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There is such a wonderful flower in the five countries of Central Asia, he "has not the right roots, and the seedlings are not red", but he is the oldest indigenous person.
This country isTajikistanHistorically, the Tajiks have lived on the land of Central Asia for generations.
However, with the early conquests in Central Asia, there are more and more foreign peoples, and it seems that Tajikistanis have become an "alternative", and even the race is gradually different from other countries.
Because of this, even among the five neighboring Central Asian countries, Tajikistan can stand on its own. But on the contrary, Tajikistan has been a blessing in disguise and has been given a great opportunity for development.
What is the history of Tajikistan?Why is it that he is an authentic indigenous person of Central Asia and can still be the most "alternative" country?How is Tajikistan developing now?
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the "big brother" of socialism, more than a dozen "little brothers" who were once closely united by him have also declared independence, and Tajikistan is one of them.
Normally, when a country or nation regains its independence, it should be celebrated by the whole world, but Tajikistan was in a crisis at the beginning.
This is mainly due to the fact that Tajikistan announced its accession to the Soviet Union not long after its founding, and for decades since then, it has lived under the wing of the Soviet Union, and there is hardly a time for itself to have the final say.
Suddenly, the "big brother" is gone, and Tajikistan, although it will not be unable to function, is also in the predicament of self-awareness and identity change.
The people of Tajikistan have not been able to recognize their identity for a while, and their ideologies are even more mixed, and it is very easy for hostile forces to reap the benefits of the fishermen.
In order to solve this dilemma, Tajikistan** after independence did its best to reconstruct the national identity of Tajikistan, and an important part of this is to trace the history of their national development.
Speaking of which, the people of Tajikistan have indeed lived on the land of Central Asia since ancient times, and can be called the most "well-rooted" indigenous people in Central Asia.
Around the middle of the 1,000th century BC, the ancestors of Tajik created the earliest material and spiritual civilization of the Tajik nation in the valley of the two rivers.
The Aryans had already taken root in Central Asia, and they also influenced the early culture of the Tajik people.
By the fourth century BC, with the introduction of the Macedonian Alexander Empire and the introduction of Greek culture, the first Tajik people also began to try to establish their own state.
In the following centuries, the Kushan Empire, the Sassanid Empire and other regimes were established one after another, and the ancestors of the modern Tajik people were also influenced by Persian civilization and Islamic culture.
It is worth mentioning that due to the special and important geographical location of Central Asia, Central Asia has been turbulent in history, and the invasion of foreign peoples and cultures is not uncommon.
Therefore, at the same time, there are many Turkic-speaking tribes living in the land of Central Asia, and as the ancestors of other countries in the five Central Asian countries, they gradually have contacts with the ancestors of the Tajik nation.
However, in the middle of the sixth century AD, the Turks suddenly expanded into other parts of Central Asia, and the Turks seized control of Central Asia.
In 588 AD, the Turkic Khanate** was divided into two parts, the East and the West, and the Tajiks were included in the sphere of influence of the Western Turkic Khanate, and the culture of the Tajik nation was influenced by the Turks.
During the Samanid period, the continuous wars and the prosperity of the East and the West** brought the Tajik people into contact with more foreign cultures, and the Turks also had some integration with the locals.
So much so that in the later period of the Samanid dynasty, even the army's army was controlled by the Turks, and their decisive position in the army and the regime became more and more difficult to shake, and finally the Samanid dynasty died at the hands of the Turks.
Since then, the Turkic people have become the main ethnic group in Central Asia, and the Tajiks can only be included in the jurisdiction of the Turkic culture under the oppression of foreign invading forces, which is greatly detrimental to the cultural development of the Tajik nation.
However, fortunately, the rule of the Turks brought about the prosperity and development of commercial civilization in Central Asia, which allowed the Tajik nation to still thrive in the land of Central Asia, where materials were relatively abundant.
Even if the later Tajiks could only survive in the high mountains, they were still able to accumulate strength and establish a dynasty dominated by TajiksGur dynasty
Although the Ghul dynasty did not survive long before being overthrown, it was still a Tajik ethnic group that took over power, and later briefly unified most of Central Asia.
