When we open our eyes every morning, eat early, and prepare for a busy day of work and study, have you ever thought that in other corners of the world, many people are suffering in the fires of war?
In the TV news channels we can see many women and children displaced by the war.
The men stood beneath the ruins, their eyes filled with anticipation, their hands helplessly stretched forward, just to pray for a full meal.
This kind of scene is that any kind person can't help but want to help them after seeing it.
But what can we do for them?
Some people may wonder, why don't we accept refugees in China?
It is true that after decades of peaceful construction, our country is now the second largest economy in the world. While enjoying a peaceful life, the vast number of Ordinary Chinese people strive to make their own contributions to the development of the country. Moreover, the mainland has been actively contributing to international affairs.
However, in the area of accepting foreign refugees, since the founding of New China, our country has indeed no precedent.
In fact, in the history of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years, our country has also absorbed foreign refugees, but the lessons given by three refugee flows are too profound.
The first wave of refugees: to receive the Huns, but eventually to the battlefield
In the history of the development of the civilization of the Central Plains, the ethnic minorities in the north have always been a serious problem.
Ethnic minorities in the north, living in the steppes, have been practicing horseback riding, archery, hunting, and wrestling since childhood.
They eat meat, drink milk, and go through years or even decades of training in order to survive.
People living in the Central Plains rely on fertile land for farming, most people eat vegetables and rice noodles, and only a few rich people can eat some meat.
Because of the abundance of materials and the fact that the Confucianism promoted by the Central Plains Dynasty was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment, and did not think of danger in peace.
In the face of the world of flowers and flowers, the splendid rivers and mountains, the ethnic minorities in the north are naturally unwilling to stay in the bitter cold land in the north to nibble on sand, and they rely on the horse fast knife to knock on the gate of the Central Plains Dynasty again and again to plunder.
After King Youwang of Zhou played with the princes, Inuyasha swept through hojing, leading to the demise of Western Zhou.
In the early years of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu invaded the Central Plains Dynasty under the leadership of Mo Dun Shan Yu, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, led an army to fight a decisive battle against it.
The hero who defeated the King of Western Chu was powerless in the face of the Xiongnu cavalry that came and went like the wind, and was surrounded on the Baishan Mountain, and finally relied on Chen Ping's trickery to escape back to Chang'an.
In the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu have always been the sworn enemies of the Central Plains Dynasty.
It was not until the time of Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that there was a power dispute within the Xiongnu, and the Southern Xiongnu, under the leadership of Hu Han Evil Shan Yu, surrendered to the Han Dynasty.
They were placed in the Hetao area, which is now Shaanxi and Gansu.
The Northern Xiongnu were still blocked on the outside of the Great Wall, unable to take a step beyond the Thunder Pond.
When the Han Dynasty was strong, the northern frontier was peaceful, but at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty had civil unrest, and the masses rose up to chase the Central Plains, and the population of the Han nationality declined sharply.
This was followed by the rise of the Three Kingdoms and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, which completely turned the Central Plains Dynasty upside down.
During the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, many Huns were hired to participate in the war, and they plundered the Central Plains while calculating how to obtain greater benefits.
The Southern Xiongnu were placed within the Great Wall due to their early submission.
Without this line of defense, they quickly moved south, engaged the Jin Dynasty's blades, and "stabbed a fatal knife" in the back.
Subsequently, various ethnic minorities poured into the Central Plains from the north and successively established the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms. While attacking and killing each other, they also wantonly killed ordinary Han Chinese people, and even used young women and children as military food.
This kind of tragic thing, which has never existed in ancient times, lasted for hundreds of years at once, until the Sui and Tang dynasties established by the Han people once again established a foothold in the Central Plains.
The Second Wave of Refugees: Taking over the Turks, but inducing the Anshi Rebellion
From the time of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin to the first half of the life of Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji, the Tang Dynasty experienced a total of more than 100 years of hard work.
At this time, the civilization of the Tang Dynasty was highly developed, not only enjoying a reputation overseas, but also living in peace for a long time, so that the vast number of soldiers and civilians of the Tang Dynasty generally forgot the hidden dangers of the Turkic peoples in the north.
After the wars of the Taizong, Gaozong, and Wuhou eras, the Turks also divided, some of them surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and some Turkic leaders even held official positions in the Tang Dynasty.
In the later period of Tang Xuanzong's reign, he was content with pleasure, absurd in government affairs, and spoiled and adulterous.
Hu An Lushan, who relied on his sister Yang Guifei to obtain the emissaries of the three towns of Pinglu, Fanyang, and Hedong, recruited a large number of displaced people from the northern ethnic minorities as his soldiers, and these displaced people were mixed, and many of them were killed and killed in the past ethnic disputes, which was very barbaric.
In the jealousy of the treacherous minister Yang Guozhong, he brazenly raised an army and launched the famous "Anshi Rebellion" in history.
The "Anshi Rebellion" lasted a long time, covered a wide range, and the destruction was extremely serious, and finally fell sharply according to the population, and the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty was gone forever.
Although there were several brief revivals in the late Tang Dynasty, there were no return to the prosperous situation of the early Tang Dynasty.
The third wave of refugees: the Ming Dynasty took over some of the Jurchen tribes, but in the end, it was destroyed by the Jurchens
Time flickered to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the situation under the world changed again.
During the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia in the north always threatened the frontier areas of the Ming Dynasty.
Under the policy of "no tribute, no peace", Tianzi guarded the gate of the country and launched a tug-of-war with Mongolia between war and peace.
As a result, the three major conquests of the Wanli Emperor consumed too much national strength, and the Wanli Emperor did not ascend to the dynasty for more than 40 years, resulting in domestic political corruption, the people's livelihood, and the peasants rising up.
As a result, the Jurchen tribes that had earlier defected to the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong general Li Chengliang also began to riot.
At the beginning of the Jurchen clan dispute, many displaced tribes joined the Ming government to serve as officials, guarding the northeast border for Daming.
It stands to reason that the strategy of using the yi to defeat the yi is very wise, but it needs to be supported by a strong central government.
If the central government does not have this ability to rule, then these ethnic minorities with explosive force will no longer be honest.
Under the leadership of Nurhaci, the leader of the Jurchen clan in Jianzhou, they gradually began to encroach on the territory of northeast Daming, and although Daming sent troops to requisition many times, the final result was very bleak.
The additional Liao's salary increased the burden on the people in Guannei and provoked more popular uprisings.
In the end, Daming collapsed in internal and external difficulties.
Epilogue:
With those lessons learned from the past, our country prefers to help the foreign refugees living on the streets in other ways:
Through humanitarian relief, post-war reconstruction, and the provision of medical facilities, so that the victims can live and work in their hometowns as soon as possible.
After all, "being alone in a foreign land is a stranger, and thinking of my relatives every festive season." Nothing is as good as home.