The most brutal people, exterminated by all nations, seems to be a familiar name
Confucius believed that "the benevolent love others", and even during the social turmoil of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he still firmly believed that the essence of human nature is good. He treats other ethnic minorities with an open and inclusive attitude, and does not discriminate because of differences.
In the early years of history, the Western Zhou Dynasty regarded some ethnic minority settlements around their country as outliers, and even the Chu State at that time used the term "barbarian" to call them.
However, as the Qin dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms, they began to place greater emphasis on exchanges with their neighbors and promoted exchanges between various cultures. Especially during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian made many missions to the Western Regions and established close ties with Central Asia and other countries, and the exchanges between the Han people and people of other ethnic groups became more and more frequent, and gradually embarked on the process of national integration.
Although China has established the People's Republic of China after thousands of years of ethnic integration, there are also some ethnic groups that make us feel awe and cannot be ignored in the process of integration.
There are also some ethnic groups that, for various reasons, have disappeared in the long course of history.
Let's explore the history of the vanished people, the Karma. Ancient Chinese civilization was also invaded by barbarians, just like other ancient civilizations in the world.
For example, in the early days of the Han Dynasty, China's borders were often attacked by the Xiongnu. Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, narrowly escaped in several attacks, and his mother, Empress Dowager Gao, was also attacked by the Huns.
However, Han Gaozu still insisted on keeping face and wrote back to the Xiongnu seeking reconciliation.
After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, after the recuperation of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, we had the capital to conduct a long-term war with the Xiongnu. In the end, the war ended in the victory of the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu had to give up control of the Western Regions, so that our China could enjoy the tranquility of the border for a long time.
However, after the Han Dynasty, due to the long-term continuation of the war, the Xiongnu were also able to recuperate and launch a large-scale war against us during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
This war turned the entire Central Plains region into a battlefield, and it also reached an unprecedented peak.
The Qiang people are mentioned because it is one of the five hus, and its historical origin can be traced back to the Xiongnu era during the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Xiongnu was a general term for foreign ethnic minorities, including the Guirong people, Yanjing people, Donghu people, Loulan people and other tribes, some of these tribes were conquered by the Xiongnu, and some were submitted to the Xiongnu.
There is a people, known to the world as the Xiongnu Beep, and their faces have a unique imprint: a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, and that strong smell of mutton.
This is not surprising since they are nomads from the Western Regions. However, there are various opinions on the origin of the Karma people, but in general, they can be summarized as follows.
This is the Karma, a people full of mysteries.
There are many theories about the origin of the Karma people, but there are three main theories. One was the Sogdians from Central Asia, a white race similar to today's Pakistanis, who founded the Shi State in present-day Uzbekistan, from which the Shile of Later Zhao is said to have come.
Another theory is that the Qiang came from the Sogdiana people of Central Asia, but this claim is not widely accepted due to insufficient evidence. There is also a theory that the Qiang themselves were the Kangju people of Central Asia, and that the Kangju was a region near Turkmenistan.
Regardless of their origins, the Qiang are a people with a rich historical and cultural background.
According to historical records, there are two kinds of ancestors of the Qian. According to one opinion, they are inhabitants of the Central Asian region. Another view is that they are descendants of the Satsuki clan.
The Xiaoyue clan originally lived in the Hexi Corridor of Gansu Province, and due to the invasion of the Xiongnu, some of the clansmen were forced to migrate westward. However, some chose to stay where they were, while others went south to join the Qiang.
These Xiaoyue people who went south may be the later Qiang people.
Regardless of their origins, they were eventually conquered by the Xiongnu and became part of them. Although the Xiongnu and Xiongnu were not equal in status, this did not affect the rise of the Xiongnu.
After decades of ethnic integration, many ethnic minorities have gradually accepted Chinese culture from initially resisting Chinese culture, and are willing to marry the Han people, and finally integrate into the Chinese family.
Historically, there are many examples of the integration of ethnic minorities with Han Chinese and other Han people, such as the Di regime in the pre-Qin period and the Xiongnu during the Han Dynasty. These peoples eventually merged with us and together they built a multi-ethnic unity.
Throughout history, there have been many peoples who have prospered because of good governance, some who have drifted apart for other reasons, and some who have even been disadvantaged by poor governance.
The Karma are one such example, who, due to improper governance, not only had a low status, but was even completely wiped out.
In ancient times, the misery of life in the Central Plains was due to the wars waged by the northern nomads in order to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people. Among them, Shile established the state of Zhao through powerful political and strategic means.
While this approach can be fast-acted, it is not long-lasting. Shile, as a Qian, was a very instrumental emperor. He dared to reuse talents, especially Zhang Bin, and formulated a series of policies that transformed the Qiang regime from a nomadic regime to a stable small-scale peasant economic regime.
