"Buddhism has been introduced to Banna for more than a thousand years. There are Buddhist temples everywhere in Banna. Why do the Hani people who have also lived here for a long time not believe in Buddhism?
I think it's not that they don't believe it, but that they simply don't have the opportunity. As we said this morning, the temple is a school for the Dai people and has an educational function.
Social regulations and national aspirations require boys to become monks. Why is this? This ensures the intellectual and cultural level of a nation.
And do the Yi Ni people have such an opportunity? They are called Kago, and naturally they are not qualified to enter the monastery to receive education. Those who work hard govern others, and those who work hard govern others. Whoever controls knowledge and ideas is the ruler.
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So to this day, the Moni people still adhere to their ancient ancestor worship. Almost no one believes in Buddhism. The Dai people celebrate the Water Splashing Festival, and the Moni people celebrate the Torch Festival. Water and fire are incompatible. Before the 1950s, the two ethnic groups did not intermarry."
"Ah!" The tourists didn't expect the gap to be so deep.
"It's easy to understand when you think about it. Since the classes are different, it is impossible to intermarry. Moreover, the Dai people like to be clean. They live by the river and have the conditions to be clean. But the Ni people live in the mountains, so it would be good if they can guarantee drinking water.
So the name Nannuo Mountain comes from the Dai language, but the Hani people in Nannuo Mountain don’t like this rumor. Maybe it’s because they are unhappy with the Dai lords?”
Everyone laughed.
"Although tribute tea and tribute bamboo shoots seem to be very glorious. Even Pu'er tea likes to promote tribute tea. But in modern times, everyone thinks: Ah! How amazing! It is actually liked by emperors, lords, and nobles! It represents quality.
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But in the past, wasn’t it hard for people to pick tea? Wasn’t it hard for people to dig bamboo shoots? If you rely on the mountains to eat, you don’t have enough to eat. You can get some food and provide it to the nobles for free. Do you want this blessing? "
The tourists smiled and shook their heads.
He Huan also smiled and said: "So when you get to Nannuo Mountain, in front of the Xini people, you don't mention this meaning in front of them. You said it was because of the tribute bamboo shoot sauce, so you called for the name and received it, and they were smiling...
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He Huan didn't say anything else, everyone was already laughing.
"Although Menghai place names are explained in this way, they blindly beautify it. It has only been less than sixty years ago, and people are still living in the world. You don't care about national sentiments, and people feel uncomfortable."
"Then what do they think it means?" everyone asked curiously.
"They more agree that Nannuo means the source of mountain spring water. Because Nan is water and Nuo is bamboo, it can also be seen as a waterside village full of bamboo shoots. Because they also worship water, they also worship the forest, and their village
There must be a mountain spring by the side."
"Oh!" the tourists nodded.
He Huan suddenly remembered that Master Chen was still in the car, and turned to look at Master Chen, "Master Chen, are you from the Dai ethnic group?"
"Yes! My parents were born before the 1950s."
The tourists laughed and looked at the little white dragon with schadenfreude. Did they poke fun at it?
He Huan smiled and said, "Then what I just said is right?"
Master Chen nodded, "Yes! The Dai people have always ruled Banna, and the feudal lordship system naturally includes nobles, commoners, and slaves. You continue to talk, I also want to know the history of our clan."
Tourists can't help but admire the tour guide and the driver.
He turned his head with a smile and continued: "Why did the Dai people become the rulers of the Banna area? Didn't we talk about Meng culture yesterday?
We said that Banna is called Menglu. The Dai people call themselves Lu people, Dai Lu. According to current historical data, it is speculated that the Lu people are the indigenous people of Yunzhou. They originally lived in the upper reaches of the Lancang River and were called Ailao Kingdom or Daguang Kingdom in ancient times.
Because he was good at riding an elephant, he was discovered by Zhang Qian on his way to the Western Regions and reported to the court. The Han Dynasty called it the Yunnan-Vietnam Elephant-riding Kingdom. This was more than 100 years ago.
Then in more than 400 AD, the ancestors of the Lu people gradually moved to the lower reaches, that is, Banna, and stayed. This is also easy to understand.
