Why was Fujian called the land of barbarians in ancient times? ...

Qi Min people live in present-day Fujian and southern Zhejiang. According to modern archaeological discoveries, they also include Taiwan Province Province, Chaozhou, Meizhou and parts of southeast Jiangxi. Zhou Li is quoted in Ci Hai? The staff said, "It is divided into its state, country, capital and despised people, four yi, eight yi, seven Fu Jian, nine raccoons, five Rong and six Di." Zheng Xuan, a Confucian scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, pointed out: "Min is quite different." According to Zhou Li's "Seven Kingdoms", the ancient land of Fujian is the "Seven Kingdoms of Fujian", or Fujian State, which is a subordinate country of Huaxia State of Zhou Dynasty composed of seven tribes. Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi cuts it with a knife and dismembers Min into pictographs of "insect" or "snake". The official history, official history and ancient people's notes give people the impression of fragmentation. Fujian is a kind of snake, with snakes as its totem, a country of barbarians and a foreign land. The ancients in Fujian were obscene in appearance and red and white in skin, like ghosts. Going to sea, savage and tough, tattooed, broken hair, like raw food, and even living without food. In short, it is a humanoid animal between "human" and "non-human" and belongs to barbarians.

Since ancient times, people have little understanding of ancient Fujian, and their understanding of Fujian began in the Fujian-Vietnam period. No traces of snake worship were found in the excavation of the king city of Fujian and Vietnam in Wuyishan, and no shapes, patterns and patterns of snakes were found in the unearthed square bricks, weapons, Yi wares and pottery fragments. Fujian is backed by Xianxialing Mountain Range, Daiyun Mountain Range and Wuyishan Mountain Range, facing the South China Sea, and naturally forms a natural barrier for the invasion of northern nationalities. It lives alone in a corner and is relatively rich. The culture of the Central Plains has always been exclusive, calling the surrounding ethnic minorities "barbarians, barbarians, Rong, Hu and Di" and so on. Sadly, before the Tang Dynasty in Fujian, only the gentry children who migrated from the south to the north occasionally learned to write. In the true sense, "cultural education began in Changgun in the Tang Dynasty". Therefore, the historical materials about ancient Fujian were written by northerners, and Fujian people did not leave a few words about Fujian history before Fujian and Vietnam.

It is worth noting that after the death of Wu Zhu, the king of Fujian and Vietnam, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, his descendant Dongyue Wang Yushan joined forces with Dongou to attack South Vietnam, and Baiyue surrendered to compete with the king of Fujian and Vietnam. Finally, it developed to privately carve the seal of "Emperor Wu" and sent troops to fight against Han with the intention of rebellion. The strength of Fujian and Vietnam can be seen. At this time, the Western Han Dynasty has entered its heyday, and the regime in remote areas will never be allowed to grow stronger. After defeating the Xiongnu in the north, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty mobilized hundreds of thousands of soldiers to besiege the country of Fujian and Vietnam, and at the same time divided and disintegrated the country of Fujian and Vietnam, causing the king of Fujian and Vietnam and some nobles to encircle and kill Yu and return to the Han Dynasty. In order to avoid future troubles forever, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the method of "moving people to open spaces" and ordered the army to move Fujian and Vietnam to the Jianghuai area and burn down the city palaces of Fujian and Vietnam. This "alien" who was brave and good at fighting and was finally eliminated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty certainly became the object of disgust and eyebrows of northerners who mastered the right to speak. Xu Shen is a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not to mention Fujian, a far country. Even the countries of Fujian and Vietnam have fallen in the Western Han Dynasty. He knows nothing about Fujian and Vietnam, let alone Fujian. Xu's explanation of "Min" refers to Sima Qian's Historical Records, and Sima Qian, as a historian of the Han Dynasty, of course exaggerated and insulted Min Yue from the orthodox standpoint of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The words in Historical Records and Hanshu frequently stimulate people's eyes: Although Fujian and Vietnam are barbarians, they are a place outside China, and the more brittle and stupid they are, the more barbarian they are ... Is ancient Fujian really a barbarian? And listen to the silent stories of Fujian, Vietnam and other cultural sites.

Qin Shihuang conquered the mainland with his long-term strategy, controlled Liuhe, and whipped the world, which had a great impact on the mainland. Baiyue Wang Nanping Baiyue took the lead and ordered the official to be sealed, but no one was deprived of his title and abolished as a "monarch". The Qin Dynasty set up Minzhong County in the hometown of Fujian and Vietnam. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Wu Zhu led the army to participate in the vigorous anti-Qin uprising and overthrew the rule of the Qin Dynasty with the people of the Central Plains. After the Chu-Han War broke out, Wu Zhu went north again to participate in the conquest of Chu overlord Xiang Yu by Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang. Zhong Jun in Fujian is brave and good at fighting, and Wu Zhu helped Liu Bang win the world. After Liu Bang ascended the throne, he was re-established as the king of Fujian and Vietnam in 202 BC. Wu Zhu became the first heterosexual vassal of ethnic minorities in the Central Dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty. Until BC 1 10, it was destroyed by the army of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the state of Fujian and Vietnam survived for 92 years.

But from the historical records? As can be seen in the biography of East Vietnam, before the conferment of the Han Dynasty, the Fujian-Vietnam region was a real country, and all the kings in the East China Sea were shocked ... Qin had been merged into the world and was abolished as a vassal, and its land was Minzhong County. But it was "abolished" by the king of Qin. In this way, the culture of Fujian and Vietnam should at least be traced back to the Warring States period. It can be seen that Fujian was civilized and prosperous at that time.