It was only with the Mongol expedition to the west that this unification was interrupted, and the Tajiks were once again included in the jurisdiction of other peoples.
It is also for this reason that the national culture of the Tajiks has once again merged with foreign cultures. Of course, the Mongol rule did not last long, and soon new disputes were staged in Central Asia.
This time, the Turks joined forces with the Tajiks to clean up the situation and established the Bukhara Khanate, a feudal dynasty governed by a mixture of two ethnic groups.
Unfortunately, because of its small population, the Tajik nation gradually lost its dominance in the dynasty and became an "alternative" in Central Asia, which was dominated by Turkic peoples.
However, with the rise of a neighboring power, the status of the khanate established by the native peoples of Central Asia is in jeopardy, and what happened to the Tajik people, who had already fallen from the oldest indigenous to the "alternative" Tajik nation?
Obviously it is an indigenous person of Central Asia, but it is mixed with "the roots are not right, and the seedlings are not red", why is Tajikistan like this?
In the course of a long period of war and ethnic integration, the Tajiks have become the oldest indigenous people in Central Asia and no longer dominant "alternatives".
However, as history went on, the Turks followed in the footsteps of the Tajiks, as the indigenous peoples of Central Asia were powerless to resist the growing power of Tsarist Russia.
It is said that it is to talk about how to go on the road of the Tajik nation, but in fact, in front of the powerful tsar, they can only have a way out by listening to the orders of Tsarist Russia.
This was around the 19th century, when the Tajiks in Central Asia were under the rule of other peoples. The Bukhara Khanate still held power, but the Tajiks had long been marginalized to the periphery.
And in the process of continuous conquest, the Tajiks lost the fertile river valleys on which their traditional agricultural civilization depended, and they had to move to the mountains near the plains.
At that time, Central Asia was still dominated by agricultural civilization, and even if there were commodities, it was carried out along the Silk Road, and it had little to do with the marginalized Tajiks.
Because of this, the Tajik nation has become increasingly empty and backward, and has become the first choice for colonization and plundering by foreign forces, which are exactly thatTsar**
It is well known that in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Tsar** was one of the most powerful empires in the world. During the reign of Peter I, he not only carried out a comprehensive reform of Tsarist Russia, but also extended his hand to Central Asia.
Peter I has sent Tsarist Russia to inspect Central Asia many times, but the investigation mentioned here is not just as simple as looking at it with your eyes.
In the early 18th century, under the mandate of Peter I, Tsarist Russia sent thousands of people several timesExpeditionary team"Investigation" of Central Asia, with special attention paid to the grasp of the situation of mineral deposits.
Seeing this, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Peter I is not idle and wants to understand the customs of the surrounding countries, but clearly covets the big fat of Central Asia.
However, fortunately, the rulers of Central Asia at that time were not "soft persimmons", and resisted Tsarist Russia's attempts to infiltrate Central Asia several times, which also made the ** Tsar after Peter I temporarily give up direct penetration into Central Asia.
Until the middle of the 19th century, with the prosperity of goods and the abolition of serfdom in Tsarist Russia, ** once again expanded wildly into Central Asia.
With the strong attack of the ** forces, the contradictions between the native ethnic khanates that originally dominated Central Asia and the ** have deepened, and a major war between the two sides is about to break out.
In 1864, the Russian army took the lead in launching an armed attack on the Central Asian regimes, realizing its ambition to expand into the south of Central Asia, and immediately established the state of Turkestan.
The so-called "Turkestan Oblast" is to facilitate the management of new lands that have expanded in Central Asia, and later with the expansion of the territory, the "Turkestan Oblast" has also been upgraded"Governorate of Turkestan".
In short, after a series of expansion wars, the Tajik people, which are indigenous to Central Asia, are almost all under the rule of **.
In essence, the conquest of Central Asia was strongly colonial, and the Tajiks could only be discriminated against and exploited as colonized people, but they were simply unable to resist the powerful Tsarist Russia.
Of course, the invasion from foreign nationalities also forced the Tajiks to burst out with the consciousness of protecting their own culture and development rights, and began their own capitalist process while absorbing and learning from the best culture.
