Why is Fujian also called Bamin?

"Bamin" is another name of Fujian Province. There are many explanations for the specific reasons. It is generally believed that Fujian Province was divided into Fuzhou, Jianzhou, Xinghua, Yanping, Tingzhou, Shaowu, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in the Yuan Dynasty, and changed to Fu Ba in the Ming Dynasty, so it was called Bamin.

1, on the origin of Bamin:

(1) Fujian was the land of Fujian in ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, it was divided into five states: Fu, Jian, Quan, Zhang, Ting and Nan Jian.

(2) The Northern Song Dynasty was divided into eight counties and eight armies.

(3) The Southern Song Dynasty was divided into eight counties, prefectures and armies.

(4) Yuan is divided into eight ways.

(5) The Ming Dynasty was changed to Fu Ba, called Bamin.

(6) During the Jin Dynasty, there were frequent wars in the Central Plains. Lin, Huang, Chen, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He, Hu, etc. began to enter Fujian, and they all belonged to the Central Plains clan. After entering Fujian, he first settled in northern Fujian and Jin 'an (now Fuzhou), and then gradually spread to the coastal areas of central Fujian and southern Fujian. Historically, it was called "one customs clearance in Du Nan, eight surnames entered Fujian".

2. About Bamin area:

(1) Jianning House: Jian 'ou City, Jianyang City, Wuyishan City, Pucheng County, Songxi County, Zhenghe County and Shouning County;

(2) Yanping Prefecture: Nanping City, Shunchang County, Sanming City, Yong 'an City, Datian County, Youxi County, Shaxian County and Jiangle County;

(3) Shaowufu: Shaowu City, Guangze County, Taining County and Jianning County;

(4) Tingzhou Prefecture: Mingxi County, Qingliu County, Ninghua County and Changting County.

Fujian, the expanded data, is called "Min" for short, and has been called "Seven Min", "Eight Min" and "Nine Min" successively in history. According to the ancient book "Zhou Li Xia Guan Zhi Fang Shi", "distinguish its country, country, capital and despised people, four yi, eight yi, seven Fu Jian, nine raccoons, five Rong and six Di."

Zheng Xuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty pointed out: "People are different from foreigners ... four, eight, seven, nine, five and six, and the number of countries served by Zhou is also." Tang Gong Yanshu: "Xiong Shu lives in Puruman, and his descendants are divided into seven kinds, so he is called Seven People."

"Seven people" generally refers to seven tribes who were scattered in Fujian and southern Zhejiang in the Zhou Dynasty and took snakes as totems. There is a cloud in Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Fujian, Southeast Vietnam, snake species."

Fujian has a custom of worshipping snakes since ancient times, and there are still relics in some places, such as the Snake Mountain Temple in Changting, the ancient Snake King Temple outside the south gate of Zhangzhou, the snake in Sanping Village of Pinghe County being honored as a "waiter", the popular Snake King Festival in Zhanghuban, Nanping and the snake lantern activities.

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