I often see words such as "Rong" in books, and I also clearly know the origin of the phrase "throwing pen from Rong", and the word "Rong" is closely related to the army, which is already rooted in memory. Recently, I have looked through the history books and found a problem, the Western Zhou Dynasty Shen Hou united with Inuyasha to attack and kill King Zhou You, whether the famous story of the "Princes of Beacon Theatre" is true or not, the emergence of "Inuyasha" is an important factor, and the "Rong" here is obviously a synonym for an ethnic group, which is somewhat different from the impression in the original fixed thinking. In addition, the Qin Mu gong hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemony began with "dominating Xi Rong", and the "Xi Rong" here obviously refers to the ethnic group, if this interpretation is applied to "throwing pen from Rong", then the meaning will be greatly changed.
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<h1>Rong people</h1>
In the name of "Rong", the ethnic groups that are different from the Huaxia ethnic groups in the Central Plains have existed for a long time, in the pre-Qin Dynasty mainly refers to the warlike tribes in the northwest, and the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties living in the Central Plains called the barbarians in the four directions as Dongyi, Xirong, Nanban, and Beidi.
"Dai Li Ji Ming Tang" Yun: "Nan Man, Dong Yi, Bei Di, Xi Rong." ”
Erya Shidi: "Nine Yi, Eight Di, Seven Rongs, Six Barbarians, called the Four Seas." ”
The distinction between the tribes is not very obvious, and they are constantly migrating, attacking each other, merging, and even communicating and integrating with West Asia and India.
Qin Mu used the plan to destroy the strongest Mian kings in Xirong, and more than twenty other Rong and Di tribes came to annex, and Qin thus set aside thousand miles of land, with the border extending to Qinling in the south, Lintao in Gansu in the west, Yanchi in Ningxia in the north, and the Yellow River in the east. King Xiang of Zhou also sent a golden drum to Qin Mugong to congratulate him, and Qin began to grow stronger. Also because of the belligerent habits of the Rong clan, the Qin army that fought with it for many years had a stronger combat ability than the armies of the Central Plains princely states. The Yiqu mentioned in the Biography of Mi Yue is also one of the Western Qiangrong tribes. With the unification of Qin, the Rong people with independent military forces gradually disappeared from the land of China under the suppression of more powerful centralized military forces, and the Rong people's settlement became counties and counties of the Qin Dynasty.
<h1>Oracle bones and ancient texts</h1>
In the Shang Dynasty oracle bones, there is the word "Rong", and it has been proved that its meaning is indeed the meaning of the armed warriors that we are familiar with. The words "Northern Tang Rong" appear in the oracle bones of the late Shang Dynasty, and there is also a Fang guo named "YouluoShi" in the records of the Xia Dynasty.
"Poetry and Shang Ode": "There are generals who are in the lime, and the emperor is established in the shengshang." ”
Zheng Zhi: "Daughter of the Lou clan, Jian Di swallowed and gave birth to the deed." ”
It shows that the ancestors of the Shang kings also came from Rong Di. Northern Tang Rong is said to be a descendant of Yao, and in present-day Tang County, Hebei, in order to distinguish the Southern Tang located in southern Shanxi, it was called Northern Tang. After the Northern Tang Dynasty, one of the northern Tang Rong evolved into the Northern Rong, and the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by Yan. Although these tribes are named Rongdi, there is not much difference between their actual blood and the Central Plains tribes, and it is estimated that they are only slightly less literate and more belligerent. It is also logical to associate the armoured soldiers from belligerence, and it is estimated that the meaning of the word "rong" about the military also comes from this.
<h1>Meaning of the word "Rong"</h1>
Cashmere grows in the outer cortex of goats, a thin layer of fine velvet covered in the thick hair roots of goats, grows out in the cold of winter, is used to resist wind and cold, and automatically falls off after the spring warms up, and grows periodically, once a year. This is of the same nature and cycle as the ancient wars of subtraction.
According to records, the Jin Dynasty, sensing the Mongol threat, periodically carried out annual sweeps of the Mongolian steppes, killing Mongol men and plundering women and children as slaves, in order to make the Mongols not strong enough to fight against themselves, known as the "War of Reducing Ding".
The Shang Dynasty oracle bones have quite a few words "cut qiang", "obtain qiang", and "use qiang", which means to conquer, capture and sacrifice ancestors with Qiang people, which is the same as the Jin Dynasty's "reduction war" practice. "Rong" is through "velvet", here "Xi Rong" means the periodic use of troops in the west, just like the growth and shedding of cashmere, periodically reducing the threat of barbarians.
<h1>"Rong" glyph</h1>
"Rong" is a ideographic word, a ideogram. From Go, from ten. "Go" is a weapon, and "ten" is the "armor" of armor. Original meaning: a general term for ancient weapons. In the "Commentary on the Interpretation of Words", it is said that the bow, the spear, the spear, the go, and the halberd are the ancient five rongs.
"Ten" in the golden text is the image of holding a shield, and the shield is put together to form the word "Rong".
In the small seal, the position of "ten" in the "Rong" character is the word "A", which represents the armor, which should be extended from the shield of the Golden Text to the armor that protects the body.
On closer inspection, various texts such as zuo zhuan, shijing, and kangxi dictionary have some more detailed explanations of the meaning and use of "rong".
The Chinese characters are broad and profound, and a single character for "Rong" includes the history of the integration and development of ancient pre-Qin tribal groups, the history of the evolution and development of ancient war protective equipment and weapons, and the war of reducing Ding... And this is only a Xiaoice on the tip of the iceberg of Chinese civilization, and the spiritual and cultural wealth left by the ancestors will be inexhaustible to future generations.