"Guangya" explains: "English, beautiful also." In the Xunzi, it is also said: "Yao Shun, the Ying ye of the world." In the common context of Chinese, the meaning of the word "English" is usually very beautiful, and it is very appropriate to use it for the name of the country. But when people mention the Uk, they usually think of the British of Europe, but they are not familiar with the "Britain" in Chinese history.
In fact, if you look at the history books, you will find that in the history of our country, there are not only "Britain", but also "Brazil", and even some common surnames, such as Xu, Dai, Guo, Shu, Peng, Xue, Mao, Jiang, Liu, Wen, Hu, Tan, Cheng, etc. were once the names of the princely states.
"Ying" is also a surname, although there are not many People with the Surname of Ying around us, but in history, the source of this surname is very old and honorable, because the ancestor of the Surname of Ying is no one else, it is one of the "Four Saints of the Ancients" and Yao Shunyu, Gao Tao.
Most people are only familiar with "Yao Shun Yu Tang" and are not familiar with Gao Tao. In fact, Gao Tao is recognized by historians as the "originator of justice", and his influence is very large, and now his tomb is preserved in Lu'an City, Anhui Province. He was born around 2220 BC and died in 2113 BC, living for 107 years, assisting Yao, Shun, and Yu.
Yao, Shun, and Yu are all chiefs (monarchs), but Gao Tao is not, originally Dayu intended to choose Gao Tao as the heir, but Gao Tao died one step ahead of Dayu, and the matter was ruined. The biggest feature of Gao Tao is that in that ancient era, he had already put forward a very advanced legal system, and it is said that the first "Prison Code" in China came from the hand of Gao Tao.
Gao Tao was an ancient sage who contributed greatly, and later Confucius inherited some of his ideas and founded Confucianism. Dayu was so grateful to him that he sealed his descendants in Ying. The "Ying" here refers to the Lu'an area in Anhui, and when the Zhou Dynasty was established, the King of Zhou made many of Gao Tao's descendants a prince, and one of them became a "British" monarch.
Although "Britain" is not large, roughly located in the area of present-day Lu'an in Anhui and Yingshan in Hubei, it is after all a princely state built by the descendants of saints, and it was still properly respected during the Zhou Dynasty. However, at that time, there were still many Zhou people and concubine princely states around the "Britain" surrounding it.
If you count from the founding of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC), "Britain" has existed for about 400 years. For example, Zhou Tianzi is like a big brother, the monarch of the princely states is like a little brother, and although the "British" monarch does not have the same surname as Zhou Tianzi, as long as he honestly stays in his fiefdom and does not jump out to do any damage, Zhou Tianzi will not do anything to a small princely state.
But "Britain" eventually disappeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was no one else who made it disappear, it was King Chu Cheng, the king of the Chu state. Even if you are not familiar with King Chu Cheng, you should have heard of his famous mother, Lady Xi, also known as "Lady Peach Blossom". King Cheng of Chu was a very energetic man, and during his reign, while making overtures to Zhou Tianzi, he was busy expanding the territory of the Chu state.
Compared with the Chu state, "Britain" is too weak, and the "Chronicle of History" records that in the twenty-sixth year of King Cheng of Chu (646 BC), King Cheng swallowed it up and became part of the State of Chu. But its people still did not forget their ancestors, they took the name of the country, they formed the British surname, and later there was a celebrity in this branch: Yingbu.
Yingbu was one of the "Three Famous Generals of the Early Han Dynasty", alongside Han Xin, a descendant of Gao Tao, and was born in present-day Lu'an, Anhui Province. Just by looking at his name, many people are prone to mistakenly think that Yingbu "surname Yingmingbu", in fact, Yingbu surname Yan (because his ancestor Gao Tao was surnamed Yan), Ying belonged to his surname (at that time, the surname and surname were separated), Yingbu's fate was as tragic as Han Xin, and feng Huainan died 7 years later.