In fact, many regimes or personal names called women's names in history are not women, many people have made them wrong, and we will talk about these today: rain concubines, eight hundred daughters-in-law, mothers and widows, and the queen mother of the West.
Rain Master Concubine: Not a rain master's concubine, not necessarily a woman, but a "black man"
Yushi Concubine, the name of the country in ancient Chinese mythology. "Shan Hai Jing: Overseas East Classic": "The rain master concubine is in the north of its (referring to Tang valley), she is black, and she has a snake in each hand, a green snake in the left ear, and a red snake in the right ear." "This means that the Yushi Concubine Kingdom is in the north of Yutani, and the people of this country are all black, holding a snake in each hand, with a green snake hanging from the left ear and a red snake hanging from the right ear. Another theory is that the Rain Master's concubine kingdom is on the north side of the ten suns, where the people are black and human faces, holding a spirit turtle in each hand.
Tanggu, the name has the meaning of water being boiled, in ancient mythology is the place where the sun rises, the birthplace of the Dongyi civilization. It is said that Yutani has ten suns, and because it is too hot, it boils the water, so it is called Yutani. This very hot place was "linked" to our present-day Rizhao City, Shandong Province, and scholars believe that the Yushi Concubine Kingdom may be in the ancient city of Haiqu, that is, the western part of Rizhao County, and the Donghaiyu ruins are its representatives. The site has an area of 80,000 square meters, dating from 2860 BC to 2690 BC, which is a national key cultural relics protection unit, and there are Tao Ling excavated, which should be the musical instrument used in the sacrifice of the rain master.
Hao Yixing, a famous scholar of the Qing Dynasty, believed that "the concubine of the rain master covers the name of a country, that is, as in the "Wang Hui Chapter", there is an aunt and a sister of the country. Thus the rain master concubine was regarded as the name of a country, or a family name. Wang Niansun, a master of the Hui sect's Pu Xue, said: "The Imperial Family,"5 (vol. 933)" has no concubine characters. "If according to the scriptures, there should be no concubine, that is, the rain master."
We tend to think that the rain master is a tribe that worships snakes, that the "concubine" may be a person, but a man or a woman, and that the profession may be a wizard, because the ancient wizard had a high status, and he or she may be the leader of this tribe. As for the "negro", it cannot be the black race we are talking about today, but it should be painted black on the body in order to achieve a certain effect.
The concubine of the rain master in the network is the sister of Tianwu of the Chaoyang Valley of the Water Tribe in the novel "Search for God" and "Wild Wasteland", and the lord of the East China Sea Rain Division. She is good at resisting barbaric beasts and ranks first among the "Ten Demon Girls of the Great Wilderness". Before meeting the protagonist Tuoba Ye, he was abandoned by Tuoba Ye's brother Gongsun Baohou, and all his thoughts were gray, and he became the Ten Demon Girls of the Great Wilderness under self-abandonment. The rain master concubine became an authentic mythological figure here.
Eight hundred daughters-in-law: the name of the regime, the king has 800 daughters-in-law, each with a village
The "New Yuan History of the Eight Hundred Daughters-in-law Biography" records: "The eight hundred daughters-in-law, yi name Jingmai, the head of the lineage, have eight hundred wives, each lead a village, hence the name." The meaning is obvious, this is a regime, the king has 800 daughters-in-law, all of them have been given "officials" to them, each in charge of a stall, is the owner of the village.
