Great fusion of heaven and earth

Chapter 311 The Origin of Zhu Xia

"You brought it up?"

Zhuo Qun looked at Dou Shujun, "Isn't Feng Chunguo and the others discussing and deciding this? Why did you bring it up again?"

"I make a suggestion and they make a decision. Isn't this a normal thing?"

Dou Shujun spread his hands.

"Reason, why did you make this suggestion?"

Zhuo Qun was silent for a while and asked.

"We can't just deal with those worlds in the past, and not all of those past worlds will be like the Northern Song Dynasty, willing to be inferior to us, and it is impossible for us to subdue every one of them."

Dou Shujun said with a serious expression.

Dou Shujun stayed in the Northern Song Dynasty for a long time, and he also had some understanding of the thoughts of those emperors, that is, the emperors before the Northern Song Dynasty really had the aura of being the only one in the world. Those who would give in to anyone, they are the kind of people with extreme egos.

Moreover, their system also determines that they cannot be inferior to others. Even if you are better than him, as long as you want to subdue him, the other party will fight you to the death.

So he thinks that they can communicate on an equal footing but can't be overwhelmed by force. Of course, the Song Dynasty doesn't matter, after all, are they cowardly?

"The people of the region don't use the borders to seal the frontier, the country doesn't take the danger of the mountains and streams, and the world doesn't use the benefits of military revolution. Those who gain the way will help more, and those who lose the way will not help. If there is little help, relatives will help them. Help more To, the world will follow."

Dou Shujun suddenly read a sentence of Mencius's saying that good people help more than others.

"Does it make sense?"

Zhuo Qun thought about it, "Then what is our way?"

"How do we convince those countries to join us? How do we get them to ally with us."

Zhuo Qun looked at the person in front of him and asked.

"China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of obedience, so it is called Hua. Therefore, it is called Huaxia. Rongdi, wolf, and wolf are not to be hated. All summers are intimate, and you can't abandon them. Banquets are safe and poisonous, and you can't cherish them." Also. We are Zhuxia, not Rongdi."

The first sentence of the two sentences Dou Shujun said is that Kong Yingda's "Chunqiu Zuozhuan Zhengyi" said that it is still Zhuxia.The second sentence is from "Zuo Zhuan·Min Gong Year": Di Ren defeated Xing.Guan Jingzhong said to the Marquis of Qi: "Rongdi, wolves, and wolves should not be hated; all summers are intimacy, and should not be abandoned. Banquets are safe and poisonous, and should not be conceived." "Poetry" says: "If you don't cherish your return, you will fear this simple book .』Jianshu, it is also called sympathy with evil. Please save Xing to follow the Jianshu. ”The people of Qi rescued Xing.

These words are very interesting. What Dou Shujun said is telling Zhuo Qun that we must hold high the banner of Zhu Xia and use Zhu Xia as a bond to unite them all.

So what is the link between Zhuxia? It depends on how the word was born.

The names of Xia, Zhuxia, and Huaxia all originated from Zhou people.There is evidence of claiming to be "Xia" in the literature of the early Western Zhou Dynasty:

"Shangshu·Kanggao": Wei is Pixian Kaowen King, Ke Mingde is careful in punishment, and dare not insult widows and widows...Use Zhao to build our district Xia, and surpass our one or two states to repair our western land.

"Shang Shu Jun Shi": Only Wen Wang Shang Kexiu and I have summer.

"Shangshu Lizheng": The emperor punished it, but I had Xia, and Shishang was ordered.

That is to say, Zhou people call themselves "Xia", but this Xia is different from Xia people's Xia.

It is recorded in the literature,

Xia people have the surname Si, Zhou people have the surname Ji,
Based on the record in "Guoyu·Jinyu IV" that "ancient people with different surnames have different virtues, and different virtues have different types", it can be inferred that Xia people and Zhou people have "different surnames", so they are "different types", that is, they are not the same ethnic group. "Historical Records Chen Qi's Family" also records that "after seeking Yu, he won the Duke of Donglou, granted him to Qi, and worshiped Xia Hou's family", which shows that Xia's descendants were sealed in the place of "Qi".

The Xia that the Zhou people called themselves was not the Xia of the Xia people.

