Bal Tiger, is the name of an ancient tribe with a long history.
Its tribe originated in the area of the Barguzin River east of Lake Baikal.
About the origin of the Bal tiger, there is a beautiful legend full of mythology: according to legend, the Bal tiger hunter Dai Balhu met a beautiful girl transformed by a white swan on the way to hunt, the hunter is tall and mighty, the girl is bright and beautiful, the two fell in love at first sight, married and lived in the depths of the jungle on the shore of Lake Baikal, lived by hunting, raised 11 boys together, and the boys also married and had children in the deep forest when they grew up, and settled down, hunting and herding, and reproducing from generation to generation. It gradually developed into the first eleven surnames that later formed the Balhu tribe. In the years that followed, this legend was widely spread among the Balhu and the Buryats, perhaps this legend confirms the Balhu's childhood on the shores of Lake Baikal, or it may be a little warmth and a dreamland that cannot be returned to after thousands of years of exile.
In the changing times, the Balhu tribe, which has become more and more powerful, has gradually stepped out of the blue waters, green waters, mountains and trees of Lake Baikal and moved towards a wider steppe.
After entering the steppe, the Bal Tiger began an endless confrontation and conquest of nomadic life, once galloped across the country and also had the sorrow of exile, there were tears to hide the face and there was also a long song of the horse, the figure has never left the vast steppe and the vast history books, each era has different belonging and name, the earliest was an important part of Ding Ling, nomadic in the north of the Xiongnu, ruled by the Xiongnu, seen in the Han book, the Later Han book, perhaps, during the period of Emperor Wu, the Xiongnu detained and exiled the Han Palace, and shepherded sheep on the shore of Lake Baikal。
At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Balhu people, who were integrated with the Ding Ling people, either moved west to the Yili River valley and the Altai Mountains, or stayed in the steppe with them to resist the rule of the Xiongnu, or moved south with other northern ethnic minorities into the Sai and entered the land of the Central Plains Dynasty.
After a hundred years of dispersion, the internal migrants were called Shanju Ding Ling in order to fully integrate into the Han people. The Balhu people who did not leave the grassland became the main body of Ding Ling, and the Xiongnu and Tuoba Xianbei people on the grassland were integrated with each other in the confrontation, coexistence, conquest and reconciliation, and lived on the plateau together as nomads. During the period of the 16th Kingdom, this force was also known as Tiele until the Sui and Tang dynasties. In the Wei period of the Northern Dynasties, due to the serious dispersion within the clan, the development process to the tribal alliance was abolished, and it returned to the primitive clan society period, which seriously affected its development process, and this situation continued until the end of the Northern Dynasties, and there were signs of recovery and development.
The rise of the Turks to establish a khanate, the implementation of cruel slavery rule on the original Gaoche tribe called "Tiele", so that Tiele once again began the struggle against Turkic rule, this rebellion broke out in 627 natural disasters, in 627 the steppe summer frost and winter snow, grass and trees withered, the Year of the Ox froze to death, the people "disease and famine, many mourners, the remains of the Central Plains, before and after the same In such a tragic situation, the Turkic nobles were still brutal, and the new and old grievances finally aroused the deep hatred of the Tiele tribes against the Turks, and a large-scale uprising war broke out.
In the struggle against the Turks, the Tiele tribes formed a military alliance headed by the chief of the Xue Yan Camel Tribe, Yi Nan, and soon occupied Mobei. At the same time, it moved closer to the Central Plains Dynasty, which at this time was the heyday of China's feudal dynasties and the Taizong period of the powerful Tang Dynasty. In September 629 A.D., the nine surnamed Tiele in the Yi Nan, Bai Ye Gu, Servant Gu and so on "came to the dynasty", to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an Dynasty to meet Emperor Taizong, began the Tiele forces with the Balhu people as the main force in the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, grievances and hatred.
Taizong appeased and rewarded the Tiele tribes who came, and named Yinan as the Khan of Zhenzhu Viga, announced the establishment of the Xue Yantuo Khanate, politically recognized the existence of the Tiele regime in the northern steppe except for the Turkic regime, consolidated the political and military position of Tiele headed by Xue Yantuo, and disintegrated the situation of Turkic dominance in the steppe. The Tiele Alliance also established its own khanate with the help of the Tang Dynasty, and began a period of fighting against the Turks on the steppe and seizing the territory.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Xueyanhuo Khanate implemented the "land division" system for the Tiele tribes. As an important military force of the Khanate, the "sub-territory" of the ancient tribe of Baye, which was mainly composed of the Balhu people, was "north of the Dule River, near the place of Guligan, and in the east of the Gugu", roughly south of today's Lake Baikal, in the Krulun River valley, which is in today's Hulunbuir.
20 years later, the Xue Yantuo Khanate collapsed, and the Tiele tribes scattered in Mobei asked Tang Taizong to pay tribute to the "internal subordinates" and submit to the Tang Dynasty. In 667 AD, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict to set up the Yuan capital and seven prefectures in Mobei, and the government placed the governor and the state placed the history of the assassin. The ancient department of the field was placed as the "Youling Governor's Mansion" in the territory of present-day Hulunbuir City. This is the first time that the Central Plains Dynasty has incorporated the grassland peoples into the political territory of the ** Dynasty in the form of establishing administrative divisions, and it is the first time that the Balhu people have been accepted into the Central Plains in the name of the ** Dynasty, so that the Balhu can live in Hulunbuir and live nomadically. It also made it approach the political level of the Central Plains Dynasty for the first time and entered the big family of the Chinese nation. Later, the Mobei Tiele forces such as Paoyegu openly participated in the anti-Tang struggle.
