Why is Fujian called Bamin?

(1) Fujian is also called "Bamin", which comes from the word "Min".

Some people say that Fujian is called "Min" because of the Minjiang River. This statement doesn't hold water, because it is said that Fujian comes first and Minjiang comes last. In Fujian, "Min" is the earliest national name, which is also called "Man" or "Man Jing" and later "Yue". In Historical Records, the Wu family's "Suoyin" explains "Man Jing" as follows: "Barbarians are also called Nan Man, also known as Yue." Therefore, some people collectively refer to it as "Fujian and Vietnam". Later, Fujian was both a surname and a place name, meaning Fujian. Because the early people in Fujian mostly worshipped snakes as totems, Shuo Wen Jie Zi said: Fujian is a "snake species in southeastern Vietnam".

Fujian before Qin Dynasty was generally called "Seven Min". "Zhou Li" has the saying of "five Rong, six Di, seven people and eight barbarians" because Fujian aborigines had "seven countries" before Qin Dynasty, that is, seven tribes.

After the Han people moved south, Fujian was called "Bamin" in the Southern Song Dynasty, because from the Northern Song Dynasty, Fujian had eight administrative units equivalent to prefectures (counties). These eight administrative units are equivalent to the government, and the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties remained basically unchanged, so the name of Bamin continued.

Among them, from the Kangxi period in the early Qing Dynasty, Fujian was under the jurisdiction of Fujian, except for the original administrative units of the eight governments and the Taiwan Province government. In this way, Fujian once had nine states, so Fujian in Bamin is also called "Jiumin". Until the 11th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1885), Taiwan Province Province became a province on its own and was enfeoffed with Fujian, so the nine Fujian provinces resumed the title of eight Fujian provinces.

After the Qing Dynasty, the prefecture-level administrative units in Fujian have undergone many changes, but people used to call Fujian "Bamin". Therefore, Fujian and Bamin became the abbreviation and common name of Fujian.

(2) The oldest name in Fujian is "Min". The earliest record can be found in the Ten Classics of Mountains and Seas, and the Southern Classics of Seas says: "Min is in the sea". In that wild era, perhaps many islands have not yet risen to the point of bordering the mainland. "Zhou Guan" said: "The official is in charge of the map of the world. To govern the land of the world, we can distinguish the people of the country, the people of the country, the people of Siyi, the people of Bayi, the people of Qimin, the people of Jiuraccoon, the people of Wurong and the people of Liudi. " Zheng Xuan, a Confucian scholar in the Han Dynasty, quoted a sentence from Mandarin in the Right: "Man" and commented on "seven people": "People are different from men, and seven is the number of countries served by Zhou." In other words, there were seven tribes living in Fujian at that time, all of which belonged to Zhou and were regarded as barbarians in the south. Shuo Wen Jie Zi said: "Fujian, southeast Vietnamese snake species, from insects, door sound." . It may be a nation that raises or worships snakes at home and takes snakes as its totem.

However, when did "seven minutes" become "eight minutes"? The explanation of "Eight People" in the dictionary seems to be contrary to the original meaning that "Seven People" is the submission of seven barbarian tribes in the Zhou Dynasty.

"Eight Mins" in Ci Yuan: "Fujian Province was divided into Fuzhou, Xinghua, Jianning, Yanping, Tingzhou, Shaowu, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in the Yuan Dynasty, and changed to Bafu in the Ming Dynasty, so it was called Bamin. /ztpd/tszt/hgjj/2005/FJ wsx/bmcf/200506/ 14/t 200506 14 _ 4007294 . shtml

Cihai is interpreted as "another name of Fujian Province". Fujian was a piece of land in Fujian in ancient times. The Northern Song Dynasty was divided into eight counties and eight armies, the Southern Song Dynasty was divided into eight counties, eight counties and eight armies, and the Yuan Dynasty was divided into eight roads, called Bamin. "

These two articles explain the origin of its name from the perspective of the establishment of the provincial feudal ruling dynasty, not from the original meaning of "seven points" and when to add one point.

In fact, since Chen Yuanguang and his son put down the Spring Tide in the Tang Dynasty, please build Zhangzhou County to rule, and "seven people" became "eight people". This is clearly stated in Chen Yuanguang's "Please Build a State and County Table".

He first pointed out that the area he was stationed in was "the pole of seven Fujian, with a border of hundreds of Guangdong", and the barbarians who lived here were all people who lived in "Zuo Yi's spine bun, but farming was beyond the fire". They lost their tattoos and lived a primitive life of slash and burn. To deal with such a barbarian nation, after ten years of conquest, the result is that "the culprit will be punished, and the rest will be fierce." The law comes with the birth of rape. The harder you work, the worse the effect. It is not easy to care for Sui, but it is difficult to raise children honestly. "He summed up the experience and lessons, but realized that" soldiers are arrogant and courteous ",and the fundamental reason is that" good work is wasted for a long time, and learning is not prosperous ". If the government compiles barbarians into a version, treats them as human beings, gives them land, educates them and reassures them, "then the people will know how to be grateful." Therefore, it is proposed that "its origin is in Chuangzhou County; The key is to popularize the order, so as to realize "a hundred schools of thought are in Yuehu Lake, the more seamless and desolate it is, what's the difference?" If Manchuria and Liaoning sincerely join, we must treat them equally in policy, so that the Central Plains immigrants can live in harmony with the local aborigines and jointly develop southern Fujian.

It can be seen that the barbarian tribes living in southern Fujian have never "fallen to the Zhou Dynasty", and the vast land in southern Fujian between the spring tides has never been included in the territory of Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, since the "eighteen caves in southern Fujian" in Chen Yuanguang in the Tang Dynasty, Li Man was willing to obey the king's law, return to Tanghuali, and then establish counties and strengthen the rule. "Seven minutes" became "eight minutes", and the new barbarian was Li Man.

As for the nationality of "Li Man". Obviously, it is Miao Zicheng and Lei Wanxing's tribe who have been fighting Chen Yuanguang and his son for ten years. Being harmed shows that this beautiful Liao has become the so-called She nationality.