I believe that everyone is very familiar with this historical saying "Tang Song Yuan Ming Qing", this is the last five dynasties in ancient China, may think that these five dynasties are in the same position, but the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were not actually established by the Han people in the Central Plains, the Yuan Dynasty was established by the Mongols, and the Qing Dynasty was a dynasty established by the Manchus. But everyone defaults to it as the Central Plains Dynasty, although it is Mongol and Manchu, but relative to the Han nationality, they are ethnic minorities, but this distinction is too limited, everyone is the same Chinese nation, are Yanhuang bloodline.
For example, Genghis Khan, the Khan of the Mongol Empire, he was a famous historical figure in ancient and modern China and abroad, an outstanding politician and military figure in the history of the world, Sun Yat-sen once commented that "the Yuan Mongols were the first among the most powerful peoples in the early Asia" and "during the Yuan Dynasty, almost all of Europe was occupied by the Yuan Dynasty, far more powerful than the most powerful period in China." Speaking of ancient Chinese rulers, it is probably Genghis Khan who has the greatest influence in the world, he is the most controversial figure, seven or eight hundred years, Chinese and foreign statesmen, military figures and celebrities and scholars from different angles to study and discuss Genghis Khan.
Speaking of Temujin's great achievements, it is the only one in China's thousands of years of history, in the northern steppes of China, a boy was born in the Mongol tribal alliance, and Temujin, who grew up in the chaotic alliance, had the ambition to unify Mongolia since childhood, and he had the ability to match the ambition, and for several years, he had been conquering the Mongol tribes until 1206 AD, when the kings and courtiers were honored by Temujin "Genghis Khan" and established the Great Mongolian State. After that, Genghis Khan began to wage wars against the outside world, constantly expanding his territory, annihilating the Western Xia, attacking the Jin Dynasty, conquering Huarazimo in the west, conquering the territory of Central Asia and the Black Sea coast of Eastern Europe, and almost the entire Eurasian continent was included in the vast territory of the empire.
The iron horse of the Mongol Empire can sweep everything in every war, unmatched, in fact, the victory of the Mongol army can be understood, their tactics and combat methods are different from other ethnic groups, the iron horse that is good at rapid combat can often catch the enemy by surprise, in addition, in the process of constantly attacking the city, Genghis Khan issued an order: after the destruction of the city, there are three kinds of people who cannot be killed, one of which is the craftsman who mastered the handicraft, so the Mongolian army gradually got a group of excellent Han generals. They all played a very important role in the war.
After the death of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan took the throne and established the Yuan Dynasty, the capital of Dingdu, that is, Beijing, but unfortunately the Yuan Dynasty only established itself in the Central Plains for ninety-eight years, and was overthrown by the peasant revolt, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and drove it to the north of the desert, but the remaining Mongol forces were still a force that could not be ignored, until the Qing Dynasty, the Mongol forces were active on the stage of history. Although the Yuan Dynasty was established in the Central Plains for less than a hundred years, it was enough to be changed by the Confucian ideas passed down by the Han family for thousands of years, and Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, not only established the official position of the Han people, but also established a political system modeled on the Han dynasty, so the Yuan Dynasty was still classified as one of the ancient Chinese dynasties.
After the Yuan Dynasty left the Central Plains, just talking about ethnic history, the Yuan Dynasty in this period no longer belongs to the category of ancient China. There is also the classic Mongolian spirit possessed by Genghis Khan, who longed for freedom, like an eagle who liked to soar in the steppes, and he constantly expanded and invaded, creating a vast world for himself. The nomadic people have no fixed place to live, unlike the Han people in the Central Plains, who live and work in peace and contentment, and they run freely on the grasslands, not restricted by the city walls. And the Han nationality is not a blood nation, it is a cultural nation, and those who have defeated us have finally been wiped out by us and become part of our own culture, so that Han culture can be passed on for thousands of years without interruption.