and dancing, and like to live a quiet and leisurely life. Zhuang people are just the opposite of the Thai people, they like to breed pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock, farming and festivals must eat meat and drink wine, rich people drink meat every day, vegetarian food is often just a non-staple food, they think that meat can nourish the body, make the body stronger, so they worship their ancestors, in addition to flowers, fruits and vegetarian snacks, must use cooked chicken, fish and pork as the main sacrifices, the ancients think that they like things gods also like, at the same time Zhuang people only believe in the door chastity religion
gim, don't want to believe in Buddhism and other religions, Zhuang people can also sing and dance, but they are fierce by nature, advocating force and hard work, doing everything is vigorous and resolute, everyone is desperate, no one in Zhuang society wants to live a lifeless life, everyone wants to break into the world, have a job.
Color vocabulary is one of the oldest words in the language, and a comparison of color-related words between Thai and Zhuang can also show the cultural differences between the ancient Thai and ancient Yue peoples. In Thai, the color red is called da
(equivalent to Chinese Dan, Dan), yellow for lia
g (equivalent to the bright in Chinese), these two titles are the ancients observed the celestial phenomena to obtain the rising sun in the morning is dan, and the brilliance of Dan is red; The glow that begins to shine in the morning is golden yellow, so it is very appropriate to use bright to represent yellow. This is in the ancient Tai era, the ancients admired nature, loved nature, and hoped to gain knowledge and strength from nature.
In the Zhuang language, the term red is
i
g, in Zhuang
i
Another meaning of g is meat, and the color of meat is indeed red; Yellow is hae
, hae in Zhuang
Another meaning is cold
When the weather gets cold, the leaves and fruits of the plant basically turn yellow. These appellations indicate that the ancient Yue people cared more about food, because they left their homeland and migrated to unfamiliar places, mainly to feed their stomachs.
The historians of the Central Plains Dynasty, these farmers and herdsmen living in the south of the Yangtze River, are "Yue people, Baiyue"? What is the original meaning of Yue? In the Zhuang language, the pronunciation of Yue is ye, ye generally refers to pigs, cows, sheep and other animals into pieces of raw meat, according to this meaning, the more may be a vegetarian ethnic group Gu Yue people derogatory, because the ancient Yue people like to eat meat. Another interpretation of Yue is that Yue Yue is the meaning of jumping and frogging, because the frog is a beneficial insect in the rice field and has vigorous vitality, so the ancient Yue people took the frog as the totem of the nation.
Why were the ancient Yue people in Guangxi and its neighboring areas called Luo Yue? In the Zhuang language, Luo Luo means "bird". This shows that the ancient Yue people worship birds, they believe that birds have extraordinary spirituality, have the extraordinary ability to perceive and predict everything in heaven and earth, and have the ability to communicate with the gods, and birds have the ability to fly long distances, and they are very sensitive to changes in the natural environment, and they are also very demanding on the living environment, so the ancients had the habit of tracking bird flight tracks and habitats, formulating migration routes, and looking for settlements and agricultural areas, because the places where birds can survive are places with mild climate, humidity and abundant water, Therefore, the ancient Yue people also took the bird as the totem of their own nation, and the image of the bird mostly adopted the image of the chicken or peacock domesticated by the ancient Yue people. At present, in remote areas of southwest China, when performing religious rituals, a live chicken is placed next to the priest, and chicken bone divination is also very popular in these places. These are all legacies of the cult of Locke.
After the development of the ancient Yue people in the agricultural and pastoral areas and settlement areas in the western part of Guangxi and the eastern part of Yunnan, with the increase of the tribal population, the ancient Yue people began to start from the southwest of Guangxi, along the left and right rivers into the Yongjiang River, and down the river to the east to develop the agricultural areas of southeastern Guangxi and Guangdong. After the development of the agricultural areas of Guangxi and Guangzhou, the ancient farming peoples entered Hunan from the Xiangjiang River in northeastern Guangxi to the east, and comprehensively developed the extensive agricultural areas in the Dongting Lake basin. From the north of Guangdong to the Ganjiang River into Jiangxi, from the opening of the Jiangnan agricultural area and China's largest land of fish and rice great construction!
