I think everyone knows more or less about the Indians. They were the natives of the American continent, the natives of the United States, and they were also the race that was slaughtered by the European invaders.
In recent years, with the research of some experts, they have come to a surprising conclusion - the ancestors of the Indians were Chinese!
For this conclusion, some people believe that some people do not believe. It is believed that many of the cultures and appearances of the Indians do resemble Chinese, but it is not believed that these alone cannot prove it.
In 1983, Professor Zou Heng of Peking University went to the United States to give a lecture. When invited to participate in the annual festival of indians, an Indian teacher suddenly found Zou Heng, smiled and said kindly: "We are Yin people." And explained that the reason why he said this was because this statement was passed down from generation to generation. (The Yin people here refer to the descendants of Yin merchants more than 3600 years ago.) ）
As we all know, yin shang is the second feudal dynasty on the mainland, if the Indians are really Yin people, then they are really the same ancestor as our Chinese.
So is there any other evidence to prove it? And why were Indians slaughtered as indigenous peoples?
The Theory of the Yin People Crossing the Americas in the East
The theory that the Indians were descendants of the Yin people stems from the Yin people's theory of the eastern crossing of the Americas. And if you want to talk about the Yin people's eastward crossing of the Americas, it is necessary to mention who explored the American continent first.
In popular belief, the American continent was discovered by the navigator Columbus.
In October 1492, Columbus, who had sailed from Spain for more than two months on the high seas, discovered a strange landmass.
After landing on land, Columbus soon discovered the "natives" of the continent.
The "natives" here have black eyes, black hair, yellow skin. At first glance, he is no different from Asians, so he thinks he is in a place where Asia has not yet been "developed". As a result, Columbus directly gave this group of natives a new name , " Indians " ( meaning " inhabitants of India " .
From here, it seems that Columbus was the first to explore the American continent. But don't forget, where did the Indians on the American continent come from?
In fact, during the Ice Age, a 1,300-mile "land bridge" appeared between Asia and Europe and the Americas. At that time, the hunters of Asia and Europe, following their prey, chased all the way to the American continent and became the "new owner" of this land.
They were the first to explore the American continent, later Indians.
But unfortunately, although they lived here after that, for various reasons, there should not be many people left. Because according to the survey, only a few dozen people in this group at that time preserved their genes to the present.
Many people may wonder when they see this, is this the only group of people who have arrived in the Americas?
In fact, no, when the Indians gained a foothold in the Americas, the continent came with "new people". But it is clear that they have not succeeded in settling here.
After arriving in the Americas, these people were ostracized and expelled by the Indians, and in desperation, they could only continue to migrate in the direction of the polar region, so they became the current Eskimos, that is, the Inuit.
In the thousands of years since, no one seems to have migrated to the American continent.
But in recent years, many experts have proposed that the current Indians are likely to be the descendants of Chinese. The reason for this conclusion is also due to the "Yin people's eastward crossing of the Americas" theory.
When I see the words "Yin Ren's Theory of Crossing the Americas in the East", I believe that many people will say in their hearts, how is It China again, although China has a long history and developed very well in ancient times, it is not that everything is Chinese. After thinking about it, I despise the countrymen who made this statement.
But in fact, it was not our Chinese who first proposed this theory.
The "Yin people's theory of crossing the Americas in the east" originated from the saying that Chinese first arrived in the Americas. And the person who made this statement was the French sinologist de Chini.
More than two hundred years ago, in 1761, de Chini published a study entitled "Chinese Studies of Several Peoples Sailing Along the Coast of the Americas and Inhabiting the Far East of Asia."
In this report, it is proposed that China is the first country to reach the Americas.
119 years later, in 1880, China's Zhang Taiyan once made a statement saying: In the Book of the Buddha's Kingdom, the eastern Jin Dynasty monk Faxian was killed at sea and was blown by the wind to the kingdom of Yevati. This Yebathi country is likely to be South America.
In 1913, the Journal of Geoscience published an article by Xinggong entitled "The Discovery of the Non-Columbian Theory of the Americans."
In the text, Xinggong wrote: Recently, the Western scholar Kuchuang said that the first person who found the American continent was actually Chinese, and his theory was evidenced by the similarity of the language and form of the American Red Indians (that is, Indians) to the Chinese, and Gai Was hesitant to believe it.
Recently, the famous archaeologist Nai Yun, together with several ethnographers, has found many ancient clay statues in the More Than Ten Thousand Places in Mexico, and its appearance is indeed no different from that of the Chinese, and its clothing and ornaments are also chinese for more than ten centuries.
