In any case, the New Year was a primitive religious activity for the ancients, and later transformed into blessings, reunions, entertainment and other additional contents, which is the development of the times and the richness it should be. Although some customs have been tenaciously preserved, too many historical details still need to be searched.
Today, the New Year, most people understand it as the content of reunion and entertainment, but a few years ago, we all want to bring the "god" to the home, "god" symbolizes a variety of auspiciousness, for the Han people, generally the three gods of Fulu Shou. Through the "name of God" or the word, we can clearly see that "Fulu Shou" is still the "God" in our hearts even in the present, and it is still our desire and expectation for a better life and happy days. This is what nian left over from ancient religious activities, and although it has been diluted with the taste of religion, it is still permanent in our hearts. Just like the year is only available in China, the Spring Festival is only available in China.
The details of history are very interesting to explore, today, the Han people receive "gods" for the New Year, and in the distant north, the ancient ethnic minorities receive the "dragon" for the New Year, and the "dragon" is the "god" in their hearts. When it comes to the ethnic minorities in the north of ancient China, many people will first think of the Xiongnu, in the previous article, we specifically said that the ancient Xiongnu people were also new year's, they would hold a conference on the grassland every spring, let people get together, the tribal leaders held a meeting, the work of the year was arranged, and there was a mutual exchange.
Most importantly, they will let young men and women of the right age dance and sing at this time to find a partner, find a good one, book their affairs, find an appropriate time to do the marriage, although there are different customs, but in terms of time. This is a bit like the Lantern Festival of the ancient Han people, mainly for young men and women to find objects, in our words today is Valentine's Day, China's Valentine's Day.
This is the year of the Huns, and what many people overlook is that the Huns worship dragons as much as the Han Chinese. When we call many cities in China dragon cities today, such as Tianshui, Taiyuan, and so on, in the sentence "But make the dragon city fly in the future, do not teach Humadu Yin Mountain" to compete for tourism resources, but ignore the Xiongnu people have always called their royal court "Dragon City", although it may only have accounting rooms, no city, but it is still "Dragon City".
Because there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the Xiongnu worship the dragon like us, and we have a problem with the translation of "Dragon City Flying General" - if Li Guang, the flying general of Longcheng, is still here, he will never allow the Xiongnu to go south to herd horses to cross the Yin Mountains - Li Guang has never been to Longcheng, and there is no "flying general" at all, the flying general should be Wei Qing, huo fuyi - the flying general of Longcheng should be so understood by us, the general who has reached or captured the Xiongnu king's city. Obviously, Li Guang was unqualified. Read the poem twice more and you'll see that I'm right about what I said, and that these language teachers haven't taught us.
So, history has lost a lot of details in the process of being "transformed", and we have to get it back. Even if a lot of people don't believe it, we still have to get it back. Just as the Huns were, the first sentence of the Chronicle of the Huns clearly stated them, calling them descendants of Xia, but many people still did not believe that. But it doesn't matter, history is not to believe or not to believe, whoever believes or not, it is all there, it is history.
Before the Xiongnu, the leaders of the ethnic minorities in northern China were the Donghu and Yueshi peoples, who created the splendid ancient culture of northern China, and it was also the culture of the Chinese nation that became diverse and inclusive. Just like not believing in the Huns worshipping dragons, many people don't believe this either, but it doesn't matter, only this sentence - history, can not be changed by belief or disbelief.
Today, we will only talk about the Yueshi people.
Yueshi, we now read yuèzhī, the old reading rùzhī or ròuzhī, and happily, we have restored the original meaning of this name - a people who worship the moon. Regarding, the general answer given by their historians is: before the rise of the Xiongnu, the ancient nomadic peoples who lived in the Hexi Corridor and qilian Mountains, also known as "Yuezhi" and "Yuzhi". Defeated by the Xiongnu in the second century BC, the Yue clan moved west to the area around the Ili River, and then defeated by Wusun, so they attacked Bactria in the west, occupied both sides of the Yushui (Amu Darya River), and established the kingdom of the Great Moon Clan. When the Yue clan moved west to the Ili River and the Chu River, they expelled the Serbs (i.e., the Scythians in Asia) who originally lived in the area, forcing the Serbs to disperse, and some of them moved south to Kubin, and some of them invaded the Greek dynasty of Bactria in the west, establishing the Kingdom of Bactria. Later, the Yue clan reoccupied Bactria and went south to the Ganges River valley to establish the Kushan Dynasty.
Why is it called Yuzhi? In the Yi zhou Shu Wang Hui Xie, it is said that the Yue clan is also known as the Yu clan, and the biography of Mu Tianzi contains: Jia Wu, Tianzi's Western Expedition, is the Guan Deng of Yu. As for Yanju Yu Zhizhiping. From the perspective of orientation, Yu Zhi (Yu Shi) originally lived in the northwest of Yanmen Pass. This is the historical basis for some scholars today that the Yue clan originated in Shanxi.
From the analysis of various historical materials, the Yue people and the Han people have a lot of origins, obviously the example is that if there is no certain relationship, Emperor Wudi of Han will not send Zhang Qian to find them, this is just a small reason, Emperor Wudi of Han will not be idle and have nothing to do to send people to find a nation that does not know the details, of course, they have a vendetta with the Xiongnu is only one aspect.
A branch of the ancient Qiang people, and the ancient Chinese ancestors have a great relationship, especially in the pre-Qin era, some scholars believe that the Xia Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty and the ancient Qiang people are brotherly states, and some scholars believe that the queens of the Western Zhou Dynasty were all surnamed Jiang, and the surname of Jiang came from the Qiang people. A branch of the ancient Qiang, which later formed today's Tibetans. In addition, the Ancient Qiang and Guyue people also have a certain origin. This is illustrated in the Siba Cultural Site in the Hexi Corridor. In addition, geographically speaking, it is basically impossible for them not to have relations with the Qin and Zhou people. This is a grand historical proposition, and we leave it to later texts.
