Those who are familiar with the story of Tang monk Xitian learning scriptures know this Tang Dynasty master Xuanzang, who bravely crossed thousands of miles to come to Tianzhu country, which is today's India, to retrieve precious scriptures.
His deeds of learning scriptures from the West are known to the world, and in fact, after Master Xuanzang returned to the Tang Dynasty, he also compiled what he saw and heard in the Western Regions into a book, which is the well-known "Tang Dynasty Western Regions".
In the book, Master Xuanzang recorded a legend related to the Han Dynasty and the princess. Legend has it that after separating from her fiancé, the princess unexpectedly became pregnant with a child, and she chose to stay in the Western Regions and live with the people of the family mission.
The princess later gave birth to a son, and his children honored him as king and established their own country. Over time, the princess's descendants multiplied into a new nation, which today is part of the fifty-six ethnic groups of China, and another part of which has established another nation, which is still our neighbor.
This is the legend of the Han and Japanese heavenly species that has been passed down for more than 1,000 years. So, whose child is this princess pregnant? What nation and nation did her descendants found?
That's the secret we're looking for.
The policy of peace in Liu Bang's era originated in 202 BC, when Mao Dunshan led the Xiongnu to gradually become stronger. After Liu Bang unified China, Mao Dunshan led his army to invade the border of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Bang personally led the army to resist, but was besieged in Baishan Mountain, known as the "Siege of Baideng" in history. At this critical moment, Liu Bang adopted the advice of the strategist Chen Ping and bribed the queen of Mao Dunshan Yu with a lot of money.
The queen blew the pillow wind in Mao Dun Shan Yu's ears, so that Mao Dun Shan Yu led the Xiongnu to retreat, and Liu Bang was able to escape. After that, Liu Bang had a deep understanding of the strength of the Xiongnu and did not dare to fight with them again.
He listened to the advice of Jianxin Hou Lou Jing and adopted a gentle and friendly policy. He planned to marry Princess Lu Yuan, the daughter born to him and Empress Lü, to Mao Dun Shan Yu, but Empress Lu was reluctant to have a daughter, so Liu Bang found the daughter of a distant relative to recognize her as a righteous daughter, canonized her as a princess, and married Mao Dun Shan Yu.
From then on, relations between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu eased, and the war on the border between the two countries was also alleviated through the policy of peace and proximity.
The policy of harmony and proximity has always been an important diplomatic means for the Han Dynasty to maintain friendly relations with its neighbors. However, the princesses who were selected for harmony were not necessarily the emperor's biological daughters, and it was Liu Bang who created a precedent for making peace without his biological daughter Princess Lu Yuan.
Later, since the emperor did not necessarily have a marriageable daughter, or was unwilling to let his own daughter marry in a foreign land, the emperor of the Han Dynasty usually sent the daughter of a distant clan or a beautiful palace maid as a princess.
Although these princesses were not the emperor's biological daughters, they represented the Han Dynasty and married away from other countries. For example, when Zhaojun went out of the fortress, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty canonized the queen of the palace Zhaojun as a princess, and let her marry the Southern Xiongnu leader Huhan Evil Shan Yu as a princess.
In addition, the heroine of the legend of the Han and Ri Heavenly Races recorded by Master Xuanzang is also a palace maid who was canonized as a princess and sent to a foreign country to make peace.
According to the records of Master Xuanzang, after the opening of the Silk Road, many countries in the Western Regions came to Chang'an to worship the Han Dynasty, among them, the Persian Empire also heard about the strength of the Han Dynasty from the countries of the Western Regions, and decided to send an embassy to come.
The Persian king explained to his leader before the mission left, and if he found that the Han Dynasty was really as strong as the countries in the Western Regions said after arriving in Chang'an, he hoped that he could ask the Han Emperor for marriage and establish an alliance of mutual help.
If the actual situation does not match the rumors, there is no need to show respect for the Han Dynasty anymore. Upon arrival in Chang'an, the Persian delegation was given a grand reception, and they witnessed the Han Dynasty's great military prowess and high level of civilization.
As the countries of the Western Regions have said, the strength of the Han Dynasty should not be underestimated. As a result, the Persian envoy proposed the idea of courting the emperor of the Han Dynasty on behalf of the Persian king.
The Han Dynasty monarchs and ministers were very happy to see that the distant Persian Empire had taken the initiative to seek marriage, and they thought that it was just a simple task, and they only needed to choose one of the palace maids to be crowned princess, and they could complete the harmony.
Therefore, they did not hesitate to agree to the Persian envoy's proposal. After a month's selection, they selected a beautiful court maid as a princess and sent a delegation to escort her to Persia.
Together with the Persian mission, the family team left Chang'an and began their journey to Persia. On the way, they came to the Shupantuo region in the Western Regions. This area was a transportation fortress in the Western Regions, and it was the only way to the Persian Empire with direct access to North India to the south.
The name "Shupantuo" means winding in Chinese, and the place is surrounded by mountains and the roads are rugged and winding, which is very much in line with its name. On the way to send off relatives, the family delivery team was attacked by bandits.
Although the guards of the family sending team are equipped with sophisticated equipment, in the face of the outnumbered bandits and the princess to protect, they have to adopt a strategy and only rely on the winding mountain roads to resist the bandits.
Although the bandits were well-armed, they were helpless against the wedding team, so they could only take advantage of the large number of people to surround the mountain and wait for the wedding team to run out of supplies.
Originally, the two sides were at a stalemate, and the bandits could not break through the defense line of the family sending team, so they could only choose to surround the mountain. The family sending team is also in a difficult situation and cannot break through the siege of the bandits.
