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舜·东夷是华夏族（汉族）的证据

It is recorded that the early Dongyi people of Shandong and the Xia Dynasty were the same ancestors. The Y-DNA test results of Longshan culture is O2M122, which is the gene of Han(汉族） nationality，Longshan culture is the predecessor of Yueshi culture (Dongyi people)

《史记》:虞舜者，名曰重华. 重华父曰瞽叟，瞽叟父曰桥牛，桥牛父曰句望，句望父曰敬康，敬康父曰穷蝉，穷蝉父曰帝颛顼，颛顼父曰昌意:以至舜七世矣. 自从穷蝉以至帝舜，皆微为庶人.

这是《史记》对舜祖先的记载，我们可以知道昌意是舜的祖先，接下来，让我们看看昌意的父母是谁？

《史记》载:"黄帝居轩辕之丘，而娶西陵氏之女，是为嫘祖. 嫘祖为黄帝正妃，嫘祖今河南西平县人，嫘祖生二子，其后皆有天下;其一曰玄嚣，是为青阳，青阳降居江水;其二曰昌意，降居若水. " 这还是《史记》的记载，大概意思就是黄帝有两个儿子，一个叫玄嚣（少昊），可以知道舜的祖先是黄帝，黄帝与炎帝的后代统称华夏族，也就是汉族前身，

《孟子》说：舜生于诸冯，迁于负夏，卒于呜条，东夷之人也. 文王生于岐周卒于毕郢，西夷之人也. 地之相去也，千有余里

从《孟子》中可知舜是东夷人结合以上两条记载我们完全可以知道东夷人是黄帝的子孙（华夏族），但是今天有很多韩国人声称东夷是韩国人祖先，这是极为荒谬与愚蠢的，难道黄河文明的黄帝是韩国人祖先？还是黄帝是韩国人？韩国近年来一直声称东夷人是韩国人，并声称“汉字是韩国人祖先东夷人发明的文字，中国专家也承认”In recent years, South Korea has been claiming that the Dongyi people are Korean, and claiming that "Chinese characters were invented by the ancestors of the Korean people, the Dongyi people, which Chinese experts also admit（However, Chinese experts do not say so）".（然而中国专家们只承认山东东夷是汉族祖先，并不承认汉字与韩国有关，However, Chinese experts only admit that the Dongyi people of Shandong Province are the ancestors of the Han nationality, not that the Chinese characters are related to Korea，It is believed that Korea intentionally confused the Shandong Dongyi with the last Dongyi，The Shandong Dongyi had nothing to do with Korea and the late Dongyi）. 尤其是陈泰夏这类韩国教授，也使许多山东网友愤怒. 其次中国人所说的东夷是岳石文化，龙山文化，大汶口文化等一脉相承的中国东部史前文化，而龙山文化的骨刻文是中国最早且较为完整的文字，且东夷人的龙山文化中的DNA被测出是O2M122，是汉族的主体基因. 并且汉朝之前的东夷与汉朝之后的东夷并不相同，汉朝之后的东夷是高句丽，百济，三韩，日本，琉球，满洲等国家，而汉朝前的东夷是黄河中下游的居民，并且汉族本身就起源于黄河中下游，东夷本身就是一种方位词，像“西夷”一样被用来指代周朝与夏朝，而韩国的历史发明家们就是把早期的黄河东夷与后期东夷曲解为一个民族. 要是韩国人真的与黄河东夷有关系的话，那为什么黄河的地区比半岛地区早很长一段时间？为什么韩国没有与东夷文化类似的文物？为什么连“琉球”这个与东亚民族没有太大关系的国家也算作东夷？难道整个东亚都是韩国人的？他们选择性无视东夷龙山文化的DNA测序结果，拿着汉朝之后的史书声称“东夷人是韩国人祖先”并且在《后汉书·东夷列传》中连箕子，卫满这些华夏族都被称作东夷，这完全证明了东夷只是一个方位词，但是韩国人拿着《后汉书》的资料却无视华夏族卫满与华夏族箕子，日本，琉球，满族祖先也被称作东夷，好在山东地区对东夷历史的教育做的还不错，没有被韩国的历史发明家蒙骗，笔者认为东夷文化比汉服还要重要，因为华夏族就起源于黄河东夷地区（山东以及其他省份），是黄河文明的起源，不能把我们的源头拱手让人，中国政府也应该多加宣传黄河东夷，以防韩国再次盯上黄河东夷. 有些韩国人以某些汉语的发音类似于韩语的原因声称“汉字是韩国祖先东夷人发明的”，并且陈泰夏的东夷汉字事件还被韩国政府拿来宣传，发到韩国的新闻媒体上（陈泰夏是韩国人）. 是极为令人反感的. 东夷龙山文化确实发明了汉字，但是东夷龙山文化不是韩国的史前文化！


