The book “Qinshihuang is a Jurchen who speaks Mongolian” is free from the constraints of traditional learning. Starting with comparative language, it explores the source and poor flow of northern nationalities, points out the history of blood language integration of Asian and European nationalities, and takes the northern nationalities as a mirror of the ancient Central Plains Society. It has many unique views on ancient Chinese history.
Qinshihuang was called “Yingzheng” and Yongzheng emperor of the Qing Dynasty was called “Yinzhen”. Is Qinshihuang a female immortal? Confucius’ father was called “Shulianghe”, and North Korea was called “sulianghe” in Mongolian. For example, “Yushun is Wusun”, “jurian is Nvzhen”, “shusun is Sushen”, “mengke is Mongolia” and “Mozi is Buji”. In ancient times, the residents of the Central Plains seemed to be named after the northern nationalities. Did the northern nationalities flee from the Central Plains?
The traditional Chinese Academy attaches importance to philology, but ignores the study of language. However, since the second half of the 19th century, some European sinologists have learned a variety of languages and studied the origins of Central Asia and the Far East. However, there are conditions for outsiders to rule China’s history after all, and there are traditional constraints for Chinese people to manage their own history, so the results are not ideal.
Dr. zhuxueyuan, however, was not constrained by traditional academic studies. He started with comparative language to explore the source and flow of the northern ethnic groups. He pointed out the history of blood language integration of Asian and European ethnic groups. He also took the northern ethnic groups as a mirror of the ancient Central Plains society and had many original views on the ancient history of China.
Qinshihuang is a Jurchen who speaks Mongolian. At first glance, some people may question the scientificity of the title of this book: Mongolia and Jurchen are both nations that originated between the Tang and Song dynasties. How can they be the family of Qinshihuang? In fact, the nations in the world can neither be created out of nothing nor suddenly annihilated. If there were no Mongolian Jurchen nationality in ancient times, how could there be such names as Meng Ke, Meng Ao, Meng Wu, Gujian and gujingjiang in the spring and autumn, Qin and Han Dynasties? Mongolia is the descendant of Donghu Xianbei, and Nvzhen is the representative of Tungusic nationality. It is said that “Qinshihuang is a female immortal who speaks Mongolian”. It is to use the representation of modern human beings to see the ancestral blood and language belonging.
This book discusses the life experience of Qinshihuang, or selects the faces of Kublai Khan, Cixi, Puyi and Kangsheng. It only studies their species, not their historical rights and wrongs. This book is full of various arguments about “Han and Lu people are of the same origin”, but there is no political attempt at all. Therefore, this is a pure exploration of anthropology. This book aims to become a popular reading material, and all the notes have been omitted.
The author of this book, Dr. zhuxueyuan, a Chinese American scholar, is not only pursuing accurate conclusions, but also finding effective means.
His interest began with the exploration of the ancestors of the Hungarian nation. The conclusion is that the roots of the Hungarian people are mainly the Tungus people in Northeast Asia. There is a Finnish descendant Mr. topA in the small town where zhuxueyuan lives. His only Oriental feature is that he has single eyelids. Zhuxueyuan told him that topA was an oriental surname. He was surprised.
The German traveling photographer gleasner and his wife agreed with Zhu Xueyuan’s anthropological views. Mr. gleasner not only asked Zhu Xueyuan to take his photos, but also showed Zhu Xueyuan the photos of his mother when she was young. He said that some of his Mongolian facial features came from his beautiful mother. These two photos also became part of Zhu Xueyuan’s “Qinshihuang is a real woman who speaks Mongolian”.
The ancestors of the Mongolian race left Africa, and their physical form developed during their stay in South Asia. With the disappearance of the glaciers, they went north to the Central Plains, and then spread to all directions, not only into North Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, the Near East, but also into Europe and America. At the same time, we should also pay attention to the eastward migration of Indo European people in early history. They can not stop at Loulan in the desert; Someone must have stepped into the Central Plains along the Hexi corridor. Some northerners have the vague characteristics of westerners because of this ancient reason; It is too short to say that it was caused by the Jews in the Song Dynasty.
The origin of this book still goes back about 10 years. At that time, zhuxueyuan wrote a research article on historical language, saying that the ancestors of Hungarians were Nuzhen people, which attracted the attention of the academic circles; Later, the clue that the northern nationalities came from the Central Plains and the conclusion that the people in the central plains were consanguineous was drawn. These papers were integrated into the book “the origins of the northern nationalities in China” and published by Beijing Zhonghua Book Company as a part of the “world Sinology series”. Since then, zhuxueyuan’s articles have been published continuously in Taipei’s history monthly. Mr. Yu bingchang, the former president, suggested that these articles be collected and published. This is the origin of the birth and birth of “Qinshihuang is a Jurchen who speaks Mongolian”.