In 684 A.D., the Mobei grassland suffered a huge natural disaster again, "the wild are all car land, there is little grass, so the sheep and horses are consumed, ten to seven or eight", and the Tiele people starved to death in large numbers. It fell back under the slavery of the post-Turkic regime. Then another struggle broke out against the rule of the Turkic Khanate. This incident is recorded in the "Turkic Wenque Special Service Tablet", the first to rise up to resist is the ancient people, and then the Tiele tribes have followed suit, but the uprising has been suppressed many times, and the ancient people have suffered heavy losses.
In 716 A.D., the Later Turkic Khanate Musi Khan raised his troops to the north to attack Peyegu, and fought at the Dule River, and Panyegu was defeated. Mo Si Khan defeated the enemy, returned to the division to garrison and did not take precautions, the ancients set up an ambush in the willow forest of the army, the raid was successful, the defeat of the Turkic army killed Mo Si Khan and handed over the head to the Central Plains envoy, he took him to Chang'an, and once again showed the Tang Dynasty the intention of surrender, the Tang Dynasty did not pursue the previous rebellion against the Tang Dynasty, and once again accepted the Shun reward, and the Mobei Tiele tribes moved south to the Tang realm. It was only four years later, after 720 AD, that the tribe returned to the grasslands.
In 745 AD, the Hui of the Tiele tribe established the Uighur Khanate, ending the historical existence of the term "Tiele", and the Balhu people in the Tiele tribe gradually merged into the unified Uighur Khanate. In this historical period, the Balhu people, as an important part of the tribes on the steppe, followed their respective tribes out of the mountains and forests along Lake Baikal, entered the Hulunbuir steppe with abundant water and grass, and finally lived mainly in the area of the Krulun River in Hulun Lake, and entered the Central Plains several times, but due to years of war and attack, this nation did not get a breathing space for development, so it is still in the state of nomadic life, is a hunter and a fisherman at the same time, and lives a similar primitive life of half hunting and half animal husbandry。
Until 1207, the hero of the unification of Mongolia Le Ma turned back and affectionately called the Balhu people "the people of the forest", and introduced them as a close friend, invited them to drink on horseback, and sacrificed to the eternal life, so far, the Balhu people followed the hero to become a part of Mongolia, followed the hero to fight in all directions, this should be the most glorious period of Balhu Mongolia.
In 1368, the Mongol regime of the Yuan Dynasty collapsed, the late Yuan Emperor Tuhuan Timur withdrew and retreated to Shangdu, starting the "Northern Yuan" period in history, and then 200 years after the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty at the same time, but also experienced the most serious **, turmoil in Mongolian history, divided into two major groups of East and West Mongolia, ** class contradictions were unprecedentedly intensified, at that time the Balhu people were seriously dispersed and scattered in the two major Mongolian groups. It was not until Dayan Khan unified Eastern Mongolia that he divided his tribes into 60,000 households on the left and right wings, and the Balhu people were divided into Yongshebu Wanhu and Tumut Wanhu. More than 200 years later, the Balhu people with Alatan Khan in Qinghai when they got the opportunity to develop again, at the peak of the department to tens of thousands, their political and economic activities in Qinghai communicated Mongolia and ** interrupted the contact for more than 200 years, during this period Tibetan Buddhism once again poured into Mongolia like a tide, with religion to conquer the Mongolian faith, so the Mongols almost all believe in Tibetan Buddhism, after the decline of the power of Eastern Mongolia, the activities of the Balhu people in Qinghai disappeared. Most of the Balhu became subordinates of the Khalkhas.
Until the rise of the Later Jin forces, and the Mongol tribes continued to fight, after the Manchu forces unified the north, in the war to unify the Central Plains and the rule of the Qing Dynasty in the future, the marriage of Mongolia as a national policy and the Mongolian tribes all over the marriage, the Mongolian tribes are also for the Qing Dynasty to pillow the border, charge into battle, Mongolian forces in the Qing Dynasty in all periods are the most powerful alliance of the Manchu regime, of course, the Qing Dynasty ** to Mongolia is also a king to give land, marry a princess to marry a concubine, there is a Qing Dynasty scenery and glory unsurpassed.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu regime successively incorporated the Balhu Mongols into the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and stationed them in the vast area of Butha, east of the Great Xing'an Mountains, and began the ethnic integration of the Balhu and the Manchus, and there were traces of the Balhu people in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places.
In 1732, in order to prevent the invasion of the Tsar** and strengthen the defense of the Hulunbuir area, thousands of soldiers and their families of the Suolun, Daur, Oroqen and Balhu Mongols were relocated to Hulunbuir, and one of the Balhu Mongols was stationed in the territory of the present-day Chenbalhu Banner, called Chenbalhu Mongolia.
In 1734, more than 2,400 Balhu Mongols from the Khalkha Mongol Chechen Khan Department moved to the lower reaches of the Klulun River and both sides of Hulun Lake, which is now the territory of the two banners of the new Balhu, called the New Balhu Mongolia.
This grassland also became the Balhu grassland due to the re-arrival of the Balhu people.
Since then, the Balhu people who have wandered for thousands of years in the smoke and dust of the years have finally found their final home, and the Balhu grassland has become their last place of residence, the eternal homeland.
Today, the beautiful Balhu grassland is a blue sky, clear water, fragrant grass and flowers, and the Balhu people who have chased the sun and moon in the vast time have cultivated and woven their own stable and sweet future on this grassland with their own diligence.