If you want to find out Li Shimin's bloodline, you must first start with his father Li Yuan, Whose grandfather was the founding hero of Northern Zhou, the right and left arm of Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Tai, the great general of the Pillar State of Northern Zhou, and the Duke of Longxi County.
Friends who have watched the TV series alone should be more aware of the relationship between the characters in this. The Xianbei bloodline of the Li family came in when Li Hu's next generation, Li Xun, Li Xun's wife, dugu clan, was a descendant of the Xianbei clan.
In the TV series, her name is called Lonely Mando. Her father DuGu Xin, in the past was still a beautiful man, once Du Lonely Letter went out of the city to hunt, his hat was blown by the wind, people in the city saw it and rushed to imitate, such an influence, now a proper star.
Dugu Xin's daughter and Li Xun gave birth to Li Shimin's father, Li Yuan. But unfortunately, Li Yuan lost his father at a young age, which is different from the plot in the TV series, Li Yuan was accompanied by his father before he was seven years old, and he was not born after Li Xun died.
Li Yuan's career can also be regarded as a smooth and prosperous career, in addition to his own aristocratic status, but also thanks to his relatives. Emperor Wen of Sui was his uncle Yang Jian, and Yang Guang had a relationship with him as a cousin, so he was also reused during the Sui Dynasty.
Li Yuan's wife Dou was also a Member of the Xianbei clan, and her uncle was Emperor Yuwen Yong of Zhouwu, who also helped Li Yuan many times in the process of building a career.
In this way, li Shimin is undoubtedly a mixed race between different ethnic groups.
In order to understand it at a deeper level, let's take a look at the history of the Xianbei people.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, a minister wrote to Emperor Huan of Han that during the construction of the Great Wall during the Qin Dynasty, some people could not bear the enslavement of the Qin Dynasty, so they fled to the north and went all the way to the vicinity of Xianbei Mountain, so they slowly became a Xianbei family.
But this is also one of people's inferences, and there are other inferences that show that they have developed from other ethnic minorities, such as Shanrong and Dongyi.
There have been many similar peoples in history, such as the Huns. Entrenched in the northern part of the Central Plains, and constantly invading the border areas of the Central Plains during the Warring States period, people could not be bothered, so they built walls to resist them, which was the foundation of the Great Wall of the Qin Dynasty, and the Great Wall of Qin was to connect these intermittent Great Walls.
In Sima Qian's historical records, it is mentioned that the Xiongnu were originally descendants of the Hou clan during the Xia Dynasty, so to speak, the Xiongnu and the Central Plains were originally the same sect, both descendants of Yanhuang, and a family, but because of the different living environments, they gradually formed different cultures.
Like our relatives now, as time goes on, the algebra is much more spaced and less intimate. Moreover, during the Western Han Dynasty, Wei Qinghuo went ill and defeated the Xiongnu, driving the Xiongnu to a place other than the Wolf Juxu Mountain. There must be remnants of the Xiongnu, who naturally depended on the Han Dynasty, married the Han people, and slowly integrated into the culture of the Central Plains.
Similarly, let's go on to talk about the humble people. Xianbei people prevailed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, but the society at this time was very chaotic, Xianbei and Han people fought back and forth, and then there were Fights between The Xianbei tribes, of course, in addition to fighting with each other, there was also a peaceful intermarriage, which must have long formed a situation in which you have me and I have you, and the bloodline must have been diluted. Therefore, the humble blood of Li Shimin is worthy of our doubts.
In fact, the development of Chinese culture over thousands of years has on the surface been constantly fighting and fighting with the surrounding ethnic minorities, but in fact it is constantly integrating the nationalities, and it is precisely for this reason that the Chinese nation today has fifty-six different nationalities. This is the inevitable result of our historical development.
Speaking of which, there is no need to argue too much about whether Li Shimin is a minority, no matter what kind of ethnic group he is, or what kind of blood he has, he has made great contributions in the development of our history. And with the development of the times, our "Han" is not only a nation, but a culture, and the culture of "Han" has influenced the whole of China, affected the ethnic minorities around us, and achieved today's fifty-six beautiful flowers.