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What kind of ethnicity is the She people?

She people, southern China's nomadic farming nation, more than a thousand years, the She people defied hardships and obstacles, from the original settlement - Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, Phoenix Hill, four scattered migration to Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui and other provinces, and in some cases to Guizhou and Sichuan, more than 90% of the people live in Fujian, Zhejiang, the vast mountainous areas, and the rest of the diaspora in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Anhui and other provinces, she as early as in Tang Yongtai two years (766) from Fujian Luoyuan moved to Zhejiang Jingning. During the Tang Dynasty, the minorities living in the border areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, including the She ancestors, were generally called "barbarians", "barbarians", "mine barbarians" or "mine bureaucrats". "Dong Bureaucrat". At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the names "She Min" and "Quan Min" began to appear in history books. She means "slash-and-burn". In 1956, the State Council of China officially recognized the She as a single ethnic minority with its own characteristics. Since then, She has become the legal name of the ethnic group.  Origin and Sources There are many different opinions on the origin of the She, with some claiming that the She and Yao originated from the "Wuling Barbarians" (also known as "Wuxi Barbarians") of Changsha in the Han and Jin dynasties, and that they are of the same origin as the Yao, which is a more common view. Since ancient times, the She people have been referred to as "She Yao", "Yao", "Yao family", "Shan Yao", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people", "Yao people" and "Yao people", Yao", "Yao family", "Shan Yao", "Yao people" and so on, which are inseparable from the Yao people.  In addition, the origin of the She ethnic group is also known as "the descendants of the Yue tribe", "the descendants of the Eastern Barbarians", "a branch of the Henan Barbarians" and "a branch of the Southern Barbarians", and so on. and "one of the southern barbarians" and so on. All in all, the many different opinions on the origin of the She ethnic group reflect the relationship between the She ethnic group and various ethnic groups such as the barbarians, the Yue, the Min, the barbarians and the Han people who interacted with each other, blended and mingled with each other in the course of the She ethnic group's tortuous development and ethnic formation in its history.  There are many divergent views on the origin of the She ethnic group, but to summarize, there are two kinds of views: the external view and the indigenous view. Those from the outside believe that the She originated from the "Changsha Wuling barbarians" of the Han and Jin dynasties. The main argument for this view is that the "Wuling barbarians" and the She people share the same beliefs about the Pan Gou totem. Native speakers believe that the She people originated from the "Min" people of the Zhou Dynasty. "Min" is the indigenous people of Fujian, the earliest owner of Fujian, whose descendants are the She people of today. There is a certain relationship between "Min" and "She". The main argument is that there is a close connotation between "Min" and "She", i.e. "Min" - "Barbarian" - "She". Min" - "Barbarian" - "Bureaucrat" - "She". She" has a close connotation connection, i.e. "Min"-"Barbarian"-"Bong"-"She".  In addition, there are those who believe that the She originated from a group of "Yi" people in ancient Henan Province, a clan tribe belonging to the close relatives of the Gaoxin clan. Some believe that the She originated from Henan and that their ancestors were the "Longqi", etc. In short, the She originated from the "Yi" people of ancient Henan, a clan tribe that was close to the Gaoxin clan.  All in all, the origin of the She tribe is still controversial.  There are mainly the following views: "Wuling Barbarians" (1) She and Yao originated from the "Wuling Barbarians" (also known as "Wuxi Barbarians") of Changsha in the Han and Jin dynasties. This theory holds that both the She and most of the Yao have a legend of Discus gourd, a totem worship left over from the primitive society, which is widely known in every household. The content of the legend is similar to the legend of Discus gourd spread by the "Wuling barbarians" in the middle and lower reaches of Changhan during the Han and Jin dynasties, and is therefore considered to be the most important of all. It is believed that the She and Yao tribes are closely related to the "Wuling barbarians". The Yao people call themselves "Mian", "Pan gourd Yao" (or "Pan Yao", "Pan Yao".), (or "pan yao", "pan yao", "pan yao", "over the mountain yao") and "shanzi yao" (or "door"), which account for more than half of the total population of the Yao people, also believe in the legend of Panzou.  