[69 Book Bar-www.] Chapter 132 The original appearance of history
Therefore, the Miao nationality is actually a branch of the Han nationality. For example, "White Tiger Tongyi" records: "In ancient times, people all ate the meat of animals. As for Shennong, there were many people and not enough animals, so Shennong divided the land according to the time of the sky and the benefits of the land.
He cultivated grass and taught the people to farm. He transformed it into gods and made it suitable for the people, so it was called Shennong. This is a recollection of the history of the people who hunted for meat and turned to farming. It is also a division of them.
Today's Miao people live in scattered areas and have many branches, including Green Miao, Hua Miao, White Miao, One-horned Miao, Long-skirt Miao, Short-skirt Miao, Red Miao, White Miao, etc.
However, since it is difficult to distinguish them, and I am not familiar with their customs and habits, and how to distinguish them, we will collectively refer to them as the Miao people for the time being.
Having said this, we need to talk about why the Miao people have such a developed economy and seven arts production, but they are passed down without written records?
I will not believe that oral tradition has been preserved. Such complex craftsmanship, the world's earliest extremely accurate astronomical almanac, also includes complicated witchcraft and divination, and the use and prescriptions of Miao medicine.
The Miao people's "Qi Yao Calendar" is the earliest existing almanac in my country. The Chinese Miao people's ancient calendar and the ancient Egyptian calendar are both solar calendars, but they are more than 3,800 years earlier than the 6,200-year-old Egyptian calendar. Each year has 365 days, and there is a leap every four years. .
The difference is that the added value of a leap year in the ancient Egyptian calendar is 6 days, while the added value of a leap year in the Miao ancient calendar is 1 day. The Miao ancient calendar is consistent with the length of the solar return year of 365.25 days, and the Tengu cycle is 1460 years old. The accuracy rate was extremely high for that era.
high.
The time limit for the use of the ancient Miao calendar in China can be traced back to at least 10,000 years, and the lower limit is the 33rd year of Guangxu (i.e. 1907 AD). According to the "Zhili Chronicles of Yongsui": "It is passed down from father to son, with the records of rats, oxen, tigers and horses."
The year and month are dark and combined with the almanac."
For example, the current batik production of the Miao people is similar to the homespun dyeing cloth worn by farm wives in the south of the Yangtze River. The embroidery in the south of the Yangtze River is also basically the same as the embroidery technology of the Miao people. There are also wine-making processes, smelting processes, and cold weapon manufacturing processes.
They are all developed from the craftsmanship of the Chiyou tribe.
Now let’s talk about culture. How did the Miao culture become extinct? Did it happen or not? In my personal opinion, it did. It can be seen from the unearthed cultural relics in Jiangnan that there are a large number of hieroglyphics in painted pottery or rock murals.
, or pattern.
But who knows what it means? Everyone knows that there is an old saying in China: A good head is worse than a bad pen. So where has the Miao culture gone?
This brings us to Qin Shihuang’s burning of books to trap Confucianism. What books did Qin Shihuang burnt? What Confucianism did he trap? My personal preference is that the books he burned were the Miao people’s books, and the Confucian scholars of the Miao people, that is, Chu
culture.
As we all know, Miao settled in Chu. Chu has extremely superb seven arts. There is an old saying: Three households in Chu can destroy Qin. This also shows the strength of Chu. The men of Chu are strong and martial.
.It can also be seen from Qu Yuan’s image that he was originally
He is a scholar, but he wears a sword on his waist. What does a scholar want with a sword? This is related to the customs of Miao men. How did Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" be preserved? What kind of text was it originally written in?
Preserved? Isn’t it worth debating?
So how could such a powerful country say that it would not have its own culture without it? At that time, various sacrificial activities were extremely frequent and prosperous. The culture in different places was also different, which is why there was such a dialect. Regional differences. That era was in the period when a hundred schools of thought were contending. It was also known as the period of Chinese cultural renaissance.
After the unification of Qin, the most threatening thing should be Chu culture. Especially Qu Yuan's masterpiece "Li Sao", which has a profound and huge moral influence. Chu people have always had a reputation for being tough, and all men are armed with swords. Literati often have questions about current affairs. There are many criticisms. Therefore, they are hostile to those in power. They must be eradicated as soon as possible.
From this, all the books on foreign races and heretical doctrines among the people were confiscated and burned. The agreement was expanded to include all kinds of books, as long as they were any pieces of paper with words seen among the Miao people. Among those being collected and burned.
This also includes a large number of books and records of the Seven Arts. As long as the words and books are not used by the ruler and pose a threat to the rule, they are included.
This is not enough. The strong concealment caused by this has been spread by knowledgeable people, and there are strong signs of resurgence. It constitutes a threat to the rule of Qin Shihuang.
In order to completely eradicate the cultural threat of the Miao people, Qin Shihuang ordered that all educated and literate Miao people be killed. This resulted in the extinction of Miao culture.
As for Shennong's seven arts, they were passed down through the hand-to-hand master-disciple relationship, oral instruction and example, and gradually developed. Each became a system.
Due to the low productivity in ancient times and the complexity and difficulty of writing, the number of people who could read and write was even rarer. Take Confucius at that time, for example, he only had 72 disciples. He was also called a sage.
Hundreds of people were killed in one fell swoop. At that time, they were almost all the intellectuals in the country. Those who were alive no longer dared to show that they were literate for fear of losing their lives. They turned into what is now called underground.
It is covered up by word of mouth, with the intention of continuing the historical inheritance of the Miao people. As time goes by, as long as three generations have passed, there will be no continuity of writing, and the Miao writing will disappear.
But this is definitely not the creation of Qin Shihuang. It should be said that the origin of his approach is from the Yellow Emperor. Because the Yellow Emperor entered the Central Plains, he was afraid of the rebellion of the Chiyou tribe and suppressed the Shennong clan to the bottom. He tried his best to eliminate the Shennong clan. cultural development. But at that time, he still did not do too well and retained the culture.
Therefore, the culture of the Shennong clan has been preserved among the people. The Miao people have been inherently xenophobic since the death of Chi You, resisting the erosion of the Yellow Emperor's Central Plains culture and refusing to integrate with the Central Plains culture. I think it is a heresy that is different from the Miao culture, and I have always disagreed with it from the bottom of my heart. This is the reason why the Miao culture has not developed.
In fact, in fact, the Central Plains culture at that time also integrated part of the cultural essence of Shennong and formed a new cultural system. The complicated strokes of characters were transformed into simple strokes that were easy to write.
But Qin Shihuang's approach, the compulsive and indiscriminate rules, really ruined the Miao culture. From this, it can be seen that the people who implemented them were illiterate. That was banditry.
This was an extremely cruel murder. Just like when the Japanese army bombed the Commercial Press and the Great Oriental Library when they attacked Shanghai.
Junichi Shiozawa, the commander of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, told the real reason for the bombing. What he said in his heart: "Burning down 10 streets in Zhabei can be restored in a year and a half. Only by destroying the Commercial Press and the Oriental Library, China
The most important cultural institution burned down and it can never be restored."