The Eight Hundred Daughters-in-Law were a tribe of the Baiyi tribes located in the area around the north and south of the border between present-day Monlian and Southern Thailand and Burma in Yunnan. This tribe fought with the Yuan army, and it was a crusade for the Yuan army to conquer the border tribes in Yunnan. Due to the frequent disturbances between the eight hundred daughters-in-law and the great and small Cheri tribes, the Yuan Dynasty sent the Yunnan Right Servant Solezil Wei to the Yunnan Right Hand in November 1309 to solicit instructions. The eight hundred daughters-in-law were not convinced, and the army resisted, and the Yuan army was defeated. In the fourth year, the Yuan Dynasty also sent the King of Yunnan and Agudai to lead the army to conquest, and the eight hundred daughters-in-law were defeated, surrendered, and sacrificed elephants and other treasures. The following year, the Yuan army collected troops. (Xiong Wuyi and Zhou Jiafa, editors-in-chief of "The Great Military Cihai (Part 1)"; Great Wall Publishing House, May 2000)
When the "New Yuan History" records the "Kingdom of the Eight Hundred Daughters-in-Law", it is very general: "East to Laos, south to Poleman, west to the Great Ancient Thorn, north to Mengliang Province. "More of the situation is not recorded in Chinese books, while the history books of Thailand are more detailed."
According to Thai historical records, the unified "Eight Hundred Daughters-in-Law Kingdom", the founder of the later "Lanna Kingdom", Manglai, was born in 1239 AD, and his father was the king of the enyang Kingdom, a small kingdom established by the local Dai Thais on the banks of the Night Persimmon River in today's Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand, before the establishment of the "Eight Hundred Daughters-in-Law Kingdom", and his mother was the king of the "Mengguo" or "Mengli Kingdom" of Xishuangbanna, that is, the daughter of King Dian Long Jianzai of Jinghong.
King Muang Lai succeeded to his father's throne in present-day Chiang Saen in northern Thailand in 1259 AD, when he was 20 years old, and became king of the Enyang Kingdom, or the 25th king of the Yinyang Kingdom. (He Ping, "Eight Hundred Daughters-in-Law: The Political, Social and Cultural Aspects of the Lanna Kingdom and Its Subject Peoples"; No. 1, 2013)
Mother and widow: A very sad man, the king of the kingdom of Dawan
"Book of Han": Wan Da feared, walked into the middle city, and conspired with each other: "What Han did to attack Wan, the king was not widowed." The noble man said, "The king does not hide his good horses and kills the Han envoys." Now that the king is killed and the good horse is out, the Han soldiers should be relieved; that is, no, it is not too late to die in battle. "Everyone thinks so, and kills the king together." Holding his head, he sent an envoy to the second division, saying: "Han did not attack me, I did my best to take good horses, and gave food to the Han army." Even if you do not listen to me, I will kill good horses, and the salvation of Kangju will come. To, I live inside, Kang lives outside, and fights with the Han army. What's the point? ”
This means that Li Guangli surrounded the capital of Dawan, and the Dawan people were very afraid, and discussed together that the reason why the Han Dynasty people attacked them was because their king did not give the Han Dynasty BMW before, so he thought of killing the king and offering it to Li Guangli to quell the war, claiming that as long as you don't fight me, my horse you can pick at will, and I will also provide you with military food. He also properly analyzed the war situation, and wanted to attack the Han army with Kangju and let Li Guangli look at it.
Earlier, there was also such a passage, When Emperor Wudi of Han heard that Dawan had good horses, he sent a delegation headed by the heroic cheling, with a golden thousand pounds and a statue of a horse made of gold, to the kingdom of Dawan, specifically to buy the sweat and blood horses of the kingdom of Dawan. Emperor Wudi of Han thought to himself, this time the King of Dawan should be satisfied. The Han delegation endured all the hardships along the way, and after more than half a year, when it arrived in the middle of the Great Wan Kingdom, Che Ling asked to see the King of Dawan and said: "Han Tianzi Lingchen and other ministers specially exchanged gold for a thousand pounds, and a golden horse asked to exchange for your country's sweat and blood horses. The Queen Mother of Dawan had no idea for a while, so she summoned the ministers to discuss countermeasures. The ministers believed that Emperor Shangao was far away and that the Han Dynasty should have nothing to do with Dawan, and said: "We have now also obtained a lot of goods from the Han Dynasty, and this is not uncommon for this." ”
However, it is not rare to be rare, but the widow secretly sent people to rob the treasures of the Han envoys, and the "sweat and blood BMW" and the insult to the Han envoys and greed for money became the fuse of the Han Wu Emperor's war to destroy the Great Wan. After the war, Li Guangli established a new monarch in Dawan, and Dawan became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty.