Historical records say that Yao and She are originally "Wuxi barbarians" after Panzou, She and Yao not only have the same Panzou legend reflecting the primitive totem worship, but also have more than the same customs, in the history of the She, Yao and even said that She is the Yao people. Until the Qing Dynasty, She and Yao were still used interchangeably, and She was often referred to as "Yao people". The genealogical records of the She people also refer to themselves as "Yao households" and "descendants of the autoworkers", etc. Nowadays, the She people are distributed in Haifeng, Huizhou, Guangdong and other areas. Nowadays, the She ethnic group distributed in Haifeng, Huiyang, Zengcheng and Boluo in Guangdong still call themselves "Yue Yao", while the Han Chinese in Haifeng and Huiyang call them "She Min", but in Zengcheng they are called "Shan Yao" by the Han Chinese. "The two ethnic groups have intertwined family names. Both tribes have interlocking surnames. Legend has it that the She have four major surnames: Pan, Lan, Lei, Zhong, but in fact, except for dozens of She surnamed Pan in Zengcheng County, Guangdong Province, the Pan surname has not been seen in other areas. Fujian Xiapu County She genealogy has a paragraph on the disk brothers lost explanation: according to legend, Tang Guangqi two years (AD 886) disk, blue, Lei, Zhong, Li and other surnames of the She more than 360 Dingkou, from the King of Min Wang Wang Auditory by the sea to Min, to the Lianjiang Mabidao disembarked, migrated to live in Luoyuan Damtou. Pan Wang Bi a boat was drifted by the wind, do not know where to go, so Pan surname in the She lost. The Pan surname, the older brother in the She legend, stayed in Guangdong. However, the Pan surname in the Yao ethnic group is a lot, but also blue, Lei and other surnames. The two tribes still maintain a Chinese-language document, called the "Passing Mountain List" among the Yao and the "Kaishan Gongzhi" among the She, both of which are similar in content, and both of which contain the same record of the legend of Pan gourd, which is of a primitive totem-worship nature, as well as an account of the feudal emperor giving them coupons and permitting them to rent mountainous land without paying grain rent or serving corvée service and other privileges, but they are not permitted to farm on the plains and are not permitted to intermarry with the Han Chinese.  In terms of language, although more than 99% of the She people speak a language close to the Hakka dialect of Chinese, the She people living in Huiyang, Haifeng, Zengcheng and Boro in Guangdong speak the Yao "Bunu" language, which belongs to the Miao branch of the Miao-Yao family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The She people of Fenghuang Mountain in Chaoan County, Guangdong Province, certainly speak Chaozhou or Hakka, but in the Chaozhou Prefecture Records, it is recorded that the avian people of this area used to speak a language similar to the Miao and Yao branch of the Miao-Yao language family, which is spoken by the She people of the present-day areas of Haifeng, Huiyang, Zengcheng, and Boluo. In terms of tones, although there are many places where She folk songs are similar to Hakka songs, there are four traditional basic tones of the She people in the Ningde area of Fujian Province that are completely different from the Hakka songs (Funing, Fuding, Xiapu, and Luolian), which are similar to the basic tones of the Yao people, who call themselves "Mian," and of the Bunu Yao, who call themselves "Bunu Yao. These four basic tunes are strikingly similar to those of the Yao who call themselves "Mian" and the "Bunu Yao". The traditional basic tune of the folk songs sung by the Yao people is the "Lafa tune", and there are many similarities between the "following voice" of the long tones in the Lafa tune and the two-part chorus of the She people's "double bar fall". The basic features of the Yao Lafa tune and the Luolian tune of the She ethnic group in Luoyuan and Lianjiang counties are the same in terms of tone (including tone sequence, mode and rhythm). The kinship of ethnic languages reflects the close relationship between their ethnic origins, and close ethnic relatives are the basis of language kinship.  Based on the above reasons, it is inferred that She and Yao originated from one of the "Southern Barbarians" including the "Wuling Barbarians" in Changsha during the Han and Jin Dynasties, and that the historical relationship between them is very close. The number of holders of this statement is more, because of the corroboration of the material is more abundant. So it is more credible.  Eastern Barbarians (2) Eastern Barbarians. On the basis of the saying that She and Yao originated from the "Wuling barbarians", Prof. Pan Guangdan further traced the origin of the She people back to the "Xuyi", a group of the "Dongyi" who lived in the southwest of China between the Huaihe River and the Yellow River during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and believed that the She people were closely related to the "Dongyi". "They believe that the She and most of the Yao originated from the "Wuling barbarians", who were formed by the integration of other ethnic groups after the "Eastern Barbarians" moved to the western regions of Hubei and Hunan. The "Wuling Barbarians" were formed after "Dongyi" moved to the western area of E and Xiang and merged with other ethnic groups. He believed that "Xuyi" had close relationship with Miao, Yao, and She, and that a part of them later moved to the Yangtze River basin and entered the Wuling Mountain Range, which is the Yao that developed into the Yao today, and a part of them went eastward from the Wuling Mountain Range to the mountainous areas of Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang, where they intermingled and integrated with the Han Chinese and became She; and another part of them settled in the area around the Dongting Lake, that is, the Yao that later entered western Hunan and Guizhou, and then became She. The other part settled in the area of Dongting Lake, that is, the Miao who later entered western Hunan and Guizhou. Some people have compared the cultural heritage of the Gaoxin and the "Dongyi" and the She, such as burying the dead in caves, reburying the bones of the dead, singing