Speaking of the Khitans, I believe that people who know history know that they were nomadic peoples living in Mongolia and northeast China in ancient times, when the Khitans also established their own dynasty, that is, the Liao Dynasty. In 907 BC, Liao Taizu Yelü Abaoji became the leader of the Khitan tribe, and established the Khitan in 916 AD, with the capital at Linhuang Province. In 947, his son Emperor Taizong of Liao, Yelü Deguang, led an army south to the Central Plains and captured Fenjing (汴京, in modern Kaifeng, Henan), where Yelü Deguang ascended the throne as emperor and changed the name of the country to "Great Liao". The Liao Dynasty, which reigned nine emperors in total, was destroyed in 1125 by the rising Jin Dynasty in the northeast and enjoyed the reign of 209. However, after the fall of the Liao State, the Khitan people collapsed and disappeared without a trace in subsequent history.
The Khitan people grew up on horseback and liked to ride horses and hunt, while Haidongqing was fierce and strong, and was the best helper for hunting, so the emperor of the Liao State at that time liked this bird very much, believing that it was a symbol of the king of the steppe. Therefore, the emperor sent emissaries to the Jurchen tribe many times to ask for Hai Dongqing, but the envoys went to the Jurchen tribe to see beautiful women eating, playing, and even forcibly sleeping, so the Jurchen tribe hated the Liao people to the bone. The Jurchen tribe tried to be bold, trained its elite soldiers, and finally established its own country, which was later the Jin Kingdom, and began to rebel against the Liao State. At that time, the Jurchen tribe knew that it was not an opponent of the Liao State, so it secretly formed an alliance with the Song Dynasty to jointly oppose the Liao State, and the Emperor of the Liao State at that time, the Tianzuo Emperor Yelü Yanxi, ate and drank all day and had long ignored the major affairs of the state.
Later, the Jin State successively attacked several cities in the Liao State, and the Emperor of the Liao State realized the seriousness, so he personally marched, but what he did not expect was that Yelü Zhangnu in the imperial court established a new regime. When emperor Tianzuo learned of this, he withdrew from the front line without fighting the Jin soldiers, preparing to put down the rebellion of Yelü Zhangnu, and as a result, the Jin soldiers took the opportunity to rush in and crush the Liao state. Unexpectedly, the Liao state, which had been brilliant for more than 200 years, was destroyed by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Jinguo district, but after the Liao state was destroyed, 1.5 million Khitan people disappeared without a trace. So where did the Khitans go? Historians of subsequent dynasties have found that information about the Khitans disappeared along with the Khitans.
In 1922, a Belgian missionary named Kelvin found a stone stele in an ancient tomb in Inner Mongolia with strange symbols engraved on it, and later experts verified that these strange symbols were Khitan scripts. However, no one can understand the Khitan script on the stone tablets, because with the disappearance of the Khitan people, the Khitan script has also disappeared, so the disappearance of the Khitan people has always been an unsolved mystery. At that time, experts gave several speculations: first, the Khitans had to abandon their own culture after the fall of the Jin Dynasty, and gradually forgot about it after hundreds of years of historical changes; second, the Khitans fled to other countries, intermarried with the local ethnic groups and gradually integrated; third, the Khitans defected to the later Mongols, and after the war between the Jin and the Mongols broke out, they joined the Mongol army in the southern conquest of the northern war.
Until Liu Fengyi, an expert on Khitan history, unexpectedly received a mysterious letter from the writer who said that they were probably descendants of the Khitan ethnic group, and the letter writer was Ao La Qiu Zhide, a native of the Hulunbuir grassland of Inner Mongolia. The writer said that the Daurs were a very mysterious and eccentric minority, who had neither their own writing nor where their people came from, but only that they were nomadic peoples on the steppes. There is a local legend that has been passed down for hundreds of years, there is a "border fort" somewhere on the side of Molidava, and the border fort is a word unique to the Daur people, which means a kind of building like the Great Wall. The fort was built by the Khitans, and the Daur people came for the Shubian Fort, and if the legend is true, the Daur people are most likely descendants of the Khitan people.
In order to add to the mystery of the Khitan people, Liu Fengyi experts came to the place where the Dahuer people lived, and after more than ten days of field investigation, carefully compared and studied the Dahuoer and Khitan tribes. After studying the life, culture and architecture of the Daur people, experts also found some traces of the Khitan people, and the costumes of one of the paper-cut artists were between Khitan costumes and Mongolian costumes. The Daur race has also always been popular in a sport, that is, the current hockey, the local people are very fond of, so what is the relationship between hockey and the Khitan people? Experts say that Asian hockey was invented by the Khitans. It turns out that the Khitans often let soldiers play hockey when training soldiers, and the hockey culture of the Daur people is handed down from ancient times, and the Daur people are likely to be descendants of the Khitan people.
Later, in order to verify the kinship between the Khitan and the Daur, it was necessary to consult molecular archaeologists, which is what we call dna assays. Experts took DNA samples from the human bones and teeth excavated from the Khitan tombs previously discovered, and then collected DNA from more than a dozen Daur people, and the identification results showed that the DNA of the Khitan people was very similar to the DNA of the Daur people. As a result, experts say that the Daur people are descendants of the Khitan people, and after eight hundred years, experts have finally found the answer!