Although “Qinshihuang is a Jurchen who speaks Mongolian” is popular, it has more clues about the homology between the Chinese nation and the northern nation than “the origins of the northern nationalities in China”. For example, in ancient times, the names of the people in the central plains were mostly the names of the Rongdi people of later generations: Yushun was Wusun, Gujian was Jurchen, shusun was Sushen, mengke was Mongolia, Mozi was Buji, Jingke was Zhunger, etc. Therefore, Zhu Xueyuan took the northern nationalities as a mirror of the ancient Central Plains society, and reached anthropological conclusions such as “the Ji and the nine surnames are Tungusic nationalities”, “the five emperors are Aixin, and China is the Huihe state”.
The Chinese people’s outdated consciousness of “certificate by book” makes the traditional academic outside the world trend. It was not until the first half of the 20th century that the era of “material certificate” came because of the efforts to interpret oracle bone characters and archaeological artifacts. However, as another inheritance system, the role of language as a “human historical fossil” has been shelved by Chinese people.
The book should promote the research of “seeking truth by words”. During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, the society in the Central Plains experienced a formation process of “Chinese” or “elegant speech”; Today, what was popular in the Central Plains was the language of the northern nationalities, otherwise many people in the pre Qin period would not be able to understand. For example, the word “broom” in the oracle bone is “woman”, which has long been cracked by Guo Moruo; But is the “broom” in the Jiagu clan names “broom good”, “broom wife”, “broom sister”, “broom pregnant”, “broom white” and “broom” a note or a symbol? Never have a correct understanding; If we can have the self-consciousness of phonetic demonstration, what are they if they are not “Huihe”, “wuzhe”, “Wuma”, “Hulu”, “Yueban” and “evil”?
Zhuxueyuan opened up a new way of historical linguistic anthropology in the study of the origins of the nationalities in northern China. Using his ideas, we will have new understanding of the old words we are familiar with, such as “Huaxia”, “mengke”, “Jujian” and “Jingke”, and we will also have new discoveries about the old understanding of the words “Youchao”, “Youxiong” and “Shennong”. When he argued that “mengke” was “Mongolia”, “Huaxia” was “Huihe”, said that “suirenshi” was by no means a tribe that invented wood to make fire, and said that the Manchu was a descendant of a nation that had fled from the Central Plains, we would feel zhuxueyuan’s keen talent.
As for taking your own winding path, Zhuxueyuan said: “The drawbacks of Chinese traditional learning can be seen from the names of ancient scholars yanshigu and Hu Sansheng. The” learning from the ancients “means to put an end to innovation; the” three provinces “have the suspicion of subjective idealism. This tradition determines that the Chinese civilization has the brilliance in the early stage and then the clumsiness in the later stage…. for example, due to the non phonetic nature of the Chinese character system, the distinction between” linguistics “and” Philology “has not been defined in China for a long time.
After the introduction of western scientific methods, this problem has not been straightened out. Swedish scholar Gao Benhan advocated the method of constructing Chinese ‘ancient sound’ with ‘middle ancient sound’ and ‘rhyme of the bookofsongs’, which is reasonable and exaggerates the changes of Chinese pronunciation. However, these hypotheses that have yet to be tested have become shackles, which makes the Chinese academic circles more and more doubt the continuity of Chinese pronunciation, and doubt everything about the ancient phonetic records, or avoid it. The research field of ancient history through voice information has been misled into a state of almost complete “silence.”
Although Zhu Xueyuan only talked about historical research and traditional academic issues, he pointed out that “over the past century, Chinese scholars have lacked self-confidence in the face of the enterprising advantages of western academia; few are proficient in Western methods, but many are superstitious in Western conclusions”, which has given us many implications and associations in dealing with people and things.
As far as historical science is concerned, the era of tedious textual research should be over. Predecessors have not left more complete historical data, which is also a part of “history”. This is a reality that cannot be complained about, leaving us a vast space for reflection, imagination and insight; The “past” is neither necessary nor possible to reproduce accurately. Historical science should analyze the ready-made historical data, find new evidence, call new methods, and reconstruct a more reasonable model to approach the real processes of human society. And the book “Qinshihuang is a Jurchen who speaks Mongolian” makes people see this. If readers can actively discuss all the conclusions of this book, that is what the author hopes.