Usually, Chinese abroad (white areas), whether a group or a few people together, the degree of recognition is quite high, so as long as they encounter another group or a similar group, even if it is not a Chinese, just a close-looking Japanese, Korean, or even Vietnamese, whether they are interested in each other or not, they can more or less, or obviously or without trace, can sense a kind of identification process and subtle aura exchange. It seems that in my personal experience, only a Mongolian from Mongolia can break this convention, even if he has a face exactly like Chinese, he will have zero identification process and zero aura communication for small "groups" that are obviously from China. It's as if they're the most unrelated population in the world to you.
In most of the historical cognition of Chinese, the Mongols are one of the ethnic minorities in northern China, and the Japanese historian Bai Wukuji, citing the Song Dynasty Hong Hao's "Song Desert Chronicles", was the first to propose that "Mongolia originated from the branch of Eastern Hu, Mughal Room Wei". Chinese historical sources also use this statement, after all, the birthplace of Murwei is still in the territory of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is officially designated as the place where Mongolians worship their ancestors and search for their roots. The earliest documents of the Northern Wei Dynasty were the branch tribes separated from Wuhuan and Xianbei under the Eastern Hu system, and were once active in the vast areas of today's Heilongjiang And Nenjiang River Basins, with the tribal peoples in the south called Khitan and the tribal peoples in the north called Murong Wei. Later historians preferred that Murwei was not a single independent people, but a multi-ethnic synthesis. It is also possible to include Mongolia.
The Mongols, regardless of how Chinese historians identified Murong Wei, did not recognize the ancestors whom China had assigned them. Bila, an academician of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, said that "the Huns are the ancestors of the Mongols", and the Huns have no writing, so it is impossible to find out whether there are any descendants of the Mongols. The Mongols' insistence on recognizing the ancestor of the Huns was also used to support the argument that the Mongol region had always been independent. According to the UNESCO-listed "Secret History of Mongolia", the ancestors of the Mongols, two tribes with totems of wolves and white deer, crossed the Heavenly Sea (Lake Baikal) to mount Burhan at the source of the Nan River. Genghis Khan was born here, and if this "landmark" is true, it is indeed a little far from the area where The Origin of Muwei originated from the history books, which is only one river away from Jurchen. Of course, this does not shake our firm belief in Mongolia's coming from Murwei.
Did Mongolia recognize the Xiongnu as their ancestors and be able to get rid of China? Take a look at the description of the Xiongnu in Chinese history: the Xiongnu were a nomadic people of northern China in ancient China. Still didn't run out of our palms. Mainstream historians in the West in modern times generally believe that the Huns north of the Central Plains were a mixed nomadic people who liked to fight and ally with horses, but they were only ethnic groups rather than homogeneous groups. So you can't say that the Mongols were not right to confess to the Huns. They can be a branch of the Xiongnu, anyway, we still have the bottom card of "the Huaxia and the Xiongnu are of the same origin". When the Chuanxia Dynasty fell, one of its descendants fled to the north, and after annexing other tribes, it became a Xiongnu tribe... It doesn't matter whether you are a Murong Wei or a Xiongnu, China can find a source to become your father.
But in the Qin and Han Dynasties, we do not recognize the Xiongnu as a "relative", from the "Historical Record" to record, the Xiongnu to the door is basically no good, the first productive force of the nomadic people is "robbery", the farming people sowed and harvested, they killed halfway out to plunder. The people were overwhelmed, and later, under heavy blows from the Qin and Han armies, the Xiongnu were expelled from the Hetao and Hexi Corridor areas. When Mongolia describes the history of their "ancestors", it presents a completely different version in the textbook. They became victims, and the Qin Dynasty was forced to leave their homeland for a thousand years in order to "rob" the nomadic Hetao grasslands that had been used to reclaim land, massacre and drive away the grassland people. Qin Shi Huang also built the Great Wall, blocking their way home, and one of the nomadic people who were blocked by the Great Wall launched an indomitable struggle against the border farming peoples of previous generations in order to return to their homeland.
If it is said that it is difficult to understand the history of these ancestors, it is somewhat difficult for the Mongols, whose traceable memory is limited, and later, there are some differences between their historical process from prosperity to decline and our historical description. "Unified the Mongol tribes, made the nomadic peoples vassals, and then conquered Europe and Africa in the west, and established the Yuan Dynasty in ancient China." This history of the Mongol Empire is the most colorful part of the entire history of the world, not to say that it is Not impossible to say that it is Chinese, but it will lead to many sequelae, with our consistent view of history, a place that was once ours, even if it was controlled for a year or two, is "what has always been ours" and should always be ours. But the Mongol Empire laid too much ground, including Russia, and it was unrealistic for us to take it back. So later some historians wisely made some cuts. The history of the Yuan Dynasty within the territory of China is our history.
After all, the Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty composed mainly of Han Chinese, and Han culture barely survived, even if it was a regime established by ethnic minorities and foreign nationalities, it was not Counted as China, was that period of Chinese history going to open a skylight? Many countries in the world have also been occupied by foreign nations, and their history has not been broken. The Mongolian history textbooks say that their regime was overthrown by Zhu Yuanzhang, and they do not forget to "harden their mouths" and say that "we are back in our own steppe", and the Ming Dynasty did not hit their ancestral land. However, to the later Manchu Qing, they unexpectedly admitted that they were colonized, not to mention that the Manchu empresses were All Mongols. Isn't "Manchu-Mongolian co-rule" more cattle? But if the Manchus are recognized, they should now be part of China like the Manchus. In order not to recognize China, the Manchus also had to draw a clear line.
In our historical formulation, Outer Mongolia was forced to let the Russians plot to split, but in their textbooks (which we can also think of as forced) they say: "After the fall of the Manchu Qing, the Mongol nation regained the independence of the national family, while the Han people who were once under the Manchu colonial rule with us gained national independence, but after gaining national independence, they said that I was part of the Han family and wanted to colonize us." "The two years when the Beiyang warlords controlled Outer Mongolia, because they were too modern to deny it, became the only two years in Mongolia to recognize that they had been ruled by the Han Chinese. The Russians of this period are portrayed as selflessly aiding the Mongols and helping the Mongols resist their friends against foreign enemies, especially "the founding of the Soviet Union, which brought Marxism to the steppes, and the Soviet army fought alongside us and drove out the Han invaders." "The extent to which the history of a country itself can be outrageous to people in other historical systems, Mongolia almost knows itself."
In fact, there are at least two versions of the history of any country, one is written by oneself and the other is the history of the world. If the country is more complicated, each of your neighbors will write you a history, whether you recognize it or not is not a big thing, you can only believe the version that was written into the textbook by your own country. Many times history is not originally purely objective, but is an account with positions and subjective tendencies.
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