Zhou Yin Yimin Distribution, And Assimilation Issues

The war of Pre-Qin period for the purpose of obedience, the phenomenon of ruin the nation and put an end to sacrifice rarely happens.Muye Battle between Shang and Zhou Dynasty made Shang Dynasty perish in a single night,resulting in a large number of adherents of Yin in the new regime.At this time,the social system of Zhou Dynasty from the side the confederate state transition to dynasty,both population and production and cultural levels are far behind Shang Dynarty.If Zhou Dynasty wants to live and develop must rely on the number of adherents of Yin.Study the problem of adherents of Yin,on the one hand we can know the development track of Yin survivals, on the orther hand,we can comprehensively master the history of adherents of Yin in early Zhou dynaty.The paper researches adherents of Yin, mostly combines handed-down documents, inscription materials and archaeological achievements and other materials. The paper mainly studies four questions about the people left from Yin,that is the movement and the living situation of adherents of Yin;The research on the managing measure of the people left from Yin period in early Zhou dynaty;The influence of Yin survivals and the Yin’s culture and the interaction of Yin and Zhou;The assimilation phenomenon and the reasons in the middle and later periods of the Western Zhou Dynasty.Though research we think:the adherents of Yin have a wide range of distribution,in addition to the concentrated distribution area of Henan and Shaanxi province,such as Shandong province and Beijing also have the development track of Yin survivals.From inscription materials and archaeological achievements we discover the living conditions of the people left from Yin period are not very bad. As a matter of fact, most of noble of the adherents of Yin have positions and have a good living environment,they have a relative high social status. Because of different historical environment in the period of King Wu and King Cheng and the Duke of Zhou,the two periods carry out different management policies. The King Wu mainly used the suggest of Zhou Gong,he gives priority to local resettlement,after the King Wu gives priority to the"divide-and-conquer". In the district of Lu and Song,a lot of customs are preserved.Zhou dynasty take different attitudes in different periods,in the period of the King Cheng and the Duke of Zhou formed the cultural system has its own characteristics. With improvements in the overall strength of the zhou dynasty, the resist of Zhou,the active integrate of the Yin survivals,and the intermarriage of Yin and Zhou.This phenomenon mostly reflected in the use of armorial inscription and the naming by birth-date,the use of everyday words and the change on the burial customs.Facts proved,Yin survivals as a political issue in the Zhou Dynasty,the ruler of Zhou takes the right policy arrange for the adherents of Yin,finally complete the peaceful transition of power.The adherents of Yin who in the new regime not only have a relative high social status,but also most Yin survivals after migration still live together,they still have the rights to use their customs,they have positions and have a good living environment,most of them are middle class. The interaction brtween Zhou and Yin’ culture,the Zhou Dynasty created the music cultural to the duke of Zhou period,and it becomes Zhou’ overculture.Affter Zhou’s regime stability and strong step by step, th assimilation phenomenon happened in the middle and later periods of the Western Zhou Dynasty.