When we talked about the Lancang River, we said that life in the mountains and valleys in the upper reaches is difficult.
Like a broom, the Lancang River suddenly spread out when it reached Banna, flattening and widening, forming many dams. The Lu people migrated along the Lancang River to this dam.
But at that time, there were people on this land. The most glorious dynasty in the history of Southeast Asia, the Cambodian Angkor Dynasty, also began to be established during this period. One of the ethnic groups, the West Thousand Manma, occupied Banna.
The Lu people were still scattered small tribes with weak strength. Then 12 tribes of the Lu people moved in one after another. In order to compete with other ethnic groups for Pingba, they formed a tribal alliance - the Luxi Shuangbang."
"ah!"
"You know, right? The Dai people just like to live in Pingba at the foot of the mountain, and they have been fighting for Pingba since the beginning. But does it mean victory after fighting for Pingba?
Several hundred years later, with the decline of the Angkor dynasty, Sichenmanma also fell apart.
We know that the Angkor Dynasty, which was very powerful in history and now only leaves Angkor Wat as a cultural heritage, was defeated by Thailand."
"We don't know!" the tourists shouted.
"So do you know now?"
"knew!"
Master Chen also laughed out loud, and He Huan turned around and said, "Master Chen, are you driving a little slowly? Didn't you arrive in half an hour?"
"I'm afraid you won't be able to finish."
He Huan was speechless. The driver of the tourist bus was afraid that the tour guide would not be able to finish talking about jade and silverware, so he drove slowly. Now the master drove slowly, and he was actually afraid that he would not be able to finish talking about history.
"I really want to hear it! Just tell me!" Master Chen said again.
The tourists also laughed and said: "Talk and talk! Drive slowly! It's still early before dark!"
He Huan smiled and continued: "Thailand was enslaved by Cambodia until the 13th century, so why did it become an independent country? The Lu people also had a share of the credit.
At the same time that the Angkor Dynasty was strong, there was also a powerful kingdom in the southwest, namely the Dali Kingdom. The Dali Kingdom set up Yin Sheng Jiedushi in Banna.
When the Angkor Dynasty declined and its power retreated to the south, the Gao family of Dali State took power, the king of Dali became a puppet, and the separatism among the princes of Dali State became more and more serious.
The two powerful dynasties around Banna both declined, creating a power vacuum.
Jieduzhi's control over Banna was originally very weak. The tribes in Banna fought in a melee, competing for jewelry, land, and people. The bones were piled high, and the plague was rampant. Banna sent envoys many times to ask the monarch of Dali to send troops to quell the unrest.
But the king of Dali was too busy to take care of himself and couldn't take care of it at all. At this time, the leader of the Lo people, Ba Zhen, appeared, pacified the tribes, established the country of the Lo people, and became the founding king. It was called the Jinglong Jindian Kingdom in history.
Although it is called so, historians have never recognized it as a country because it paid tribute to Dali and the Southern Song Dynasty at the same time. It actually has the tiger head gold seal issued by the king of Dali and the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty.
But in fact, its operating system was completely independent. Then the Jinglong Jindian Kingdom expanded southward along the Lancang River, and the Lu people continued southward, from Banna to the Indochina Peninsula.
Before that, the Lo people had long gone south along the Lancang River. Because there were dams in Banna, there were more dams below. Therefore, many Lo tribes had been established in the Mekong River Basin.
The same ethnic group allowed the Jinglong Jindian Kingdom to expand very smoothly. By the 12th century, the territory of the Jinglong Jindian Kingdom reached Pu'er in the south of Dali Kingdom in the north, Chiang Rai in Thailand in the south, Shanluo in Vietnam in the east, and Shan State in Myanmar in the west."
"Wow!"
"It's very, very big!" He Huan continued, "In our understanding, we always think that there is only Dali in the history of Yunzhou. That is because Dali has deep cultural ties with the Central Plains and Mr. Jin Yong's propaganda.
In fact, neither the Southern Song Dynasty nor Dali at the same time could control the country of the Lo people, and it took advantage of the situation to become a large country in Southeast Asia with a vast territory."
The tourists nodded, knowing for the first time that such a powerful kingdom once existed in Banna.
