Where did most of the Khitan people in history go?

Their descendants have all gone to the south, and are now distributed in Hunan and Zhejiang, and they have gradually begun to integrate into the Han Chinese.

Most of them went to the frontier, which is now the Majiaer tribe, in fact, I think it is very good that they do not invade the Central Plains.

Historically, the Xiongnu were in the current Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ningxia Autonomous Region, Mongolia, Xinjiang Autonomous Region and other regions. Most of them are integrated into the Han nationality, with Liu being the most prominent, and they are distributed in northern China. The rest went to the West.

Historically, the Khitans now lived in present-day Mongolia and Northeast China, and lived a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral life, and their language belonged to the Mongolian language group of the Altaic language family.

Tibet, the ancestor of the present-day Tibetan people, has always occupied the Tibetan Plateau.

Hui Hui, originally in the Mongolian steppe, was later expelled by the Turks to what is now Xinjiang, and is the ancestor of the Uygur people in China.

Daur.

During the Qianlong period, because the Qianlong Emperor liked to study the culture of ethnic minorities, researchers in the Qianlong era identified the Daur people as the descendants of the Khitans. Some documents in Heilongjiang Province also record that Daur is a descendant of the Khitans.

Descendants of the Khitan people.

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.

Daur means "original place", that is, hometown. For hundreds of years, the Daur people have been nomadic here, but what exactly is their homeland? The Daur people themselves do not know, because they themselves have no written language, and can only rely on oral history to pass on history, and no one knows what happened before the Qing Dynasty.

A local legend has piqued the interest of ethnohistorians: hundreds of years ago, a Khitan army came here to repair the border fort (a term specific to Daur that refers to a structure that resembles the Great Wall). ), and have since settled here.

The leader of this army was called Sagildihan, the ancestor of Daur.

The experts first obtained the wrist bones of the Khitan female corpse in Leshan, Sichuan; From Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Khitan teeth and skulls with epitaphs as evidence were obtained; Blood samples of "myself" were collected in Baoshan, Shidian and other places in Yunnan; Blood samples were collected from the Molidawa Banner and several other banners and counties in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, including Daur, Evenki, Mongolian and Han Chinese. After completing the comparison of the mitochondrial DNA variable regions extracted by silicon method in the pulp and bone marrow of ancient specimens, they finally came to an accurate conclusion: the Khitan have a recent genetic relationship with the Daur and are descendants of the Khitans; And the Yunnan "myself" has a similar patrilineal origin to the Daur people, and is likely to be a descendant of Khitan officers and soldiers in the Mongol army.

According to the results of this measurement, combined with historical data, historians finally found the whereabouts of the Khitan people: when the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty established the Mongol Empire across the Eurasian continent, they fought for many years and frequently recruited troops.

Most historians believe that the Daur people are descendants of the Khitan of the Liao Dynasty.

1. The Khitan script used by the Daur people before the Qing Dynasty has been lost, and the history is passed on orally, and the history before the Qing Dynasty is difficult to study. However, according to the legends of the Daur people and the comparative research on the production, life, customs, religion, and language of the Daur people and the Khitan people, most of them believe that the Daur people are the descendants of the Khitan of the Liao Dynasty;

Some scholars also believe that the Daur people developed from the local indigenous ancestors; Experiments using DNA technology have shown that the Khitan has a recent genetic relationship with the Daur people. After the fall of the Liao Dynasty, the ancestors of the Daur people migrated to the north of Heilongjiang.

2. Daur Nationality Zone: In September 1956, Qiqihar City decided to merge the four rural areas of Huerhula District, Dahudian District, Woniu Tudaur Autonomous Region and Yushutun in Longjiang County to form the county-level Meili Daur Nationality District. The Meili Daur Ethnic District is one of the five existing urban ethnic districts in China, and it is also the only Daur ethnic district in China.

The descendants of the Khitan are the current Daur people.

The Khitan people are ancient Chinese nomadic peoples, who originated in Northeast China and adopted a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral life. The Khitan people are a far-reaching ethnic group in Chinese history. "Khitan" originally means iron, which means strong.

However, since the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Khitan people have suddenly disappeared from historical records. Fuxin, Kaizhou County is from Liao, Fuxin is called the "hometown" and "cradle" of the Khitan people by historians. During the Liao period, Fuxin had 9 Touxia Prefectures, with a population of 200,000.

It can be said that Fuxin and Khitan are inextricably linked.

