Hear the words.
Fusu had a strange look on his face.
He was not surprised that the Qin people and the merchants came from the same clan. After all, if you really count the names of the people in the world, you can basically count them to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. The merchants and the Qin people do have similar totems, and it is indeed very likely that they were born in ancient times. From the same clan.
He was surprised.
There may have been a matriarchal society for a period of time in ancient times.
Think about it for a moment.
He also agrees with this statement.
Because some of the rumors that have been circulated earlier are indeed more female.
But times are different.
He was just a little surprised by the idea.
Fusu said: "According to what Mr. Ji said, the reason why the ancestors of the Qin people tried their best to help businessmen back then was not only because of the cruelty of the Xia Queen, but also because of the Qin merchant lineage. After the Qin people helped businessmen, the merchants reciprocated the favor. , will give more preferential treatment to the people of Qin."
Speaking of which.
Fusu seemed to remember something.
He slowly looked at Hu Hai, his eyes thoughtful.
He remembered that Hu Hai had said before that his ancestor Boyi was the son of Yu who returned the throne of the Lord of the World to Qi.
What if it is not returned?
Does that mean that the Qin people were suppressed during those hundreds of years?
With the strength of the Xia Dynasty, it is probably difficult for the Qin people to resist unless other forces help.
This is the thought.
Fusu had already guessed Ji Heng's overtone.
Boyi and Qi both followed Yu to control floods and believed in the same totem, so their relationship was not bad. After Xia Qi defeated Boyi, the ancestor of the Qin people, the Qin people would undoubtedly suffer great oppression. At that time, Qi might have helped. Only then did the people of Qin survive, and when Shang Tang destroyed Xia, the people of Qin should have given full support to them.
Ji Heng deliberately downplayed the beautification in Qin history.
Fusu sighed in his heart.
The relevant records of Boyi's arrival in Shang Dynasty are very brief or even unclear. During the transition between Xia and Shang Dynasty, we can already see some clues about how hard the Qin people worked. After all, other tribes helped each other and only sent out some carts. Ma, there is absolutely no support from the entire clan.
Hu Hai nodded.
He didn't think that much.
His ancestor Boyi was too far away from him.
Even Zhongyi is too far away from them. If the Qin people had not come to be nobles, these materials would have been lost long ago. Moreover, these materials are not original. Most of them were recorded orally by later generations of Qin people. Is it true? There are two opinions on whether it is true.
Hu Hai said: "During the Shang Dynasty, the Qin tribe had always been the ministers of Shang."
"However, after King Wu of Zhou conquered Shang, the people of Qin and the survivors of Yin and Shang were demoted to slaves of the Zhou people."
"It's just that when King Wu of Zhou died of illness and King Cheng was young, the people of Qin, together with the survivors of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, launched the Three Prisons Rebellion. Then" Hu Hai said with a look of embarrassment on his face: "Then they were suppressed by Zhou Gongdan .”
"The entire Qin tribe was almost wiped out."
"Only a handful of people remain."
"In order to prevent the Qin people from plotting rebellion again, Zhou Gongdan punished the Qin people by extinguishing their surnames, exterminating their sacrifices and banishing them to the west."
Hear the words.
Ji Heng thought.
When he heard "the surname was cut off by Jue Si", he finally understood why later generations of Ying Zheng would be called Zhao Zheng, Qin Zheng, and Ying Zheng, because if the surname had not been cut off by Zhou Gong, the Qin people would still have only one The surname is Ying.
The purpose of cutting off the surname was to punish the Qin people from being able to use the Ying surname that had been passed down for hundreds of years.
Therefore, he was subsequently granted the title of Zhao, and the Zhao family became known.
When he was granted the title of Qin Pavilion, the Qin family came into being.
And the must-sacrifice was even more cruel, and the people of Qin were not qualified to build ancestral temples to worship their ancestors.
The inheritance of the Qin people was completely cut off.