Under these circumstances, the Han Dynasty Wedding Mission and the Persian Mission decided to temporarily set up camp on the mountain and take advantage of the mountain road to defend and counterattack. In order to protect the princess, the Han Dynasty team sent her to the temple of the local faith of the sun on the top of the mountain, and arranged for guards to protect her.
After months of confrontation, the Wedding Mission finally forced the bandits to retreat with sufficient supplies and sufficient supplies.
The retreat of the bandits was good news for the wedding mission, meaning they could embark on their return journey. However, before setting off, the princess's maid brought unexpected news to the head of the Han Dynasty's marriage mission and the head of the Persian mission.
The news that the princess was pregnant shocked the two chiefs. If the princess was pregnant after marrying the king of Persia, then everyone would be happy for her, but now that the princess is pregnant before even the king of Persia has seen her, doesn't that mean that the king of Persia wears a green crown on his head?
This was an unbearable disaster for both the Han and Persian missions, and neither could withstand the wrath of the Persian king, and could even trigger a diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
Now, the two chiefs have to figure out who is impregnating the princess. They then questioned the maid, but the maid's answer was even more bizarre: she claimed that the princess's pregnancy was the result of the Divine Order.
Every day at noon, a husband comes here on horseback from the sun.
The maid's answer stunned the heads of the two missions. They all knew about the sun god, who was the god of faith in this part of the Western Regions, but that was just a myth and legend, and who could have imagined that he would personally go down to earth to have sex with the princess?
However, none of this matters anymore because the princess is pregnant. Now the most important thing is how to explain this to the Persian king. They could not tell him that his fiancée was pregnant with the child of the sun god, a treasure given to them by the gods and should be honored.
If they said this, the Persian king would probably kill them all. Therefore, it is unrealistic to take a princess with a big belly to tell the Persian king about the son of the sun god.
If you don't go to Persia, the Hui Han Dynasty will not be able to make a mission, and you may even be killed. So they decided to settle here and wait for the princess to give birth. After the princess gave birth to a boy, everyone decided to live here, since they could not return to Persia and the Han Dynasty, it was better to live here.
The princess was noble, so she and her son were made chieftains, and the Han Chinese and Persians lived here, and the princess and her son ruled. Over time, their population gradually increased, and eventually a state was established during the reign of Wang Mang and the Han Dynasty, called the Kingdom of Shupantuo, where the king was a descendant of the princess's son.
The kingdom of Shupantuo became one of the kingdoms of the Western Regions.
The royal family of the kingdom of Shupantuo called themselves "Han Ri Tianzhu" and claimed to be the descendants of the Han Dynasty princess and the sun god, but the truth of this legend is not so.
According to Master Xuanzang's record in the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", the appearance of the royal family of Shupantuo is not much different from that of the Han people, except that they wear Han scarves and Western Regions Hu clothes.
Therefore, the claim that the princess and the sun god combined to have children is simply foolish. In fact, it is likely that this amiable princess became pregnant by having an affair with one of the guards while hiding from the bandits, so her descendants are similar to the Han Chinese.
Therefore, this statement of "Han Ri Heavenly Seed" is just a beautiful misunderstanding, and the royal family of the Supantuo Kingdom is just ordinary human descendants.
Since its establishment, the kingdom has always upheld a devout belief in Buddhism, and successive kings have revered Buddhism. On the way to India to learn scriptures, when Master Xuanzang passed through the country of Shupantuo, the king was deeply moved by Master Xuanzang's Buddhist spirit, so he treated him with special courtesy and warmly invited him to spread Buddhism in China.
Master Xuanzang lived here for more than half a year, and had an in-depth understanding of the country's history and folklore, so he also learned about the legend of the Han and Japanese heavenly seeds. The ruling area of the state was roughly located in the area of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in the Kashgar Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Today, in the Karachi Gorge, about 70 kilometers south of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, you can still see the ruins of the castle built by the princess after giving birth, which the locals call "Princess Fort".
In the Tang Dynasty, the state of Shupantuo was conquered by the Tibetans and became a vassal state of the Tibetans. Later, Gao Xianzhi, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, conquered the Xiaobolu Kingdom and conquered the Shupantuo Kingdom, making the Shupantuo Kingdom a part of the Tang Dynasty and included in the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty.
However, with the decline of the Tang Dynasty's national power, Tubo conquered the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty in the third year of Emperor Yuanhe of the Tang Dynasty (808), and the state of Shupantuo was also incorporated into the territory of Tubo.
From then on, the area was no longer under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty until the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, when the region was occupied by the Dzungar tribe of Moxi Mongolia. After the Qianlong Emperor conquered the Dzungar Province, he incorporated the whole of Xinjiang into the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and also made the hometown of the Shupantuo Kingdom fall back under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.
After more than 1,000 years, the homeland of the country of Shupantuo has once again returned to the embrace of the Central Plains Dynasty.
The main ethnic group of the state is said to be composed of descendants of the Han Chinese and Persians. After experiencing historical changes, the people of Supantuo have blended with the surrounding ethnic groups and formed the characteristics of the Persians, which are very different from the Han people.
In addition, the people of the Supanta also gave birth to the Tajik people of today, and the royal descendants of the Supantuo are considered to be one of the ancestors of the Tajiks. Today, the Tajiks are one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, and the Tajiks also established the Republic of Tajikistan in Central Asia.
It is estimated that the Han Dynasty and the princess would not have thought that an unexpected pregnancy would give birth to a new nation and country.