Queen Mother of the West: It must have been a woman at first, and then it became a man
The Zhou Dynasty was the Queen Mother of the West, also known as Xi Rong and Xi Qiang, "Qiang Ben Jiang surname, after the three Miao". The west is the direction, the king has the meaning of worship, the mother is the sound of the tapir, the tapir is another name for the leopard, and the west queen mother is "the country where the west worships the leopard". Its king is also called the Queen Mother of the West, which has nothing to do with gender. This is the definition given by today's scholars to the Western Queen Mother, and we think it seems more appropriate to say that the Western Queen Mother is a position, the leader of the Qiangrong tribe in western China, which is equivalent to the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty and the khan of the steppe tribe, which can be a woman or a man. The first must be a woman, and then it becomes a man, which is the transition from matriarchal society to patrilineal society.
The image of the Queen Mother of the West in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a human tiger tooth, a leopard tail, and a wholesale Dai Sheng. In later generations, its image was transformed, and the tiger body was believed to be the god of the Western White Tiger, the emissary of the Queen Mother of the West. Ancient texts and legends have records about the Queen Mother of the West. Compared with the Western Zhou Yi of the Shang Dynasty's Guizang, it can be seen that the Queen Mother possesses the Elixir of Immortality. In the Bamboo Book Chronicle, the image of the Queen Mother of the West is the image of a graceful female emperor. "The Biography of Mu Tianzi": "The Queen Mother of the West is a rumor for the Heavenly Son: The white clouds are in the sky, and the mountains come out of themselves." The road is far away, and the mountains and rivers are between them. The son is not dead, but can still come back. Guo Pu's note: "Will, please also." "Then the Queen Mother of Zexi can give people years and make people live forever. However, the "secret meeting" between the Western Queen Mother and the Emperor of the Central Plains may be earlier than this, the Han "Jia Zi Xiu Zheng": "Yao was involved in quicksand, Fengdu Mountain, and the West saw the Queen Mother." "Granted the map of the world to Emperor Shun to rectify the country." Twenty-three female Yao Ji (named Miao Yu Zhenren) were sent down to help Da Yu to control the water.
According to the "Biography of Mu Tianzi", King Mu of Zhou traveled a total of 12,000 miles from Hojing to the state of the Queen Mother of the West, which was only 77 meters long today. According to this, some scholars estimate that the kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West should be in the area of present-day Gansu and Xinjiang, with Xining and Lanzhou as the forecourts, Xinjiang as the backyard, and the center in the area of Dunhuang and Jiuquan. This view is consistent with Ban Gu's account of 12,300 li in the 12,300-mile Kangju in the Chang'an-Syr Darya Valley in the Book of Han and the Western Regions, and in the famous Dunhuang Cave 423 murals, there is also a detailed account of the story of King Mu of Zhou's western tour and meeting with the Western Queen Mother.
Our investigation held that this political power area included most of present-day Qinghai, all of southern Xinjiang and most of northern Xinjiang, the entire eastern Xinjiang region, and all of the Hexi Corridor, that is, along the two sides of the present-day Qilian Mountains, Arjin Mountains, and Kunlun Mountains, and was very vast. According to the results of archaeology, the Huoyaogou culture should be their representative, located in Hutubi County, Qiergou Town, 10 kilometers away from the Kangjia Shimenzi petroglyphs, there are also their masterpieces, possibly for the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, people "transformed" the women on the petroglyphs into men, should be a true record of their transition from matriarchal society to patriarchal society. (Text/Lu Sheng)