Perhaps to later generations, cutting off the family name was not a big deal, but in the aristocratic era at that time, this move was a devastating blow to the entire ethnic group.
Cutting off the surname means that the people of the entire tribe will lose their sense of identity, become separated from top to bottom, and the cohesion of the entire tribe will be greatly reduced. Juesi will cut off the history and memory of the entire tribe. The final terrible consequences will be that the identity of the tribe is extremely low, and the tribe’s members will be greatly reduced. fled, and the entire group died.
The Qin people, an ancient clan with ancient inheritance, were suddenly reduced to nomadic people.
Ji Heng sighed softly in his heart.
He actually heard a saying a long time ago.
If you want to destroy a nation, you must first destroy its history.
This practice has begun at least in the Zhou Dynasty, and may even be earlier.
As for the follow-up, it is very simple.
This small group of Qin people were sent to the border by Duke Zhou and merged with the Zhongji people who had been ordered by merchants to resist Rong Di. From then on, the Qin people began to be forced to struggle between Rong Di and Zhou people. Survive.
If an ordinary tribe were to be ostracized like this after encountering the extermination of their surnames, they would probably have collapsed, integrated into other tribes, and disappeared.
But the Qin tribe did not.
Even though he has completely become a slave of the Zhou people, he has been ridiculed and discriminated against by the eastern princes.
Due to the early military expansion of the Zhou Dynasty, they were continuously driven further to the west and to the frontier. They had to fight for an extremely limited living space with the more aggressive Rong and Di, and suffered the pain of displacement. However, the Qin people did not fall. , but has been struggling to survive.
During the reign of King Mu of Zhou, the Qin people finally got a chance.
Cepheus became the 'royal'.
It still relies on the ancestral skills of the Qin people.
drive.
King Zhou Mu later visited the west for a long time and was so happy that he forgot to return, which led to King Xu Yan's rebellion. At this time, Cefu was ordered to carry King Mu of Zhou at high speed, thousands of miles a day, and drove back to Zhou to help King Mu of Zhou defeat the Xu army. My father helped the emperor travel thousands of miles to save the Zhou Dynasty and made great achievements, so he was rewarded with the city of Zhao.
Since then.
The people of Qin regained their clan names.
Zhao!
Finally there was a suitable place to stand.
However, Zhao City was not big and could not support all the Qin people. Therefore, except for the large sects of the Zaofu lineage, the rest of the small sects had to leave Zhao City and find other places to survive. Therefore, most Qin people continued to live a A semi-nomadic and semi-settled life, with no fixed location.
During the reign of King Zhou Xiao, the Qin people ushered in their second turning point.
As the Zhou royal family weakened and the Rong and Di continued to send troops to plunder, King Zhou Xiao decided to reorganize his military equipment. One of the Qin people who had lived with nomads for hundreds of years fell into the eyes of King Zhou Xiao, Qin Feizi, but what King Zhou Xiao valued was Qin Feizi. Qin Feizi's horse breeding skills.
After serving as King Xiaoli of Zhou for decades.
King Zhou Xiao recognized his achievements and rewarded (Zhao) Feizi with a piece of land less than a hundred miles away.
With the permission of Emperor Zhou, Feizi built a city named Qinting.
"In the past Boyi was Shun's master of livestock, and his livestock were full of interest."
"Therefore, there is soil, so I gave him the surname Ying."
"Now and in future generations, they will also be my Xima."
"I divide the land into vassals."
Hu Hai read the words of King Zhou Xiao and said with emotion: "When the ancestor of Qin Feizi led the Qin people to light candles in the Qin Pavilion to worship their ancestors, the Qin people, starting from King Zhou Cheng, had already lived in the desolate western frontier. We have been living alone for more than two hundred years, and it was from the ancestors of Qin Feizi that our Great Qin finally officially resumed the sacrifice of the Ying surname and ancestors given by Emperor Shun."
Ji Heng looked sad.
The people of Qin are really tenacious.
Having endured it for more than two hundred years, this extraordinary endurance is truly astonishing.
