There used to be a thriving ethnic minority in the south of Yibin area. After three major suppressions in the Ming Dynasty, this ancient ethnic group disappeared from history. The facts have proved that a ethnic group will not be extinct...
The origin of "Bo people".
"Bo people", that is, Pu people, are the collective term for the southwestern peoples in the North Central Plains during the pre-Qin period. "Bo" and "Pu" recorded in historical books are the same thing. The people of the Central Plains collectively referred to their southwest tribes as "Pu" or "Baipu". Nowadays, the hanging coffins parked on the Qianren rock wall in Yinan area are believed to be the tombs left by this ethnic group.
According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, there was a "Hou State" in Yinan. In the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was changed to "Nudao County." . "Ming History Ma Hao Biography" said:
"Junlian, Gongxian, surrounded by thousands of miles, mountain canal is deep resistance, Bo people... ...and so on."
here points out where the "Bo people" are most distributed. There are more places with the word "僰" in the place names of the old records of Gongxian County, such as "Borenzhai", "Borenpo", "Borenba", "Bochuangou" and "Boxiangao".
has always believed that "Bo people" is "the most benevolent, so the word depends on the person." But after the Ming Dynasty, such a widely distributed and fraternity nation disappeared mysteriously. "Gong County Chronicles" says:
"Southwestern barbarians, there were more 僰 species first... Today, Gongyi 僰 types have been exhausted."
Why did the "Bo people" disappear? The reason for the disappearance of
"Bo people", some documents and historical records say that it was because the Ming Dynasty wiped out them by war. According to the "Records of Chenghua" in the Ming Dynasty, in the early days of Emperor Xianzong, the Bozhong in Rong County, Sichuan "has trouble". Cheng Xin, the minister of military department, mobilized the Sichuan and Guizhou officials to encircle and suppress more than 700 villages, beheaded more than 1,500, and captured eight. More than a hundred mouths. Later, he attacked the six townships of the mountain capital, burned all the villages, and beheaded more than 3,100.
"Xufu Zhi" stated that in Zhengde, the governor Ma Hao and the commander Hao Kun once again mobilized the army to suppress the "Bo people" and captured more than 3,000. In the first year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty mobilized 140,000 Ming troops to suppress the "Bo people" on a large scale for the third time, and attacked the fortress Jiusi City (now Jiusi Town in the southwest of Xingwen County), trapped more than 60 places in the village and killed them. One hundred thousand people will wipe out the "Bo people." Since then, "Bo people" have not been seen in Yinan area, and no new hanging coffins have been found, indicating that "Bo people" have since been extinct. Does
have any descendants of Bo people?
However, some folk sayings are contrary to this, that is, "Bo people" did not kill them all, and there are descendants, and specifically pointed out that the local family of He surname is. For example, there is a folk song that has been circulated to this day: "You Luoluo, Fan Miaozi, and the He family originally belonged to Huayanzi." Hangyanzi is the hanging coffin. That is to say, the ancestors of the He family are buried in the hanging coffin, and the surname of the Yinan area is buried. He is a descendant of the "Bo people".
The folks also said that the ancestors of the He surnamed were originally surnamed "A". Because he avoided the suppression of the feudal dynasty, he changed his surname to "He" to find out the history. There is indeed a person named "A Dawang". He is the leader of the "Bo people". Killed by the Ming army in the battle of the city. When the Provincial Museum cleaned the hanging coffins in 1974, bamboo chopsticks, bowls, and green vases with the name "Arimu" were cleared from some hanging coffins, indicating that the ancestors of He's surname, A, are generally credible. Some historians of
also provided circumstantial evidence for these legends. For example, Rui Yifu said in his article "The Problem of Hanging Coffins in Southern Sichuan Ethnic Groups": "I once interviewed an old man surnamed He in Luonan, claiming that his ancestor He Daning was originally a member of the Nine Si chiefs, Ada and Aer, and later joined the army. Under the command of General He, the surname was changed. "Another historian said that several old people in Matangba, Xingwen County, once told them that before liberation, someone had seen a family named He leading his family, blowing and beating them to worship their ancestors in front of the hanging coffin.
"Bo people" "It seems logical to say that it is not extinct. Z47z
summarizes: In the Ming Dynasty, although the "Bo people" were repeatedly brutally suppressed, it would be impossible to kill the people of Ding's prosperity. There are people who change their surnames, obey and become vulgar. There are fugitives. There will be people who are enrolled. These people should have descendants. As for whether the descendants are some He surnamed families in Yinan today, this can be further researched.
