parentshiftbook Chapter 758: The True Chinese Bloodline, Open-Minded, Tolerant, And Eclectic [Please Subscribe, Plea
Chapter 758: The True Chinese Bloodline, Open-Minded, Tolerant, And Eclectic [Please Subscribe, Plea
Speaking of the Ming Dynasty's sinicization policy towards the Mongols, Yan Changqing also remembered the related policies and regulations that Zhu Yuanzhang had promulgated before, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said:
“His Majesty initially issued an order to ‘return to the Tang style of clothing and hats, prohibiting Hu clothing, Hu language, and Hu names’, but later ordered ‘forbid Mongolians and Semu people to change their names’?!
If he remembered correctly, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure the stability of the territory, Zhu Yuanzhang also adopted certain methods to accelerate the sinicization of ethnic minorities such as the Mongols and Semu people.
According to the records of "Guoque", in February of the first year of Hongwu (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict: "Restore clothes and crowns as made in the Tang Dynasty, and prohibit Hu clothing, Hu language, and Hu names."
However, in the third year of Hongwu (1370), at the suggestion of minister Zeng Bingzheng, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict not to force Mongolians and Semu people to change their names.
"Ming Huidian" records this: "After Mongolian Semu people became officials, they might change their names many times, and pass them down to their descendants over the years, without knowing their origins. If they have been changed, they should be corrected."
"Records of Taizu" also records: "In the fourth month of the fourth month, it is forbidden to change the names of the Mongolian people with colored eyes. The edict says: ... ... Mongolian... colored eyes, etc., are all my innocent sons. If they have talents, they can be promoted together. Bi Wen After entering the official position, I may change my name. I have been thinking about it for a long time, and my descendants will pass it down. It is not the way of the ancestors to inherit the clan. I will tell him in the book and let him correct it if it has been changed."
However, in addition to the prohibition on changing names and surnames, the use of Hufu and Hu language is still prohibited.
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also issued a decree to strictly restrict intermarriage among Mongolians and Semu people.
When the "Da Ming Code" was revised in November of the sixth year of Hongwu (1373), this article was written into the "Da Ming Code", which mentioned: "Any Mongolian color-eyed man who wants to marry a Ming man must be consensual. This kind of people are not allowed to marry each other, and those who violate it will be punished with eighty sticks, and both men and women will be officials and slaves."
This means that intermarriage among Mongolians and Semu people is strictly prohibited, but they must marry Han people, otherwise they will be naturalized.
Intermarriage among the Han people is only allowed if they "are unwilling to marry Huihui and Qinchao people and obey the prohibition on marrying among themselves." However, it should be noted that the exception here does not include Mongolians. people.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Yan Changqing mention the government decrees he had issued, he thought about it, then nodded and said in confusion:
"We did give such an order, is there any problem?!!"
Yan Changqing sighed softly and said:
"Your Majesty prohibits Mongolians and Semu people from changing their names. However, you are worried that these Mongolians and Semu people will steal high positions in the Ming Dynasty, so you prohibit them from changing their names to create divisions!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said calmly:
"Those who are not of my race must have different minds. Naturally, we must take some precautions when dealing with them to prevent unexpected events."
There are no outsiders here, so he doesn't have to use high-sounding reasons like "changing his name and changing his surname is ignorant of his origin, and it is not the way of the ancestors to establish the Jin clan".
The real reason why Mongolians and Semu people were prohibited from changing their names was because at that time, a considerable number of Mongolians and Semu people who had submitted to the Ming Dynasty had begun to enter the Ming Dynasty's court and army.
If these Mongolians and Semu people are allowed to change their names and surnames, and if these Mongolians and Semu people speak Chinese and have customs, then within two or three generations, these Mongolians and Semu people will be indistinguishable from the Han people.
Therefore, he adopted the suggestion of minister Zeng Bingzheng and prohibited Mongolians and Semu people from changing their names in order to identify them.
In this way, when the emperor and the court promote officials, they can pay attention to and know which people can be vigorously promoted and which people can only be "appropriately promoted."
To put it bluntly, this method of name recognition was used to prevent Mongolians and Semu people from quietly ascending to high positions in the court without the knowledge of the emperor and the court.
After all, the affairs of the former Yuan Dynasty are still in front of us, even if Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The Mongolian people and others are all my sons. If they have talents, they can be promoted together."
But in fact, in the minds of Zhu Yuanzhang and other ministers of the DPRK, the Mongolians and Semu people were still foreigners.
Foreigners are not trustworthy, but at least they are not trustworthy in the hearts of Zhu Yuanzhang and other ministers of the DPRK.
Those who are not of my race must have different hearts. This sentence is applicable in many cases.
After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's answer, Yan Changqing couldn't help but sigh again:
"Those who are not of my race must have different minds. This sentence does make sense."]]
"However, the prerequisite for the determination of the people who are not my race is that they are not my race!"
