Where did the Khitans go? What kind of nation has it become?

Historiography can only speculate that there are roughly three fates of millions of Khitans:

First, the Khitan people living in the ancestral land of the Khitan gradually forgot their ethnic origin and merged with other ethnic groups.

Second, after the fall of Western Liao, most of the Khitans in Mobei migrated westward to the Kerman region of Iran and were completely Islamized.

Third, after the outbreak of the Jin-Mongolian War, some Khitans who "swore not to eat Jinsu" defected to Mongolia, and spread to all parts of the country after following the Mongol army to the east and west.

When the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty established the Mongol Empire across the Eurasian continent, they fought for many years, and the Khitans, who frequently used troops, were scattered to various places, and some maintained large ethnic groups, such as the Daur ethnic group, which survived as a nation, and some were assimilated by the locals. After continuous migration, isolation and integration, the Khitans mostly integrated into other ethnic groups in northern China, such as the Han, Jurchen, and Mongol. According to research, the current Daur people may be descendants of the Khitan people, and in addition, among the genealogical families in southwest China, according to genealogical records, they are the descendants of the Khitan who stayed in the local area with the Mongol army, and have been Sinicized and integrated with the local residents.

Daur, A, Mang, and Jiang "themselves" are all descendants of Khitan. The "myself" in Yunnan is like the Uygur people in Taoyuan County, Hunan, who are officers and soldiers of different ethnic groups in the Yuan Dynasty, settled in the local area, and preserved the memory of the original ethnic group.

Most of them have been wiped out, and the rest have been integrated into the surrounding peoples.

When the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty established the Mongol Empire across the Eurasian continent, they fought for many years and frequently recruited troops, and the Khitans who could fight well were recruited and scattered. Some have remained larger ethnic groups, such as the Daur people, who have survived as a nation, and some have been assimilated by the locals like a piece of ice thrown into the sea. Yunnan "myself" is a branch of the Khitan officers and soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty who settled in the local area and survived.

The Khitan people are now the Daur people.

The Khitan people are ancient Chinese nomadic peoples, who originated in Northeast China and adopted a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral life. In the early days, the Khitan was divided into eight divisions, and a unified Dahe alliance was formed in the early Tang Dynasty.

After Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty placed the Governor's Mansion of Songmo and gave him the surname Li. After the collapse of the Oga Alliance, the Khitans established the Yaoran Tribal Alliance, which was attached to the Later Turkic Khanate. In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), the Later Turks were destroyed by the Hui, and for the next hundred years, the Khitans have been ruled by the Hui.

During the Mengyuan period, in order to unify China, the Yuan Dynasty opened up territory and mobilized Khitan soldiers and horses to participate in the war to destroy Jin and Southern Song. The Khitans were also very dissatisfied with the Jurchen defeat of their country, so they actively participated in the war and made many military exploits.

From a regional point of view, the main part of the Khitan people in the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties are still distributed in their hometowns, that is, Chifeng City, Tongliao City, Liaoning and Jilin in present-day Inner Mongolia.

However, with the progress of the Mongols' wars such as breaking the Western Xia, destroying the Jin, descending to Goryeo, Ping Dali, dying the Song Dynasty, and the Western Expedition, some Khitans were conscripted and transferred to the expedition, left the above-mentioned areas, and began to spread throughout China, and even as far as Korea, Central Asia, and West Asia.

After the fall of the Liao State, the Khitan people went to **, why are there no Khitans among the 56 ethnic groups? According to my understanding, let me tell you about it:

After entering the Jin Yuan, the Khitans either took up new positions or migrated elsewhere with the empire. As a result, they began to gradually integrate with other ethnic groups. Of course, a small number of them moved west with Yelu Dashi and became the ruling class of Western Liao, and then left their mark in Central Asia.

Based on the hand-me-down literature, we traditionally believe that many Khitans entered the Central Plains and gradually integrated into the Han Chinese。During the Jin and Yuan dynasties, there were times when the Khitan and the Han were no longer distinguished. We know that the Yuan Dynasty distinguished between northerners and southerners.

That is, it does not distinguish much between the Khitan, Jurchen, and Han in northern China. At the same time, some Khitan nobles integrated into the upper Jurchen class, and later after the Jurchen established the Jin and Qing dynasties, some Khitan surnames also appeared in the Eight Banners archives. It may be that the Khitans who stayed in the northeast gradually integrated into the Jurchen and Manchu people outside the Guan.

With the deepening of archaeological research, a lot of bones of the Liao Dynasty have been accumulated, so the DNA information of the upper Khitan layer can be systematically extracted. Xu Yue's Ph.D.** "Molecular Genetics of the Khitan Population of the Liao Dynasty" provides some new insights. There are three main aspects:

1) After the death of the Liao, most of the Khitans may have integrated into different groups of people in Mongolia.

2) "In modern populations, direct descendants of the Khitan have not yet been found".

3) Some earlier studies believed that the modern Daur people were direct descendants of the Khitans, and that they were genetically close to the Khitans. This may not be right.

In fact, in ancient times, ethnic identity was often associated with political system。From tribes to empires, these political organizations hold groups of people together. Once the tribe is dissolved, or the empire collapses, then these people go into other tribes, or organize in other ways.

Khitan" gradually faded out of people's memory.

After the fall of the Liao Dynasty (907–1125) in China, the Khitans (also known as the Khitans) were dispersed, and many fled to the neighboring Jin Dynasty (1115–1234). Some Khitan nobles and military leaders were absorbed into the Jin bureaucracy and continued to play an important role in politics and society.

However, many Khitans also retreated to their ancestral homeland in northeastern China and established new settlements. Over time, some of these settlements developed into powerful nation-states and developed their own unique cultures and traditions.

The Khitan people have a rich and complex history, and their legacy can still be seen in many parts of Northeast China, where their descendants continue to live and practice their traditional customs and beliefs.

In the process of historical development, the Khitan ethnic group has been replaced by other ethnic groups, and this ethnic group has intermarried with other ethnic groups in the process of development, so it has completely disappeared.

Later, the Liang State fell, and it seems that the Khitan people have disappeared since then, and even there is no shadow of the Khitan among the 56 ethnic groups in China now. According to the introduction of relevant deeds, some people of the Khitan tribe are likely to have integrated into the Jurchen tribe.

They also went to some remote parts of the earth, probably because this people did not settle in China, but went to other countries.