Without unity, any force is weak. - La Fontaine
The current world is constantly developing in the direction of win-win cooperation, it is difficult for a person in society, with their own strength to achieve greater success, everything is to pay attention to cooperation and mutual assistance, this is not only our own personal success of the way, this is even related to the survival of a country, a nation.
As La Fontaine mentioned, we must unite to stand firm in this river of history.
The cases of the ancient "Huns" people, from glory to decline and later merging with other ethnic groups such as the Manchus and Mongols, give us profound lessons. The Huns used their own tragic historical evolution to tell us the importance of unity, and sounded the alarm for the group of our modern people who do not love unity.
Fighting nation "Huns"
When it comes to the "Xiongnu" as a nation, we have a deep hatred for them, yes, looking back at history, the earliest ones who constantly disturbed our borders and brought us a lot of harm were the "Xiongnu".
Although the Xiongnu people were strong, they disappeared from history later, and it turned out that they had merged with the Manchus, mongols, and so on, which was the almost devastating blow to themselves caused by the lack of unity within their clan.
The Huns were an ethnic group that was extremely good at fighting. As early as the Warring States period, Qin, Zhao, and Yan, because of their geographical location on the border of the Central Plains, often had some conflicts with some nomadic peoples in the outside world, but because the Central Plains countries were busy with civil wars at that time, most of the time they took a defensive approach to the invasion of these ethnic minorities, such as building the Great Wall in the northwest.
When the State of Qin unified the Six Kingdoms and established the Great Qin Empire, Qin Shi Huang was prepared for the Xiongnu with two hands.
On the one hand, he sent the general Meng Tian to lead troops to garrison Shangjun, and garrisoned the army in the north for more than ten years, laying the foundation for the future Northern Expedition of the Xiongnu. On the other hand, he ordered the repair of the Great Wall, which was mainly to prevent the cavalry invasion of the Xiongnu and other ethnic groups, so there was a major miracle in history, the "Great Wall".
In the thirty-second year of Qin Shi Huang, he ordered Meng Tian to conquer the Xiongnu in the north, and the anger accumulated for more than ten years finally vented. Meng Tian led his army across the Yellow River into the Helan Mountains, and 300,000 troops took back the Hetao area and garrisoned them in the north, so the Xiongnu also moved north, and the war also stopped for a while.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, because of the weakness of national strength and the fact that the Central Plains people were not good at fighting guerrilla warfare, the wars between the early Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu often ended in failure. Therefore, the Han Dynasty had to marry relatives to buy time for the han army's recuperation.
During this period, policies such as "Zhaojun out of the blockade" and "rule of Wenjing" laid a solid foundation for the invasion of the Xiongnu by the Han Wudi Emperor Liu Che, and after the Han Wu emperor marched on a large scale, the strength of the Xiongnu was once again seriously attacked.
The collapse of the Huns
In 36 BC, the Han Yuan Emperor sent the general Gan Yanshou to fight against the Xiongnu, and this time the Xiongnu leader Shan Yu was also beheaded, and the people-in-waiting Xiongnu were divided into two.
The power was completely disintegrated, divided into two tribes, the Southern Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu, of which the Southern Xiongnu surrendered to the Han Yuan Emperor under the leadership of Hu Han Evil Shan Yu, while the Northern Xiongnu continued to migrate to the north.
For the Hun tribe that migrated north, there is a saying in Europe that it was the "whip of God" of the Huns that turned slavery in Europe into feudalism, which made certain progress in European civilization and society. Among them, the Huns were the Northern Xiongnu who migrated west in that year, and this statement also fills the gap in the history of the origin of the Huns and the destination of the Northern Xiongnu.
Now let's talk about the southern Hun tribe that surrendered. After the Southern Xiongnu entered the Central Plains, they were gradually Sinicized by the Central Plains culture, intermarried with many ethnic groups, and integrated into our nation.
However, during the Western Jin Dynasty,during the Time of the Five Hu Dynasties, the Xiongnu leader Liu Yuan took advantage of the chaos to establish the Later Han regime, but it did not take long for it to collapse due to civil unrest.
Later, this part of the Huns and the Xianbei intermarried, and their descendants were called "Tiefu people" because they were extremely good at fighting. A regime that emerged at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms ——— Bactria was founded by the descendants of the Huns, but it survived only 24 years before it perished.
The Evolution of the Huns
So we know that the Xiongnu in history, after entering the Central Plains, continued to marry other ethnic groups from all directions, and their blood blended, and by the time Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, the Xiongnu could be said to have been completely Sinicized, and since then, the Xiongnu have never appeared in the Central Plains again.
The bloodline of this Hun was also constantly being integrated, and it was deeply rooted in this land. Because the Shamanism espoused by the Huns was the same as that of the Mongols and Manchus, the Huns did not die out in the strict sense, but integrated into these Manchus, Mongols, etc. in another form.
Here we can also see that only if the belief culture of one person or a people does not die, that person or people will continue to exist in various other forms.
We really can't believe that the Huns were finally passed down in such a way that a nation that was so strong at the beginning protected its bloodline in the end because of disunity and in the way of "parasitizing" other peoples.
Using the example of the disappearance of their own people, they told us that no matter how strong our strength is, if we are not united, we will take up a stone and drop it on our feet.
An excellent and powerful nation, or the people of a country, must be united, and a nation or country without a spirit of unity cannot stand firm in the long river of history.
epilogue
We are a united social collective, we can not do without unity and cooperation, obstinately refuse to cooperate will only make us difficult, it is difficult to succeed, and now the international trend is surging with the breath of "win-win cooperation".
When we are still confused about whether we need to unite with others, it is better to find rare inspiration from the examples of the historical evolution of the Hun people.
First of all, for a country or nation, if its people are not able to achieve unity, then no matter how much power it has, it will destroy itself.
Second, we should be clear that unity is indispensable in today's society, that most of the success is brought about by teamwork, and that it is difficult for us to stand in society as a single force.
Although unity is as La Fontaine said, the strength of unity is incomparably strong, but understanding the truth that the Xiongnu nation is so strong or dying, I believe we will certainly have a better understanding of the phrase "if there is no unity, any force is weak"!