1. "Ou" is an artifact?
Some scholars believe that Ou is a vessel for putting things. It is said that in ancient times, this place was named after the word "ou" because of its mass production in Wenzhou today. The word "ou" appears next to the word tile, which is obvious and easy to understand. It should refer to a small country with developed pottery and kiln industry. However, some experts disagree. Although "ou" is interpreted as a "small pot" in ancient books, how different it is from small pots, small bowls, small pots, teacups, teapots and teacups is still inconclusive. Moreover, in some early documents related to "ou", there is no expression related to southern Zhejiang. Even the "Yue Ou", which was first seen in some poems in the Tang Dynasty, was actually very late. Most of the "Yue Ou" refers to the celadon of Ou kiln that appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In this way, it seems that the saying named after Ouchi, invented by Europeans, has fallen into an insoluble contradiction.
2. "Europe" is an Europe?
Huang Xianfan wrote A General History of Zhuang Nationality, saying that "Ou" and "Qu" are combined into one, and Shuowen said: "Ou, ... Qu sounds". "Cut to the marquis of Wu". Therefore, "ou" refers to people who live nearby. Liu said in his "Ancient Nankai National Examination"; "Ou to sound, area, for the rugged hiding place. From the words of the district, it is all Quyi. Therefore, all the places where mountains and forests are dangerous are called ou, and there are many trees in the south, so the ancients called ou because they are called ou people. Europe is named after mountains and rivers. " It can be seen that people living here are called Ou people because of the mountains, rivers and lakes in the south. "Ou", namely "Lu", "Qu" and "Ou", is the ethnic name of the early Yue people. Yi: Yi Yin is the commander-in-chief of the four directions, with Lu Yue in the east and Ou people in the south. Song Lomi's History of the Road records that the "Yue State" is in Hepu Luo Li County. "Ou Yi" and "Gio" don't pay attention to the ground. "Wu in eastern Mongolia is also Lipu in Han Dynasty." "Encounter" means that there is an encounter mountain twenty miles east of Wucheng. Oden is the state of Chu. During the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, people often referred to the Yue people in the southeast coast as Ou people, and called Ou people, Shen Lu and Yuelu together. Lingnan people are called passers-by, Oden and Luo Yue, probably because the appellation is complicated and unclear. Later, people combined the original title with the geographical location of the Yue people, called the Yue people distributed in the southeast coast Dongyue or Dongou, and called the part distributed in Lingnan Xiyue or Xiou. It can be seen that Ou's name is Ou with locative words, so it is obviously called Ou to distinguish it from Dong Ou. ""Sun Yirang, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, has a deep study of Wenzhou's history and anecdotes, and also advocates that these words should be "real", that is to say, they should communicate with each other.
From the side of the word "ou", according to the statement in Shuowen Jiezi, "District,-District, Zangyin also, from the product, in the middle, means the appearance of hills in the bay. In 1988, Jin Zuming believes that the words "region" and "Europe" should refer to a very large region, a very small country, just like an island or continent surrounded by water on three or four sides. " "Lu" refers to a small country with deep water and fast-flowing water on all sides.
1990, Zhu wrote an article explaining "ou", thinking that "ou" refers to ou people, which originated in Taihu Lake and Hangzhou Bay. Mr Zhu thinks "ou" is not a Chinese word. "Local Records of Li Zhouzhi" says: "Yangzhou is in the southeast ... it has a beautiful place." The "belt" here should refer to many small lakes in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the pre-Qin period, especially the large and small islands separated by water along the coast. In the local indigenous languages, "Tuqu" is the general name of this kind of Shui Ze. For people who live on these islands nearby, they are called "Ou people" because of their special environment and ecology, and they are essentially "District people". "Ou" and "Qu" are two urgent and slow translations of the same word by Ou people. According to the records in Shangshu and Historical Records, "Huaihai is only in Yangzhou, and the island is a flower suit", these "Ou people" who live in water and land are translated into "island people", and Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Nan Jing says that "Ou lives in the sea" is exactly in line with this point. In this sense, "islanding" seems to be the most accurate free translation of "Gull Man" by China people according to the characteristics of geographical environment.
3. "Europe" is a god bird?
Cai Kejiao believes that it is in danger of getting into trouble to study the ancient history of Wenzhou with traditional textual research and exegetical methods similar to the above. So he tried to interpret this historical mystery with totem worship. Totem is a foreign word, and Yan Fu thinks totem is a symbol of groups, aiming at distinguishing groups. Marx once defined in essence that "totem" represents the symbol or symbol of the clan. This is a sign or symbol of "deification".
Cai Ke once wrote that from a large number of archaeological, philological, ethnological and other materials, it is found that most ethnic groups in the southeast coast are bird totems. So, what will be the totem of Europeans? Ou Di is near the East China Sea of China. For Ou people living on coastal land and islands, the most common bird is the gull. Tottori's name is Ou, which is determined by Tottori's song. It is not uncommon for ancient China people to call an animal by chirping, which is called a family name.
In view of the close relationship between ou birds and the life of ou people, including the economic life of ou ancestors living in coastal areas at that time was mainly fishing and hunting, and a large number of ou birds were killed, which affected the source of life of ou people. In order to protect the ecology and survive, Ou people entered the stage of totem worship in the Neolithic Age, and Ou birds became divine birds. Xia Nai, a famous archaeologist, mentioned in the preface of Zhejiang Neolithic Atlas that among the Neolithic unearthed in Wenzhou, the arrow is the characteristic of Wenzhou.
When the production mode of Ou people gradually changed to primitive agriculture, making and using pottery, and at this time the Central Plains region has entered a civilized society, with the gradual strengthening of contact with the outside world, Wenzhou where Ou people live is called "Ou".