The follow-up king said: “I feel like our profession cannot live without dragons!”
A car full of people laughed.
He Huan smiled and nodded, "Yes! Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a girl at the foot of Ailao Mountain who went fishing in the river and accidentally fell into the water.
When I touched a dead wood in the water, I suddenly felt a strange feeling. I think it was like an electric shock. Then the girl climbed ashore by climbing on the dead wood. She didn't catch any fish, but when she returned home she was pregnant.
.”
The tourists stared in surprise.
"This is not surprising!" He Huan said, "The Virgin in our myths and legends would never marry or have children with ordinary humans."
Everyone laughed.
"Even a virgin pregnancy. This is true in Eastern and Western mythology, and it also maintains her sanctity and sublimity." He Huan continued, "Later, the girl gave birth to ten sons.
One day, she took her ten sons to the river to fish. The agarwood tree in the water suddenly turned into a giant dragon, emerged from the water, and asked with a voice like thunder: Where is the son you gave birth to for me now?
"
"ah!"
"When the nine sons heard the thunderous sound, they turned and ran away when they saw the giant dragon. Only the youngest son, when he saw the monster, ran over and hugged his mother, sitting with his back to the dragon to protect his mother.
Now we should give this heroine a name. This girl’s name is Sha Yi. This Sha Yi is the sand pot that Xiao Bi mentioned, their Holy Mother.”
"Ah!" the tourists were surprised.
"Why are Sha Yi and Sha Hu called two different names? Think about it for yourselves."
"The two words are very similar!" said a tourist.
"Yes!" He Huan said, "It is Chinese characters that record this story in writing. The earliest written records appeared in the Han Dynasty. The word "pot" in the Han Dynasty was basically the same character.
The word "一" itself originated from the word "kettle", which means that the pot can store water and is specific and does not leak. Its ancient character is exactly the word "kettle". It was later used as the capital letter for "一".
"Wow!" Everyone looked at Xiao Bailong and thought he was so knowledgeable!
"So Hu and Yi are twin characters, so we don't have to worry about whether it is Shahu or Shayi. In short, they are both the same person. Although it is not clear, the Yi, Bai, and Dai people all call Shayi the Holy Mother.
"
The tourists were very interested and couldn't help but imagine this Madonna.
"Looking back, a dragon suddenly jumped out of the water. In that era, there were many rare birds and animals, and it was not surprising that he spoke human words. Han historical records also say that Sha Yi could sing bird songs.
Anyway, Sha Yi was able to communicate with dragons at that time, and he also understood that the agarwood he encountered was actually a dragon. He looked at the little son in his arms and said: Well, isn't this the one sitting with his back to you? This is 伱
Son!
When the dragon heard this, he was very happy and kind, and licked his son's back. This man always licked his son when he got close to animals, so that's why there are licking dogs!"
A car full of people laughed.
Master Zhou couldn't help but laugh.
"This dragon doesn't eat people, but licks them! Alas! The younger son immediately turned around and started chatting with the dragon. The dragon said what happened at that time, and that's how he got you, so you are my son."
The tourists laughed and said: "How on earth?"
"I'm afraid you know better than me!
"Hahaha……"
He Huan looked at them speechlessly, "It's just a touch. The divine dragon doesn't need to do anything at all, just touch the inner force and it will go in."
The tourists covered their faces with laughter.
A female tourist said: "Will you get pregnant if you touch a little white dragon?"
The people in the car were laughing like crazy, and Master Zhou was also grinning.
He Huan was speechless, holding back his laughter, and continued: "Anyway, the younger son was very happy and proud when he heard that the dragon was his father. So he rode on his back and started playing.
Because the dragon asked me about my son at that time? Sha Yi said that the one who sat on his back was the one. It should be that their bird or dragon language at that time, the one who sat on his back, sounded like Jiulong. So the dragon called this son Jiulong. This is
The founder of the Ailao Kingdom."
"ah!"
“Just like Jesus and the Virgin Mary!”
"That's right." He Huan said with a smile, "Nowadays, Yi, Dai and Lahu languages can all have some relationship with Jiulong, but it is difficult to tell what kind of language it is.
Language is also constantly formed and changed in the process of human development. Therefore, it is biased to deduce which ethnic group Jiulong belongs to from the current language. But Jiulong may be the ancestor of many ethnic groups, including Southeast Asian ethnic groups."
"Oh!" Everyone nodded.
"Let's talk about why there are legends of the Virgin. In fact, through these legends, we can roughly infer what era they were in.
Many ethnic minorities in Yunzhou worship goddesses and holy mothers, which itself stems from the matrilineal clan society that only knows its mother but not its father."
The tourists suddenly realized.
