在蒙昧洪荒时代的中国东部地区,生活着许多以鸟为图腾的原始人群,后人称之为东夷。而在东夷族众多的鸟夷部落中,有一支以“胡”作为名称的部落。据学者的推断,胡是以白头翁鸟为图腾的部落,后用为国号,当系东夷族中鸟类的一支。在胡部落衰亡后,其子孙湮没无闻,但没有灭绝, 到西周、春秋时代,出现以胡为国名的诸侯国。 In the era of ignorance of the prehistoric era in eastern China, many people live with totem-based primitive people, descendants called Dongyi. In Dongyi numerous bird tribe, there is a “Hu” as the name of the tribe. According to the scholars’ inference, Hu is a tribe headed by the Pulsatilla as a totem, and later used as a national symbol, as a bird of Dongyi ethnic group. After the fall of Hu Tribes, its descendants were obliterated, but not extinct. In the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, the vassal states with Hu as their country name appeared.