The common people used to be called civilians by aristocrats, who originally referred to as peaceful people

People are civilians. In modern Chinese, there is a word for ordinary people or ordinary people. But do you know? Once upon a time, people were also the name of aristocrats.

Common people, as the name suggests, are hundreds of family names, which is the collective name of various surnames. The surname is broken down to be a girl, which is related to matriarchal society. The Yellow Emperor's mother lived in Jishui, and Emperor Shun's mother lived in Yaoxu, so their surname was Ji and Yao. In ancient times, ordinary people had no surnames. Only aristocrats had surnames. At that time, sons did not follow their fathers 'surnames. It is said that the Yellow Emperor once gave 12 surnames to his descendants. "Shang Shu·Yao Dian" talks about "Pingzhang People", and the people here refer to aristocrats. With the disintegration of aristocratic politics, surnames were no longer the exclusive preserve of aristocrats during the Warring States Period. Correspondingly, the common people also referred to civilians.

There are many synonyms for people. For example, the people. Legend has it that during the ancient Zhuolu War, the Yellow Emperor Group and the Yan Emperor Group formed an alliance. Each tribe usually only had a few surnames, which added up to a considerable number. The ancients liked to count a number, and said it was more than a hundred, so they were called "common people." After defeating the Jiuli people of Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor called the defeated and captured Jiuli people "Li Min" to distinguish them from the "common people".

Civilian people, originally meant people who were peaceful and kind, and later referred to the common people. Common people, also known as common people, were the term used to refer to farmers and small merchants whose status was higher than slaves before the Qin and Han Dynasties; after the Qin and Han Dynasties, they referred to general civilians. In ancient times, the rich wore silk and silk, and the common people wore linen, so the common people were called "common people". Chinese people, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, referred to the civilians living in and around the capital, as opposed to the savage people far away from the cities. Later, Chinese people generally referred to people in the country and people in the country. Qianshou, Guizhou is black. During the Warring States Period, Qin still used black cloth to bathe black civilians, so it was called "Qianshou". Qishou is probably related to the people of Li. In the ancient Chinese, Li Tong Li also means black. The original meaning of common people refers to places where vegetation is overgrown, and later refers to ordinary people. The common people are the common people plus the common people. Mass, mass is also an old word, meaning everyone. This word has been used in Xunzi and Shiji. It can also be understood as a mob that needs leadership. People is also an old word. In the era when Confucius lived, people did not include the people. The people were slaves, and people were figures above scholars. In ancient books, people are used together together, generally referring to life, but also referring to civilians, common people and common people. In modern times, the masses and people have become the most well-known terms to refer to the people. Click to go to next page Click to go to next page

Interestingly, people can use it with elders. China people respect or reverence certain things and regard them as old, such as God, teachers, tigers, etc. Putting the old word in front of the people is probably deliberately done by a certain powerful person to show his respect for the people. However, ordinary people only appear in spoken language, and it is difficult to find traces of them in written language.

There are ordinary people and little ordinary people. There is a saying of little people in the Yuan Opera, and little people probably originated from this. He is young and old, and the helplessness of the people lies in these four words.