Not only a large number of pots, pots, pots and cans have been unearthed from the Wangcheng site in Fujian and Vietnam; Many well-forged weapons have been unearthed: knives, swords, spears, halberds, arrows and so on. Even the extremely lethal copper crossbow has always been the basic equipment of the Fujian-Vietnam Army. Fujian and Vietnam iron spears are long and sharp, with the longest being more than 80 centimeters, which is the longest iron spear found in Han Dynasty in China. Many cultural relics show the development level of social productive forces at that time. For example, a hollow brick more than 2 meters long is the largest one found in China. The heating system, drainage system, baths and cobblestone walkways in the city also show the wisdom and civilization of the people of Fujian and Vietnam, which is enough to subvert the stereotype that Fujian is a barbarian land.

One question is, why did the "Fujian Kingdom", a tribal alliance of the seven nationalities in Fujian and Vietnam, disappear? What was the state of ancient Fujian before Fujian?

1988, the late Paleolithic human fossils with clear location and clear stratigraphic records were discovered in Hulidong, Qingliu County, pushing the history of Fujian to 10,000 years ago. The archaeological discovery of polished stone tools in Longziwan, Pucheng County, northern Fujian Province also pushed the human history of Fujian to 10,000 years ago. The human beings who lived in ancient Fujian 10,000 years ago far exceeded the Fujian people and the Yue people we know. They were the ancestors of the Qimin people.

Pucheng manages a mound in Jiusan. The ground of Yongkeng is paved with pebbles made of concrete, which reflects the attitude and quality of life of ancient Fujian people. Are their leisurely lives like barbarians? At this point, whether they really lived in the nest or the dry fence at that time could not help but ask a question mark.

Tanshishan Site in Minhou County unveiled the mystery of Fujian. Tanshishan culture tells us that Fujian people belong to the South Asian type of Mongolians-yellow people with yellow hair and yellow skin. They live in a forest cave that covers the sun for a long time. The serious lack of photosynthesis leads to the degradation of melanin and skin color, showing the appearance of "white hair and red skin", but they are really yellow people in their bones. 18 A clay pot was unearthed in a tomb in Tanshishan, which was used by later generations to make soup. There is also the excavation of "the first magic lamp in China", which clearly tells people the degree of civilization in using fire. Completely subverted the concept symbols representing barbarians such as "red and white skin", "ghostly" and "raw food".

More than a thousand cultural relics unearthed at Tanshishan site are more beautiful than those unearthed at Longziwan and Jiuguanshan. Their similarity does not reveal the shape and ornamentation of snakes. They are secretly telling Fujian people that your ancestors did not worship snakes. From Pucheng pottery of Paleolithic Age in Longziwan 10,000 years ago, to Neolithic pottery of Tanshishan 5,000 years ago, the bronze bell of Jian 'ou in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the Fujian-Vietnam culture in Wuyishan 2,000 years ago, there is no evidence that ancient Fujian people worship snakes. On the contrary, there are a lot of snake patterns and snakes on the pottery unearthed from the tomb of King Yue in Jiangsu, where the ancient Yue people lived at that time. It can be considered that the snake worship in Fujian was brought by the ancient Vietnamese after they entered Fujian, and it can only start from the Fujian-Vietnam period at the earliest. Because later generations knew little about ancient Fujian, lacked written records, and were vague about Fujian and Vietnam, they wore snake worship on their heads in a muddle.

In 306 BC, Fujian disappeared without a trace. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the grandson of Gou Jian VII led an army to attack Chu. When he succeeded, he was attacked by King Chu Cheng and the country was defeated. A borderless country with no country to return to, led the remnants and the people dressed in Yuefu, desperately broke through the natural barrier of Xianxialing, and swooped down on the ancient Fujian like a flood. On the other hand, Vietnamese drove into Fujian, attacked the city and found a new home. The people of Fujian, who are in a peaceful corner, can't resist it. They were stupefied by the cold light of Vietnamese knives and axes, and seven Fujian people were killed. Since then, Fujian has disappeared from history, and both Tanzheshan people and Pucheng civilization are vanishing. A few adherents can only sail in the rivers and seas or hide in the mountains, and drag out an ignoble existence in Fujian and Vietnam, losing their personal dignity and right to speak.

What is even more frightening is that the Yue nationality is a nation that worships martial arts and does not pay attention to the right to speak. After entering Fujian, the occupied land was king, which was called Fujian and Vietnam. The people of Fujian and Vietnam are obsessed with the wars in the south and north, and despise culture and education. The whole society has no cultural and educational activities, and only pays attention to military equipment. Not to mention the words left by the adherents of the Seven Kingdoms of Fujian. Of course, if a race has no writing, there is no historical inheritance. The sporadic records of ancient Fujian that can be seen today are scattered in the writings of northern historians. In the eyes of the Central Plains people, the race that lacks words and loses the right to speak is naturally a "barbarian" and it is not surprising to become a "foreign land".

The ruins of Yuewangcheng in Wuyishan, Fujian Province have opened a fair journey for us to peek at ancient Fujian civilization. Numerous unearthed cultural relics not only subverted the myth of "barbarians" in Fujian, but also proved that ancient Fujian, which had no written records before its integration with the Central Plains culture, had a highly splendid civilization.