The Chinese nation has stood in the world for five thousand years, there are many nationalities in our country, so our country is a multi-ethnic unified country, although it is multi-ethnic unity, but there is still a subject, the Han nationality as the largest number of ethnic groups, naturally assume the main position, in the long river of history, there is a nation has experienced many things, so after more than a hundred years finally returned to the motherland, people know that our country has fifty-six nationalities, but in fact there is another nation, although it does not belong to one of the 56 nationalities in our country, but it is a member of our country. This ethnic group is the Daman
When it comes to ethnic minorities, everyone thinks of Manchus, Dai, Miao and the like. But who knows that there is a Daman tribe, and there must be very few people who know. But there are also many accounts of the Damans. In the records of our country, the name of the Dammanian is also very interesting, that is, it is related to the cavalry.
The word "Da" means horse in Our Country Tibetan, "Man" means army or more in Tibetan, lian is ma and jun as the name suggests is cavalry, if all connected in Tibetan means the descendants of ancient cavalry. It sounds particularly powerful, after all, cavalry was a very powerful army in ancient times.
In July 1791, far away from the border, there was a Gurkha tribe of Nepal who launched a war against our country, in order to fight against the Gurkhas, the thriving Qing Dynasty could not tolerate their invasion at all, the Qianlong Emperor immediately prepared to resist, and sent Fu Kang'an, a famous general, to lead a large army composed of ten ethnic groups including Manchu, Miao, Mongolian, Hui, and Orunchun to resist the invading Vagurkha army.
After a particularly difficult battle, the Qing army won the victory. In the whole battle, the Qing army was also heavy casualties, the same Gurkha army was also a lot of casualties, our soldiers missed a lot, the military communication ability at that time was very poor and very poor, we have all won, but they still do not know, they have been stationed at the border waiting, and then began to live on the border, never returned to their hometown. These people who did not return home slowly got used to life on the border, and later became known as The Damans, which can be regarded as self-proclaimed.
Over time, we soldiers and people on the Border of Nepal live and reproduce in the gap between China and Nepal, in The Town of Jilong, Jilong County, Shigatse Region, who are the ancestors of the Daman people, and the Damans are their descendants. Think about these people are actually very poor, not even a nationality, in our modern society without a nationality is absolutely impossible.
But these Damans never wanted to give up, they wanted to return to China, without Chinese nationality it was impossible to come to China, they had to wander around, wander around, have no place to live, and even food is sometimes a problem, known as Western Gypsies. They see our increasingly beautiful life, which further arouses their desire to return to the motherland, and it is precisely in this way that they are desperately striving for Chinese nationality, and the hardships they have experienced can be imagined.
Finally, after their unremitting efforts, on May 26, 2003, this day was an incomparably glorious moment for them Daman, a day that made them extremely excited, and even a day that can be recorded in their history, on this day they finally joined the Chinese nationality and became a real Chinese. A member of the Chinese nation, the arrival of this day also means that they have ended their hard life, ended their wandering life, and started their brand-new life. Since then, we have officially joined China and lived with us to make our China better.
Until now, they have not entered the Central Plains to live, but live in their new village of Dammam, which was built by the Chinese government for them and helped them solve their living problems, and it is always important that their children and grandchildren can enjoy nine years of compulsory education like us.
Another favorable condition is that with the implementation of our policy on the large-scale development of the western region and a series of policies, it has also helped them improve their living conditions and make their living conditions more scientific, modern, and healthy. This is their historic progress and the fulfillment of the best wishes of the People of Dammam.