During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the territory of Chu was the most vast, including Jianghan Plain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Even though Chu had a vast territory, it was eventually destroyed by Daqin, who came from behind. The pride of Chu people was crushed to dust under Qin Xuanyi's iron hoof, and this sentence was left in his grief and indignation: "Although there are three households in Chu, Qin will die."
The three clans here do not refer to the three clans in Chu, but to the three most influential clans in Chu: "Qu, Jing and Zhao". The meaning of this sentence is that although Chu was destroyed, Chu, Qu, Jing and Zhao have successors, and it must be Chu who destroyed Qin!
The background of Chu surname "Historical Records of Chu Family" records that the ancestor of Chu royal family is Ji Lian, whose surname is Mi, and Ji Lian has a descendant named Mi Xiong. In the Zhou Dynasty, Xiong Yi, the great-grandson of Mi Xiong, was made a viscount, and Xiong Yi was named Mi Shi.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the public surname of Chu was "Mi", and only the surname of the monarch could be regarded as "Bear". If it is not a monarch, it is impossible to take "bear" as the surname.
The descendants of Ji Lian scattered branches and leaves in Chu. Except for the monarch who took "Xiong" as his surname, the "Shi" of other descendants of Mi's surname appeared various divisions in the development of Chu State.
The first differentiation is that it later evolved into, class, Miao and so on. After Shicheng was destroyed, a Shi Xiang appeared in the cloth, and Xiang Yu was a ethnic group.
After some series of evolution, Qu, Jing and Zhao had the greatest influence in the Warring States period and became the three most representative "clans" in Chu.
Qu: The son of Qu was born in Qu (now east of Zigui County), and his descendants took Qu as their surname.
Scene: Wang Chang's son Chuping, Xiong Zixi, Chu Lingyin, the ancestor of Jing; Zhao: The illegitimate son of Wang and Xiong. There are many people in the three clans, which have a great influence on Chu. Later, the royal family of Chu specially set up "Doctor San Lv" to manage the three clansmen.
Tai Shigong recorded the slogan "Although there are three households in Chu, Qin will die" in Historical Records, which shows that this slogan had a great influence on the people at that time. It is like a single spark, which can start a prairie fire, burning a corner of the shady rule of Tiequan in Daqin Empire, revealing a glimmer of light.
Xiang Yu, a descendant of Chu Xiang's family, shouldered the banner against Daqin, led Jiangdong's children to stir up the world at the end of Qin Dynasty, defeated Wang Li, killed Zi Ying, the king of Qin, personally destroyed the first unified empire in the history of China, and fulfilled the sentence "Although Chu has three families, Qin will die"!
To sum up, in the long history, the Chu royal family actually evolved more than 70 "clans". Judging from the extension of this sentence, "Although there are three Chu clans, Qin will die", the "three clans" actually represent the remaining clans of Chu. The world thinks that there are so many talents among the gentry of Chu State that they must have destroyed the Great Qin State!