 * 龙山文化：是岳石文化的前身，大汶口文化的继承者，发明了骨刻文，但骨刻文原型是贾湖刻符，岳石文化与史书中记载的东夷部落的地理方位，文化特征一致，所以龙山文化，岳石文化被称作东夷人
 * O2M122：汉族主体基因，山东汉人的O2M122在汉人中是最多的，原名是O3M122，但之后因O1与旧O2合并了所以O3改名为O2


 * 《后汉书》是明朝时期的书籍

It is recorded in the historical records that Chiyou（蚩尤） and Shaohao（少昊） were the sons of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang, but they were both leaders of the Eastern Yi, and the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty were also leaders of the Eastern Yi (the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty were nephews of Shaohao).And Chiyou's descendants are Miao people and Han people, their genes are the branch or ontology of O2M122. 本文章在2021年3月16日发表在中文维基百科的“讨论”中 文章在2021年3月5日编写 作者：3H文化科普数据库（哔哩哔哩账号） — Preceding unsigned comment added by 3H cultural database (talk • contribs) 12:10, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the Longshan Culture
The Longshan Culture was not just "Dongyi" and did not just exist in Shandong and other eastern coastal areas of China. Areas further west, including much of the middle and lower Yellow River Valley region, was also a part of the Longshan Culture area. Historians such as Jacques Gernet think that the Longshan Culture was also culturally ancestral to the Erlitou Culture and the later Shang dynasty in the middle Yellow River Valley region. There are some good evidence for this claim, for both the Longshan and Shang cultures shared the following basic elements:

1. A similar technique of divination based on heating animal bones and shells until they crack. 2. Similar construction techniques for city-walls, fortifications and building platforms using rammed earth. 3. Similar artistic styles.

Furthermore, the Shang dynasty technology of bronze metallurgy seems to be the descendant of high temperature ceramic-making techniques used by the late Neolithic Longshan Culture. - cyl

The "absurd claims"
It seems that those very same claims are currently being written into the article at Three Gojoseon. Those interested in the topic here may want to go over there for a look. --Yuje 06:53, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I get the feeling that whoever wrote the "South Korea" section has some revision to do. His facts are too opinionated and consist of heavy generalization. The fact that many Korean scholars are saying this of Confucius and several other figures in East Asian history is the fact that the Ye-Maek people, who were among the Dong-Yi, originated in the Shandong Peninsula, which is where Confucius' hometown is. It is true that scholars in Korea have claimed this but whether they are academic or not is something that no one can be sure of unless they have directly met him or did accurate research on the specific group laying the claims. I demand that someone erase those phrases and keep opinions out. --Kprideboi 22:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Just my input for whatever it's worth but recently there has been alot of controversy surrounding the Dongyi peoples as to who their descendants are. Some claim that the Shang Dynasty were Dongyi people and were not ethnic Chinese therefore the Chinese civilization was founded by a non-Chinese ethnic group and that China's cultural ancestors were not Chinese. This argument makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. First of all it doesn't matter ethnic group the Xia, Shang, and Zhou peoples were. They could have been aliens for all it matters, they were still forebearers of the modern Chinese civilization we see today and throughout history as well and therefore Chinese people have the right to claim descent from those people and cultures. Secondly how is it possible that descendants are not related to their ancestors? The whole definition of an ancestor is A person from whom one is descended, a forebear in lineage. It's like saying parents are not related to their children and see themselves as something else, a foreign group rather than their own.

