In the ancient texts and scriptures of our country, we can hardly find any record of "Tunguska".
However, this does not mean that there is a lack of knowledge of the Tungusic people in the history of our country, because before the word "Tunguska" appeared, they were often recorded in history as "Sauron" or "Kamunikan".
Nowadays we usually think of the "Tunguska" as the "Evenki" today.
However, in recent decades, the term "Tunguska" has often appeared in many fields such as ethnology, anthropology, linguistics, archaeology and so on, which makes the term "Tunguska" a multidisciplinary concept with different connotations in different fields.
In fact, we should not even confuse the "Tungusic people" with the "Tungusic people" in general terms - but distinguish between the concepts of the Tungusic people, the Tungusic language family, the Tungusic race, etc.
Due to the confusion of the interpretation of Tunguska in modern research, it is difficult for us to draw a definite conclusion about the relationship between the historical Tunguska and the Manchus today.
But we can still see the connection between the two by understanding the origins of the Tungusic people.
According to today's definition of the Tungusic nation, exploring the origin of the Tunguska nation is the origin of the "Evenki nation".
We have a lot of achievements on the origin of the Evenks.
However, since the historical ethnic group is often the "common name" of many ethnic groups today, it is extremely difficult to specify which ethnic group and which branch of the Evenki ethnic group originated from in history.
Therefore, the origin of the Tungusic people can only be traced back by the origin of the branches of the Tungusic language group to which the Evenki people belong.
The Tungusic language family is mainly divided into the Manchu language family, the Hezhen language family, and the Evenki language family.
Among these three language families, the Manchu language group has the clearest development process, mainly because the Manchu language group has the closest connection with the Central Plains, and the records are more accurate and rich.
In fact, the Manchu branch was originally divided into several language groups, but after the four dynasties of Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Ming, it gradually merged into the later Manchu group.
Compared with the Manchu language group, the formation of the Hezhen and Evenki branches is not so clear.
In between, there are more clues to the development of the Hezhen branch than that of the Evenki branch, and many scholars have discussed this.
In the Qing Dynasty, there are records in the "Jilin Tongzhi" and "Shengwu Ji": "Hezhe is about distributed in the lower reaches of the Songhua River and the south bank of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River below Boli." ”
Although there is no record of Hezhe in the Ming Dynasty, it can be inferred that at that time, the various ethnic groups of the Hezhe language branch were probably included in the savage Jurchen.
It is difficult to determine what specific part of the savage Jurchen is, but the Hezhe branch of the Yuan Dynasty is believed to be included in the Wuzhi savages located in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River.
In the Jin Dynasty, the Hezhe language branch was included in the Wuzhi change, where the "Wuzhi change" in the Jurchen language means "wild", which is what we later called the savage.
In the Tang Dynasty, the southern Heishui tribes living south of the Heilongjiang River are considered to be the ancestors of the Hezhe language tribes. During the Han and Wei dynasties, the ancestors of the Hezhe tribe should be included in the Lulou.
To sum up, the various ethnic groups of the Hezhe branch have long been included in the various ethnic groups of the Manchu branch, the Lulou, the Heishui Yan and the Jurchen.
It was about the time of the Yuan and Ming dynasties that it was gradually divided into two language branches.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, except for the Huli change and part of the Wu changes recorded in the historical books, each group of the Hezhe language branch was incorporated into the Manchus, and the remaining part of the Wu was changed to form the current Hezhe language branch.
As for the ancestors of the Evenki branch, the situation that appeared in history is more complicated.
In the Qing Dynasty's "Northeast Frontier Defense Minutes" and "Quanliao Preparation Examination", it is recorded that from the 16th century to the middle of the 17th century, the Evenks distributed in the northwest of Lake Baikal and the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River were divided into three groups: the Evenks of the Lu, the Evenks of the Horses, and the Evenks known as the headquarters of the "Solon Tribe".
The first two branches are also known as the "Sauron Bebes".
In the Ming Dynasty, there was no name for the Evenks, but in the areas with the same distribution as the Evenks, there were people living in the northern mountains, and they also raised deer, which was the same as the Evenks.
But this is not enough to equate the Northern Mountain Savages with the Evenks.
In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a saying of "Uliangha in the forest", and Duosang clearly pointed out: "Uliangha is a person in the forest, and the last species belong to Donghu." Donghu here actually means Tunguska, which is a mistranslation.
Uliangha is located around the Vitium River in the upper reaches of the Lena River, which coincides with the place where the Evenks lived. As for the remaining two Evenks, it is not mentioned.
The Tang Dynasty's records of the various ethnic groups of the Evenki language branch are more detailed.
Lü Guangtian investigated the place where the Ju country was located and found that it was the tundra forest area of the Vitim River in the upper reaches of the Lena River, which not only confirmed that this area was the distribution area of the Evenks from ancient times to the present, but also proved that there was a great connection between the Ju tribe and the Evenks.
To the west of the Ju tribe is the Baye of the Turkic language group, and to the east is the Yuzhan of the Mongol-speaking Murwei tribe.
Of course, the Ju tribe did not belong to the Turkic, Uighur system, so it can be inferred that the Ju tribe was most likely a branch of the northern branch of the Tungusic language family inserted to the south.
The ancestors of the Evenki tribe in the Tang Dynasty were not only this branch, but also the ancestors of the Evenki tribe in the Heishui Erythro.
The Heishui Sect mentioned in the New Tang Dynasty Book and the Heishui Sect mentioned in the New Tang Dynasty Book and the Biography of the New Tang Dynasty Shu Mur Wei are all supposed to belong to the ancestors of the Evenki tribes.
Based on the above analysis, we can roughly determine that the Evenki ethnic groups first lived in the area north of the Heilongjiang River.
Later, Ding Ling moved westward, and the Evenki ancestors also settled in Ding Ling's hometown. In the Liaojin period, they moved west to the Shikal River and Chita River, and some Evenks in the Qing Dynasty moved south to the south of the Heilongjiang River.
The formation of the Manchus was formed in 1653 when Huang Taiji incorporated the Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, Savage Jurchen, Han Chinese, Mongol, Sauron and other ethnic groups living in northeastern China under the same ethnic name.
Comparing these peoples with the peoples of the Tungusic tribe we mentioned earlier, it is not difficult to see that the savage Jurchen and Sauron overlapped.
However, not all Jurchens became members of the Manchus, and these Jurchens who failed to join the Manchurian community were divided into Xibe, Evenki, and Oroqen after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Among them, the Evenks are what we now call the Tungusic people, and these peoples are also considered close relatives of the Manchus.
So what we can be sure of is that one or two of the historical Tungusic people were Manchus. In the language of mathematics, it is the intersection of the Tungusic people in history and the Manchus as we are called today.