Fifty-six nationalities and fifty-six flowers, in everyone's cognition, China has always had fifty-six nationalities. The impression of the fifty-six nationalities has also been imprinted in people's hearts, in fact, there are special nationalities in China, that is, unrecognized nationalities. The green people belong to this category, they are not in the fifty-six nationalities, and most of the ID cards are marked differently.
In the early days, the people who wore green clothes were also called Li Minzi, and they did not have a personal name for themselves, and sometimes they were called bigfoot. Wearing green is mainly used to distinguish between Han people who wear orchids, and this name was first recorded in the Qing Dynasty literature. Locals generally don't call them wearing green, but just add an adjective in front of the Han Chinese. That is to say, the local Han people regard them as Han people with some characteristics, but the strange thing is that the Wearers and other ethnic minorities call the Han people "Wear Lan", but the officials call the Wearers and the local ethnic minorities "Yi Genus" and "Miao Genus" and the like, that is, there are two factions, one faction thinks that they are ethnic minorities, and the other faction thinks that they are different Han People.
Soon after liberation, some landlords who wore green heard that ethnic minority areas were different from Han areas and did not need to carry out land reform, so they encouraged wearing green to demand the treatment of ethnic minorities. They are said to have coined the name , although the National Identification Task Force refuted this in its report. Because according to the Ming history, the early qing people were called Li Minzi or Turen.
There is also a saying that the Qing people are a branch of the Han nationality, and during the Ming Dynasty, they were Han People who accompanied the army, and for some reason they stayed here and became a special group. The green-clad people use the mountain fish as a totem, and the mountain fish is a one-horned ghost in the mountain in Chinese myths and legends. The Classic of Mountains and Seas once recorded that the mountain fish is also a kind of monkey. From this point of view, the green wearers have a primitive totemic belief, and many of their things express ancestor worship.
However, in 1955, when the investigation team investigated, it found some phenomena, and the wearing green people did not deny that they were Han chinese in the past, and also regarded the more famous Han people as their ancestors. For example, Zhang Shi is linked to Zhang Liang and Zhang Fei, and Liu Shi is linked to Liu Bang and Liu Bei. However, Xiaobian feels that this does not explain anything, because many people will take famous people as their ancestors, like Zhu Yuanzhang, after becoming emperor, he also feels that his origin is not good, and wants to be related to Zhu Xi.
Later, it was found that there were a lot of counterfeiting and contradictions in the family trees of the people who wore green clothes, and their time to Guizhou was different. The surname of Qing Li said that zu Shang went to Guizhou during the Hongwu period, and then said that he went to Yongle in the tenth year. The dragon surname initially said that he went during the Hongwu period, and later changed his name to the Jiajing period. These are not recorded in the main history, and when ethnic struggles occurred, there was never a situation of helping the Han Chinese. After the surveys of the 1950s, some people dressed in green were reluctant to accept the results of this ethnic component survey. However, in the chaos of the following decade, the national issue was not mentioned again, and it was only mentioned again after the reform and opening up.
This problem has been entangled for decades, and finally it was decided to adopt a transitional approach, so the green people are used as a identification of the nation to be determined. Earlier, in the 1980s, the identity of the first generation of residents was written as Qing or Qing and Qing, and the identity card of the second generation was also used.
References: "Ethnic Identification in China", "History and Culture of Wearing Green People", "Research on the Problem of Wearing Green People"