"If the Mongolians and Semu people intermarry with the Han people, after two or three generations of assimilation and Sinicization, they all speak Chinese, celebrate Han festivals, give Chinese names, take Han as history, and completely forget the Hu language, Hu customs, and Hu names. , Hu Shi.”
"So for such a mixed race of Mongolian, Semu, and Han, is he a Mongolian, a Semu, or a Han?!!"
Hearing Yan Changqing's rhetorical question, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help frowning and hesitated:
"*......"
Looking at the hesitant Zhu Yuanzhang, Guo Changqing said progressively:
"If we say that such a completely Chinese mixed race of Mongolian, Semu, and Han, he is still a Mongolian or Semu.
"Then I'm afraid we here may be counted as members of the Xianbei tribe, or as members of the Man, Li, Liao and other tribes!"
“After all, the Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities have integrated into the Han nationality for at least hundreds of years, and sometimes even for thousands of years.
"In the face of ethnic minorities such as Xianbei, Barbarians, Li, and Liao who are completely Sinicized, it is normal for Han people to intermarry with them."
"While the Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities have been integrated for hundreds to thousands of years, who can now dare to completely guarantee that their ancestors did not marry the Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities, and their bodies Isn’t there some blood flowing from the Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic groups?!!”
“If one of my ancestors, or one of your Majesty’s ancestors, had a marriage with a completely Sinicized Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities, as a result, part of the Xianbei, Man, Li, and Liao people are flowing through us now. The blood of Liao and other ethnic minorities.”
"Then I am not considered a Han citizen, and I will turn my back on the Chinese Han people in the future and seek the interests of Xianbei, Barbarian, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities at the expense of the interests of the Ming Dynasty?!!"
"Could it be that His Majesty is not considered the emperor of the Han people and will turn his back on the Chinese Han people in the future and seek the interests of the Xianbei, Barbarians, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities at the expense of the interests of the Ming Dynasty?!!"
Hearing Yan Changqing's last words, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately shook his head and said in denial:
"Of course it's impossible!!!"
"You must be a Han citizen, and we must be the Han emperor!!"
"How could you and we turn our backs on the Chinese Han people and seek the interests of the troubled Xianbei, Barbarian, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities? We are not mentally ill!!!"
If we talk about other emperors in the past dynasties, because they were born in a wealthy family, they may pay attention to their Han blood.
Therefore, do not intermarry with Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities, and then you can pat your chest and say that you do not have the blood of Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities.
So for an ancestor like Zhu Yuanzhang, whose 18th generation ancestors were either poor peasants or poor peasants, he paid attention to his so-called Han blood and not to intermarry with Xianbei, Man, Li, Yi and other ethnic minorities?!
gab!!!
For Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors, it was a great blessing to be able to successfully find a daughter-in-law.
Who cares whether the obtained daughter-in-law is a Han woman or a woman from Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang really did not dare to deny with his chest the possibility that one of his ancestors might actually marry a Chinese woman from Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities as his daughter-in-law.
Because his ancestors really had this possibility.
In other words, he may indeed have the blood of the so-called Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities.
Of course, it's not just him.
Over thousands of years, the Han, Xianbei, Barbarian, and other ethnic groups intermarried and assimilated with each other, and then multiplied and passed on for dozens or hundreds of generations.
From the emperor's royal family, to the princes and ministers, to the common people, everyone has more or less the blood of other ethnic groups.
Even if there is no blood of Xianbei, Man, Li, Liao and other ethnic minorities, there are still blood of other ethnic minorities in Xixi.
Because in essence, the so-called "Han bloodline" is a conceptual existence.
The original "Han bloodline" refers to the Chinese bloodline formed after the tribes of Huangdi and Yandi merged.
But it has been passed down for thousands of years. Are the only bloodlines of the Yan and Huang tribes in ancient times among the Chinese bloodlines today?!!
This is naturally impossible!!!
For example, the Qin State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was a horse-raising tribe of the Zhou Dynasty in its early years. Later, it intermarried with the Xirong and lived together, which made it compatible with the Rong and Di tribes in the northwest.
In other words, the people of Daqin are of Rongdi tribe blood.
Another example is King Chu Wu of the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He openly declared: "I am a barbarian!"
It means that I am a barbarian from the south, so if I don’t do the hypocritical way that you, the princes and national teachers of the Central Plains, are famous for, I just want to beat you, and if you don’t accept it, beat me!!!
However, the king of Suiguo, who was ridiculed by King Wu of Chu, was of course dissatisfied and wanted to fight back, but Suiguo really couldn't defeat Chu.
In the end, Sui State was beaten by King Wu of Chu and the State of Chu, and finally became a vassal state of the State of Chu.
For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Jin State directly intermarried with Beidi, and Jin Wengong was half of the Di ethnic group.
It can be said that the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period more or less have some blood of the barbarians and Rongdi.
But today, thousands of years later, who dares to say that the seven heroes of the Warring States Period who have the blood of the barbarian Rongdi are not Chinese people?!