East Yi West Xia
I reverted Guss2's insertion of the "East Yi West Xia" theory. What I mean by "the hypothsis of the pluralistic origins of Chinese culture" is not that obsolete theory but the theory originally named "區系類型論," which started to gain broad support in 1980s. And I don't think it's better to introduce "East Yi West Xia" here because it just confuses readers unfamiliar with this topic. --Nanshu 02:24, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello Nanshu! There are still some questions which keep puzzling me. If you will spent some time in answering them I feel obliged to you:
 * Is it always possible to exchange Yi for Dongyi when talking about the ancient people living in Haidai region, whatever the period talked about, or should Dongyi be reserved for some specific time-period?
 * Does the East Yi West Xia theory, which you rightly call obsolete, talk about Yi or about the same Dongyi mentioned in this article?
 * Although the East Yi West Xia theory is obsolete it was very influential during the 30 odd years it was accepted. Confusing readers can never be a good reason to omit this theory in an ecyclopaedic article talking about usage of Dongyi in modern times. So should the theory at least be mentioned, eventually embedded in a warning that it is an obsolete theory?
 * When talking about 區系類型 isn't it better to name the scholar (Su Bingqi 蘇秉琦) who introduced the theory instead of a vaguely Some Chinese scholars?
 * Does Su Bingqi talk about Yi or Dongyi (or is it all the same, see first question)?
 * A Chinese archaeologist like Luan Fengshi refers to the Yueshi culture as representing Dongyi. But according to D. Cohen this interpretation is problematic. In his The Yueshi Culture, the Dong Yi and the Archaeology of Ethnicity in Early Bronze Age China (Ph.D. Dissertation Harvard University), Cambridge MA, 2001) he argues the Dongyi as an ethnic group was a concept initially formed during the Western Zhou dynasty, which is a few hundred years later than the Yueshi culture; there is no necessary linkage between the stylistic similarity of an archaeological culture such as the Yueshi culture and the ethnic group identified as Dongyi by itself and others during the Yueshi period. Archaeologically speaking, the Yueshi culture, probably comprising a number of social groups, shows a level of social complexity similar to the Longshan chiefdoms. Should this doubt be inserted into the article?
 * Finally I remain puzzled by the sentence Some other scholars also claim a connection between ancient Dongyi and the modern Yi people in southwestern China.[2]. Unfortunately the reference you gave is not available here. So please could you tell me in just a few words how this connection is explained. For me this connection as it is brought into the article seems rather illogical from a geographical point of view, though I admit I am an outsider on this point. Guss2 12:10, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Before answering your questions, I want you to keep in mind: Okay. I'm trying to answer them. --Nanshu 11:33, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) As the original author of this article, I aimed to arrange historical usages of Dongyi in chronological order. I lean toward literary sources. Honestly, modern usages lie outside of my scope of interest. I'm not an expert of Chinese archaeology.
 * 2) Personally, I don't support Chinese scholars' usage of Dongyi. The section 3.1 is my reckless attempt to summarize what they say.
 * 1) As stated in the article, I think the term "Dongyi" came into use during the Western Zhou Dynasty. I don't like to apply this term to earlier people.
 * 2) Not sure.
 * 3) For me it's difficult to organize nicely current theories which vary considerably and often contradict each other. Adding old theories is beyond my ability. But if you can, I welcome your work.
 * 4) If you think so, I don't prevent you from improving the article.
 * 5) Not sure.
 * 6) His opinion is useful, I think. As I said above, I personally dont't support Chinese scholars' usage of Dongyi. I'm always skeptical about assumptions that mythology reflects distant past.
 * 7) I also doubt the validity of the Dongyi-Yi彝 connection. I learned this theory when I read Matsumaru:1999, which was a kind of a tutorial for Feng Shi's paper (冯时:「山东丁公龙山时代文字解读」『考古』、1994年第1期). Then I read Cai:2003 and found out about supporters of the far-fetched story. Cai claims that the Yi people 彝人 were identical with the Yi people 夷人 and that some of the Yi 夷 people of modern-day Shandong province moved to the southwestern provinces of Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan around 1600 BCE. He attributes his explanation to the late Wang Xiangtang 王献唐 but does not cite his source (personal communication?).


 * Nanshu is to be commended for starting and improving this interesting and informative article. Nanshu has a superb understanding of this issue from the perspective of Chinese historical literature. It will be satisfying to see this article become GA class before too long. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but in order to become a good article according to wikipedia standards, the article needs to consider the wider usage of the term from the perspective of Korean history, Chinese archaeology, and western archaeology. May I humbly and respectfully suggest that Nanshu keep in mind the policy here at wikipedia in regards to ownership of articles WP:OWN. I am a little concerned to see Nanshu's response above in the same thread, especially where the Nanshu writes: "As the original author of this article...", "...if you can, I welcome your work", etc. However, I was relieved when I saw that Nanshu left a positive message about this content dispute on another editor's talk page because he mentioned using proper dispute resolution methods. I don't mean to provoke anyone. I would like to see the article take off and be representative of the idea as it is seen in China, Korea, and the discipline of archaeology. I hope that editors will use the talk page to discuss actual editing issues. Humbly yours, Phlegmswicke of Numbtardia 14:07, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

The character 夷
I find some of the interpretation of 夷 in Oracle script as 尸 in this article ridiculous and naive. Some of the Oracle scripts of Yi look like a side view of sitting man.(sometimes sitting on a bench). Its shape may share some similarity with that of the morden day Chinese character 尸. But the oracle scripts of 夷 and 尸 look totally different. They are totally two different characters in both ancient and modern usage. There is no Chinese dictionary equals these two. Can "姨" be interpretated as female corpse? I suggest to have these ridiculous content removed from the article. Coasilve 20:58, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Please clarify what you dispute and what you don't.

I don't claim that 夷 and 尸 were originally a single word that were later differentiated. But a certain set of graphemes in the oracle script can be interpreted as both 夷 and 尸. The two graphemes Image:Yi oracle.png were taken from the Kōkotsumoji Jishaku Sōran 甲骨文字字釋綜覽 (Matsumaru Michio 松丸道雄 and Takashima Ken'ichi 高嶋謙一 ed., p. 252, 1994.). This book lists the interpretations of various scholars per grapheme. You can see that some identify them as 尸 while others as 夷 and 夷/尸. In addition, 夷 used as compounds in classics including 周禮 sometimes means 尸, as in 夷衾, 夷槃 and 夷牀. We can hardly say 夷 and 尸 are totally unrelated.