"Moreover, the matrilineal society of the Yunzhou ethnic minority has existed for a long time, and the Mosuo people today still retain this social system.
So in 300 BC, it’s not surprising that the Ailao people knew that their mother’s name was Sha Yi, and it was passed down from generation to generation, but his father was a dragon!”
Everyone laughed.
"So, when a girl suddenly becomes pregnant, people around her are not surprised and don't ask. Because no one knows who the father is, there is no need to ask.
In the early days, humans were like lions, raised and maintained by their mothers, and formed a group. But since the father is no longer an ordinary person, but a dragon, it also means that we have reached the stage of transition from matrilineal to paternal lineage."
The tourists nodded, not expecting that social systems could be deduced from myths and legends.
"Since he is the son of a dragon, it must be different. In this matrilineal tribe at that time, Sha Yi gave birth to a son of a dragon, and the story of the dragon coming to recognize his son spread. Everyone thought it was very magical.
The other nine brothers ran away at that time, and only the younger brother stayed to talk and play with Father Long. The older brothers all admired the younger brother's bravery, so they took the younger brother as the center and listened to his younger brother in everything.
At this time, a girl at the foot of the mountain gave birth to ten more daughters. There is no record of who their fathers were. In short, when the ten sons grew up, they married ten daughters of the same family. This is an official match!"
"Hahaha……"
"Then, they each gave birth to more than ten sons. Oh! Ten multiplied by ten, that's a hundred!"
The tourists laughed.
"Jiulong led nine brothers and more than a hundred nephews to hunt, fish, and cultivate wasteland. These dragons and grandsons were born with supernatural powers, were smart, and brave, and the family became stronger and stronger.
Then the nephew married again and had children, and the family population increased and gradually formed a powerful tribe.
When foreign enemies invaded, they formed an alliance with surrounding tribes to resist the foreign enemies. Because Jiulong was the son of the dragon and a prestigious elder, everyone elected him as the leader of the tribal alliance.
Although he is already a grandfather, in those days, children were born in their teens and buried at the age of thirty. Although Jiulong is a grandfather, he is actually only in his thirties, and he was blessed by Father Long.
"
The tourists couldn't help laughing.
"Unlike ordinary people, he was young and powerful, leading his tribe to win many battles. More and more tribes took the initiative to form alliances and join, forming a large tribal alliance.
These tribes respected Jiulong as their leader and called him Zhaolong, that is, the great king. They completed the process of transforming the maternal line into the patrilineal line and became the founder of the patrilineal line. This was Jiulong, the founding king of the Ailao Kingdom."
"Wow!"
"The leaders of each tribe are called kings, and the kings of each tribe call the king Yanlong, the rock's rock, but the pronunciation ai here probably comes from the Dai language. To this day, Yan is still one of the four surnames of the Dai people. Yan is a boy
, means eldest son. Yanlong means eldest brother, boss."
Everyone nodded.
"You can imagine those tribal leaders at that time, ah! This is our boss! This is our eldest brother! The ethnic minorities in Yunzhou are accustomed to naming their leaders as places, so they call the place under Yanlong's command Yanlong, which we translate as Ailao
.”
"Ah!" the tourists suddenly realized.
"This is the origin of Ailao Kingdom and Ailao Mountain."
The tourists nodded.
"Many people say why we have such an unlucky name as Ailao? In fact, it is originally a transliteration, and just like Yi and Barbarian, it is also a transliteration with contempt.
The Central Plains Dynasty collectively referred to the southwest ethnic minorities as Southwest Yi, and this Yi is also the source of our current Yi people. That’s why people who can’t tell which ethnic group they belong to are collectively classified as the Yi people.”
"oh."
"If we really want to subdivide it, I don't know how many tribes Yunzhou will be divided into. There are many mountains and rivers in Yunzhou, and even if they are separated by a mountain, the languages and customs are not the same. According to records, in the process of conquering Yunzhou, Nanzhao wanted to talk to other ethnic groups.
At that time, we had to find several translators. So, Yunzhou’s biological diversity also includes humans.”
The tourists laughed.
"Really, each mountain in Yunzhou has different unique flora and fauna, which have evolved according to different microclimates. The same is true for the people of Yunzhou. They live in different mountainous areas and rivers, thus forming different
nation.
People in the Central Plains are given different names based on their different clothing characteristics. For example, Baiman is a people who like to wear white clothes. Wuman is a people who likes to wear black clothes. Zhenyaoman is a people who are very polite and polite when meeting people.
A bent nation.”
"Hahaha……"
"But that doesn't stop them from continuing to call it barbaric."
Everyone covered their faces, "That's so rude!"
