Over the past thousand years, many ethnic groups have been active in the land of China, but none of them have derived a type of nation-state similar to that of the West. In modern times, with the increasing internal and external troubles, the Chinese nation, as an imported product of the West, has increasingly condensed into the common beliefs of all ethnic groups. Fortunately, the Chinese nation woke up in the hopeless abyss of imminent annihilation of the country and the extinction of the species, seized the opportunity, and ushered in the establishment of a new China. Soon after the establishment of the new regime, it began to identify the nation in accordance with Marx's theory of nationalities.
After several investigations, the fifty-six fraternal and sister nationalities of the Chinese nation were finally determined. It's just that most people don't know that in addition to this part of the identified ethnic groups, there are many unidentified ethnic groups. Most of these tribes are located in the southwest, and the integration of ethnic groups over the years has gradually eliminated their national identity, but still retains some unique traditions. Among them, the most prominent representative is the green man. About 670,000 people wearing green people are named after "clothing shangqing" and "also known as wearing green", between Han and Bai, which is the largest number of unrecognized ethnic groups in the Chinese.
This tribe is basically distributed in the mountains of Guizhou in the southwest, and although they are officially classified as a branch of the Han nationality, out of respect, they still give preferential treatment to the wearing green people as ethnic minorities. So, what is the origin of this tribe? There have always been many opinions to explore their origins, but there is a very interesting one, dating back to the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty...
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition to Mongolia and The Mongol Yuan was like a broken bamboo, and soon the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan forces in North China were eliminated, and northern China was basically unified except for Shanxi and other places. At this time, the main enemy of the Ming regime had fled to the north of the desert, and the remaining remnants were no longer able to resist. However, there are still some Mongolian Yuan elites entrenched in the southwest region centered on Yunnan. This part of the Mongols has been stationed here since the time of the destruction of the Song Dynasty and has a strong influence. In order to completely eliminate the Mongol Yuan and complete the unification of China, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Fu Youde, Mu Ying and others to lead an army to conquer Yunnan. Of course, most of the Han people in the Central Plains had family members with the army, so they followed the pace of the army and migrated from Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other provinces to Guizhou and other places.
After the war, the imperial court began to order the implementation of military tuns to defend the frontier. As a result, most of the Han Chinese military households stayed in Guizhou to carry out guarding and reclamation. After that, in considerable time, these Han People began to intermarry with the local indigenous peoples. By the time of the Qing Dynasty a hundred years later, this people had become a new ethnic group very different from the Han people in the Central Plains, and because they generally wore blue clothing, the outside world generally called them qingren. During the Kangxi Dynasty, when the official records were made, the tribesmen and the eight southwestern natives were collectively referred to as the "Nine Yi Barbarians".
Since the ancestors settled down to today, the wearing green people have developed independently for nearly 600 years, and have basically formed a unique tribal cultural tradition. In addition, as a branch of the Han chinese, the Qing people still retain some of the remains. For example, the local indigenous people will call them "big feet" and "big sleeves". And the wearers also see themselves as a special tribe. Although the government listed them as "unrecognized ethnic groups", they were still Han chinese brothers in terms of historical origins.