Tip: Halfway through this work, it could not be carried out, for the simple reason that these people all had the title of scholars, and suddenly found that if they wrote it like this, they would write it into Chinese history and have little to do with the Turks; second, even if the Huns and Turks were the ancestors of the Turks, it was only a national issue and had nothing to do with the state. That is to say, the history of the country cannot be written as a history of the nation, and the history of the nation can be traced back to the source, in our words today, that is, everyone is a family, and the earth is a small village.
Turning over history, people will find that no nation or country in this world can write its own history as seriously as Chinese and China, and know the past and learn from the present, which is the excellent tradition of the Chinese nation and a thing worthy of praise. However, to be fair and objective, this also has its "disadvantages" and "bad", that is, to provide others with plagiarized materials and models. For example, the Book of Wei and the history of Turkey.
The Book of Wei is one of the twenty-four histories, the theme of the Ji Chuan style, is a Chronicle of the Northern Qi dynasty written by Wei Shu, a Northern Qi person, recording the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty from the end of the 4th century to the middle of the 6th century AD. There are 124 volumes, of which 12 are honki, 92 are Liechuan, and 20 are Zhi. Because some of the benji, biography and zhi are too long, they are divided into three volumes: upper and lower, or upper, middle and lower volumes, for a total of 131 volumes. As early as when Tuoba Jue established the Northern Wei regime, the historian Deng Yuan had compiled more than ten volumes of the "Daiji", and later Cui Hao, Gao Yun, and others continued to write, all of which adopted the chronicle style.
What body is not important, what is important is that the Book of Wei records the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Northern Wei Dynasty was established by tuoba jue of the Xianbei tribe and the first dynasty of the Northern Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of China. At that time, the ethnic minorities in the north changed their customs and customs, which was one of the great eras of ethnic integration in Chinese history. After the book was written, the book was placed in the Chinese library, quietly waiting for people to consult like too many books. After a long period of time, in the Ming Dynasty, more missionaries came to China, and Chinese history and the Book of Wei aroused their interest.
Why? At this time, there was a multi-ethnic empire established by the Turks in the history of the world, the Ottoman Empire, which was very bullish. In 1360, the Ming Dynasty was still 8 years away from being established, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet become emperor, and the Ottoman monarch Murad I succeeded to the throne, and made decisive progress in the expansion to southeastern Europe. In 1362, a large-scale military offensive was launched, occupying the byzantine empire's important city of Adriatic Fort, and renaming it Edirne, and setting the capital here. It then conquered Western Thrace, Macedonia, Sofia, Thessaloniki, and all of northern Greece, forcing Bulgarian and Serbian rulers to pay tribute. In 1389, the combined Serb, Bulgarian, and Hungarian forces were defeated at the Battle of Kosovo, leaving Serbia a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.
The victory shook the rulers of European countries, but Murad I, 63, was killed by assassins infiltrating the army.
His son Bayezid I succeeded to the throne and continued to command the army to fight, annihilating the combined forces of Serbia and Bulgaria, capturing his commander, the Duke of Lazare, and conquering Serbia and Bulgaria. In 1395, he led an army to invade Hungary, and in 1396, he fought with the Hungarian and Polish armies under the command of King Sigismon of Hungary, as well as the Crusaders of English and French knights, a total of 100,000 people fought at Nico Fort, and won a great victory, capturing more than 10,000 knights in this battle...
All this caused great headaches for the Western countries, and the Ottoman Empire, at its peak, reached the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, encompassing most of the Balkan Peninsula, the Middle East and North Africa, as far as the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, to the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf in the east, to the north and present-day Austria and Slovenia, and to the south and present-day Sudan and Yemen.
What to do? Although, while Bayezid was preparing to continue his invasion of Europe, the powerful Timurid army from the east invaded Asia Minor, Bayezid led a large army to the east, the two sides fought a decisive battle in Ankara in 1402, Bayezid was defeated and captured, his four sons launched a war for the throne, at the same time, the countries ruled by the Turks revolted, and the Ottoman Empire had to postpone its expansion in Europe, but this still annoyed Westerners. So, just think of something to do.
In 1402, when Bayezid's army was defeated and captured, Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan and raised an army to attack Emperor Jianwen and won the victory, claiming the title of emperor in Nanjing. Since then, China's economy has prospered, its national strength has been strong, and the martial arts of civil rule have been greatly improved. Zhu Di not only consolidated China's northern and southern border defenses and maintained the integrity of China's territory, but also sent Zheng He to the West on many occasions, strengthened Sino-foreign friendly exchanges, and China's management of the South China Sea; at the same time, in order to strengthen the control of the northern and northeastern regions, in 1421, he moved the capital to Beijing, and through a series of measures, made the world rule and the country rich and strong, forming a "far-reaching Han tang" and a Yongle prosperous era in which all countries came to the dynasty.
