Kuai's Interpretation of Sinology: A Jurisprudential Examination of Zhou-Dynasty Edict Ballad Transmission and Identity Anchoring in the Idiom "Which Wind Brings You Here"

Based on the "Three-Pairs and Four-Criteria" analytical framework of Kuai’s Interpretation of Sinology, this paper conducts an in-depth institutional genealogy and jurisprudential examination of the Chinese vernacular idiom Which wind brings you here. The phrase is commonly misread as a casual greeting referring to natural wind directions, yet its original context arises from the turbulent political landscape of the Zhou enfeoffment system, where territorial control shifted repeatedly. This study argues that the Fifteen Ballads (Guofeng) in The Book of Songs are not merely folk lyrics; instead, they constitute edict carriers, wherein state administrative orders and normative teachings were set to ballads and circulated orally across territories. In this framework, the term feng (wind) denotes the effective radius of a polity’s administrative jurisdiction and ideological outreach. Amid incessant annexation wars and rapidly shifting frontiers, formal state boundaries and geographic markers became unreliable. Common people anchored their administrative allegiance to the prevailing edict-ballad tradition they received and recited. By tracing the idiom’s semantic evolution from an administrative-verification dialogue to a routine polite remark, this paper reconstructs an early Chinese identity-recognition mechanism grounded in state indoctrination, and proposes an original research paradigm for tracing Chinese idioms rooted in institutional realities and material-historical premises. 【摘要】 本文基于“蒯解汉学”三双四通研判体系,对汉语世俗常言“哪路风把你吹来了”进行深度的制度溯源与法理考辨。世人多将此语误解为自然风向的寒暄,实则其原生语境扎根于周代分封制下疆域频繁易主的乱世底色。本文考证指出,《诗经》十五国风并非单纯的民间歌谣,而是各诸侯国行政指令、教化条规以歌谣形式向下传唱的“政令载体”。“风”的本质,是诸侯国行政管辖权与教化触角所能覆盖的实际半径。在诸侯兼并、朝秦暮楚的动荡格局中,“国界”与地理坐标极易失效,百姓唯有以当下接收、传唱的“哪国政令(风)”来锚定自身的行政归属。本文旨在通过辨析该俗语从“政令核验对答”向“日常寒暄”的流变,还原华夏早期社会以行政教化为底色的身份识别机制,为汉语俗语溯源提供一套基于制度常识与物理底座的全新研究范式。