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There are indeed some Chu people in Chu who are Miao people. Chu was a vassal state established by the Chinese nation in southern China during the Zhou Dynasty. Chu people were also Chu people at that time, and Chu people were diverse. In the long-term exchange, war and integration of ancient ancestors in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valley, Chu people with the same language, economic life, culture and psychological quality were finally formed in Jingchu area. Chu nationality is named after Chu land.

There are always different opinions about the origin of Chu people, or whether they were Chu people at first. Hu Houxuan further put forward that "Chu's ancestor was Zhu Rong" in the article "Chu Nationality Originated in the East". In addition, many scholars believe that Chu people belong to Miao barbarians. Zhou Gucheng pointed out in the General History of China that the Chu people called themselves "barbarians".

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Miao History According to historical documents and oral materials of Miao people, Miao ancestors first lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and their ancestors were Chiyou. They moved to Jianghan Plain in the "Three Miao" era, and then gradually moved to the south and west due to war and other reasons, and entered the southwest mountainous area and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some Miao people migrated to Southeast Asian countries, and in modern times they migrated from these places to Europe and America.

In ancient times, Miao people were called "Jingchu", "Man Jing" and "Na Man", and that's it. After Yu brutally cut down three seedlings, there were no records of three seedlings in the Central Plains literature. Different appellations of Jingchu,, and Na Man all refer to the * * * status of Miao people. His predecessor was Sanmiao, and the descendants of Sanmiao reappeared in history under the abstract guise of "scenery", "Chu" and "Man". These appellations confuse the appellations of Miao and other nationalities. After the Song Dynasty, Miao was separated from some mixed names of "Man" and became a single national name.

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