As for 姨 (and 痍), they have traditionally been classified as 形聲 characters, as far as I know. I'm not sure whether they are semantically related to 夷 (as Tōdō Akiyasu 藤堂明保 claimed). Other characters containing 夷 include 恞胰洟桋荑眱銕. ti (洟, 桋, 荑) imply phonetic relations to 弟. Actually Karlgren and others assume the initial d- for 夷, making it sound more close to 弟.

Lastly, I suspect these graphemes did not directly evolve into the modern form of 夷. There was not necessarily one-to-one mapping from word to grapheme in distant past. I guess that the forms common in the oracle script were replaced by the other form that eventually became the form of 夷. But I'm not sure whether it's etymologically correct to decompose 夷 into 大 and 弓. If my memory is correct, one dictionary claimed that "an arrow with attached silk cord" and another says that "a tall man with a short man." (I cannot verify that for now as libraries are closed.) In any case the word 夷 never meant bowmen. And the 夷 in oracle bone inscriptions that refers to a certain groups of people is the corpse-like graphemes. --Nanshu (talk) 13:12, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

South Korea section
Sorry I'm late. And a lot of things are on my stack.

I restored the original content because no one has clarified the reasons for deletion. Some informally gave the reasons but they targeted the section as a whole, not each part of the section. Note that this article contains a fair-use image that will be deleted if unused.

Now I give a short comment on Ocleta's replacement.
 * In South Korea, the Chinese characters for Dongyi is pronounced dong-i (동이). It is considered by Koreans as the name that the Chinese used to call the people to its east.  It is thought to refer to the various peoples of this geographic region, rather that a specific ethnicity, although the term later expanded to include specific ethnic groups. Yahoo Korea Encyclopedia article

This short encyclopedia article is not helpful because they don't provide verifiable detailed account. As a matter of fact, they don't contradict the description I wrote. The rest is included in the interim edition. I will work on it later. --Nanshu (talk) 22:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Where did you get that image? I don't think this is a valid fair use exception, but even besides that, I seriously doubt its authenticity. Looks like something someone created for a Japanese nationalist blog or chat board. Ocleta (talk) 22:44, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * User: Nanshu, I had left my opinion on your talk page. First, the "bowmen" theory is not defunct. It is everywhere and I have added sources in the article. Second, according to the source you provided, "Confucious is Korean" is just someone's personal opinion that appeared in a discussion forum of a website. That is not a suitable source. Someone had already clarified this nonsense. Please don't add these information to this article again. Third, as for whether Koreans consider Dongyi as one ethnic group or not. You didn't provide any source. User:Ocleta provided a source for his statement. I'm not sure whether the source has such information or not, because I don't know Korean language. You seem to know Korean. Maybe you can check it out youself. If it is provided in the source. I think you at least should not delete his information. Coasilve (talk) 23:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Reliable sources about Dongyi
These are citations from Classic Chinese history records: These are sources from peer reviewed acamedic journals: These are sources from Chinese government or government media:
 * 《左傳》稱：「紂克東夷而損其身」.
 * 《礼记·射义》载：“挥作弓，夷牟作矢.
 * 何德亮,“试论青州地区的东夷文化”, <<管子学刊>>2009年 第01期.
 * 逄振镐, "从图像文字到甲骨文——史前东夷文字史略", 《中原文物》2002年第2期
 * 韩建业, 杨新改; "大汶口文化的立鸟陶器和瓶形陶文"《江汉考古》2008年第3期
 * 俞伟超:《龙山文化与良渚文化衰变的奥秘》, 《纪念城子崖遗址发掘60 周年国际学术讨论会文集》, 齐鲁书社, 1993 年
 * 神秘东夷甲骨文现山东 疑比殷墟甲骨早千年雅安市档案局, 2008年10月27日
 * 东夷及其文化发展 山东省情网
 * 追寻东夷族的文化足迹 新华网