What kind of ethnic group are the Yueshi people? Some of our scholars today always like to make a mess of history, a moment of yellow people and a moment of white people, taking the problem of skin color as the root of their lives, the development of the times to today, we should firmly believe that skin color is not a problem at all, and ancient Chinese history has never lacked white people, and even white-skinned people have been our emperors.
Sima Shao, the Ming Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was a white man with a yellow beard. According to the Shishu Xinyu False Sayings, Wang Dun called Sima Shao "Yellow Beard Fresh And Humble Slave" and called his physiognomy characteristics "Yellow Whiskers". Quoting from the "Alien Garden", Wang Dun wrote: "Yellow-headed Xianbei slave" and explained: "The emperor's biological mother Xun Shi, a Yan national, is a native of the Yan kingdom. The yellow head refers to blonde hair, and the yellow whisker refers to the yellow beard, which shows that Sima Shao's physiognomy feature is blonde hair and yellow beard, which has the physiognomy characteristics of caucasians.
The same is true of the Yueshi people, who established a powerful Xirong tribe on the Hexi Corridor, with the same language customs as the Qiang people. After the separation of the Ōtsuki and Tsukihime clans, the Kozuki clan remained in the Hexi Corridor and the Qinghai region, eventually merging with the Qiang and Lu Shuihu. They did have some white blood, but they were still mostly yellow, until after the establishment of the Kushan Empire, they were gradually assimilated by the locals, and the yellow blood was gradually diluted and became white.
The Chronicle of History says that the Xiongnu "went out of the camp alone, worshiped the beginning of the sun, and worshiped the moon on the evening." He also said that when they fought, "if the moon is strong, they will attack, and if they lose the month, they will retreat." In the inheritance of the humanistic customs of the steppe peoples in northern China, the Yue clan that preceded the Xiongnu was also about the same. The legend of the golden moon at the site of Heishui City in the Hexi Corridor shows that the Yueshi people also worship the moon, and even the legend of this golden moon also allowed Ma Bufang's brigade commander Han Qigong to dig a lot at this site, and excavated perhaps the skeleton of the Yueshi people - the long human bones.
These, which we have described in detail in previous articles. In addition, the historical records about the Yueshi people and the moon also include the "Tang Guangqi First Year Shazhou Yizhou Dizhi" "The Dragon Tribe Ben Yanqi People (present-day Yanqi Hui Autonomous County), present-day Gan, Su, and Yizhou each have leaders." Translated, the "Dragon Tribe" belongs to the Yanqi people, and there are still tribes in Zhangye, Jiuquan and Hami in Xinjiang. The History of the North also says that the kings of the Yanqi Kingdom, Xiyu Andmi (present-day Changji City and Manas County) were all dragons. This dragon tribe is the Moon Clan and the Huns. In the fragment of the Shazhou Yizhou Dizhi, even their number is clearly stated: "Qianglong Miscellaneous Places, about 1,300 people." ”
The same record is also reflected in the "Qu Zhi Guo" article of the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty": "There is a great dragon pond in front of the Heavenly Ancestral Hall of the Eastern Border City of the Kingdom... Wen ZhuXian Zhi zhi: In modern times, there are kings, trumpets and golden flowers, political and religious insights, and sense dragons riding. The king wanted to die, and whipped his ear, because it was hidden, so that it is now. There is no well in the city, so take the water from the pond. The dragon became a man, met with the women, gave birth to a son, and walked and galloped horses. If it is gradually infected, everyone is a dragon species, and they are arrogant and do not respect the king's orders. Wang Nai constructed the Turks, killed the people of this city, killed the young and the long, and had no kind of people. ”
The Quzhi State, also known as the Guizi State and present-day Kucha in Xinjiang, indicates that the ancestors of present-day Xinjiang worshipped dragons and considered themselves to be "dragon species". Kucha and Yanqi are only more than 300 kilometers away, which should be a "one-stop" system. The Huns worship the dragon, as we have already said before, the Yueshi people have worshipped the dragon god since ancient times, using the dragon as a totem, and also taking the dragon as a taboo. In the Huainan Zi Essentials, it is said that the Yueshi people kaisai, and each had a dragon taboo. In this regard, Gao Lu, a famous scholar of the Han Dynasty, explained that the Han people are afraid of ghosts and gods, and the Xihu and South Vietnamese are taboos about dragons, which is called "please dragon", which is equivalent to the Han people's god please. The "History of Suoyin" also says: "The Western Hu is a dragon god, so the name of the assembly is the Dragon City." ”
Of course, the Yue people, like the Xiongnu, also called their capital City Dragon City, and in 1980, the place where Mu Shunying found the beauty of Loulan in Lop Nur was the "Dragon City" recorded in the "Notes on the Water Classic", that is, the area around the Tiepan River at the northern end of Lop Nur . Leyonggucheng, a citizen of present-day Zhangye, Gansu Province, is said to be the earliest royal city of the Yue people, and it should also be called Dragon City. Similarly, the Yueshi people are also New Year's Day, and their year, like the Huns, is a gathering on the steppe every spring.
Therefore, we say today that the year is not the patent of the Han people, the ancient ethnic minorities have also lived, and the Central Plains is a "one-dragon" system, all of which are "dragon species", the descendants of the dragon and the descendants of the dragon. (Text/Lu Sheng)