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Chapter 443

Chapter 443 Return to Tang Dynasty Legacy

"Then Zhuge Liang gave other chiefs Yang, Li, Zhao, Dong, etc., many Han surnames. Therefore, the ancestors of the Bai people had Han surnames in the noble and lord class more than 1,700 years ago.

However, the Shu Kingdom was short-lived, and it was during the Tang Dynasty that frequent exchanges with the Central Plains began.

King Baizi Zhang Lejinqiu married his daughter to Xinuluo of Mengshe Zhao and gave the throne to his son-in-law. Meng Shezhao rose up and unified the Six Zhaos with the support of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty gave Nanzhao King Meng Meng their original tribal name.

surname."

Liang Ange and Qin Kong, who listened to the history of Nanzhao yesterday, nodded. The music language experts looked at him without blinking.

"Duan Jianwei played a great role in the process of King Nanzhao unifying the six imperial edicts, and King Nanzhao gave him the name Zhongguo. Alas, this shows that the boss likes to give people surnames and names."

A burst of laughter.

"King Nanzhao was given a surname by the Tang Dynasty. He also named his right-hand man and appointed him as Qingping official, that is, prime minister. It was passed down to Duan Siping.

At that time, another Qingping official, who was also the national preceptor Zheng Hui, and his seventh-generation grandson Zheng Maisi destroyed Nanzhao. Various big surnames, powerful families, and heroes came together. Duan Siping, with the support of the Dong family and the Gao family, established the

Dali Kingdom.

The origins of some Dali surnames and genealogies from the Ming and Qing Dynasties all show that the Duan family is a descendant of the Han people.

Although many people in Dali now, including the Bai people, are immigrants from the Han people. That’s right. But the Bai people are a long-standing ethnic group in the Erhai area.

The reason why some books in the Ming and Qing Dynasties recorded this is because the Duan family's rule was completely destroyed in the Ming Dynasty, but Dali, as the political, economic and cultural center of the Yunzhou area for seven hundred years, still had a great influence.

In order to eliminate their influence and promote their Sinicization, we destroyed the books of our own nation, and then re-edited some things to tell you that your ancestors were originally Han. This way you will not miss your homeland."

The experts nodded, and Duan Ju listened very carefully.

"Although we now attach great importance to surnames, especially men, our ancestors were not so insistent."

Everyone laughed.

"Really." He Huan said, "The most important thing for a person is not his surname, but his survival. Especially in that era when survival was difficult, survival wisdom was also reflected in his surname.

In Yunzhou, due to military and civilian settlements, in order to avoid war, some ethnic minorities would say they were Han and change their surnames to Han surnames. After a few generations, they would completely become Han.

As for the Han people who migrated, some also changed their surnames and ethnic groups, mixed with other ethnic groups, and accepted the customs of other ethnic groups. For example, many of the Bai and Naxi people were originally Han.

So until now, many people can’t tell clearly what their ethnic group is and what their surname is. They are all lumped together.”

Duan Ju and Director Dong nodded.

"Like Zhao, Yang, Li, Dong, Gao, and Duan, they were all nobles in the Erhai area in the early days. Then the common people would also change their surnames to aristocratic surnames. Gradually, the major surnames of the Bai people were formed today, which are the surnames with the largest number of people.

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"Yes." Duan Ju said.

"As for the Bai people, because they have had early and frequent contacts with the Han people, and the aristocracy is good at poetry and writing, they will use some historical celebrities, most of them from the Tang Dynasty, to show their family status.

Therefore, the Bai people do have a sense of belonging to the Tang Dynasty. The Nanzhao Dehua Monument also reflects this kind of brotherly relationship, which is a prosperous age in our history after all.

The desire to return to the Tang Dynasty may have never changed for thousands of years, from King Nanzhao to the people of Dali."

The experts nodded. Especially those who heard about the history of Nanzhao yesterday felt more deeply.

"For example, the surname Li is also a common surname of the Bai people. They often inscribe: Qinglian legacy, Shixian family lineage."