"There are also the gold-toothed barbarians, a people who like to have their teeth inlaid with gold. As for the people who like to have their teeth inlaid with gold, the Ailao people must be part of it.
Among the southwestern barbarians, the Ailao people are also called Ailao barbarians. They are actually composed of multiple ethnic groups.
Because of the special geographical environment of Yunzhou, you cannot say that a tribe in the mountains established a country. So when the Ailao people arrived in Weishan, they established a tribal alliance. When the Ailao people arrived in Banna, they established a tribal alliance.
Only with such an alliance can we have a chance to build a country.
At that time, the Ailao Kingdom was an alliance country established with Baoshan as the center. In the history of the Dai people, it was called the Daguang Kingdom, which means the old big country and the central country.
At its peak, the territory stretched from Ailao Mountain in the east to Minjin Mountain in present-day northern Myanmar in the west, to Thailand, Laos and northern Vietnam in the south, and to southern Tibet in the north."
"Wow!"
"It is said to be three thousand miles from east to west, 4,600 miles from north to south, and has a land area of 1.38 million square miles."
"Wow! It's really big! It's bigger than our neighboring countries combined!"
He Huan nodded, "Well, it can be called a large country in the southwest. It also has a large population. According to Han history records, there were 570,000 people at its peak. In that era of sparse population, this was a lot of people.
.
At the same time, it was also very developed. It was not the savages living in the forest and wearing leaves as imagined by the people of the Central Plains. At that time, the textile technology of Ailao Kingdom was already very developed, and the brocades and cloths produced were sold to Southeast Asia and India.
This also led to Zhang Qian’s big surprise when he arrived in Afghanistan when he was on an envoy to the Western Regions: Why is there Shu cloth so far away? The Afghans said it was sold by Indian traders.
It is very possible that the so-called Shu cloth is actually produced in the capital of Ailao, but Zhang Qian thought it was produced in Sichuan."
The tourists nodded.
"The mineral resources are also very rich. The gold, silver and jewelry that the Central Plains regard as treasures are used as daily necessities."
Everyone looked envious.
"Gold, jade, amber, agate, crystal. These treasures that are considered rare by the Central Plains are abundant in Ailao Kingdom. Therefore, there are many decorations on the costumes of Yunzhou ethnic minorities. They trade with gold coins in daily life.
There are also many rare animals such as peacocks, elephants, rhinos, and iron-eating beasts that have never been seen in the Central Plains. Now Yunzhou is still a paradise for animals and plants. Two thousand years ago, the ecology was not damaged, and there must be more rare animals and plants than now.
Much more."
"Is it really so developed?" asked a tourist.
"These all come from the historical records of the Central Plains."
He Huan continued: "When the channel between the Central Plains and the Western Regions was cut off by the Xiongnu, trade exchanges between the Southwest and the Western Regions were very frequent. Baoshan has been a trading center since ancient times, and Baoshan and Ailao Kingdom are the center of Southeast Asia."
Everyone nodded, they didn't expect it to be so strong.
"When the Kingdom of Daguang was prosperous and prosperous, doing business with Southeast Asia and South Asia, it also appeared in the sight of the Han Dynasty because of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions and because of a piece of cloth.
The Ailao Kingdom and the ancient Dian Kingdom also appeared at the same time, that is, the Warring States Period. The Han Dynasty first conquered the ancient Dian Kingdom and then entered the Ailao Kingdom. Its earliest appearance in history books is: Dian Yue Cheng Xiang Kingdom
.”
The tourists looked at him with interest. He Huan picked up the water and took a sip.
The pick-up king said: "Aren't you a dragon? Do you still drink water? Shouldn't you squirt water?"
He Huan squirted out a mouthful of water, and the whole car laughed.
The tourists sitting in the second row also smiled and wiped their faces without getting angry.
Everyone looked at He Huan with a smile. After a while, He Huan calmed down, apologized to the tourists in the second row, and continued: "Historically, exchanges between the Central Plains and the West have been through the Hexi Corridor between the Mongolian Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
conduct.
After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the Hexi Corridor was controlled by the Xiongnu. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to the throne, he sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to the Western Regions and arrived in Daxia, which is now Afghanistan.
Zhang Qian discovered Shu cloth in the Western Regions. This major discovery made Zhang Qian very excited. After returning to Chang'an, he told Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that there was probably a road to India south of Sichuan.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent envoys from Sichuan to the southwest to search for this road. It was known in history as the Shushen Poison Road, also known as the Southern Silk Road, and also called the Ancient Tea Horse Road."
Everyone nodded, the Ancient Tea Horse Road has a long history!
"It was precisely because of the visit of the Han Dynasty envoys that the two ancient countries in Yunzhou history became mysterious ancient countries and disappeared in the long river of history!"