Speaking of Wuhu Chaohua, many people don't know, as for why? This is entirely because it was the darkest moment in the history of the Han people, which caused a sharp decline in the Han population, destroyed the culture of the Central Plains, and made the people of the Central Plains live in the depths of the water.
So how chaotic is the Wuhu Chaohua?
First of all, let's talk about Wuhu,
Wuhu refers to the five ethnic minorities of Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qiang, Qiang, and Qiang
There are also not only these five ethnic minorities, but also some of the surrounding ethnic minorities are also involved, but the strength is relatively weak, and these five ethnic minorities play a leading role.
Let's talk about their location, in the north, northwest, northeast and other desolate areas, and at this time they are all in undeveloped areas, and the productivity is backward.
Let's talk about the reasons for the five nonsense:
I. Since the Han Dynasty, the ethnic minorities in the north have begun to continuously migrate and launch attacks to the Central Plains, although in the end it was the victory of the Central Plains, but the ethnic minorities in the north began to grow stronger after hundreds of years of rest, and began to attack the Central Plains at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but at this time it was only a confrontational situation.
Second, since the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, the northern minorities began to closely approach the Central Plains, and with the rebellion of the Eight Kings during the Jin Huidi Period, the Jin Dynasty was partially split, giving the northern ethnic minorities the opportunity to attack the Central Plains on a large scale.
At that time, the cold weather in the north led to a decrease in food, forcing them to go south.
Finally, let's talk about how chaotic Wuhuhua really is.
Because the Wuhu are all ethnic minorities, they do not have much communication with the Central Plains culture, so their education level is not high, and even some areas are still eating raw meat, but they are good at fighting on horseback, and it can be said that they really will not fight anything but war.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains, they began to go south, and the Northern Han people, who bore the brunt of it, began to suffer, and everywhere they went, grain, gold, silver, treasure, and population were all owned, and the most important thing was that they would really eat people.
Before the Period of Wuhu Chaohua, the northern Central Plains were also experiencing plagues and natural disasters, resulting in a reduction in grain, and at that time, when wuhu chaohua was in power, the army of ethnic minorities basically did not bring dry food, and when it went to grab it, when it did not eat, it directly used people as military food, and there were many large-scale cannibalism.
After occupying the city, their rule over the Han people was even more cruel, killing the Han men and taking the women away for their own enjoyment, which was also the meaning of wanting to destroy the Han people.
It can be said that their slaughter was very cruel,
According to the "Jinyang Qiu", the Most Important Of The Qi People's Shi Le slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people.
It's that cruelty.
This led to a sharp decline in the population of the north, and the number of residents in the north reached more than 20 million before the Wuhu Chaohua, but after the Wuhu invasion, the number of Han Chinese plummeted to about four million, only a quarter of the original number.
And just when the Wuhu were invading the Central Plains, the hero of the history who saved the Han people, Ran Min the Great, came out of nowhere, he believed that he could not be bullied by the Hu people in this way, Ran Min led the Han people to resist, so that the Han people realized that instead of being cowardly killed by the Hu people, they did not fight.
And the Hu people soon tasted the power of the Han people,
Ran Min led the Han people to rise up in resistance and issued an order to kill Hu, killing 300,000 people and completely destroying the Later Zhao state.
Ran Min was eventually defeated by the Murong clan of the Xianbei clan, but his rebellion made the Hu people realize the power of the Han people, and from then on began to accept Han culture, not to slaughter Han people, and to absorb Han culture to rule their own regime.
From the establishment of the first northern minority regime in 304 to the unification of the north by the Northern Wei in 439, in 135 years, the northern ethnic minorities established a number of political regimes, known as the "Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms", but there were many small regimes that were not counted, and the change of power was rapid, and it was also the Wuhu Chaohua that brought great damage to the northern region.
Wuhu Chaohua had a profound impact on both economic, cultural, and productive forces, and some people even said that the history of this period was in retrogression.
The Wuhu chaohua also caused the Hu people to suffer great losses.
Of the Five Hus, only the Qiang remained, and the remaining four ethnic minorities had all disappeared.
In fact, Wuhu Chaohua has also promoted the integration of nationalities and enabled us to form a large multi-ethnic family.