It was not until after the outbreak of the October Revolution that the tsarist regime, which had ruled for hundreds of years, was overthrown, the Soviets held on to power, and the situation of the Tajiks finally changed.
Especially after the founding of the Soviet Union at the end of 1922, a series of Soviet states were established in Central Asia, including those established by the TajiksTajik Soviet Socialist Republic
Since then, the Tajiks have finally had a true nation-state, even if it is, in some ways, a republic of the Soviet Union.
But compared to the absolute marginalism of Central Asia in earlier years, the Tajiks are in a much better position. Unfortunately, time has changed, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Tajiks have fallen into a new crisis.
In order to enhance the sense of national identity, independent Tajikistan** can only increase national cohesion by tracing its roots, so how is the journey of Tajiks to find their roots?
The indigenous people of the "root red seedlings" have become the "other" among the five Central Asian countries, why is Tajikistan like this?
On the eve of the official collapse of the Soviet Union, the Tajiks became independent from the Soviet Union and the creation of Tajikistan was announced.
At this time, the newly formed Tajikistan was not only facing economic and political difficulties, but also serious problems in the cultural sphere.
In order to get rid of the shadow of the Soviet Union and rebuild the national pride of the Tajiks, Tajikistan has set its sights on tracing and reconstructing the national history.
It is true that the Tajik nation has a long history, but this history can be traced back to the first place, which is also a headache.
This is mainly due to the fact that in recent centuries the Tajiks have been marginal in Central Asia. Especially in the 20th century, the political status and role of Tajiks in Central Asia were negligible.
In 1919, Turkistan** established the Council for Ethnic Affairs, but according to the regulations governing the Council, Tajiks had no right to participate in the management of ethnic affairs.
But other peoples of Central Asia, such as the Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Turkmens, are represented by the indigenous peoples of Central Asia, except for the oldest inhabitants, the Tajiks, who have been "forgotten".
Suffice it to see what a daunting task it must be for the Tajiks to reconstruct a history that their nation can be proud of.
Eventually, the Tajiks looked to antiquity and traced their rootsSamanid dynastyThis once powerful dynasty has always been the pride of the Tajiks.
At the same time, the Tajiks spontaneously traced their origins to the Aryan civilization and held a series of celebrations and commemorations for this purpose.
And the Tajiks have really re-established their sense of national identity with the efforts of the people.
It is worth mentioning that in the process of restoring and developing the economy of Tajikistan, Tajikistan has really experienced what it means to be a "blessing in disguise."
It turned out that the Tajiks, because of their long-term marginal position in Central Asian political affairs, have long lost the fertile river valley plains where their ancestors thrived thousands of years ago.
However, with the development of industrial civilization, the Tajiks discovered that the mountainous areas where they later lived contained a large amount of mineral resources, which in turn became an important source of wealth for the modern Tajiks.
More importantly, China, as a close neighbor of Tajikistan, has also played an important role in Tajikistan's post-independence national development.
In fact, after Tajikistan became independent, it also fought a civil war that lasted for six years because of the internal contradictions accumulated at various levels.
Originally, Tajikistan's economic system was deeply influenced by the Soviet Union, and its industrial base was very weak, coupled with the impact of the civil war, the people of Tajikistan were really miserable in those years.
When the internal conflict in Tajikistan was resolved, their country's economy gradually came out of the trough and showed a stable and positive trend.
But whether it was during the civil war or later when it focused on economic development, China has always been Tajikistan's economic partner.
Especially after the end of the civil war, the economic and trade cooperation between China and Tajikistan has been deepened, and China has gradually shifted from exporting products to Tajikistan to helping Tajikistan improve its infrastructure construction.
Nowadays, under the grand goal of China's "Belt and Road" economic construction, Tajikistan has also taken a free ride on economic development, and it is no longer the worst indigenous people who were isolated and excluded.
Of course, by tracing the history of Tajikistan, it is important to know that sometimes it is not a bad thing to be regarded as "alternative" by outsiders.
After all, the "alternative" Tajikistan eventually achieved national independence and national development, which is far better than those countries that are involved in the struggle between the great powers but will become cannon fodder if they are not careful.
Finally, we sincerely hope that Tajikistan will be able to take a bright and bright road to Japan after washing away the haze of its marginalized history
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