In addition, there are hundreds of clay Buddha statues, about a few feet long. Its molding method is similar to that of wood carving gods in modern China, and the chinese technology of gai is also more than a thousand years ago. On the side of this Buddha statue, there are dozens of bronze coins, strung with a Chinese rope. With all these conclusive evidences, it can be proved that the American continent was discovered by China as the first. Its discovery dates back about 1,500 years.
Therefore, we know that the civilization of the American continent should take China as its originator. Yu Press: The Ecuadorian country in South America opened the river in the former Qing Dynasty and xianfeng years, and once received hundreds of Chinese coins. It is a relic of the New Mang Era and is still displayed in the museum of his country. And there is a monument to the Chinese Age in the Peruvian National Park, which was dug up by the natives when hoeing the ground, and these two things can also be used to find the evidence of the Americas for the Chinese...
Since then, many people have proved the theory that the Yin people crossed the Americas in the east.
In particular, Guo Moruo and Dong Zuobin, who are more familiar with the historical materials of Yin Shang, have expressed their position to prove the theory of the Yin people's eastward crossing of the Americas.
So, why did the Yin people cross the Americas in the east?
Yin Shang destroyed the country, and the Dongyi soldiers disappeared
In the last year of Yin Shang, the King of Yin was brutal. King Wu of Zhou led an army across Mengjin, and Di Xin confronted King Yu Muye of Zhou, but because Di Xin's warriors were hastily assembled slave soldiers, and the slave soldiers then defected to the battlefield, resulting in the defeat of the soldiers. As a result, Yin Shangcheng was destroyed and the country was destroyed.
When Yin Shang destroyed the country, Dongyi still had 100,000 Yin soldiers. But strangely, after the demise of Yin Shang, these 100,000 soldiers did not return to Chaoge to surrender to King Wu of Zhou, but disappeared from then on. There is no more record in the history books.
In 1956, Guo Moruo openly discussed the whereabouts of these Yin people at the Tokyo Bachelor's Guild Hall.
According to Guo Moruo, Di Xin opened up territory outside and took most of Yin Shang's troops with him. King Wu of Zhou took advantage of the emptiness in the country and waited for an opportunity to enter. At this time, the soldiers who fought on the Renfang (Dongyi) were not willing to submit to King Wu of Zhou. When there was no way back, it was very likely that the Dongyi warriors would choose to follow the only leader, Yu Houxi Dongdu.
And Dong Zuobin also said: After the King of Wu destroyed the Zhou Dynasty, although the Eastern Yi generals could not be investigated, the east of the East was also the East, and the Yin people crossed the East in the Americas.
In addition to the speculations and judgments of these two people, there is another point that makes many scholars believe in the Theory of Yin Ren's EastWard Crossing of the Americas.
After the disappearance of the Dongyi generals, the Olmec civilization suddenly appeared on the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America.
The Olmec civilization is the earliest civilization on the American continent and is also known as the "mother culture of the Meso Americas".
The Olmec civilization left behind a large number of megalithic statues, these huge figures, all with thick lips, flat noses, and strange helmets. Judging by the facial features, it is extremely similar to africans, and it should be the king of this civilization.
At this point, many people will feel that these people are Africans who ran over, and have little to do with the Yin people.
But in fact, the Olmec civilization is very similar except that this megalithic statue is not very different from the Yin Shang culture.
For example, more figurines have been excavated at the site of the Olmec civilization. And these small statuettes often appear in the archaeology of Yin Shang, it can be said that these statues are unique to the Yin Shang culture.
In addition, the Olmec civilization also had a large number of totem cultures. For example, the god they worship most is the half-human, half-jaguar (also known as the jaguar). It is followed by the feathered snake god, ceres god, and phoenix bird.
In the same period in China, and even before this, there has always been this totem culture, and the totem represents the clan in China.
During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there were clans with tigers as totems (tigers and leopards were not divided at that time). Even earlier, the tiger totem has traversed the entire ancient history of China. Not to mention the phoenix.
In addition, there are some jade products and ceramic products that are very similar to the Yin Shang culture. In particular, the "pyramids" in the ruins of the Olmec civilization are further proof of his relationship with the Yin people.
The local pyramids are not actually similar to the egyptian pyramids, but they are exactly the same as the shape of the overmolded tombs on the mainland.
Therefore, many people believe that the Olmec civilization is inseparable from the vanished Yin soldiers.
It is not impossible to infer that some Indians are descendants of the Yin people, that is, descendants of Chinese. And this part of the population did not have much to do with the first Indians who arrived in the Americas.