This article is about Dongyi, not about the meaming of Yi. It should focus on Dongyi people's history, culture etc. Ecourr (talk) 03:05, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * In terms of grammer, the paragraphs you contributed are badly-written and poorly constructed; they have no cohesion and seems like they were put together hastly and then puted onto the article.--TheLeopard (talk) 06:56, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Now, the three Chinese "peer-reviewed" articles   you provided (there aren't much English language information about these "academic journals" and the host site http://www.cqvip.com/ is a commercial Chinese website) provided very little actual information.  Importantly, they do not support many of the claims you put forth, i.e. "Dongyi culture is one of the oldest civilization in China[1] and also the most advanced one in China at that time...oldest in China...more advanced culture...etc."  These articles talked about pottery, and written symbols, but THEY DID NOT make any concrete claims.   You seems to be simply interpretating sources on your behalf and putting in your own words.  Unless these three articles explictly states information concerns your claims, it is not acceptable to go to your own conclusions.--TheLeopard (talk) 06:56, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * These Chinese language Government sources are even harder to verify as they have no background sources and are largely anonymous. Further, I noticed in several of the articles, the tone is hypothetical; they are not presented as "hard-evidences" but as "possibilities" and were simply asking "questions". Several of these articles' tone of voice makes them seem like commentary pieces and in a subjective "travelog-esque" manner (such as in this Xinhua article ).  That is especially a problem the way you are citing them, as to support direct "matter-of-fact" statements.--TheLeopard (talk) 06:56, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

If you think anything of the contents is not perfect, you edit them to make them perfect. You can't simply delete them. There is no reason for you to doubt the reliability of Classis Chinese records, peer reviewed journals, government website and government media. Ecourr (talk) 07:46, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * You haven't addressed any of these questions. The sources are problematic and especially the way you use them to write your entire content is questionable. Just think of a large chunk of badly-written paragraphs that only cites bunch of foreign-language sources (and interpret and translate their content at your own will) by several new account users suddenly appears on an article.--TheLeopard (talk) 07:59, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

The link that I provided for the peer review journals contains article abstacts and summaries. It is for the readers' convenience that I am porividing this link. As for artices on the government website, the authors are either provided at the beginning of the article or the very bottom of the article. The contents you deleted are well supported by these sources. Please stop being rediculous. You can single out which sentence is distortedly cited instead of deleting all the contents. Ecourr (talk) 08:45, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Translated Reliable sources about Dongyi

