The flying iron of the swan is the wing, and the shooting child can see it in the air. There is a new ginger in the belly, and the Yuan is a meal in Jiangnan - "Twenty-Eight Songs of the Khitan Envoy".
Mention the Khitans, then it will be associated with the Khitan Iron Horse of the Three Dynasties (Tang, Five Dynasties, Liao), as a nomadic people, the Khitan clan is mainly cavalry in combat, and in the second year of the Tang Dynasty (902), Yelü Abaoji sent troops to Hedong and captured nine counties, and in the second year of Tianyou (905), 70,000 cavalry broke the Lulong Festival and made Liu Rengong take several counties.
In the second year of Zhenming (916), Yelü Abaoji founded the country "Khitan", and the capital was set at Linhuang Province, Shangjing, at this time he began to personally conquer the Turks, and then cut down the Jurchens, and during the Five Dynasties period, the Khitan clan captured the Bohai Sea.
The History of Jin, volume 1: In the Fifth Dynasty, the Khitan took the Bohai Sea.
Although Yelü Abaoji had always wanted to conquer the Central Plains, after conquering the Bohai Sea, he died of illness on the way back to the dynasty, and his son Yelü Deguang succeeded to the throne, that is, Liao Taizong
In 936, civil unrest broke out in Later Tang, and Hedong Jiedu made Shi Jingyao claim to be emperor, on the condition of ceding Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, let the Liao Dynasty send troops, and Liao Taizong attacked Later Tang with 50,000 cavalry; in 947, Liao Taizong destroyed Hou Jin, and Liao Taizong changed the name of the country to Daliao.
However, Emperor Taizong of Liao did not witness the peak of the Liao State, during the reign of Emperor Jingzong of Liao, the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty were strong in recuperation, although Emperor Taizong of Song wanted to take back Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and also had two Northern Expeditions, but they were all defeated by the Liao army, in order to prevent Goryeo from allying with the Northern Song Dynasty, the Khitan Iron Horse broke through Goryeo again.
During the liao shengzong period, Empress Xiao and the Song Dynasty reached a non-aggression pact, although it was an alliance, but the Song had to pay tribute to the Liao dynasty every year, silver 100,000 taels, silk 200,000 horses, in general, Song still suffered a big loss.
After the death of Emperor Shengzong of Liao, the eldest son Yelü Zongzhen took the throne, the empress dowager Xiao Yunjin began to regency, the Liao Dynasty also began to decline, in the Song, Liao, Western Xia perennial wars, the Jurchen clan benefited from it, slowly rose, in 1125 AD, the Liao state was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, although the Liao state also established some small regimes after that, but in the end it was not restored.
The Khitan of the Three Dynasties of Wei zhen also disappeared into the long river of history, so where did the Khitan clan go? You may never believe it.
The Khitan nobleman Yelü Dashi gathered the remnants and migrated to the west to establish the Western Liao, which was established for 78 years; the Western Liao nobleman Balahei continued to migrate to the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, and this part of the people made a fusion with the Central Asians.
The Khitans who remained in the Central Plains, some of them were integrated with the Jurchens, and some of them chose to migrate, and the Daur people who lived in the Daxing'an Mountains were the descendants of the Khitans, and their lifestyles and customs were very similar to the Khitans.
There is also a special group living in Shidian County, Yunnan Province, who call themselves "I", and when they build ancestral halls, they will engrave "Yelü" on ancestral tablets, according to villagers, this is to commemorate their ancestor Assuru.
Relevant experts took DNA from 5 villages in Shidian County, Yunnan Province, and then took the bones of Khitan people in Leshan, Sichuan, and confirmed through DNA testing that the "Iself" surnamed A, Jiang and Mang in Shidian County, Yunnan Province, were descendants of the Khitan people.
However, the Han and Khitans have been integrated for hundreds of years, the blood line is very small, the 56 ethnic groups are difficult to distinguish from each other, they are all family, and these Khitan descendants have only retained cultural customs and language habits.
As the saying goes, there are different sounds in ten miles, different customs in a hundred miles, and each place has its own dialect and its own customs, and there is no need for us to delve into it.