History is a little girl dressed up. Many people think that this sentence was said by Hu Shi, but it is not. In 1919, Hu Shi said in the article "Experimentalism": "I am really a very obedient girl. She was obediently painted and dressed up by us. It's like a piece of marble coming into our hands and carving something from us. But this sentence does not refer to history, and then others say it through Hu Shizhi's mouth. It doesn't matter who said it, what matters is that this sentence was later widely quoted, and what we have to say is that history is not a little girl who dresses up, or, whoever dresses her up, is a little girl, and people can't change her essence. For example, Mongolia.
Recently, it was reported that Mongolia has restored the traditional Mongolian language (Xinhua News Agency, Ulaanbaatar, March 18): In March 2020, the Mongolian government officially adopted the National Outline of the Mongolian Script, and decided to fully resume the use of Uighur Mongolian, commonly known as traditional Mongolian, from 2025 onwards. That is to say, Mongolia changed its script back and forth: in 1946, Mongolia abandoned the traditional Mongolian language and began to use a new Mongolian language based on the Slavic alphabet, that is, Cyrillic Mongolian, and at this time the traditional Mongolian language was restored, and everything was clearly returned to the original point.
Writing is left by the ancestors, and it is also a symbol of recording culture and history, and it is also a carrier of language. More than half a century is not too long in the long river of history, but in real life, it is a long process, if you take 30 years as a generation, the process of Mongolian writing back to the original point has been more than two generations. We don't know how much effort Mongolia has made in this process of changing the script, but what we can know is that the Mongols in The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China have arrived in Mongolia and looked at the "new Mongolian language" of Mongolia as if they were very familiar with it, but they did not know it, did not know what it meant, and had a real and unattainable distance from it. Some people compare this distance, that is, they feel like strangers who are familiar with each other, and it is clear that they have known each other in the past and know each other now, but because of different texts, at least there is a certain psychological barrier.
Some commentators have also said that Mongolia's decision also means that Mongolia can achieve "book and text" docking in exchanges with China's Inner Mongolia, which will create more convenience for the development of Sino-Mongolian relations and provide conditions for language and writing to promote the construction of the China-Mongolia Economic Corridor. (Nie Shuyi, "Overseas Online Review: What Does Mongolia Mean to Restore Traditional Mongolian," People's Daily Overseas Network, March 20)
What we want to say is that this kind of "book and text" docking is only a form, a formal convenience, and in order to make everything really convenient, it should also include the understanding of history, correct understanding, and heartfelt performance and expression, so that everything can be natural and reasonable, and it is something that comes from the heart and essence.
In history, Mongolia was ruled by many ethnic groups such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Ruoran, Turkic, and Khitan peoples. In 1206, Genghis Khan established the Great Mongol State. In 1271, Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty. In 1368, after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols retreated to the Mongolian steppe. In the 17th century, the Government of the Qing Dynasty of China unified the Mongol ministries. In 1911, Mongolia declared its independence. In 1919, Mongolia announced the abolition of autonomy. In 1921, Mongolia declared its independence under Soviet control. In 1946, the Republic of China recognized the results of the referendum on Mongolia's independence. In 1949, the People's Republic of China and Mongolia established diplomatic relations.
This is the general history of Mongolia, but in the history textbooks of the country, the process of rule and integration by the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, Turkic, Khitan and other ethnic groups has always been diluted, thinking that they have always been an independent individual of the steppe civilization, from the beginning of the Chinese Han Dynasty's war against the Xiongnu, the history of Mongolia has been equated with the Xiongnu, and then believe that China has been competing with Mongolia for grasslands, winning and losing each other, and finally because the Han Dynasty invaded the Hetao region, gained the advantage of war, and lost a lot of grassland. It was not until the emergence of Genghis Khan that the Mongol power began to become so powerful that it not only unified the Mongol tribes, but also conquered Central Asia and Europe, established a huge Mongol empire, and then ruled China for 100 years.
The presentation of this record has at least a feeling that people can't figure out who they are. On the one hand, the origin of the Mongol nation from Donghu should now seem to be no problem, although the Xiongnu eliminated Donghu, but this does not affect the problem of its origin. Just because the Xiongnu eliminated Donghu and the Xiongnu tribal alliance had Donghu, the history of the Xiongnu from the Han Dynasty cannot be said to be Donghu. Therefore, there is no problem of the Chinese Han Dynasty and Dong hu competing for grassland in the Hetao area. On the other hand, it should also be noted that the Donghu people should be one of the earliest components of the Chinese nation, and the later Mongolia is nothing more than a tribal alliance on the steppe. Therefore, there is no problem of China and Mongolia competing for grasslands at all, but a long-standing mutual integration and competition between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization in the process of historical development.