 * Classic Chinese history records:
 * Zuo Zhuan, the Shang Dynasty was attacked by King Wu of Zhou while attacking Dongyi and collapsed afterwards. 《左傳》稱：「紂克東夷而損其身」.
 * Shuowen Jiezi, It was the ancient Dongyi people Yimou who fist made the arrow.《说文解字·矢部》:“古者夷牟初作矢”
 * Classic of Rites, It was Hui who made the bow and Yimo who made the arrow.《礼记·射义》: "挥作弓，夷牟作矢" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecourr (talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 February 2010
 * You are simply translating classic text in your own opinion. Classical texts such as those shouldn't be used without sources that can offer elaboration, an explanation of the meaning. Can you provide English sources that can elaborate these classic texts?  Without that it could constitutes as original research, because the meaning of these classic text can be interpretated in various ways.--TheLeopard (talk) 21:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess you don't understand Chinese. There is only one meaning for the words cited. The original source is also provided. Ecourr (talk) 04:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * No, that's "your translation" of the classic text. You need to show translation from an actual source.  Its similar to you're writing a statement but cites a line of an ancient Greek text or Biblical text, instead of using actual scholarly sources that elaborate the meaning of the ancient text.--TheLeopard (talk) 06:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you need to learn Chinese before judging others. If a language can't convey exact meaning, it can't be considered a language. There is nothing wrong using classic Chinese when there is no English source. Ecourr (talk) 12:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * You can use classic Chinese text, but within a source of course. You can't just read a sentence of a classic Chinese text and then write information such as "xxx invented this" "xxx was the first" without any elaboration from an actual source.  It would be like directly interpreting a line of ancient Latin or Greek text on your own; the bottomline is you can't simply translate a classic text yourself and then use it.--TheLeopard (talk) 07:54, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Only relevant info are used. Unrelevant contents shouldn't be here. Ecourr (talk) 11:44, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Peer reviewed acamedic journals:
 * Deliang He 何德亮, On the Culture of Ancient Eastern Tribes in Qing Zhou 试论青州地区的东夷文化, Guanzi Journal, 2009, Vol01 <<管子学刊>>2009年 第01期. "From Beixin Culture to Dawenkou culture and the later Longshan culture, the civilation in Qingzhou region had been the most advanced in China. 青州地区从7000多年的北辛文化,到大汶口文化,以及山东龙山文化时期,在全国一直处于领先地位." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecourr (talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 February 2010
 * The text mentioned nothing about Dongyi directly; you are simply linking them together. Again, I think there are translation errors from Chinese, because I don't see the text as stating "most advanced" .  This is the problem with personal translation of foreign text, because you can translate in whichever way you want.--TheLeopard (talk) 21:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The "Eastern Tribes" refers to Dongyi. The original title also directly uses "东夷", which is Dongyi. "在全国一直处于领先地位. " means the leading culuture or the most advanced in China." Ecourr (talk) 04:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Zhenggao Feng 逄振镐, Summary of Prehistory Dongyi Writing System: From Pictogram Characters to Oracle Bone Script 从图像文字到甲骨文——史前东夷文字史略, Cultural Relics of Central China, 2002 Vol 2 《中原文物》2002年第2期. "The writting system of the Dongyi people evolved for a very long time: From the symbol inscription of Beixin Culture to the pictogram characters of Dawenkou culture and the more developed writing characters of Longshan Culture, and at last the oracle bone script of Yueshi culture. The main source of the oracle bone script in the Shang Dynasty should come from the writing system of Dongyi. 古东夷族文字的出现经历了一个漫长的历史发展过程：从北辛文化的刻划符号开始，经过大汶口文化的图像文字、龙山文化文字，到岳石文化的甲骨文字. 我国商代甲骨文的主要源头当来自古东夷族. " —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecourr (talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 February 2010
 * This information does not correlates to mainstream Western academic studies at all; I've not seen any English language academic study that says the oracle bone script came from the writing system of Dongyi(???). This is definitely not a mainstream view. Considering this Chinese source was published in 2002, can you offer any English sources to back this up?--TheLeopard (talk) 21:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Dongyi is uniquely Chinese. Chinese sources are most updated. Ecourr (talk) 04:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * That makes no sense. "Unqiuely Chinese.  Chinese sources are most updated"?  This article is about historical topics.  Do you see ancient Greek-related articles such as Mycenaean Greece or Archimedes use Greek language web articles?  If this is serious academic studies, then there has to be serious English language sources to back it up.  Otherwise, I even question the "notability" of these content you are trying to add.--TheLeopard (talk) 06:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * There is nothing wrong using Chinese sources when no equivalent English source is available. This article is from Chinese academic journal. There is nothing wrong with the source. Ecourr (talk) 12:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Jianye Han 韩建业, Xingai Yang 杨新改, On the Standing Bird Shaped Pottery and Pottery Inscription of Dawenkou Culture 大汶口文化的立鸟陶器和瓶形陶文, Jianghan Archaeology 2008, vol3《江汉考古》2008年第3期. "The standing bird shapped pottery with featherlike decoration recently discovered at Dawenkou culture site in Anhui is an ancestor workship totem of the Dongyi people. The pottery inscripts found on the Dawenkou pottery in Shandong is probably the prototype of the morden Chinese word for ancestor "祖". 新近安徽蒙城尉迟寺遗址发现的大汶口文化晚期的立鸟陶器，实即带有茅草或羽状装饰的陶祖，是东夷人祖先崇拜的产物. 山东莒县陵阳河等墓地出土的大汶口文化晚期的瓶形陶文，不过是这类神圣陶祖的抽象形式，有可能就是“且”（祖）字的原型. " —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecourr (talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 February 2010
 * Weichao Yu 俞伟超, The Secrets of Longshan Culture and Liangzhu Culture Evolution 《龙山文化与良渚文化衰变的奥秘》, Qilu Press 1993 齐鲁书社, 1993 年. "If the flood didn't happen 4000 years ago, the first dynasty in China should had been established by the Donyi people. 如果4000 多年前不发生这次大洪水, 我国最初的王朝也许而且应该是由东夷建立的. ” —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecourr (talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 February 2010
 * You didn't translate the way the statement was phrased. This statement is speculation and questions ("maybe" "if") and the author of the text stated in such fashion.  Shouldn't be used to state facts.--TheLeopard (talk) 21:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * You are neglecting these words "应该是由东夷建立的", which mean "it should be". Ecourr (talk) 04:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Then its not a particularly well written statement and its contradictory because the previous word 也许 translate as "maybe". The sentence is saying "maybe and should have been."  That's not a statement of fact, but a person's opinion.--TheLeopard (talk) 06:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It didn't say "must". The only thing is your logic. Ecourr (talk) 12:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Chinese government or government media websites:
 * shandong Infobase 山东省情报网, Dongyi and its Culture Evolution 东夷及其文化发展, "The bow and arrow were first invented by Dongyi people. It was one of the greatest investion in prehistory. It was a great leap forward on the economy of hunting, producing a dramtic progress in the course of human evolution. 弓箭是东夷族人最先发明创造的. 弓箭的发明是远古人类的一个重要的创造，它使得狩猎经济有一个飞跃的发展，使人类在征服自然的过程中有一个质的进步. "
 * Liling Long 龙丽玲, In search for Culture Traces of Dongyi People 寻东夷族的文化足迹, Hebei Culture Replics, sponsored by Xinhua News and Hebei Archeology Bureau 河北文物，河北文物局与新华网合办. "Experts say that compared with the Yangshao Culture and the Central Plain Longshan Culture, the once glorious Dongyi Cultue like Dawenkou culture and Longshan Culture in many aspects are more advanced and developed than those in China Central Plain. 专家认为，曾经在中国历史上煊赫一时的东夷文化，像大汶口文化、龙山文化，跟黄河流域的仰韶文化、中原龙山文化相比较，在很多方面都超过中原文化. "Ecourr (talk) 09:13, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * These government websites are not well-written sources; in my view they read more like essays (especially the Xinhua article, second one) and travel brochures than proper references. The Shandong source has no authorship by the way.--TheLeopard (talk) 21:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Government sources are considered reliable sources in wikipedia. The Shangdon source is from the Infobase provided by the Shangdong Gov is more encyclopeida and more reliable. Ecourr (talk) 04:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * "The Shangdon source is from the Infobase provided by the Shangdong Gov is more encyclopeida and more reliable"??? Huh?--TheLeopard (talk) 06:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Government sources can be reliable in terms of providing data and statistics (i.e. Chinese government sources for data of provinces), but not when it comes to archaeological research, art, etc, and very few uses them. Where in Wikipedia's reliable sources does it say that their government sources are considered reliable in this case?--TheLeopard (talk) 06:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * These are historical facts provided by the Shangdong gov. It is not considered unreliable. The scope of these facts is within China not the whole world. Ecourr (talk) 12:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The "historical facts" provided in this Shangdong gov article has no author, no citation page or bibliography, so how do you determine that its "historical facts" or considered "reliable"?  "The scope of these facts is within China not the whole world."  Really?  So these information are still notable?--TheLeopard (talk) 07:54, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Encylopedias don't have authorship, citation etc. These are not criteria for determining whether sources are reliable. Ecourr (talk) 11:44, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * No. Its one thing to use information from a reputable English language encyclopedia that people know of, and can inquire about its academic reputation, and its another thing to compare it to a provincial government website in Chinese that many people cannot verify.  Prominent encyclopedias such as Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopedia Americana and Columbia Encyclopedia gave you either information about its identified contributors or you can find information about its staff from the preface or index of the encyclopedia.  You can also find more information from its press/publishers (i.e. Columbia University Press).  Further, many prominent encyclopedias gave you a bibliography or list the contributing sources in the back.--TheLeopard (talk) 15:55, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Editorial war
Ecourr, welcome to Wikipedia. You've unfortunately gotten into edit warring and page protection after only three days of editing. If you haven't had time to read the English Wikipedia's basic rules and conventions, I'd recommend beginning with WP:5P and WP:REF. In addition, WP:NONENG and WP:SOURCEACCESS explain why these Chinese-language sources would be more suitable for the Chinese Wikipedia 东夷 article. If you can't find any English-language references to verify these Dongyi claims, they might be disqualified as WP:OR or WP:FRINGE. Wikipedia policies (and acronyms) may initially seem confusing, so please let me know if I can provide any further help getting started. Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 20:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you need to read these policies carefully. Sources from non-English language are not considered disqualified sources. These are the original words of the policies you pointed out. There are numerous Chinese sources used in this article by editors in the past.