Another migratory group of the ancient Yue people crossed the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau into the Sichuan Basin from the northwestern region of Guangxi, the Baise Basin, then crossed the Qinling Mountains into the Qinchuan Basin, and then went north into the desert steppe, Siberia and northern Europe. From here, they traveled westward through the Hexi Corridor into Xinjiang, Central Asia, and the steppes of southern Europe. They traveled eastward from the Siberian Arctic to North America through the Bering Strait, thus completing the Great Migration of the Last Ice Age.
The ancient Yue people set out from the western part of Guangxi, and they entered the southeastern part of Guangxi and Guangdong through the Yongjiang River to develop agriculture and settlement, and merged with the gatherers, hunters, and maritime peoples of these regions, where the newly formed ethnic group was called Yang Yue, "Yang Ya."
g" with the ancient Vietnamese word for "home la."
Jinyin agrees that Yang Yue means a family person, and the home here may be a dry-bar wooden house. The ancient Yue people who migrated eastward eventually arrived in the Fujian region, where they merged with the local indigenous people to form Minyue, among the ancient Yue people, "Min mi."
"It is the meaning of leeches, the ancient Yue people are a farming people who plant rice, leeches like to live in the swamp mud, so the ancient Yue people are very sensitive to leeches, maybe the ancient Yue people just arrived in Fujian, here leeches are overflowing, so the ancient Yue people call Fujian as Fujian, here is called Minyue.
The ancient Yue people entered Hunan and Jiangxi along the Xiangjiang River from the northwest of Guangxi and the present-day Guilin region, and merged with the local indigenous people to form the western Ouyue, and "Ouou" and the ancient Yue language in the "rice/rice hou" close to the sound agree, Ouyue is the meaning of farming; The ancient Yue people entered the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River Basin, and they integrated with the local indigenous people to form the Eastern Ouyue.
Since all ethnic groups in the south of the Yangtze River have the same way of life and production, as well as the same language, culture and customs, the scholars who first came to the south of the Yangtze River to collect customs (i.e., conduct a comprehensive survey of ethnic economy and culture) identified the farming people living in the south of the Yangtze River as Baiyue or Yue people.
After the Baiyue developed and matured in the area south of the Yangtze River, they crossed the Yangtze River and migrated northward, they entered the Jianghan River Basin, the Jianghuai River Basin, the Yellow River Basin and other areas in Hubei to develop agriculture and settlement, and perhaps the Baiyue also crossed the Shanhaiguan Pass into the Northeast Plain to develop agriculture and settle in the Liaohe River Basin, Heilongjiang River Basin and other areas.
During the great migration to the east, the ancient Yue people also migrated from the southwest of Guangxi to the north, and this northward migration route was one of the most important migration routes of the ancient Yue people.
Around 27,000 years ago, a branch of the ancient Yue people began to enter the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau from the northern town of the Baise Basin in southwest Guangxi, and entered the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau from the northLater, most of the Ba people were integrated into the Han nationality, and other parts formed the Buyi, Tujia, Dong, Shui and other ethnic minorities, living and settling in the area, the Yao people, Miao people, etc. have always retained their ancient way of life and culture, and thrived in the area with other ethnic groups.
After the ancient Yue people completed the agricultural development of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, they used Chongqing as a bridgehead to control the communication waterways of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, entered the eastern part of the Sichuan Basin to develop agricultural areas and settlements, and integrated with the aborigines of the central and eastern parts of Sichuan, namely the Qujiang, Jiangling and Peijiang river basins, and the Cuban state here. After another group of Guyue people crossed the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, they established settlements in the area of the Gulin River valley basin, and then crossed the Yangtze River by boat from the waters of the Jinsha River and the Tuojiang River, and entered the Luzhou area (Lulu means boat in Zhuang language), and then this Guyue people went north along the Tuojiang River into the Chengdu Plain, and established the ancient Shu state with Chengdu as the center, including the western part of the Sichuan Basin and the eastern foothills of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The founding of the country is to enclose land, that is, to monopolize land and water sources. Because animal husbandry needs to continue to graze in a vast area, after the founding of the People's Republic of China in Sichuan, the nomadic people were forced to separate from the farming people and develop independently. It's easy for anyone to go abroad, but it's hard to get back home. Because of the issue of the seizure and distribution of natural resources, if the nomads insist on returning to the Sichuan Basin to graze, they can only solve the problem by means of war. Since the agrarian people waited for work at ease and defended and attacked, and the agrarian peoples were superior to the nomads in terms of population, materials, and overall quality, the outcome of the war was certainly favorable to the agrarian peoples.
