Taohuayuanji
Jin Dynasty great writer Tao Yuanming In his literary work " Taohuayuanji", he depicts an isolated society, where people try to avoid the Qin war. , The family moved to live in the peach garden.
The Peach Garden is extremely closed, and there is only a hole that allows one person to pass through to connect with the outside world. People living here are contented and live a life without competition. One day in the middle of the mountain, the world is a world-class child. People here even "do not know that there are Han, regardless of the Wei and Jin Dynasties", and they are completely isolated from the world.
Peach Blossom Spring is a fictional society created by Tao Yuanming. It is only the negative psychology of the author after being dissatisfied with reality, so Peach Garden is unreal. In modern times, there is an area similar to the Peach Garden, which is Shaanxi Village in Russia.
Shaanxi village style
In the end of the Qing Dynasty, a group of Chinese ethnic minorities who flee from war went deep into Central Asia. They thrived and thrived here. The experience is highly similar to the Taohuayuan people. They don’t even know that they have died early in the morning. .
The first person to discover the Shaanxi Village
In 1979, Shaanxi Normal University On the campus, a graduate student named Wang Guojie in the history department made an amazing discovery when he looked up Soviet Russian history books.
Wang Guojie
This is a paper introducing the history of ethnic groups in Russia. It records a ethnic minority named "Dungan" in Central Asia, which is distributed in Kyrgyzstan According to the paper records in Chuhe Prefecture and Zhambyl Region of Kazakhstan, their ancestors were all Chinese.
Wang Guojie, who has been engaged in historical research for many years, has never heard of this ethnic group before. The migration history of this ethnic group has made him very interested. He began to concentrate on studying this ethnic group that migrated from China. History.
There is very little information about this ethnic group. Wang Guojie did not obtain other useful information. This made Wang Guojie a desire to visit on the spot. He decided to find the opportunity to go to the gathering place of the Dungan people in person to find out. .
In 1990, the opportunity finally came. Wang Guojie got the opportunity to study in Russia with his excellent results. While studying in Russia, Wang Guojie not only studied hard, but also devoted more energy to understanding the history of Donggan people .
Just in the summer vacation of his first year studying abroad, the opportunity finally arrived. He will personally go to a place called "Yingpan Village" in Kazakhstan to control the appearance of Shaanxi Village. It is said that a group of Dungan people live here.
After a long journey, Wang Guojie finally arrived in Yingpan Village. When he entered the village, Wang Guojie was in a daze. He thought he had returned to Shaanxi in China, because the architectural style and customs here are in line with Shaanxi’s thinking. Similar and even more amazing is that the people here speak the same words, they are all Shaanxi dialects, but they don't know how to write Chinese characters.
Wang Guojie's visit made the people here feel novel. They kept looking at Wang Guojie, like looking at aliens.
Wang Guojie found a young man who seemed very talkative and asked him to introduce himself to the situation in Yingpan Village. Unexpectedly, the first sentence the young man said to him was "Did the Qing Dynasty die?" The mystery of the tribe.
Aixinjueluo Zaichun was the third to last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, that is, Tongzhi Emperor , and her mother was the Empress Dowager Cixi .
Emperor Tongzhi
Emperor Tongzhi can be described as a fleeting disadvantage,Not only was the government controlled by his mother, and the Qing Dynasty entered a stage of rapid decline, it also ushered in one after another turmoil. Whether it was the Taiping Rebellion or the Nian Army's rebellion, the vitality of the Qing Dynasty was greatly injured.
The rebellion in the south has not been completely put down, and chaos in the northwest region has started again. The ethnic minorities in the Gansu and Shaanxi regions have also seized the opportunity to attack and plunder the land and invade the northwestern frontier of the Qing Dynasty.
The Qing government added Zuo Zongtang to the post of riding captain and ordered him to help Shaanxi and Gansu. After all, Zuo Zongtang is the brave man among the Han people. He led countless Han children to launch a fierce attack on the minority rebels, quickly regaining lost ground, and pacifying the northwestern region for the Qing Dynasty.
Zuo Zongtang, with his old body, allows people to carry his coffin behind him, demonstrating his unsuccessful determination to become benevolent. In the end, the Qing army fought all the way to Ili, smashing the Tsarist Russia's conspiracy to split Xinjiang.
After Zuo Zongtang hit Xinjiang, the failed minority insurgents had to take their families and fled north through Central Asia.
After a lot of wind, meals and sleep, this group of fled ethnic minorities arrived in Russia, and their number dropped sharply to just over 3,000. Far away from China, they can finally settle down, so they choose to camp here and thrive.
After more than one hundred years of development, the number of people in Donggan has become larger and larger, and finally the Shaanxi Village, which is very different from the local customs, is formed. They maintain the living habits of the Shaanxi ethnic minorities and speak the Shaanxi dialect.
According to Russian statistics, the number of Dungans currently exceeds 120,000.
The current situation of the Dungan people
Wang Guojie is an excellent historian. In order to thoroughly study the history of the Dungan people, he stayed in the local area for 3 months to learn about the history of the Dungan people. Get a clear picture of the status quo.
In fact, the Donggan people are divided into two branches, one is from Shaanxi, China, and the other is from Gansu, China. Currently,They live in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakh , Russia, Uzbekistan and other regions in the form of mixed living with other ethnic groups.
The biggest difference between these Donggan people and other ethnic minorities is that they all speak Chinese, which is a mixture of Shaanxi dialect and Gansu dialect. Today, the Dungan people have their own written language, and the basic dialect is Gansu dialect.
In addition, the language of the Dungan people also retains the greatest feudal language features, such as "yamen", "adults", "yamen", "schools" and other words.
Due to long-term mixed living with other ethnic groups, most people in Dungan speak several languages, namely Russian, general Kazakh , Kyrgyz or Uzbek .
At present, there are not only people engaged in agricultural planting and handicrafts in the rural areas, but also workers and intellectuals in the cities.
In recent years, with the rise of Donggan fever, the villagers of these Shaanxi villages have also re-understood their own history and culture. Yingpan Village has also become a well-known scenic spot, attracting many Chinese people to travel every year.
With the gradual expansion of China's influence, the people of Shaanxi villages are also very yearning for China. They recognize that they are part of the Chinese nation, and they are proud of their ancestors being Chinese.
The only difference is that they need to make up for the magnificent history of China after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
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