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Introduction: I believe that many people in childhood, will ask their parents a question - where did I come from? When parents introduce you to family members from previous generations, a rough idea of "ancestors" is left in your young head. But very few can remember the ancestors of the 5th generation before the Qing Dynasty, let alone the ancestors who counted the 70th generation upwards, unless you are the descendants of great people, such as a generation of Cao Cao.
Cao Cao is a controversial figure in history, his merits and deeds have always been infinitely magnified by the world, but just as the so-called: "benevolent people see benevolence, wise people see wisdom", whether it is his great husband or saying that he is not benevolent, these views can not change the history that has happened, today we do not care about merits, only talk about future generations. In fact, there are not many descendants of Cao Cao, and there are many Cao families that use genealogy as evidence, such as Cao Xueqin, who was once speculated to be his descendants, but because Cao Cao's tomb has not been found for many years, it has not been possible to determine the identity of these so-called descendants.
In 2009, a thousand-year-old tomb was unearthed in Anyang, Henan, and its scale and construction style are in line with the characteristics of the imperial tombs, and there are few funerary products, but it is in line with Cao Cao's requirements of "simple burial". But experts could not fully conclude that its tomb owner was Cao Cao himself, when someone boldly proposed: "It is better to use DNA to detect authenticity!" So the experts first collected the DNA of the tomb owner, and then obtained a total of 1,000 blood samples from 79 Cao families across the country, compared them, and found that the DNA ordering of the two Y-type chromosomes was completely consistent, coupled with the genealogy taken out by these families, it was basically concluded that the tomb owner was Cao Cao.
One of the samples, the owner, was named Cao Zuyi, from Donggang, Liaoning, who called himself Cao Cao's 70th generation grandson and was also a senior research expert in "red studies". According to him, he has always known that he is a descendant of Cao Cao, because the family's genealogy has been passed down from generation to generation; in addition, as early as 1998, he had found that he was also a descendant of Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and there had been no clear evidence before, and the results of this DNA test solved his years of confusion.
However, Cao Zuyi's so-called evidence for many years of research is that Cao Xueqin once wrote a family genealogy in an obscure way in "Dream of the Red Chamber", claiming to be a descendant of Cao Cao and whose ancestral home is in Rushan, Shandong; and since this test verified that the Y-type chromosome of the Cao family in Henan is completely consistent with Cao Cao, it also shows that it is consistent with Cao Xueqin, who is also a descendant of Cao Cao, which verifies the view that "Cao Xueqin's ancestral home is in Rushan".
But obviously, Cao Zuyi's view is full of loopholes, and it has not been unanimously recognized by the red academic community. Scholars said that although the Cao family in Rushan, Shandong, and the Cao family in Donggang, Liaoning, are indeed one, they have little grasp of Cao Xueqin's data, and there is no strong evidence that Cao Xueqin belongs to the Cao family in Rushan, Shandong, let alone that Cao Xueqin is a descendant of Cao Cao.