A nation is a nation, a country is a country, and where a nation's nation comes from does not affect the existence of this country. In this regard, kyrgyzstan's launch of a new version of the textbook in 2020 is very telling, in the past, most books and materials in Kyrgyzstan have blurred the history of its founding, but only put forward several possibilities of the history of the founding of the country and the origin of the nation, but did not clearly identify. The new edition of the textbook uses historical evidence from the Chronicle of the Huns, that is, it is believed that the written records related to "Kyrgyzstan" come from the "Hun Kun" in the "Biography of the Huns". It was also known as Jiankun Qin as the name of a small country in the north. In the north of the Xiongnu, the early Han Dynasty was destroyed by the Xiongnu. The Biography of the Xiongnu says: "When the Han soldiers and Xiang Yu were separated, China rebelled against the military revolution, so that it was necessary to take the initiative to get rid of itself, and the soldiers who controlled the strings were more than 300,000 ... Later Beifu Hunyu, Qu Zhi, Ding Zero, Mane Kun, and the Land of Salary. "However, the history of the Xiongnu must be a mane, and just because the Xiongnu destroyed the mane, it cannot be assumed that the history of the Xiongnu has become the mane- (Kyrgyzstan's 2020 New History Textbook)
Corresponding to this question is Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan was a Mongol beggar, the Khan of the Great Mongolian Empire, and an outstanding politician and military figure in world history. In 1206, the Great Mongol State was established, and many foreign wars were launched, conquering the Black Sea coastal areas of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. He is the greatest hero in the history of the Mongolian nation. However, at that time, because the independent Mongolia was under the influence and control of the Soviet Union, nationalism was a political taboo, and not only did not regard Genghis Khan as a national hero, but also gave him a negative evaluation and abandoned it.
This approach led the American Mongolian historian Jack Weserfeld to begin his introduction to Genghis Khan and the Formation of the World Today, which opened with a bleak, brutal picture: "In 1937, Genghis Khan's soul relic, the Spiritual Banner, disappeared from the Buddhist temple on the moon river under Mount Black Shanghe in central Mongolia, where devout lamas guarded and revered it for centuries. In the 1930s... In a series of campaigns to curb Mongolian culture and religion... The army plundered one temple after another... Destroy religious supplies, loot libraries, burn scripture scrolls, and destroy temples. It is said that someone secretly rescued the spirit flag of Genghis Khan's soul incarnation from Shanghe Monastery and brought it to the capital Ulaanbaatar for protection..." This phenomenon continued until after 1990, when Mongolia broke away from Soviet control, "resurrected" Genghis Khan worshipped, and the evaluation of Genghis Khan also rose sharply, making Genghis Khan once again an irreplaceable national hero in the minds of the Mongols, and even making him a symbol of Mongolia.
What we want to say is that as far as the concept of race is concerned, the main tribe of the Mongols, that is, the historical "Golden Family", is actually in Inner Mongolia, China, and after historical development and integration, the history of the "Golden Family" has also been greatly integrated into the entire history of the Chinese nation. In history, the history of Mongolia is also mostly based on the records of Chinese history, and has a high degree of integration with the history of the Chinese nation, and the rule of the Yuan Dynasty over China cannot be simply called "enslavement" to China.
Some things can be changed by history, some things that history cannot change, and history is more to provide people with some references. There is nothing wrong with the Worship of Genghis Khan in Mongolia, but it cannot be more obsessed with Genghis Khan's repeated foreign wars and conquest of the Black Sea coastal regions of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. From this point of view, if Mongolia wants to create more convenience for the development of Sino-Mongolian relations, it is far from enough to have "books and texts" alone.
For Mongolia, there is such a fact and historical fact, that since ancient times, its integration to the south can achieve progress and prosperity, not to the north. History at this time it is a piece of marble, but no matter what image it is carved, it is still a piece of marble. As long as you recognize this essence, you will not dress it up at will, let alone say that it is a little girl who dresses up at will.
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