Of course, the elimination of war and the creation of peace are the common ideals of mankind, so national integration has always become the best solution to the problem. Therefore, the Sichuan region is like spring all year round, the climate and environment are very suitable for the growth of animals and plants, so the Sichuan Basin gathers a variety of ethnic groups, so the Central Plains historians according to the results of the collection, called Sichuan "the land of Baipu", in the ancient Yue language Pu or bu is the prefix of the tribal name, quite modern Chinese "department", "part", "troops" and other meanings, in ancient times, because of the large number of ethnic groups in Sichuan, and all ethnic groups call themselves Pu Moumou, so the Central Plains Dynasty historians can only call the people here Baipu.
After the separation of the farming and nomadic peoples, some of the nomads who have always been unwilling to integrate with the farming peoples entered the northeastern region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to live as nomads, and eventually they developed into the Qiang people, the Qiang people are the oldest nomadic people in the world, and the Qiang people are one of the mother tribes of the modern Tibetan people.
25,000 years ago, the national pattern of the Bashu Kingdom in Sichuan was basically formed, and the Bashu State still retains the ancient Yue culture and customs in terms of culture and customs, and the Cuban Shu State maintains close commodity and cultural ties with the Yue people in the south in terms of economic and cultural exchanges.
After the ancient Yue people gained a foothold in Sichuan, they continued to migrate to the north, they crossed the Qinling Mountains into the Qinchuan Basin, and developed the Qinchuan region into the richest land of fish and rice in northwest China. Wife ya" Kin Yin agreed. Flowers in the ancient Yue and Southeast Asian ancient farming peoples, has a very main practical significance and symbolic significance, the ancients believed that flowers are not only beautiful and moving, and flowers are the beginning of life, flowers are the hotbed of fruits, fruits are the beginning of life, but also the seeds of sowing, is the basis of agriculture. Therefore, flowers have practical and symbolic meanings such as enrichment, abundance, and rebirth. In the matriarchal clan society, women are worshipped, so the combination of wives and flowers is very noble and beautiful, and Huaxia has an endless and beautiful meaning, implying that agricultural production and population production are vigorous and sustainable.
The ancient Yue people and the ancient farming peoples of Southeast Asia all had the custom of worshipping flowers, and one of the reasons why they worshiped flowers was related to wine. Since ancient times, the ancient Yue people have the habit of mixing plants and flowers with staple foods such as rice to cook and cook, and they like to cool the cooked food for a long time to let it ferment naturally and become sour before eating, this food has the function of relieving heatstroke, and can also prevent sepsis, malaria and heat stroke. By chance, the ancient Yue people discovered that plant flowers such as spicy knotweed, orchid flowers, and sesame flowers can ferment rice and other foods with high starch content into wonderful sweet rice wine. Wine can make people excited and happy, is the main drug for the treatment of depression, and is also the most effective organic solvent, which can dissolve and decompose many harmful toxins in the human body, so wine has always been regarded by the ancients as a sacred thing given to human beings by the gods, so the ancients loved and worshiped flowers more. Nowadays, there are many ancient ethnic groups who wear flowers, worship gods with flowers, and worship people with flowers. At present, the people of Guangxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi and Northeast China still become mash lao or lou.
"Xia xia" agrees with the ancient Yue language female ya, and there are still girls in rural areas of northern China as "丫丫" or "丫tou", which is a remnant of the ancient Yue language.
After Chinese society fully entered the patrilineal clan society, the society changed from advocating "women to men and men" to "men to women and inferior", because "Xia" is a symbol of women, so the attitude and views of the ruling class of society towards "Xia" have undergone fundamental changes, they no longer praise and worship "Xia", and even belittle and slander "Xia", so after China fully entered the patrilineal clan society, the name of Xia was gradually diluted and abandoned.
When we flip over the map of China, we can immediately see that from the southwest of Guangxi Baise to the north, through Lingyun, Leye, Guiyang, Zunyi, Chongqing, Bazhong, Hanzhong, over the Qinling Mountains into Baoji, that is, the ancient Chencang, almost a straight line from north to south! This kind of high-efficiency road shows that the ancient Luoyue people have very accurate road measurement and planning and construction capabilities.