Since there is such a conclusion, there must be some other legend and the like. We Chinese, especially like to find roots, and now we have traced back to the ancient yanhuang emperor, and the yanhuang descendants of Chinese capital.
The indigenous people in the Queen Charlotte Islands also claim to be descendants of the thirteenth-century Yuan Dynasty sailors. If the Indians were really descendants of Chinese, they would surely have left behind legends or stories of where they came from.
As mentioned earlier, the Indian teacher once said to Professor Zou Heng of Peking University: "Our ancestors were Yin people, and this matter has been passed down from generation to generation." ”
If the ancestors of the Indians were really Yin people, it is really difficult to imagine how the Yin people crossed the vast Pacific Ocean to the Americas three thousand years ago with backward technology.
At the same time, it also makes people more lament the massacre suffered by the Indians.
History of Indian blood and tears
Just like the Japanese army invaded China and slaughtered a large number of Chinese. The Indians in the Americas also suffered massacres, even near extinctions.
Before the European invasion, they were the masters of the American continent, with many tribes and peoples. But after the Invasion of the Europeans, it became today's minority, and they were no longer subdivided, but uniformly called Indians.
U.S. Founding President George Washington once said, "Our expansion of immigration is bound to drive these barbarians away from their homeland." ”
The barbarians in Washington's mouth are what we call indians.
And the uprooting, as the name suggests, is to drive the Indians out of their habitat and let them live in another place. However, in real operation, the use of rush words seems very inappropriate. It should be used that the Americans premeditated to genocide it.
The Americans' genocidal program was divided into two main types: bison policy and direct slaughter.
For the bison policy, I believe that some people may feel confused. What does the bison have to do with the Indians?
The bison, once abundant on the American continent, was the main source of food for the Sioux indians. The bison that were caught could not only be eaten, but also provided raw materials for the Sioux to make clothes.
As we all know, hunting is the need to chase prey around. But the Americans are not accustomed to it, they ostensibly think that this way is too barbaric, but in fact they are not accustomed to the Sioux running around, which will make them feel that the Sioux threaten their position.
For after their invasion, through brutal bargaining, the Indians were kept together, a place was divided, and food and daily necessities were provided on a regular basis. But these foods did not have meats that could supplement protein, so the Indians were only able to rely on themselves.
But the Americans didn't care, they thought that they had "shown great compassion" to divide the Indians, but the Indians were still not honest, and it was too difficult for them to manage.
As a result, the U.S. government directly ordered large-scale hunting of bison, and even allocated a lot of money for it. Under the operation of the U.S. government, in just twenty years, the bison has gone from more than thirteen million to less than a thousand.
After losing their food source, the Indians had to listen to the command of the Americans and live in a suffocating life on the so-called reserve. However, that's not all.
Without a food source, Americans still provide food for only a decade. Indians who lived on barren land could not feed themselves even if they cultivated the land. But even so, the Americans did not allow them to leave the reservation arranged by the Americans at will. In the midst of poverty, the number of Indians was getting smaller and smaller.
Another genocidal plan was the most brutal policy of killing Indians outright.
Since its inception, the U.S. Army's main action has been to massacre Indians, a mission that lasted for nearly a century.
In response, Washington once said: "Do not listen to any peace proposals until all Indian reservations have been destroyed." ”
As the first president, Washington's words were always very authoritative. His troops did not even regard the Indians as adults. One soldier once said, "When peeling the skin off the corpses of the Iroquois (a tribe of Indians), go down from the hips so that you can make a tall boot, or a boot that is equal to the height of the leg." ”
Hearing this, do you already feel very cruel and have a different view of Washington?
But in fact, he was not the only one who did this.
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, who proposed that "all men are created equal", also said that "if the Indians rebel against the Americans to obtain their land, then the rebellion against the Indians must be counterattacked with a short axe." ”
Moreover, the large-scale massacre of Indians in the United States also began with him.
In 1814, the Government of James Madison even issued a decree that for every Indian scalp handed over, the U.S. government would pay a bonus of $50-100.
In the U.S. government's 400-year genocidal program, the Number of Indians went from more than 10 million to just over 200,000 at the end of the 19th century.
Moreover, after this, the number of Indians continued to decrease. By the end of the twentieth century, the largest tribe of Indians, the Sioux, had only forty thousand people left.
The author said
In the author's opinion, Indians cannot be said to have nothing to do with Chinese, but not all Indians are descendants of Chinese.
But when we discuss exactly where the roots of the Indians are, we should pay more attention to the living conditions of the Indians and their tragic history.
Although today's Indians will no longer be subjected to massacres of exterminations, their lives are still not good.