Duan Ju said: "That's right.

“So the Central Plains culture is best inherited by the Bai people!

Although the history and culture of Dali in Nanzhao was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, the Dali we see today, including the ancient city of Weishan, was built by the Ming Dynasty.

But in Dali, especially among the Bai people, what is inherited is the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, which is amazing! Many people even say that the Bai language may be the official dialect of the Tang Dynasty. This is what we are here to listen to today."

Experts are very excited.

After visiting Director Dong’s house, Director Dong led them to continue walking around the village.

Old houses are scattered along the cracked stone road.

A man was chopping firewood on the side of the road, while a woman, with her child wrapped on her back, stacked the firewood neatly at the foot of the wall.

When he saw outsiders, he smiled shyly at everyone and continued working.

An old man was sitting at the door weaving baskets. Director Dong greeted him in Bai language and turned around to explain to everyone: "Our village respects the elderly very much, because temple fairs, witchcraft and other rituals are all performed by the elderly."

Following the cracked stone road, I walked past houses painted with mountain flowers and inscriptions, guessing the owner's last name.

He Huan said: "Shibaoshan is called Benshan in Bai language, which means a mountain full of big rocks. It also comes from the fact that the stones on the mountain resemble cracks on the back of a turtle, which belongs to the Danxia landform."

Everyone looked at the road under their feet and it was very vivid.

A white dog was lying in the middle of the road under the sun, looking up lazily at them, as if thinking about whether to give way. After thinking for a while, he was too lazy to get up, and lowered his head again to lie on his forelimbs, pretending not to notice.

The good dog was in the way, so everyone walked around it obediently and continued walking forward.

The white dog turned to look at them. No one asked him to give way, or was he being ignored? He got up and walked away.

Liang Ange looked back and smiled.

Two cats sit on the top of the eaves, like two ridged beasts, looking down at the land and the people.

Everyone walked very slowly, because when we got here, we couldn't help but slow down.

A group of big buffaloes with horns like a bow walked slowly, as if from a pastoral painting, and everyone stood on the roadside to get out of the way.

The uncle driving the cattle smiled at them and expressed his gratitude.

Walking all the way to the inn where they stayed, Director Dong said: "We are also developing tourism. This is the first inn that has just been built in our village."

The bus stopped on the road in front of the inn, and Master Li and the waiter had already helped them take their luggage to the lobby. He Huan helped everyone check in, and everyone took their luggage to their rooms.

After coming down, Director Dong took them to his home for dinner. Director Dong's wife greeted them honestly and shyly, and his daughter and son-in-law also came to help cook.

They are all farm dishes. Fried ground ginseng, stir-fried porcini mushrooms, stewed chicken with matsutake mushrooms... bowls of them don't look pretty, but they are delicious and spread all over the table.

"Wow!" said the elf, "are there still wild fungi now?"

Director Dong said: "These are all picked from the mountains. From April to October, if there is too much to eat and sell, we dry them."

"This is truly a treasure, a gift from Shibao Mountain!" He Huan said.

Everyone stretched out their chopsticks and said, "Hmm...it smells really good!"

The photographers swallowed their saliva and took pictures of everyone eating before going to eat.

In the afternoon, He Huan took them for a tour of Shibaoshan and came back to have dinner at Director Dong's house. When they came out to face the sunset, the mountain village suddenly became cooler.

Everyone went back to the inn to put on their coats, and walked around the tall haystacks on the roadside. In the dusk, smoke rose from the cooking pots, and the cattle and sheep bleated goodbye to the sunset and went home in groups.

It's like leaving modern society and returning to a very, very old place.

Liang Ange said: "It feels like sitting under a tall haystack and listening to my mother talk about the past."

Everyone nodded, as if their heartbeats had slowed down.

Until the sound of drums spread from the center of the village to the beginning and end of the village, men, women and children from every household rushed towards the stage carrying stools and holding dolls.

Liang Ange shouted from the railing upstairs: "Let's go!"

Everyone ran out and walked to the stage together.

(End of chapter)


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