"Until the Mongolian cavalry entered the Dali Kingdom, the general in the carriage was old and sick, so he asked his son Bulu Heda to lead the army in his place and continued southward.
When we arrived in the country of the Lo people, if they failed to recruit and surrender, they started fighting. A nation on horseback and a nation riding elephants, the Mongolian cavalry still won in the end.
The country of Luren was also deprived of its national title and became the Chexuanwei Division of the Yuan Dynasty. The Cheche Xuanwei Division was derived from the father of the man who conquered it, General Cheche."
"Oh." Xiao Bailong finally answered the previous question.
"What the hell!" He Huan laughed again, "In fact, historians have been arguing about what the car means. Anyway, it was recorded from the Yuan Dynasty. This name was also used in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
But at that time, the Mongols came to Yunzhou and took names of people and places, and they didn’t know whether they were transliterated or randomly chosen by themselves. Today’s Mongolians and Dai people don’t understand, unless the person who named them at that time lived.”
The tourists laughed.
"Although the Yuan Dynasty established a province in Yunzhou, it implemented a chieftain system in Yunzhou. We know the style of the Yuan Dynasty. The territory depends on fighting, and the territory must be large! After the war, I don't care much. I only need a name to surrender to me, and then continue
Hit forward.
The title of the Kingdom of the Lo people was cancelled, and those people continued to manage it. The Yuan army continued its southern expedition. But this time the journey was not smooth. While the Jindian Kingdom of Jinglong was declining, the Lo people who had moved south had already established a
The Kingdom of Lanna.
In fact, the name Lanna has never been used in the history of the Dai people, but it was called Mengyong.
When the Yuan army wanted to fight, they used Banna as a food and fodder storehouse for soldiers. The people could not bear the extortionate expropriation and fled to the Lanna Kingdom one after another. People are resources. Nowadays, major cities are robbing people, and in ancient times they were even more robbing.
When King Lanna saw that all the people had fled, he was so happy! Everyone was from the same clan, so he used various promises to attract a large number of nobles from the Jinglong Jindian Kingdom and bring the people to join them.
The Lanna Kingdom also grew stronger and annexed the Queen Kingdom. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Lanna Kingdom was called the Eight Hundred Daughter-in-law Kingdom, and another subsidiary country, the Queen Kingdom. After the Daughter-in-law Kingdom annexed the Queen Kingdom, it became the largest country in northern Thailand.
When the Yuan Dynasty saw that the tributary country that paid tribute to them was swallowed up, they were very angry and mobilized their army to march south. As a result, before they reached Yunzhou, the local chieftains rioted due to burning, killing and looting in Guizhou, and they did not reach Yunzhou at all.
Oops! No more talking." He Huan drank some water.
"Speak, tell!"
"This is already the history of Southeast Asia. The Dai people who went south formed the main ethnic group in Thailand, the Thai people. So in the northern part of Thailand, which is next to our Banna side, they call themselves Dai-Tai. Do you understand?"
Everyone smiled and nodded.
"They are the Dai people of the Lanna Kingdom, and their religious sites still use the Dai language. They have the same origin, similar language, culture, and living customs, so Thailand and our country have always had a friendly and good-neighborly relationship."
Everyone nodded, "Oh!"
"Including Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the entire Lancang River Basin, the Lu people are everywhere. They are huge and powerful and are an important part of Southeast Asian history. They are just called by different names in different countries.
It just illustrates the truth that a nation that has a language and culture that can be passed on is amazing! So passing on culture is very important!"
Master Chen nodded with a smile.
"Xiao Bailong, please continue talking!" demanded the tourists who were still unfinished.
"The history and culture of Southeast Asia are inseparable from Yunzhou. In addition to the Dai people, many Yunzhou ethnic minorities are widely distributed in Southeast Asia. I will talk about it later when I go to Southeast Asia."
"Then let's go!"
He Huan looked at them speechlessly, "Can you go up the mountain first?"
"Hahaha……"
Master Chen finally drove the car slowly to Nannuo Mountain.
A wooden gate is erected at the entrance to the mountain, with words on both sides - The world's first ancient tea village, Hani people welcome you.