越文化中心地的民族变迁与人口发展(上)

The Changes of Nationality and the Development of Population in the Yue Region

在新石器时代,越地的人群经历了多次的整合与嬗替。於越民族至迟在马桥文化时期在越地形成,他们是越国文化的创造者。秦始皇用兵东南之后迁徙越文化中心地的人群,此事当有一定事实根据。而说越文化中心地的於越民族自此绝迹,却与事实不符,越人的特征性遗传因素在今天的江浙一带仍有不小的比重,只不过已经完全融入汉族。越地的人口发展,总体来说是逐步上升的,其波动的趋势又与越文化的发展趋势大致同步。越地历史上各时期的人口发展并不平衡,初唐至天宝年间等阶段的人口增长引人注目,在清朝更臻于盛。

The people in the region of Yue experienced the multiple integration and evolution in the Neolithic Age. Wuyue people, who appeared in the Yue region at least in the Maqiao cultural period, created the Yue culture. It may be a fact that the first emperor of the Qin dynasty migrated the people in the Yue region to other plaecs after the military actions. But it is inconsistent with the fact that Wuyue people disappeared from the Yue region ever since. The offsprings of Wuyue people have been fully integrated into the Hart nationality, with their genetic features reflected in a large proportion of people in today＇s Jiangsu and Zhejiang people. Generally speaking, the population of the Yue region was gradually rising and its fluctuation kept pace with the trend of development of Yue culture. Although the growth of population of the region in each dynasty was imbalaneed, it deserves our attention to the growth of population from early Tang dynasty to the Tianbao period. In the Qing dynasty, the population reached its peak.