The Qing Dynasty was a Manchu dynasty, so why did the Manchus end up with fewer and fewer Manchus and more and more Han Chinese? If we look at the contents of the historical records of the Qing Dynasty, in the eighth year of the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor, there were already more than 50,000 people in Dingkou, and this also included more than 1,000 people from Han origin.
However, after two hundred years later, that is, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus in this category reached more than 200,000, and the overall number of Manchus was almost one million, but relatively speaking, the Number of Han Ding was more than 80 million, which shows the proportion of Han people in the late Qing Dynasty.
And this does not include the 200 million peasants who lost the Qing Dynasty to wars such as the White Lotus Rebellion, we all know that the Qing Dynasty was ruled by the Manchus, and the Manchus were much luckier than the Han people in comparison, after all, there was a serious unfair phenomenon in the supply of grain by the imperial court alone.
But why were there more Han Chinese than Manchus at the end of the Qing Dynasty? In fact, this also has a lot to do with the system of intermarriage advocated by the Qing royal family, and everyone should be very clear that at that time, Nurhaci only had more than 200,000 Manchu descendants in the early days of the founding of the country, and in this number situation, the policy of Manchu and Han cannot marry was implemented, which to a large extent caused a serious reduction in the number of Manchu descendants.
In fact, the scope of Manchu marriage was still very small, because the Manchu Qing not only strictly forbade the marriage of Han and Manchus in the capital, but also set up Xi'an, Nanjing and other places as the residence of the Qing Dynasty, and the imperial court also specially sent more than 30,000 Manchu generals to garrison.
This phenomenon led to the Han people in Manchuria who could only look for women of the same ethnic group in various places, but because the Guangzhou people who were occupied by the imperial family at that time actually went to the capital to find a wife, so when they were so intermarried, the blood relations of several generations were closer, and the children born were already very good.
Moreover, the Manchu Rulers had stipulated that all adult Manchu women must first participate in the draft, and generally speaking, all good-looking women entered the palace to serve the emperor, and the ugly ones like that were left to the Manchu men throughout the country. Among them, the eliminated ones also need to be provided to some princes and Baylor to choose, and most of the last remaining ones are not very beautiful, so the man can only marry a woman with a poor overall appearance.
Especially coupled with the fact that in the Qing Dynasty, some girls with outstanding appearances basically went to work in the Qinglou in order to make a living, which was definitely a good thing for the royal family, but it was precisely because of this social situation that most of the rich men of the royal family would be nostalgic for the red dust, and they were naturally not too worried about the wives and concubines in the family, which was also a big factor why the Manchu Qing descendants would become less and less.
In addition, in general, Manchu men are proud of their male superiority and female inferiority, most of them are extremely depraved and decaying, at that time, many Manchu men ran to the back of their heads after they entered the government for a long time, so their physical fitness is certainly not as strong as before.
And this also directly led to the further decline in the ability of the Manchu Qing to reproduce heirs, but then again, it has been unfair in many ways between the two major ethnic groups of the Manchu and Han dynasties, although it is said that men from Han origin marry and have children very smoothly, but basically the children born are not very good-looking, on the whole, this social phenomenon of the Qing Dynasty is still very pathological, even if the Han people have become more, but they can't stand the ugly people all over the country!