Is it true that experts say that Siberia should belong to China?
According to Korean scholars, Siberia has been part of ancient China for the past 5,500 years. This conclusion has sparked a lot of discussion, so why do Korean scholars have such an opinion?
Let's find out why.
The question of Siberia's historical ownership has always been a matter of great concern, and both China and Russia have expressed concern about it. However, a recent study by a South Korean scholar has sparked a new controversy.
By studying the Classic of Mountains and Seas 5,500 years ago, he presented historical evidence that Siberia belonged to China. Although domestic experts tend to remain silent about this, many Siberian regions are gray on the historical map, and there is no indication of which Chinese power it belongs to, nor which foreign power of the same period it belongs to.
However, it is obviously unrealistic to deny Siberia's relations with China. Because historians have to face the fact that if Siberia did not belong to China in ancient times, then they did not belong to any country of the same period, and no other country can prove their sovereignty over Siberia at that time.
Therefore, the question of the historical attribution of Siberia needs to be studied in depth.
Even now, Russia cannot prove that they have legal sovereignty over Siberia during the Han, Tang, and Yuan dynasties. In fact, until the time of the Han Dynasty, Muscovy did not exist, let alone later Russia.
In addition,"Siberia"The name itself has a strong Chinese flavor, and it is"Cianbergia"umlaut. Xianbei is an important ethnic group in the history of our country, so this region naturally has a close relationship with China.
As South Korean scholars say, Siberia has been under Chinese jurisdiction for thousands of years. Historically, Siberia has long been in China's sphere of influence.
There are records about Siberia in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the Classic of Mountains and Seas is usually considered to be the geographical mapping and recording of the land during the Yu period, so our farthest knowledge and rule of Siberia can be traced back to Dayu or even before Dayu.
Although there are some doubts about the records of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, our history of governance in Siberia dates back thousands of years. With the destruction of historical documents and the passage of time, our perception has become more and more blurred.
However, at a time when we were rich in historical materials, the image of Siberia began to appear frequently in Chinese historical books, especially in some major historical events. For example, the North Sea in the Suvu sheep herding, historians dispute whether it is Baikal or the Arctic Ocean.
Although this is not an authoritative statement, this possibility is not impossible given the level of knowledge of the ancients. Especially during the Han Dynasty, China's territory was vast, the sea could be seen in both the south and the east, and the Han Dynasty also had an advanced naval division, so the possibility that they recorded the lake as the sea is not impossible.
If the North Sea is indeed the Arctic Ocean, then China during the Han Dynasty actually ruled a large area of Siberia.
In the long history of China, the rule of Siberia during the Tang Dynasty has been clearly documented and institutionalized. At that time, the small Siberian tribes, seeing the strength of the Tang Dynasty, chose to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty and became vassals of the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty not only gave these vassal states rich rewards, but also gave them advanced culture, which made Siberia at that time full of Chinese style. Today, in the Siberian region of Russia, Chinese artifacts are still regularly excavated, and the inscriptions and patterns on these artifacts clearly indicate that Siberia was part of Chinese rule as early as the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, the fact that artifacts with Han Dynasty characteristics have also been excavated in the area further proves that the views of Korean scholars are not groundless.
1.The Tang Dynasty set up special institutions to administer Siberia, and established six major prefectures, at least three of which had jurisdiction over Siberia, including the southern region of Siberia and Sakhalin Island.
During the Tang Dynasty, Siberia was already included in the formal rule of our country, earlier than the rule of Tibet. 2.The later Ming Dynasty administered Siberia through the Nuergandusi, and this precedent of direct rule made Siberian rule logical.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the tribal leaders of Siberia took the initiative to pay tribute, indicating the influence of the Mongol cavalry at that time.
In order to better govern Siberia, Kublai Khan appointed a local tribal leader as ** to exercise administrative power on behalf of the Yuan Dynasty. At this time, Muscovy had just emerged, and the suppression of the Mongol cavalry made it almost impossible to compete with the Yuan dynasty in Siberia.
After the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was equally dedicated to the governance of the northern region, although he came from the south and initially concentrated his forces in the south. Especially at that time, some Mongolian nobles were dissatisfied with the status quo, and the Ming Dynasty paid special attention to the rule of the north and set up the Nuer Gandu Division.
The jurisdiction of the Nuergandu Division included part of present-day northeastern regions and large swaths of Siberia. In fact, part of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty came from the Tunguska region of Siberia.
Why did the Siberian natives replace the Ming Dynasty as the new Chinese dynasty? The only possibility is that at that time, Siberia was the inherent territory of China. Otherwise, this kind of thing can't happen.
Although the Qing Dynasty had the right to rule over parts of Siberia, after the expedition of Tsarist Russia to the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi was forced to sign the Treaty of Nebuchu and cede a large area of Siberian land to Tsarist Russia, resulting in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Tsarist Russia took the opportunity to force the Qing Dynasty to cede 1.5 million square kilometers of land, and the Siberian territory, including Sakhalin Island, was forcibly ceded to Tsarist Russia at that time.
When the People's Republic of China was founded, Siberia, which had been ruled by China for thousands of years, was no longer under China's control, and even lost relations with China. Tsarist Russia experienced an internal uprising to overthrow Tsarist rule, after which Lenin's Soviet Russia became the successor of Tsarist Russia.
Lenin had advocated the return of part of China's territory and was even ready to negotiate with us.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Beiyang ** failed to stabilize the situation, but instead led to warlord scuffles, and we had no time to take care of the border areas, and even the Western Regions were in a state of warlord secession.
At that time, our technology and ** were backward and could not effectively manage such a large territory, so the issue has been unresolved. Later Soviet Russia developed into the Soviet Union, and they were no longer willing to return these territories.
Over time, the relationship between history and reality has become more complex. Now it has become very difficult for Russia to solve the historical problems of Siberia.
In the process of the collapse of the Soviet Union, these territories were allocated to several member states, and what was originally a territorial dispute with us has now become a dispute between several countries and us.
We need to find a right balance to solve this problem.
Russia has always maintained good relations with China since its independence, and both during the Yeltsin and Putin periods, they have always adhered to a friendly policy toward China. Yeltsin even returned the territory of China many times, although the area was not large, but in peacetime, two great powers of equal strength took the initiative to return the territory, which has already shown their positive attitude.
At the same time, both China and Russia are facing repression from Western countries led by the United States, so this matter cannot be completely from a historical point of view, and it is not reasonable to demand that Russia return all of Siberia.
Because Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russia are not equivalent, and the treaties they signed cannot be fully inherited. But from a historical point of view, the Korean scholars are right.