What did the missionaries who came to China ponder? What they have to do comes up here — whether they can find something related to the Turks from Chinese history, make them "pay attention" to China, make them feel that their enemies are in the East, and then completely stop the expansion of the West. Flip the book! Flip through the history books! The missionaries went through the Chinese Book of Sui, the New Book of Tang, the Old Book of Tang, the Northern History, the Book of Wei, and some other historical sources, but they did not find the relationship between Chinese and the Turks. Didn't the Turks "move west"? Then think of them all in that place in Central Asia, think of them all as the ancestors of the Turks - Chinese beat them away, beat them to a place far away in Central Asia, so that there is no "talking head"?
In this way, the missionaries returned one by one with Chinese historical materials, and Western scholars began to study, and in the face of the "westward migration" of the Huns, they thought of attila the Huns, who made the territory of the Hun Empire reach its peak, swept across Europe, and let the Western Roman Empire exist in name only, and he may have come from China, the Chinese Huns, although one white and one yellow, but the problem of skin color, can be changed, not the core nor the key.
In the face of the "westward migration" of the Turks, Western scholars thought straight of the Turks. Although it is clear in China's Book of Wei that the Turks appeared around 540, until the rise of the Late Southern and Northern Dynasties of China, the establishment of the Turkic Khaganate, once controlling the desert north and Central Asia, and finally being destroyed by the Tang Dynasty's united Uighurs, the Turks once controlled Central Asia, right?
Although, in China's history books, the Turks are a political power composed of a confederation of ethnic minorities in northern China, as a nation, the pure-bred Turkic Ashina clan has long disappeared in China's history books, but the Turks once controlled Central Asia, and the Central Asians are not Turks, are they not related to the Turks? The Huns are also related to the Turks in Chinese history, so they are also the ancestors of the Turks.
In this way, the "great framework of history" of the Turks has been fixed, so let's do it, let's do it. Soon, at the initiative of scholars, a discipline arose in the West— Turkology. What is this? In fact, we have already said that the Turks feel that their ancestors came from the East, that they were beaten away by Chinese, and that they should fight back to the East. But how do you convince the Turks? Then write them a "history", put it there in black and white, close to the facts, believe it or not.
Western scholars have chosen the Book of Wei among the many blueprints, mainly because the Book of Wei basically involves all the ethnic groups in northern China, as well as the Xiongnu and Turks they want. Therefore, the French scholar Dejing, the British scholar Arthur David, the Pole Geraleddin and others began this work (here refer to the master's thesis related to Mr. Song Jiansheng of Shanghai Jiao Tong University).
However, halfway through this work, it could not be carried out, for the simple reason that these people all had the title of scholars, and suddenly found that if they wrote it, they would write it into Chinese history and have little to do with the Turks; second, even if the Huns and Turks were the ancestors of the Turks, it was only a national question and had nothing to do with the state. That is to say, the history of the country cannot be written as a history of the nation, and the history of the nation can be traced back to the source, in our words today, that is, everyone is a family, and the earth is a small village.
Stop to replenish the brain, add some national ingredients into it, but the damn thing is to add this part of China's history books that is not involved in and not recorded, which makes the participants very headache. What to do? Then make a general thing, reverse the direction, write the pan-Turkic "nation", and make the hat that the Turks are the ancestors of the Turks. After some thought, Arthur David changed the half of history that had not been written and concocted a copy of the Turkic Grammar.
By this time it was 1836, the Ming Dynasty had died, and the Qing Dynasty had been established for nearly 200 years, but it was in this year that Arthur David's Turkic Grammar was translated into French by his mother and dedicated to The Ottoman Mahmoud II. Of course, by this time, the Ottoman Empire was no longer the same as ever, its territory was constantly being encroached upon, and due to the failure to defeat the Greek riots, it was forced to recognize Greek independence in 1829, resulting in a chain reaction, and repeated defeats in confrontations with the Egyptian army...
Even better than Arthur David and his mother imagined, after receiving this book, the Turks were extremely excited, as if they had received a straw of salvation - our ancestors, O great, such glory, now that the "Turks" sign, we can unite all the Muslims in Central Asia and even China and the world, not only to resist "foreign invasion", but also to build a powerful empire!
Since then, the Turks have had such a dream, and with the help of some "scholars", they have completed the second half of their history, turning them into "outstanding representatives and natural leaders of the Turks". But the Turks forgot that the Turks they admired had no idea what was going on with the Muslims in Chinese history, and that the Turks they "fancied" had no reason to listen to them. Therefore, the Turks with "dreams" have always said that it does not count, but they have always said it very meaninglessly. They also forget that dreams can be concocted in dreams, and they can do whatever they want, but history and reality cannot, and that they are often born to shatter or even crush dreams. (Wen | Lusheng)