Who dares to say that the blood passed down by the seven heroes of the Warring States Period mixed with the blood of the barbarian Rong and Di is not the blood of the Chinese clan?!!
The real "Han blood" and "Chinese blood" are an enlightened, tolerant, comprehensive and eclectic concept of blood!!!
As long as you speak Chinese, celebrate Chinese festivals, study Chinese history, accept Chinese culture, wholeheartedly identify with Chinese culture, and safeguard Chinese culture, the Chinese nation and the Chinese country.
Then you can be regarded as a member of the Chinese tribe. Similarly, after your bloodline has been integrated into China and spread for thousands of years, it can naturally be called "Chinese bloodline"!!!
On the other hand, if a Han does not speak Chinese, does not celebrate Chinese festivals, does not study Chinese history, does not accept Chinese culture, does not wholeheartedly agree with Chinese culture, does not safeguard Chinese culture, the Chinese nation and the Chinese country, or even denigrates the Chinese culture, the Chinese nation and the Chinese nation, nation.
So how can such a person be called a real Han Chinese?!!
And how can the blood in his body be called a true "Chinese blood"?!!
Yan Changqing, who received Zhu Yuanzhang's affirmative reply, also went a step further and said:
"Since Your Majesty said that we are not Xianbei people, or we are Barbarian, Li, Liao and other tribes.
He is a member of the Chinese people, but a common people of the Han people.
"Then a person who speaks Chinese, celebrates Han festivals, gives Chinese names, takes Han as his history, completely forgets Hu language, Hu customs, Hu names, and Hu history, and is a completely Sinicized mixture of Mongolian, Semu and Han people.
Xue'er, isn't he a Han citizen?!"
"And if he is a Han commoner, then why should Your Majesty be afraid that he will ascend to a high position in the court?!!"
"Your Majesty does not allow him to change the names of Han people, not only to distinguish them!"
"They were also reminded over and over again from the side that they were not Han people, not Ming people, but Mongolians, Semu and other ethnic minorities.
"And if they think that they are not Han people or Ming people, then how can they have a sense of identity and belonging to the Han people and the Ming Dynasty?!!"
"And if they don't have a sense of identity and belonging to the Han people and the Ming Dynasty, then how can your Majesty expect them to do their best for the Han people and the Ming Dynasty, and even
So you risk your life to protect the Han people and safeguard the interests of the Ming Dynasty?!!"
"So not only should His Majesty not forbid them from changing their Chinese names, but he should also take the initiative and even force them to change their Chinese names, speak Chinese, use Chinese festivals, and use Han as their history.
Influenced and assimilated by Han culture. "
"In this way, after two or three generations, ethnic minorities such as the Mongolians and Semu people will be as thoroughly Sinicized as the Xianbei, Barbarian, Kui, Tuo and other ethnic minorities in the past. From then on
Truly become a member of the Han people. "
"And when the Mongolians, Semu people and other ethnic minorities are completely Sinicized and truly become members of the Han people, the so-called 'people who are not my race will have different minds.'"
Naturally, it does not apply to them. "
"Even if a person with the blood of Mongolian, Semu and other ethnic minorities ascends to a high position in the court in the future, he will still belong to the Han people and will serve the interests of the Han people and the Ming Dynasty for the sake of the interests of the Han people and the Ming Dynasty.
Act for the benefit of the people, not for the so-called interests of the Mongols or the Semu people!"
"If we say that after being completely Sinicized and ascending to a high position in the court, he still helped other so-called Mongolians, Semu people, and even other people in order to obtain greater benefits.
The words of other foreign nations and aliens.
"
"Then just treat him as a traitor and confiscate his family and exterminate his family!"
"In short, it is not advisable to strictly prohibit Mongolians and Semu people from changing their names, and it is not conducive to their complete belonging and Chineseization!"
After speaking, Yan Changqing set aside time for Zhu Yuanzhang to think quietly.
It wasn't until a moment passed that Zhu Yuanzhang looked up at Yan Changqing and nodded slightly:
"We understand. Let's find someone to find a reason to change it later!"
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was persuaded, had no intention of repenting.
It's just a matter of changing his own edict. It's not a big deal. Anyway, it has been changed once before.
The worst case scenario is to find a minister to risk his life to remonstrate with him this time, and then he can't shirk it himself, and finally just change things along with the flow.
Let Zeng Bingzheng risk his own life to remonstrate!
Originally, his initial edict was to completely ban Hu clothing, Hu language, and Hu names.
As a result, he was deceived by this old boy, causing him to mistakenly believe the slander, and then changed his edict. Finally, he was lectured by Yan Changqing.
Without this old boy's "slander", how could he have changed his edict, let alone being lectured by Yan Changqing now.
After Lianying took advantage of Zheng Lei's death to remonstrate with him, he was demoted to Liaodong to teach the surrendered Mongolian people.
In short, as the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang refused to consume himself mentally.
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