And when Qin Feizi's lineage was granted the title of Qin Pavilion.
This vein.
It is inappropriate to call him Zhao again.
In the past, the lineage of Cepheid was called the Dazong, and the lineage of Qin Feizi was called the Xiaozong.
And after Qin Feizi received the reward.
Qin Feizi's lineage inherited the Ying surname and sacrifice.
His lineage directly changed from the small sect of the Zhao family to the large sect of the Ying family.
Therefore, when tracing back the ancestors, the Zhao family can only be traced back to Erai's younger brother Ji Sheng, while the lineage with the Ying surname can be directly traced back to Erai. The Qin people's lineage is now the real sect and the true successor to the Ying surname. One lineage.
There are some clues about this from the self-proclaimed names of Liu Xiu and Liu Bei. Liu Xiu can claim to be the ninth grandson of Han Emperor Liu Bang and the queen of Han Jing Emperor, while Liu Bei must first call himself the queen of King Jing of Zhongshan before he can call himself Xiao. The great-great-grandsons of Emperor Jing must be counted from the 'Bie Zi' first.
Among all the emperor's children, except for the son who succeeds to the throne, they are all other children.
Therefore, unless Liu Bei rebuilt the Han Dynasty, he could only trace his ancestors back to the last time the family was divided.
In ancient times, men were called surnames and women were called surnames.
Family names are used to identify ethnic groups, while surnames are used to distinguish blood relationships.
A family name often comes from a fiefdom or an official position, so it also contains social and political meanings.
Zhou Li strictly stipulates that people with the same surname should not marry.
Normally, when Qin Feizi was granted the title of Qin Ting, he should take Qin as his surname. However, the Qin surname was occupied by other ethnic groups first, so Qin Feizi's lineage still uses Zhao as his surname and Ying as his surname.
When the First Emperor unified the world, he ordered that no distinction should be made between surnames.
The distinction between surnames began to be diluted.
Hu Hai said nothing more when it came to Zhao Feizi being granted the title of Qin Ting.
He has not yet read what happened next.
And enough has been said today.
He is still very satisfied with his performance.
He had not been idle for more than half a month. Zhao Gao had been forcing him to read. Now that he saw Ji Heng and his eldest brother were speechless, he felt even more relaxed.
a long time.
Fu Sucai sighed softly: "I heard what my younger brother said today, and I realized how difficult it was for our Great Qin to gain a foothold. The ancestors of Great Qin had to go through ups and downs several times, and groped in the darkness for more than two hundred years before they could stand up in the world again. Keep your footing.”
“Starting a business is not easy.”
"We should take this as an encouragement to live up to the hardships of our ancestors in starting a business."
Ji Heng said lightly: "With blessing comes misfortune, and misfortune brings blessing. The Daqin ethnic group has indeed been plunged into endless darkness for a long time, but it has also tempered its extraordinary endurance to endure suffering."
"The people of Qin declined because of Zhou."
"It also rises due to the decline of Zhou Dynasty."
"Perhaps there is some truth to it."
"I don't know much about the past history of the Qin Dynasty, but I know something about it from Hu Hai. Before Qin Feizi, the surname Ying had actually been discontinued for more than two hundred years. Therefore, the historical data of the surname Ying before Qin Feizi, Most of it is spread by word of mouth and cannot be taken seriously.”
"Therefore, the history of Qin that can really be traced actually begins with Qin Feizi."
"Reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles."
"After all, the information obtained in the book is too simple. If you really want to understand the history of Qin, you should not just study behind closed doors, but walk the path of the founding of the Qin Dynasty, start from Qin Pavilion, and listen to the Qin people's views on the past. view."
"What you see on paper is ultimately shallow, but you know you have to do it!"
"Maybe you could go for a walk."
This is a bit of a plot.
Basically, it's a mixture of historical records and Tsinghua bamboo slips.
Follow-up plot: Take the country road.
(End of chapter)