Recently, after the news that some experts from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences used DNA technology to identify the Daur ethnic group and the "I" surnamed A, Mang and Jiang in Yunnan as descendants of the Khitan ethnic group, Fuxin has become an "important place" to solve the problem of the origin of the Khitan. The Daur people have the most recent genetic relationship with the Khitan and are descendants of the Khitans. The "I" of the A, Mang, and Jiang clans in Yunnan have similar patrilineal origins to the Daur people, and are also descendants of the Khitan people.

Through DNA technology to solve this historical puzzle, in five small villages in Baoshan, Yunnan, experts took blood samples of "me" surnamed A, Mang, Jiang and other ethnic groups; The wrist bones of the Khitan female corpse were obtained from Leshan, Sichuan, and the teeth and skulls of the Khitan people with epitaphs as evidence were obtained from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; Blood samples were collected from the Molidawa Banner and several other banners and counties in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, including Daur, Evenki, Mongolian and Han Chinese. A comparison of the mitochondrial DNA variable region extracted by silicon method in the pulp of ancient specimens and bone marrow shows an accurate conclusion: Daur, A, Mang, and Jiang "themselves" are all descendants of Khitan.

Aren't they descendants of the Xianbei people? The Khitan people were more seriously divided, Manchu, Han, Mongol, Turkic, and very arbitrary.

Since 2004, after the news that relevant experts used DNA technology to identify the Daur ethnic group and the "I" surnamed A, Mang and Jiang in Yunnan as descendants of the Khitan ethnic group was announced, Fuxin has become an "important place" to solve the problem of the origin of the Khitan. A few days ago, some experts from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences used DNA technology to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the Khitan people: the Daur people have a recent genetic relationship with the Khitan and are descendants of the Khitan people.

The "I" of the A, Mang, and Jiang clans in Yunnan have similar patrilineal origins to the Daur people, and are also descendants of the Khitan people. [54]

Now, this historical mystery that has puzzled historians has finally been solved, and DNA technology has solved the problem of the origin of the Daur people and the "me" surnamed A, Mang and Jiang in Yunnan. A comparison of the mitochondrial DNA variable region extracted by silicon method in the pulp of ancient specimens and bone marrow shows an accurate conclusion: Daur, A, Mang, and Jiang "themselves" are all descendants of Khitan.

So far, experts have made the following conclusions and analogies: 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 conquered and dispersed to various places, and some maintained large ethnic groups, such as the Daur ethnic group as a nation, and some were assimilated by the locals. The latter is the most difficult to find, because the Khitan people have maintained the "exogamy" system for more than a thousand years, so the Khitan people in the pure sense no longer exist.

After constant migration, isolation, and integration, most of the Khitans melted like ice thrown into the sea, and were named "descendants in the molecular sense" in a technical term.

The Khitans, an ancient nomadic people, lived in present-day Mongolia and northeastern China.

Most of the Khitans were integrated into other ethnic groups in northern China, such as the Jurchens and Mongols, and some developed into the present-day Daur and a group called "myself" in Yunnan.

In the heyday of the Khitan, the territory of Sakhalin Island in the northeast, the area of the Selenga River and the Shilka River in the central part of Mongolia in the north, the Altai Mountains in the west, the Haihe River in Tianjin City in the south, Baxian County in Hebei Province, and the Yanmen Pass in Shanxi Province bordered the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty that ruled the Central Plains at that time confronted each other, forming a confrontation between the North and the South.

In 1125 AD, the Liao Dynasty fell. The year before, Yelu Dashi, a clan of the Liao Dynasty, led some Khitans to the north. In 1134 AD, Yelu Dashi, who migrated to Central Asia, led some Khitans to rebuild the Liao regime, known as Western Liao, which gradually faded out of history and merged into a part of the various ethnic groups in Central Asia.

After the Liao was destroyed, some Khitan people integrated into Mongolian, Goryeo and other ethnic minorities, while the rest entered Hebei and Shanxi, and the characteristics of their own ethnic groups gradually faded. The Khitan as a whole people ceased to exist in the Yuan Dynasty. DNA sequencing proves that the Daur people and Yunnan "myself" are of Khitan descent.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Khitans completely disappeared from Chinese historical classics. Later, scientists used DNA technology to come to conclusions. Daur, Yunnan A, Mang, Jiang"Personally"They are all descendants of Khitan.

In 1134 AD, Yelu Dashi, who migrated to Central Asia, led part of the Khitan people to rebuild the Liao regime.