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In the popularity of "Romance of the Gods", the Shang Dynasty became one of the high-profile dynasties in Chinese history, and the well-known names such as King Cheng, Bigan, Daji, and Jiang Shang became well-known historical figures. However, for thousands of years, depictions of the Shang Dynasty mostly relied on legends and myths, and it was not until the 20th century that the mystery of the Shang Dynasty was uncovered. With the discovery of the "Anyang Yin Ruin", archaeologists and historians explored the ancient dynasty 3,000 years ago, causing excitement, while ordinary people were frightened enough by what they saw. The ruins were littered with human bones, most of them wounded or mutilated, and some even cooked. What is shocking is that the martyrdom bones unearthed in the ruins cover a variety of races, including yellow people, dwarf blacks, and even Caucasian bones, that is, white people or yellow and white mulattoes. This raises a hotly debated question: Were white and black tribes really present around China during the Shang Dynasty? Are they related to the Aryans? After defeating the enigmatic "ghost formula", what is the impact on China? Let's dive into the unsolved mysteries of this history.
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3,000 years ago, the land of China was very lively
Although the discovery of the Yin tomb dates back to the early 20th century, the revelation of the tomb of Nuhao did not surface until 1976, becoming one of the most important discoveries in the archaeology of the Yin tomb after the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, both the tomb of Nuhao and other Yin ruins are filled with human bones, which exhibit a variety of skin color characteristics, subverting the traditional understanding of the distribution of Chinese. Today, we can be sure that in ancient China, there were Caucasian, Mongol, and equatorial black races, and in considerable numbers. Paleoanthropological studies show that in the nearly 100,000-year history of East Asia, multiple human species have thrived on this land. The first to arrive in East Asia were the dwarf blacks, the blacks in the jungles of the Malay Peninsula in present-day Southeast Asia. Then, the yellow people arrived and became the ancestors of the yellow people of East Asia. Finally, the Caucasian arrived, but the yellow people at that time had already established a developed civilization, and the Caucasian did not get enough space.
Foreign scholars have speculated that "China's Shang Dynasty was founded by whites", however, this statement is actually too naïve, because the human bones found in the Yin ruins were all martyrs, most likely slaves or prisoners of war, while the nobles and commoners of the Shang Dynasty had the characteristics of yellow people. The Shang Dynasty period is actually the history of the rise of the Yellow race, a tribal era in which after the Great Flood receded, Yanhuang and other tribes expanded into the Central Plains, constantly fighting for fertile land and territory. Although this history is dominated by legends, archaeological finds do prove that the Yellow people exterminated local blacks and early mestizos, expelling them south of the Yangtze River.
It was only after a human revolution that the early Chinese civilization, which was partly agrarian and semi-nomadic, rose in the Yellow River Valley. After the yellow people, the Caucasian people, represented by the Caucasus, set out from Central and North Asia and went south to Xinjiang and Gansu. Around 3000 BC, a tribe called the Aryans began to migrate, dividing into three routes. One of them went south, first into the steppes of Central Asia, and then went south to destroy the ancient civilization "Harappa" in the Indus Valley, treating the local black ethnic group "Dravidians" as slaves. The other entered the Middle East, met Babylon, and defeated the ancient civilization. The last group to move west into Europe is said to have become the ancestors of southern Europeans.
If you look at the map, you can see that the Central Asian steppe is close to the Chinese border. In the absence of the Great Wall at that time, it was relatively easy to enter the Xinjiang region from there, or enter Mongolia along the North Asian steppe, and then go south to the Loess Plateau. So, did the Aryans ever come to China? Theoretically there should be, but they do not appear in the Chinese historical record as "Aryan". Some scholars believe that the Aryans did not have a chance to develop their own until their Chinese ancestors wiped out the Aryans
Civilization. China during the Shang Dynasty was in a relatively closed state with limited contact with the outside world, so the arrival of the Aryans may not have left a trace in official historical documents.
However, oracle bone records from the Shang Dynasty indicate that during that period, the Shang Dynasty was in constant conflict with the surrounding small peoples. The Qiang and Inujung from the west, the Ghost Fang in the north, and the Dongyi in the east all fought against the Shang Dynasty for many years. Among these peoples, the most striking is the ghost side. The Ghost Fang was an ethnic group that roamed the present-day Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and Mongolian regions, and some historians believe they may have been a white race or even an eastward "Aryans."
The ghost side fought a long war with the Shang dynasty, and finally during the reign of Wuding the Shang king, that is, the "Shang Gaozong" period, the ghost side was completely pacified and the threat of the northern nomads was eliminated. Archaeologists have calculated that ninety percent of the tens of thousands of martyrs unearthed in the Yin ruins occurred in the Wuding period. This era marked the peak of the Shang army, armed with bronze weapons, controlling chariots, and marching around. The army of the Shang Dynasty during the Wuding period was strong and efficient.
In 1976, the discovery of the tomb of Nuhao became a major breakthrough in the archaeology of Yinxu. Wu Hao was one of Wu Ding's three queens and his favorite queen. However, archaeologists have found that Wu Hao is not an ordinary weak woman, according to oracle bone research, she should be the leader of a certain state under the Shang Dynasty, and has a political marriage relationship with Wu Ding. She also had her own army and participated in battles on behalf of Wu Ding many times, winning outstanding battle merits. Her tomb also included a 9-kilogram bronze axe, suggesting that she herself may have been an excellent martial artist.
During the Wuding period, the northern ghost side constantly invaded the border of the Shang Dynasty, and the territory of Wuhao was located in the present-day Hebei region, which was then the border zone. Wu Hao led the army for many years, destroyed dozens of Fang Kingdoms, and even went on a western expedition, capturing a large number of prisoners to sacrifice. One of the most notable of these achievements was the Northern Expedition to the Ghost Fang, in which she defeated the main forces of the Ghost Fang and drove them further afield into Outer Mongolia. At that time, the history books only recorded the war between Wu Ding and Ghost Fang in a few words, but the hardship and brutality of this battle can be seen.
In this battle, Wu Hao led tens of thousands of troops, including the central army of the Shang Dynasty and her own private army, which 3,000 years ago could be called "the country mobilized". The battleground was probably located in the area of present-day northern Shaanxi and Ningxia. The Onikata was not easily defeated, and the war lasted three years, and Takeshi not only defeated their army, but also plundered the population as slaves, and finally succeeded in pacifying the Onikata and forcing them to flee to the north. The historical records of the ghost side are extremely limited, and the related artifacts and relics are rare, but depending on their geographical location, the time of their appearance, and their nomadic fighting style, it is very likely that they were Central Asian Aryans or Aryan mixes
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