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The wolf nature of the nomadic people represents the Sinicization of the Mongol Empire

author:The blue of the crane

Sinicization is a process of integration and assimilation of other ethnic groups with the farming peoples of the Central Plains. The broader concept refers to ethnic integration, the process of human evolution and formation of national integration has lasted for thousands of years, and still continues to exist, and has promoted the formation and development of various human nations, promoted the progress of civilization, expanded the connotation and extension of the nation, and played a huge role and far-reaching influence on the progress and national rejuvenation of the human nation. Through alliance, annexation, and conquest, the integration of nationalities has been promoted by mutual reference, absorption and complementarity among various nationalities, forming a new culture and civilization, and has become a new nation with the development of history. From the analysis of the development process of the world's national history, there is no pure nation and an immutable nation, and the nation has experienced a process of continuous formation, development and rejuvenation, which is a historical process of national integration.

Since the formation of the agricultural civilization in the Central Plains during the Yandi and Yellow Emperor periods, the Chinese nation has become the source and indiscriminate pursuit of civilization in the Yellow River Basin, compared with other four ancient civilizations, namely the ancient Egyptian civilization in the Nile River Basin, the ancient Babylonian civilization in the Two River Basins, the ancient Indian civilization in the Ganges River Basin, and the ancient Greek civilization in the Aegean Sea, although in different periods, its population, productivity level, economic development scale, civilization development degree and historical durability are comprehensively compared, and are in the world's leading position. In the subsequent historical development and the improvement of the level of productive forces, its economic, political, cultural, military, technological and national ideology were all the most powerful countries and the largest country in the world under the historical conditions at that time, and this situation was not until the completion of the first industrial revolution in Britain, which broke and ended the history of China's world first. In the 5,000-year history of the development of Chinese civilization, the Chinese nation is ahead of the civilizations of the surrounding and other ethnic groups in the world, and the integration of the nations has promoted the trend of digestion, absorption and assimilation of backward civilizations by advanced civilizations, promoted the development of advanced civilizations, and also led to the evolution and upgrading of relatively backward civilizations, and finally integrated into a more advanced new nation. The Chinese nation has maintained an unceasing momentum of development because of its population size, history, persistence and the influence of civilization, while the original national characteristics of other nationalities have gradually disappeared and assimilated, which is the process of Sinicization. Sinicization is not a narrow nationalist connotation, nor is it a populist conservative concept, but highlights the process and characteristics of the integration of the Chinese nation. The process of Sinicization is mutual promotion and mutual integration, not that one nation has eliminated a nation, but that a new nation has been formed.

In history, the sinicization process of various ethnic groups is based on the Central Plains ethnic groups, through the absorption of foreign or external ethnic languages, religions, ideas, technical processes, equipment and tools, through ethnic gathering, ethnic exchanges and mutual integration and promotion, such as wheat planting, courgette (cucumber) hu bed (bench), music, dance, etc. are from the Hu people and the western region of the various departments of the nomadic semi-agricultural peoples. Among them, the Hufu Knight of Zhao Wuling King is the most famous in Chinese history to absorb and borrow from the Eastern Hu people of the Mongolian Plateau, and through this reform, the service, army and military organization ability and combat ability of the Central Plains nation have been completely changed, forming a powerful cavalry of the Central Plains nation, providing a powerful military force for resisting the aggression of foreign nationalities and foreign conquests, and the army equipment of the organic combination of cavalry and infantry. The process of Sinicization of the nomadic minorities of the northern and western ethnic groups was divided into two parts: active and passive, the Xiongnu in the Western Han Dynasty were divided into two parts, the Northern Xiongnu were expelled and forced to migrate to the west, and the Southern Xiongnu were gradually Sinicized. During the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic peoples were forced to be divided into east and west, the Western Turks migrated to Central Asia and Western Eastern Europe, and the Eastern Turks were Sinicized. The most prominent active Sinicization was the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of northern Wei, intermarriage with the Han and the use of The Han language to wear Han costumes, and the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms were also gradually assimilated into sinicization. During the Liao, Song, Jin, and Western Xia dynasties, the Khitan, Jurchen, Xianbei ethnic groups and the Han chinese in the Central Plains also experienced a process of assimilation and sinicization on their own initiative and force.

The process of Sinicization during the Mongol Empire period was very incomplete, in the Yuan Dynasty and the Four Khanates, the Mongol rulers had different opinions on Sinicization, only the Yuan Dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan implemented the sinicization attempt to rule the Han Dynasty with Han, which was also very incomplete, and the Four Khanates completely opposed the Sinicization process, but the Turkification process was obvious, the Chincha Khanate used Turkic languages and believed in Islam, the Yuan Dynasty was short in its enjoyment of the country, internal power struggles were rampant, except for Kublai Khan, there were few monarchs with holy and clear deeds, internal opinions were not unified, and The Sinicization was superficial and formalized. Hierarchical notions of race, as well as self-esteem and self-love for one's own language and religion, fear of being affected and hindering national integration. With the elimination of the Western Yuan Dynasty, the form of Sinicization also ceased to exist.

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