 * “English-language sources should be used in preference to non-English ones, except where no English source of equal quality can be found that contains the relevant material”
 * “The principle of verifiability implies nothing about ease of access to sources.” Ecourr (talk) 01:34, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Sources, even when they are in Chinese, need to be persuasive. Do these sources have any reputation that you can document? The government is not always believable in areas that are not within their expertise. Noted Chinese scholars who have an academic reputation within China could be believable. EdJohnston (talk) 18:31, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Being another contributor not related to Ecourr that TheLeopard has also reverted contributions, he doesn't need to revert everything another contributor edited but the problematic parts, and to reduce size he can remove less important texts and sources as well. Most Chinese academic papers are written in Chinese but new ones do have English summaries. Language translation engines are useful tools for contributors to verify non-English sources. They are not perfect, particularly at Classic Chinese and names.Gaia1CB3 (talk) 04:35, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

I trimmed the content added by User:Ecourr as per suggestion by EdJohnston. I'll let other editors to decide if the rest of the content is encyclopedic enough for the article. I also added and formatted the links by Ecourr. I removed the Xinhua article and the Shangdong government website  as sources, as those are in no shape or form proper encyclopedic references. If other editors from WikiProject China determine those are indeed good references, it can be re-added back. I also removed the claims about oracle bone script, as such claims really need English sources to back it up. If no sources can be found on this claim, then there are notability issues for that in English Wikipedia.--TheLeopard (talk) 15:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

My suggestion, as well as Keahapana's and EdJohnston's for User:Encourr is for the user to at least find some English sources to back up some of these claims.--TheLeopard (talk) 15:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Maps
I found maps of some Dongyi powers. Does this help? --Shinkansen Fan (talk) 19:58, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

"Barbarian/(derogatory) foreigner" again?
The recent POV pushing that the Chinese language can't have any words meaning "barbarian" resulted in damage this page and Donghu, which I've also reverted. See the discussion at Talk:Donghu people

