Liu Yu frowned: "Suppress evil, you can't say that. Since the Zhou Dynasty, our Central Plains China has had a common set of etiquette and laws such as Zhou Rites and even Confucianism, as well as common values. The tribes from ancient times have gradually merged into
Our ancestors throughout China, and then starting from the eight hundred princes of the Zhou Dynasty, the princes surnamed Ji became the mainstream. On this basis, the core values of respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness emerged, which are also the basis for the formation of our Han nation
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"There was the Zhou generation, eight hundred years before and after. These eight hundred years were also the time when Zhuji and China became the mainstream of the Central Plains. Even the Han Emperor Liu Bang you mentioned, although he was born in the Pengcheng area of Huaibei, although he was not
He did not accept Confucian culture from the beginning, but he was also an orthodox descendant of China, so he could not be regarded as a barbarian. As for the Qin State, the same was true. They were the noble tribe of the Shang Dynasty with the surname Ying. Although they were in the western border,
The Ji clan's countries in the Central Plains regard them as tigers and wolves, but this is just like how we see Youzhou and Liangzhou now. We don't really regard them as foreign countries. At most, they are just because they are on the border and have some foreign customs. "
Wang Zhen'e smiled slightly and said: "The standard for leaving the barbarians and entering Xia is not based on blood, but on culture, whether they are the Central Plains civilization, whether they are Central Plains China, and whether they accept the Zhou rites and Confucianism of the Central Plains.
The Qin State was a country built according to the Zhou rites. Later, although there was Shang Yang's reform and Legalist rule, it can be regarded as a country in the Central Plains model. However, its Legalist rule of the country was too strict and it was difficult for ordinary people to accept it. This is also the reason why the Qin Dynasty
An important reason for the death of the Second Kingdom."
"As for Liu Bang, although he was born as a barbarian and did not know etiquette and law, after he conquered the world, he used Confucian scholars to formulate the etiquette and laws of the Han Dynasty, making the Han Dynasty completely a country modeled on the Central Plains. More importantly, the establishment of Qin and Han
, is the official emergence of the Han people in the Central Plains, and the introduction of Zhou Li represents the beginning of the formation of the Zhuji ethnic group in Central Plains China. From Qin to Han, it can be said to be the origin of the title Han people. This is because of the great unification
The centralized dynasty is the beginning of our true identity."
Liu Yu laughed. This statement was generally accepted in later generations, but in this era, it was the first time he heard it from others. This stimulated his further interest and said: "Oh, this is quite a new statement.
, I have never heard of it before, are you saying that Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world? This is our new model, or that with the title of emperor, we are the real Han ethnic group?"
Wang Zhene nodded and said: "Yes, in the previous ancient dynasties, from Xia, Shang and Zhou to the previous Tang and Yu dynasties, although the supreme ruler was called the emperor, to put it bluntly, he was still just the leader of the tribal alliance.
, If you can't give orders to the world, no one dares to disobey. Although the emperor wants to invite the princes to come to make an alliance, most of the time the princes don't dare not to come. However, if there are any who don't come to make an alliance or don't listen to orders, they will be killed by Yu.
From the Fangfeng clan to the Zhou Yi king cooking Qi Duke Ai, they were all attacks on these princes. As for the Shang Dynasty's continuous execution of Ji Li and Ji Fa, the two generations of Zhou tribe rulers were also of the same nature, but if they were not careful, this kind of
This behavior will lead to collective resistance from the entire tribe of princes or even a large group of princes, especially in the last years of the dynasty. This matter will cause a strong backlash and even lead to the destruction of the country."
Liu Yu nodded: "Yes, in the world of princes, or in the world of tribes, the emperor at this time is called the co-lord, and his actual power is limited. He has to use the princes to manage the tribes in the world. Of course, let the princes
Serving as an official in the dynasty is like a hostage, and letting his son manage the tribe and Fang country is a model that gradually formed after the Shang Dynasty. However, this model still allows the leaders of each tribe to inherit from generation to generation, pass on by blood, and then through the control of each other.
The restraint and control of these tribal leaders in exchange for their allegiance, but as the emperor of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, he could not directly manage the internal affairs of each tribe. It can be said that in this model of vassal states, the central power is not great, at most it is just a powerful
The tribe can only suppress other tribes."
Wang Zhene said seriously: "Brother Jinu is very correct. The world of princes is actually the heads of tribes, and then transformed into princes of various countries. The descendants of these princes have hereditary power, which serves as the basic model for the operation of the world. Later,
The descendants of these princes slowly multiplied, and their number became more and more numerous. Also because they changed their surnames to other places and took the land as their surname, gradually the surnames of the princes and tribes themselves and the descendants of the princes and their descendants took the land as their surname after they became independent, which constituted the separation of Chinese surnames.
, its essence is that the princes continue to enfeoff and change, occupying more and more territories outwards, and while opening up wasteland and expanding, they expel the barbarians from all directions who were originally on these territories. In the eight hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty, in fact, in addition to the princes of the world
In addition to the process of merging and merging with each other, it was also a process of expelling the barbarians from all directions from the Central Plains and allowing tribes that accepted Zhou Rites and Confucianism to be eligible to settle in the Central Plains. Both Qin and Chu met this standard."
Liu Yu laughed: "I understand the meaning of suppressing evil. What you want to say is that even barbarians from all over the world can be likened as long as they accept the Zhou Li Confucianism, recognize the values of the Central Plains, and are willing to change customs according to these values.
Like the barbarians in the past, they became a member of the Chinese ancestors, or in other words, after the Qin and Han Dynasties, became the Han people?"
Wang Zhene nodded and said: "That's right. In fact, it has been like this since Emperor Xuanyuan. The tribes of Yanhuang themselves are also from outside tribes. At first, the tribe of Emperor Yan occupied the Central Plains and became the common master of the world. Later, Emperor Yan lost his credibility.
, was defeated by the Sanmiao tribe in the south, and the Huangdi tribe came west at this time, formed an alliance with Emperor Yan, and finally defeated the Sanmiao Jiuli headed by Chiyou, and became the lord of the world."
"This period of history seems mythical, but the fact is that the war of that year can be said to be the conquest and rule of the indigenous people of the Central Plains by foreign tribes. The population of Sanmiao Jiuli was far greater than that of the earliest Huangdi tribe, and even
Chi You himself was also the son of the Yellow Emperor."
"After defeating and conquering Sanmiao Jiuli for the first time, Huangdi asked Chi You to rule these tribes. Unexpectedly, Chi You was unwilling to be controlled by his father, and even rebelled against the Sanmiao Jiuli tribe. This is how Chi You came to be.
Panfu, according to Huangdi Shejiang, the mythical Three Emperors War was actually just the Yellow Emperor tribe and the Yandi tribe joining forces to conquer the Sanmiao and Jiuli tribes again from the Yellow River area. After this war, the northern tribes
The Yanhuang tribe and its allies began to slowly move southward, occupying the area between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, while the Sanmiao tribe that originally went north retreated southward, and the original Sanmiao tribesmen who remained in the Central Plains were the Li people." (