In the historian circle, there have always been two views on Zhou people calling themselves Xia.

One is, summer = big. "Er Ya Shi Gu" records: Hong, Kuo, Hong, Pu, Jie, Chun, Xia, Yu, Pang, Tomb, Gu, Pi, Yi, Hong, Dan, Rong, Jun, False, Jing, Shuo, Zhuo, Xu, Yu, Qiong, Ren, Lu, Yin, Fu, Jing, Fei, Zhuang, Zhong, Jian, 箌, 昄, 晊, General, Ye, Xi, Da Ye.

Yang Xiong's "Dialect" in the Western Han Dynasty: "Xia, Da Ye. From the Guan to the west, all things that are strong will love them, and they are called Xia."

The second is, Xia = West; District Xia = Western Land; You Xia = people of Western Land
"Zuo Zhuan" recorded the story of Jizha Guanle in the 29th year of Duke Xiang.People from Jizha were invited to listen to the musicians playing music. After hearing music such as "Bei", "Yuan" and "Wei", they praised the music very well. Only when they heard the song "Qin" did they suddenly say: "This It is called the sound of Xia, and if one is capable of Xia, it will be great, and if it is so great, it will be as old as Zhou."

Yang Bojun wrote a note in "Xia Sheng": the ancient refers to the west as summer, "Lu Shi Chunqiu · Ancient Music Pian" "Ling Lun from the west of Great Xia", Gao You's annotation: "Great Xia, the mountain of the west".Also in the Spring and Autumn Period, Chen Gongzi Shaoxi was named Zixia, and Zheng Gongsun Xia was named Zixi, both of which indicate that "Xia" has the meaning of "West".

The Duke of Zhou wrote "Da Gao" and recorded the inscription of Dabao Gui, saying, "There are great difficulties in the western lands, and the people of the western lands are not quiet, and the more stupid they are."Zhou people called themselves both Westerners and "Xia", so "Xia" means "West".

Therefore, "You Xia" in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty can be understood as "people from the Western Lands".

After King Cheng and King Kang of the Zhou Dynasty, "You Xia" or "Di Xia" disappeared from the handed down documents and inscriptions in bronze, because after the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the way of cohesion of ethnic groups changed, from "You Xia" to "People of the Western Lands" Regional identity has become kinship identity under the patriarchal system centered on the Zhou royal family. At this time, "Zhouren" replaced "You Xia".

At that time, there was no Zhu Xia, and the appearance of Zhu Xia was the word invented by Guan Zhong.

The birth background of this word is clearly stated in "Gongyang Biography", "Nanyi and Beidi have a relationship, and China is endless."

Nanyi refers to the state of Chu, which was very powerful in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Beidi mainly refers to the Shanrong in the north, and Yanji was destroyed by the Shanrong; Xing and Wei in the Central Plains were attacked by Di; the royal court of Zhou was also unable to resist the invasion of Rong and Zhai.

At that time, the overlord of the Central Plains, except Jin, Qi, Qin, Song, Chu, and Yue were all non-Ji surnames. , Yue were once regarded as barbarians.

"China" refers to the Zhou royal family surnamed Ji in the Central Plains.

Therefore, "the friendship between Nanyi and Beidi, China is like a thread" means that the Ji Dynasty was surrounded by other countries like a thread that was encouraged to maintain, and it was about to break.

It was under such circumstances that Guan Zhong said to Duke Huan of Qi that "Zhu Xia are intimate and should not be abandoned", and Confucius said "Wei Guan Zhong, I was sent to the left". It was at this time.

And what can gather people's hearts in this period, Guan Zhong gave the answer, Zhuxia, the word Zhuxia is different from Youxia in the early Zhou Dynasty. Surname, for the Jiang surname, there is nothing better than the word "Xia" in order to find a symbol of identity that can legally unite the Ji and Jiang kingdoms and enable the Jiang surname to obtain the same status as the Ji surname.Therefore, "You Xia" at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty was once again marked, and because there was no longer a single core, it was called "Zhu Xia". The term "Zhu Xia" was probably created during the time of Duke Huan of Qi, and it was a banner he ordered the princes of the Central Plains to fight against Northern Di and Southern Chu.

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