I've assumed good faith that rewriting the quoted definition from Liang Shih-chiu's dictionary was an oversight of WP:QUOTE, and have clarified it. Keahapana (talk) 21:54, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * You're assuming that Chinese language "can't have words meaning barbarian", when in fact the most common use-term for barbarian (as in "savage", in which case, the English context is derogatory), is the term "野蠻" (yeman), which has the appropriate derogatory connotation; not "东夷", in which case the divisiveness of using the derogatory English term "barbarian" for this is overstated.Got Milked (talk) 12:23, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Correction Got Milked, I apologize. I confused your edits here with DCattell's edits on Donghu. The similarity is remarkable. I'll straighten out my comments soon. Keahapana (talk) 23:37, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Got Milked. Again, my apologies. There's been repeated vandalism of WP articles on derogatory Chinese exonyms, and I overreacted. I've made two revisions and an addition, which I hope will be OK with you. I've reverted the quotes from Liang & Zhang (1971) and Carr (2007). If you're unfamiliar with the reason, please see MOS:QUOTE. I've also tentatively tagged the lead sentence's literal definition of yi as "outsiders/tribes". Many Chinese-English dictionaries translate it as "foreigner," but I can't find any for "outsider" (usually wàirén 外人, etc.) or "tribe" (zú 族, etc.). Would you please provide a reference? Thanks. And I've added an interesting quote about the Treaty of Tientsin forcing the Chinese to stop calling the British Yi "barbarians".

Some questions. The current lead has "in a condescending point of view". This wikilink is a disambiguation page, and "(N)POV" refers to Wikipedia policies not racial prejudice. Since English speakers know "barbarian" is usually derogatory, which is why this one-word translation is better than dictionary circumlocutions like "(historical) (derogatory) foreigner", could we delete or move this from the beginning? You changed "non-Chinese" to "non-Han", which is fine in modern usage, but Yi was used in Shang and Zhou times. Can we refer to "Han people" before the Han dynasty? You tagged the map "File:Tianxia zh-hant.svg" that we could replace with "File:Tianxia en-zh-hant.svg". Would you like to work together on determining sources and writing a more suitable caption for this map? Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 23:00, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Certainly, the "barbarian" issue seems to be one of the more interesting aspects of Wikipedia these days. The "Dongyi" and "Donghu" articles both do seem to indeed share a parallel similarity in this regard. I have commented on the "barbarian" issue somewhat more extensively on the Donghu people talk page. Dcattell (talk) 23:17, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Mistranslating Shuowen jiezi
Sorry CCH1234, while I can understand your desire to find sources that counter the derogatory semantics of Yi, the Shuowen definition of Qiang 羌 isn't one. Since several aspects of the current translation are puzzling, I checked the commentaries. Please read the 說文解字注. For instance, 夷俗仁 could conceivably mean "the Yi's customs [風俗] are benevolent", but actually means "Yi's common logograph [俗字] is 𡰥 [which the SWJZ lists as 夷's guwen graph]. Similarly, 君子不死之國 more likely refers to 君子之國 and 不死之國 in the Shanhaijing than literally "country of gentleman who never die". I will gladly cooperate with however you want to proceed. We could delete the current translation or work together on a better one. Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 20:02, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * OK. Deleted. Keahapana (talk) 01:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I didn't see notice your post when I first made the correction, as I didn't read the talk page at all. Regardless how one translates "夷俗仁," it means that Yi is benevolent and has long lives, which are positive attributes. The particular entry here doesn't equate 𡰥 with 仁. Some scholars have already mentioned 𡰥 as being the same word as 夷. But in this specific case, Shuowen is equating 夷 with 仁. Similarly, both "君子之國" and "不死之國" are positive attributes as well, as they can be translated as "gentlemen countries" and "countries where people do not die." Yes, these terms can be found in the Shanhaijing, however, we are talking about Shuowen here. In this context, Shuowen is referring to virtue and human longevity. I think it is important to include this positive view of Yi, as it is important to our understanding of the term. I tell you what, I will come up with a improved translation and will check the talk page from time to time. If you have a comment, let me know. Don't delete the translation first. Thanks.

CCH1234 (talk) 07:34, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Btw, I checked the source again, I highly doubt "俗" in this context means "俗字." The grammar and context in the text suggests strongly that it is talking about custom and social mores rather than 俗字. And again, 𡰥 doesn't play a role here in this specific interpretation at all.

CCH1234 (talk) 09:00, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Upon further inspection, I've decided to restore the original text with a bit of adjustment. It seems to me I didn't misinterpret the meaning of Shuowen here. There are after all, different interpretations of the term, as Shuowen itself acknowledges. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

CCH1234 (talk) 09:44, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

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Language
According to Laurent Sagart's Sino-Austronesian hypothesis, the Dongyi may have spoken an early type of Austronesian. The seafarers Austronesians and their related peoples (Tai-Kadai) may have stretched all along the eastern coast of what is now China, from Shandong down to Guangdong during the ancient times. Gustmeister (talk) 14:45, 8 April 2018 (UTC)