When Liu Juan found Yi Bingshui, he realized that she had drank water from the Zimu River.
Zimu River is actually located in Milan Town, Ruoqiang County, Xinjiang.
Zimu River was mentioned in "Journey to the West". It is mentioned in Journey to the West that there are no men in the Xiliang Women's Kingdom. Women can go to get water from the Zimu River and eat it after they reach adulthood. After eating it, they can become pregnant. Tang Monk and Bajie didn't know it.
Here, Wukong mistakenly ate water from the Zimu River. Finally, Wukong went to Jie Yang Mountain and took water from the Fountain Spring to overcome this difficulty.
Before the reform of Ruoqiang writing, it was written as "Nu Ruoqiang", with the word "女" next to it, which is related to the legendary Nv Ruoqiang. Historical records indicate that Nv Ruoqiang is a Qiang tribe headed by "Nu Ruo", and a woman is in power.
tribe, their residence is today's Ruoqiang County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. The Qiang people are a very unfortunate nation in history, and the creation of their characters seems to hint at their tragic fate...
The historical records of Xinjiang probably began when the Queen Mother of the West ruled the Western Regions. It was a long matrilineal era, which resulted in the creation of some daughter states.
Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty": "There was a Su Fa attack on the Qukou Danluo Kingdom, and the Tang Dynasty Jin clan... was also called the Dongnu Kingdom, and women were kings in the world, so women were the rulers of the country... The country was connected to the east.
The Tubo Kingdom is connected to the Khotan Kingdom in the north." In the 7th century AD, this Daughter Kingdom was destroyed by the invading Tubo Kingdom. Some people fled to Qamdo, Tibet, and were still called the Eastern Daughter Kingdom.
"Book of the Sui Dynasty - Biography of the Western Regions" records: "The Kingdom of Women is located south of Congling. The country has a woman as its king. The king's surname is Su Pi and his given name is Mo Jie. He has been in power for 20 years. The queen's husband is called "Jin".
"Gathering together" means not knowing about political affairs. The husband in the country is only engaged in conquest. "
If the Qiang writing was written as "婼Qiang" before the reform of writing, with a female character next to it, it should be related to the legendary daughter country. "Hanshu" #8226; Biography of the Western Regions says: "It is the name of the tribe, and Qiang is the name of the tribe."
Race." In other words, Nuqiang is a Qiang tribe headed by "婼", a tribe in which women are in power.
The Qiang people are a very unfortunate nation in history, and the creation of their characters seems to hint at their tragic fate.
From oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, small seals to today's regular script, it can be seen that the word "Qiang" has a "sheep" above it and a sideways "man" below it, which is a prominent totem sign of "a human wearing a sheep's head".
"Shuowen Jiezi" says: "Qiang are also the shepherds of Xirong." These all show that the Qiang people are a nomadic people in the northwest who worship sheep.
Sheep are docile and kind. They eat grass and do not compete with others for food, and they do not harm people. Their meat can be eaten and their skin can be used for clothing. Therefore, when the ancients offered sacrifices, they always put sheep on the table.
+ Sheep = auspiciousness, killing a sheep as an offering is "auspicious".
The Qiang people who love their houses and birds will be completely unlucky if they kill the sheep. There are many characters for "Qiang" in the oracle bone inscriptions, which are records of killing, burning and burying Qiang people alive as sacrificial objects. The largest number of them was 1,000.
Several Qiang people were killed at the same time as sacrifices.
There are also some characters "Qiang" with ropes drawn in the oracle bone inscriptions, written in regular script as "", which should represent the captured Qiang people.
Since there are words specifically referring to Qiang prisoners, it can be inferred that there should be many concentration camps where Qiang people were imprisoned.
Sheep have been domesticated in China for more than 6,000 years, and mutton was one of the main food sources for our ancestors.
Roasting a whole sheep over fire is today called roasting a whole sheep, and it happened more than 3,000 years ago. The word "lamb" in oracle bone inscriptions is the best witness: there is a sheep on the top, and there are four fires on the bottom, which is exactly the outline of a roasted whole sheep.
The ancestors could not live without sheep. They regarded sheep as wealth and beauty. As long as they stick to the sides of sheep, they would feel happy, so sheep + big = beauty.
The ancients loved sheep and could not live without them. After eating the mutton, they often used sheep bones as ornaments and even wore sheep horns on their heads.
However, beautiful things are often the most vulnerable to injury, and the variant character "Jiang" of "Qiang" has an even worse fate. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "The origin of the Xiqiang...the difference between the surname Jiang."
It means "Jiang", and "Qiang" is originally one word. When it is a surname, it is called "Jiang", and when it is a clan name, it is called "Qiang".
It can also be said that "Jiang" refers to the female Qiang and "Qiang" refers to the male Qiang. In the matrilineal clan era, the female Jiang had a higher status than the male Qiang. However, after the reform of writing, the meaning of "Jiang" no longer represents the female Qiang, but only represents human beings.
The surname is "Jiang".
As the name suggests, "Ruoqiang" is the place where the Qiang people live. But this is not the case: during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the main residents here were the Luobu people, and the Qiang people were driven to the ancient Nuoqiang country in the southern mountains.
Starting from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Qiang people in Ruoqiang disappeared mysteriously, and the Uighurs gradually became the main ethnic group in Ruoqiang. The Luobu people, Tubo people, and Turks were gradually integrated with the Uighurs.
After the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Hui, Tibetan and other ethnic groups moved in. As of the end of 2005, statistics in Ruoqiang County show that Han people account for 59.47% and Uyghurs account for 36.89%. There are also Hui, Mongolian, Manchu, Dongxiang and other ethnic groups, but I can't find them.
To the shadow of the Qiang people. If the Qiang does not have the Qiang, it will be like the fate of "Jiang".
If the Qiang people in Qiang disappeared quietly, where did they go? No one can give a clear answer. Through DNA research, today's Han, Tibetan, Qiang, and Miao people all have a deep blood relationship with the Qiang people.
The Qiang people have been continuously assimilated and integrated by other ethnic groups, resulting in a sharp population decline. Today, the more than 300,000 Qiang people in the country are mostly concentrated in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan and Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County in Deyang.
The Qiang people are a troubled nation, and the Nuo Qiang tribe is even worse. The word "婼" seems to foretell the fate of this tribe: in the "Modern Chinese Dictionary", "婼" has two pronunciations, one is ruo, and the other is chuo.
, meaning "unfavorable".
The word "婼" next to the word "女" has brought misfortune to the Nu Qiang tribe. There is a general rule for Chinese characters: the pronunciation agrees. Generally speaking, some of the meanings of words with the same pronunciation are close or even the same.
The pronunciation of "婼" and "wei" are similar, and the essence of "婼" is weakness.
"Nu" was a weak leader who eventually lost her tribe inexplicably.
