When it comes to the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, perhaps everyone has a shallow or deep understanding of this history. The Spring and Autumn Period was an era of constant strife in China's history, and during the Spring and Autumn Period, many princely states emerged in history, each of which had its own strengths, each according to one side, did not give in to each other, and stabilized the national industry and practiced hegemony in the tide of social change and ideological alternation.
So what exactly does the word "hegemony" in the "Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons" mean, and does it simply mean "hegemony"?
In fact, it is not, just look at the four words of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, many people understand them as "overlords" and "overlords", believing that the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons are the five overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period, the king who intends to dominate the world and achieve hegemony. But in fact, the meaning of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons is not the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and "hegemony" has a more far-reaching meaning.
In fact, if you say tongkan, people can understand to some extent, when learning language courses, everyone has been exposed to the principle of tongkan and tongkan. In ancient times, some font glyphs have not been invented for the time being, so the original glyphs have assumed the meaning of some words that did not have the original. The word "Ba" in the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons is actually a generic kanji for the word "Bo".
So what does "Spring and Autumn Five Uncles" mean? Bo is actually a position title of the Zhou Dynasty, and everyone knows that during the Zhou Dynasty, the King of Zhou implemented a system of dividing the land under the heavens, and the Tianzi distributed the land to the relatives of the imperial family or the meritorious servants of the imperial court according to his wishes. After these royal blood relatives or heroes obtained the land, they had to consolidate the royal land on behalf of the Zhou royal family and govern the locality, and this is the origin of "Bo". The people who were originally divided by the Zhou royal family were called "Fang Bo", and the later "Bo" was also taken from the word "Fang Bo".
Although in the current understanding of people, there seems to be nothing wrong with the "Spring and Autumn Five Powers", after all, it is the existence of the tyrant, ambitious and meritorious, and bent on unifying the world. However, in ancient times, the meaning of "overlord" was different from today. In the Zhou Dynasty, those who could defend the four directions on behalf of Tianzi gong and crusade against dissidents were called overlords, but later, each place that was divided had its own ideas, and each place that was divided wanted to unify the world and become king, so the Spring and Autumn Five Uncles gradually transformed into the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons.
However, the five leaders of the Spring and Autumn Five Powers could not be called "overlords" at that time. Because the overlord of the Zhou Dynasty needed to be recognized by the Son of Heaven, for the Zhou Tianzi, the overlord was a kind of power implementation organ, specifically in place of the Son of Heaven to fight against the subject, which is the origin of the original overlord. Later, the five hegemonic countries in the Spring and Autumn Period did not actually have a clear distinction between the two hegemons, and the leaders of various countries did not want to be a hegemon who ruled the world, and the result of the wars that occurred between them was annexation.
Until the later Warring States, the concept of hegemony was abandoned by various princely states one after another, that is to say, the concept of hegemony was gradually eliminated from people's vision. However, the "hegemony" of the Spring and Autumn Five Uncles still survives to this day.
If you want to know more interesting history, it is interesting to pay attention to that kind of history.