After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the nomads from outside Serbia took advantage of the vacuum, and the Han people were slaughtered from more than 20 million to 4 million, and the Han people faced the danger of extinction. The main reason why we can't talk about the five chaotic China today is that the values are far from the barbarism of ancient times, and now we pay attention to multi-ethnic cultural integration and national unity, but we must not forget the lessons of history.
First, why can't we talk about the reason
The "Five Hu" in the Five Hu Chaotic Hua, mainly refers to the five Hu tribes of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qiang, Qiang, and Di, but in fact, the Wuhu is the representative of the various Hu people in the late Western Jin Dynasty, and the number is far from five. The northern ethnic groups and Han people have established dozens of countries in northern China, varying in strength and size, among which the Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms have existed for a long time and have great influence.
In the Yongjia Rebellion, Liu Cong's subordinates Shi Le, annihilated more than 100,000 Jin troops in Ningping City, Ku County, and captured and killed the imperial lieutenant Wang Yan and others. Liu Cong also sent the general Hu Yanyan to lead troops to attack Luoyang, repeatedly defeating the Jin army, annihilating more than 30,000 people before and after. He attacked Luoyang, connived at the looting of his subordinates, captured Emperor Huai of Jin, killed more than 30,000 princes, clansmen, officials, and soldiers, and excavated mausoleums and burned palaces. Why can't you talk about the five nonsenses? The act is so cruel that history should be remembered.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, the northern Han population was as high as 20 million, but after the Five Hu Chaos, the northern Han population plummeted to only 4 million. At that time, the Han people were regarded as slaves or even food by the Hu people, and were called two-legged sheep. Why can't you talk about the five nonsenses? Because national unity and national integration are now emphasized, the theme of that era was war and ethnic genocide, which did not conform to the current mainstream values.
The period of the Five Hu Chaos generally begins with the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty (316) and continues until Xianbei Northern Wei unified the north (439). Some scholars also call it the "Yongjia Rebellion", "The Sinking of the Central Plains", "The Fall of the Central Plains" and so on. During this period, historians generally consider it a disaster for the Han people. In 581, the Sui Emperor Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty and destroyed the Chen Dynasty in 589, which put an end to 300 years of turmoil and partition in China.
2. The barbaric atrocities of the five-year period of chaos
Shi Le, the founder of Later Zhao, originally had genes for murder and barbarism, and after his death, Shi Hu, the ruler of Later Zhao, was even more known for his brutality, and he took pleasure in killing people and was absurd. With each city captured, Shi Hu slaughtered all the men and women in the city. In order to build palaces, repair forest gardens, and build armor and shipbuilding, he savagely recruited Han men and women many times, and hundreds of thousands of people died of disease, starvation, and torture on the way.
He forcibly took 50,000 Han women from the people and incorporated them into the harem, wantonly humiliated and tortured them, causing the woman's husband to organize volunteers to resist, but they were all suppressed, and countless people died. Shi Hu loves hunting, and he has surrounded tens of thousands of kilometers of land in the southern central plains as hunting grounds, and does not allow Han people to throw a stone, otherwise he will be sentenced to death for the crime of "committing beasts" and violating wild beasts. Wherever the Hu people went, they were slaughtered.
Shi Hu's son Shi Wei was also misbehaving indiscriminately, and he would sometimes go to the homes of the courtiers at night and rape their wives and concubines at will; Sometimes the heads of beautiful palace maids are cut off and placed in jade plates to make handicrafts for people to admire in turn; When these were tired of playing, they selected beautiful nuns from the palace, first adulterated and then killed, and then cooked their meat with beef and mutton, and distributed them to the ministers on the left and right to taste, so that the ministers could identify the taste.
What is even more frightening is that the Qiang people call Han women "two-legged sheep", and after adultery, they are slaughtered and eaten, which is extremely cruel. Ethnic minorities even use the Han as military food, no different from livestock. As a result of such evil, the number of Han people at that time plummeted from 20 million to less than 4 million, even less than the ethnic minority population; The Han people are truly facing the doom of extinction.
With the species almost extinct, the remaining northern Han displaced people decided to rise up and resist. Later Zhao's general Ran Min issued a killing order to allow the Han people to rise up and resist, and millions of Hu civilians such as the Xiongnu, Qiang, and Di perished, and nearly one million Hu soldiers were killed. The Qiang ethnic group that suffered the most slaughters either migrated or was slaughtered, and basically became extinct in the Central Plains, so that the blood of the Han people could be preserved.