instead of crying in funerals, not worshipping men and women when getting married, women tying buns, covering green scarves, tying red headbands, inserting silver ornaments with flowers and birds, wearing phoenix-feathered clothes and crowns, combing and making up with "copper mirrors", cooking with "copper mirrors", and cooking with "copper mirrors", and cooking with "copper mirrors". "Women wear buns, green scarves, red headbands, silver ornaments of birds and flowers, phoenix-feathered crowns, brass mirrors for grooming, "li" for cooking, "pickaxes" for production, "crossbows" for hunting, and wooden slippers and grass-cage shoes, and they are fond of singing mountain songs. They call themselves "Xujia people", call the Han Chinese in the Middle Kingdom "Fuli", and call the indigenous Han Chinese "Minjia people" and "Minjia people". ""Minjia people", indicating that the early She people did not have a dynastic household registry and were not "people"; they extolled the "Phoenix Bird", and wrote on the crossbrow of the front door when they got married The four-word horizontal couplet "The Phoenix Comes Here" was written on the header of the main door at the time of marriage, etc., indicating that Emperor Gaoxin's ?ukú, Dongyi, Xuyi and the She people had an extremely close relationship with each other.  From the migration of the pre-Qin clans, myths and legends, archaeological data and cultural characteristics, this theory proves that one of the Wuling barbarians, "Dongyi" (i.e., Mautou), was born from the "Eastern Barbarians" and was a member of the "Eastern Barbarians". After the "Eastern Barbarians" moved to western Hunan and western Hubei, the "Mautou" (i.e., Mochou) was formed by integrating the components of the Sanmiao and Qiangdi (Injun). By the time of the Tang and Song dynasties, during the migration process, the Mautu had developed into new ethnic groups, the She and Yao, and some of them joined the Miao. Some people have even found clues about the close relationship between the She and the "Eastern Barbarians" in the genealogical records of the She tribe. Legend has it that during the time of King Discus, the king of the "Eastern Barbarians" offered three beautiful women, Qizhen, Qigui and Qizhu, who were so beautiful and graceful that King Discus gave his eldest daughter, Qizhen, to his eldest son, Pan Zineng; his second daughter, Qisi, to his second son, Lan Guanghui; and his third daughter, Qizhu, to his third son, Lei Juyou. His granddaughter, Princess Longlang, was married to Zhong Zhishen.  "Descendants of the Yue People (3) Descendants of the Yue People (3) Descendants of the Yue People (3) Descendants of the Yue People. It is believed that the She people are the descendants of the ancient Yue people. This theory is based on the historical records about the ancient Yue people and today's She people in the distribution of geographic contrast, folklore and historical records of the coincidence of the same, or from the evolution of the clan name meaning, sound inference, and the She, Yue has *** with the legend of Discus, *** with the same mode of production, the level of production and *** with the same customs, etc., it is believed that the She people are the descendants of the ancient Yue people. In the "Yue people" descent theory, there are many different specific sayings, such as that the She people are the descendants of the Yue king Goujian or Fan Li during the Spring and Autumn period; there are those who believe that the She people are the descendants of the Yue people of the Qin and Han dynasties in China; and there are also those who believe that the She people are the descendants of the ''Shan Yue'', which originated from the Han and Jin dynasties, especially with the Han and Jin dynasties. "It is also believed that the She are the descendants of the Yue people of the Qin and Han Dynasties in China, and that the She are the descendants of the Shan Yue people, who were crushed by the Han and Jin Dynasties, and in particular, the She are closely related to the Nanhai Wangwei, the descendants of the Yue people, who were fiefs in the border area of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan in the 10th year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (196 BC), and so on.  The "Southern Barbarians" theory (4) The "Southern Barbarians" theory. The She tribe is considered to be one of the "barbarians" or "southern barbarians", and is an indigenous people of Guangdong. It believes that the legend of Pan Gou was not only spread among the "Wuling barbarians", but also among the "Liang Han, Ba Shu, Wuling, Changsha and Lujiang county barbarians", which is equivalent to half of today's southern China. It is said that She and Yao have a close historical relationship with the "southern barbarians" who worshiped the legend of Discus in the Yangtze River during the Han and Jin dynasties, and because the She people in Fujian and Zhejiang are known to all households as the birthplace of their ethnic group in Guangdong's Fenghuang Mountain, which proves that the She people are the "southern barbarians" who have long resided in Guangdong during the Eastern Han Dynasty. This proves that the She are the "Southern Barbarians" who lived in Guangdong for a long time during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and are the indigenous people of Guangdong.  The "Min" Descendants Theory (5) The Fujian Indigenous "Min" Descendants Theory. This is believed that the Min and Yue are two ancient ethnic groups in southern China, the Min are the indigenous people of Fujian, is the first people of She, Yue is the Hakka in Fujian, She is not derived from the Yue.