The archaeological discovery in Gansang Mountain, Pingguo, Guangxi Province, in the white area of Guangxi, is engraved on the pebbles with ancient characters similar to oracle bone inscriptions, one of which is completely similar to the oracle bone inscription "Cong" in Yinxu, Cong is a kind of jade ritual vessel with eight sides inside and outside, which is used to judge the rights and wrongs and attributes of things when the tribe decides to calculate major events. At the same time, Cong can also be used in reality to measure geographical orientation. Perhaps the ancient Yue people were using Cong to apply the principle of linear measurement of three points and one line to plan and construct the migration path mentioned above.
In the west of Chengdu and the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, including the Songpan Plateau in the northeast of Qinghai, southern Gansu, the western part of the Qinling Mountains, and the northwest of Sichuan, the ancient Yue people successfully developed agriculture and animal husbandry suitable for alpine and arid areas, and they successfully domesticated and cultivated barley suitable for planting in plateau areas, wheat, barley and other crops suitable for dryland planting, and at the same time they successfully domesticated yaks, sheep, beef cattle, donkeys and dogs and other animals suitable for captivity in the cold climate of the north. They provide material and technical support for human migration and settlement in cold and arid regions.
The ancient Yue people who lived and settled on the Songpan Plateau were called Di by the historians of the Central Plains Dynasty. In the ancient Yue language, Di Di has the meaning of 'good', 'ploughing the field', so Di has the meaning of good people and farming people, the current close relatives of the Yue people in Yunnan Dai call themselves Di or Dai, here Di is the lineage, "Di Di" is still the name of the supreme ruler of the matrilineal clan society in the matrilineal clan society, according to the provisions of the matrilineal clan society, only the female elders of the descendant line can be called the emperor, and the emperor is the supreme ruler of the matrilineal clan. The people known as Di or Emperor must be the nobles or royal families of the ancient Yue people.
The Songpan Plateau has always been the traditional residence of farming and nomadic peoples in Northwest China, and the place names and landscape names here are full of the cultural characteristics of the ancient Yue people
g is the number "two" in Old Vietnamese; Pan pa
Or ba
In the ancient Yue people, it means home, village, city, etc.; In the Songpan Plateau area, many plateau plateaus are called "dam ba" or "na".
a”,
A means "paddy field" in the ancient Vietnamese language; Many rivers on the Songpan Plateau have the syllable "Dada", da is the meaning of "river" in the ancient Yue language, the main river on the Songpan Plateau is called "Datong River", according to the interpretation of the ancient Yue language, this should have been called "Datong", "Da" is the river, Tong to
g or duo
G in the ancient Yue language is the meaning of bright, shiny, bright, the ancient Yue definite sentence is posted, so the overall meaning of Datong is the bright river, the Datong River flows from east to west, flowing all day long, in the sunny morning and evening hours, the water surface of the river must be shining with colorful and bright light, it is very appropriate to name the river with Datong, and it is full of poetic and picturesque reverie.
Eventually, the Di people merged with the nomadic Qiang people to form the earliest and strongest nomadic people in the world, who grazed on the steppes of northern China and the Siberian steppe, and developed into a global yellow nomadic people. After the development of the Qiang people, they entered the Hexi Corridor region, the Altai region, the Tianshan region of Xinjiang, and the Amu Darya Oasis at the confluence of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan in Central Asia, and then entered the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the Middle East, Asia Minor in the Near East, the Nile River basin in North Africa, Europe and other regions, where they developed agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as villages, cities, and countries, which nourished and nurtured the new local civilization.
15,000 years ago, the ancient Yue farming and nomadic peoples basically completed the great migration around the world, and since then, the human races and cultures in Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe have gradually completed the great integration and new development.
In the thousands of years after the completion of the Great Migration and ethnic integration, the Chinese civilization was gradually born in Chinese mainland; Indian civilization in the South Asian subcontinent; the Sumerian civilization of the two river basins in the Middle East; Egyptian civilization in the Nile Valley of North Africa.
The development of these civilizations has provided new guarantees and hopes for mankind to move toward security, prosperity, freedom and happiness.