At the same time as carrying out a major reform of the political system, the Zhao regime actively recruited Han Chinese intellectuals, and the construction of political power was in full swing. During Shile's lifetime, he maintained respect for Han culture and advocated ethnic exchanges.
However, after Shi Le's death, the development of Zhao gradually deviated from the right track. Shi Le's heir, Shi Hu, has many stains on history, he is full of ethnic discrimination, and has special hobbies.
Shi Hu brutally ** the Han people, and hung the corpses of the Han people by wearing hemp rope to show his majesty. What is unacceptable is that he is obsessed with collecting beautiful women, and there is a great demand for beautiful women.
Whenever he travels, as long as he sees the woman he likes, regardless of his family background, marital status, or even age, he will send someone to forcibly take her to the palace and enjoy it slowly.
He constantly plundered beautiful women from all sides, resulting in an increasingly large number of people in the harem, which could not be accommodated. To solve this problem, he had to order the construction of a new palace. What's even more surprising is that he requisitioned 400,000 people for this palace, which is enough to show the scale of his harem.
Shi Hu's behavior made the Han ministers deeply chilled, and even his own people thought that his actions were too radical.
Under Shi Hu's rule, the walls of the territory were covered with corpses, and the official roads were lined with people who had been dead for a long time. At this time, the Zhao State was strong in force, and the Jin State was defeated and retreated. In the face of the surrender of more than 100,000 people of the Jin Kingdom, Shi Hu chose to slaughter the city, and some of them were reduced to slaves, imprisoned in the workshops of the government, and worked day and night, and many people died.
Shi Hu's death left a chaotic situation for the Zhao State, and his descendants fought for the throne, resulting in countless lives. At this time, God bless Zhao Kingdom, a heroic hero Ran Min appeared, he quelled the melee and brought peace to the people.
He was the king of martial mourning in that era and was famous all over the world.
Ran Min led the Han people to rebel against **, issued a killing order, and called for revenge against the Qian. Affected by this, other ethnic minorities also attacked it en masse, resulting in Shi Hu and other imperial relatives almost being killed, and innocent people of the Qiang nationality were also suffered.
Inspired by the killing of Hu Ling, Ran Min and his supporters killed nearly hundreds of thousands of Qiang people. Although they have hundreds of thousands of people like Bai Qi and Meng Tian, they have won the broad support of the people.
Despite this, he was still remembered after his death, after all, the ** of the Qiang tribe has oppressed the people for too long.
Although the population of the Qiang tribe has plummeted, some have survived, and their leader is Hou Jing. Hou Jing brought hope to the Qiang people, and at the same time, he was also the culprit in the demise of the Qiang people.
He led the remnants of the Liang tribe to take refuge in the Liang Dynasty, but he could not bear the fate of being at the mercy of others for a long time, so he rebelled in the Liang Dynasty and killed Emperor Wu of Liang with his own hands, resulting in the Liang State **, and at the same time brought endless disasters to the south.
Although the Hou Jing Rebellion had subsided, its far-reaching effects gradually plunged the south into depression. In addition, the rebellion led to the death of the last of the Karma in the war, and the Karma were wiped out as a result.
Today, the overall impression of this people is still negative, after all, millions of lives are caused by their tribe. Tracing the history of the Qian, they originally belonged to the Xiongnu, but because they did not want to be ruled, they betrayed Shan Yu and wantonly in the place of the uprising.
During the Jin Dynasty, they invaded the Jin Dynasty borders and launched new rebellions and ** within the Jin Dynasty's borders.
After ascending to the throne, the tyranny became more and more excessive, plundering wealth, forcibly plundering the daughters of the people, doing everything, and even killing constantly. It seems that this betrayal and tyranny are in their blood.
Even a good monarch like Emperor Wu of Liang showed betrayal and killing, which undoubtedly made one suspect that it was their nature. It is this kind of ruthless, unrighteous and brutal people that led to the eventual disappearance of this nation in the long river of history, because they reaped the consequences of their own destruction, and the tragedy of extermination occurred.
In the wind and rain of the past, our nation went through turmoil, moved forward with ups and downs, and supported each other to gather together. This is not only a reflection of the will of the people, but also the result of the convergence of many factors.
Some nations have died due to tyranny, and some nations have experienced twists and turns, but they can only go further and more steadily because of mutual help with other peoples.
Historical choices are a reflection of human behavior, and the demise of the Karma is regrettable, but it is the consequence of their own actions. Therefore, the lessons of the failures of our predecessors and the successful experiences of our descendants remind us that in today's period of ethnic integration, we should take this as a warning, absorb the excellent traditional culture of various ethnic groups, and more importantly, stick to ourselves and treat others with courtesy in this world of multi-ethnic exchanges.
Only in this way can we be kind to our neighbors, to others, to the world, and to stand on the side of morality, on the side of the people, and on the side of victory.
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