Language policy of ethnic minority regimes
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Northern Wei Emperor Xiaowen prohibited Xianbei , requiring all high-ranking officials and nobles to speak Chinese. However, after his death, the nobles of Xianbei returned to their old national customs. Northern Qi Yan Zhitui's "Family Instructions" says:
" There was a scholar in the Qi Dynasty who once said to me: I have a son, who is seventeen years old, and I am quite familiar with the book. I teach him Xianbei language and play Pipa , and I want to understand it.
Use this to serve the ministers and ministers, and they are all favored and important. I bow down and don't answer. What a difference, this person teaches his children! "
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Language is a common memory of a nation and will never be transferred by human will. Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty asked his clan members to learn Chinese, and the Emperor of Qing Dynasty prohibited the bannermen from not speaking Chinese, and the result was all contrary to his wishes.
Especially during the Qing Dynasty, Manchu nobles were fully immersed in Han culture, and even the guards around the emperor had Chinese words when speaking.
Although the emperor repeatedly scolded him, the Qing Dynasty royal family also learned Chinese classics since childhood. If you want to completely separate the relationship with Han culture, you will not be far away from the Central Plains and return to the barbaric Northeast region again.
