Chapter 80 Section 5 National Remains

As the main ethnic group of Xixia, the Dangxiang clan once created a very glorious Great Xia Empire, but with the demise of Xixia, the Dangxiang clan also disappeared.Among the fifty-six ethnic groups today, the Dangxiang clan no longer has a place.So where did the Dangxiang clan go after the demise of Xixia? After the demise of the Xixia regime, where did the party nation go?The greatest possibility is that it merged with other surrounding ethnic groups, such as Han, Tibetan, and Mongolian. Since the 21st century, scholars and experts have investigated and studied the descendants of the Xixia people who have subjugated the country, and found that the descendants of the Xixia people may exist in six places.

The first place is in the hometown of Xixia.After the demise of Xixia, there were a large number of Dangxiang adherents in the Hexi Corridor, the Ordos Plateau, and the Hetao Plain.The Yuan Dynasty divided the ethnic groups into four classes: Mongols were the first class, Semu people were the second class, Han people were the third class, and Southerners were the fourth class. This was determined according to the order of Mongolian conquest.Not to mention the Mongolians, they belong to the same family.Semu people include Dangxiang people.Semuren means all kinds of eyes, not to say that the eyeballs are not the same color as ours, but all kinds of people are people from Dangxiang, Uyghur, and Central Asian countries who were conquered by Mongolia.The political status of Dangxiang people in the Yuan Dynasty was higher than that of Jin and Song people. The Yuan Dynasty often recruited Dangxiang people to join the army and fight.In Mongolian, Dangxiang is called Tangwu.It is often recorded in Mongolian historical records that Mongolia conscripted the Tangwu army. Later, there were many Tangwu people in the Mongolian army that destroyed the Song Dynasty.In the 1970s, archaeologists discovered a stone tablet written in Chinese and Uyghur in today’s Jiuquan, Gansu. The history of thirteen people serving as officials in the Yuan Dynasty is quite complete in their family lineage and genealogy.This proves that until the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, there were still Dangxiang people in the old land of Xixia, but now these people have merged with the local ethnic groups. Today they may be Han, Yugur, Mongolian, Tibetan or Qiang.

There is also a group of party members in Anhui today.After the Mongols entered the Central Plains, this party member settled in Anhui with the Mongols, and has been an official here for generations.Among the members of this party, the most famous is Yu Que, the prime minister of the province in the late Yuan Dynasty.His name is entirely a Han name, but he is indeed a party member.The Yuan Dynasty divided the whole country into ten provinces, and some say eleven provinces.Today, the highest local administrative organization in China is called a province, and it started from the Yuan Dynasty. Before that, there were only roads, prefectures, prefectures, and counties, and the chiefs of provinces were also called prime ministers.At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and heroes rose up everywhere, vying for the Central Plains. Han Liner, Zhang Shicheng, and Chen Youliang raised troops against the Yuan Dynasty one after another.At that time, Chen Youliang's army attacked the city guarded by Yu Que.Yu Que commanded the people to stick to the city and refused to surrender.In the end, the whole family committed suicide, dozens of members of the family committed suicide, and the whole city, old and young, whoever did not want to fall into the hands of the robbers also committed suicide.When his concubine committed suicide, because the child was still in its infancy, she couldn't bear to die with the child, so she put the child by the water and threw herself into the water to kill herself.After Chen Youliang's troops rushed into the city, they started looting. The poor were afraid, but today, officials, wealthy households, and merchants robbed one by one, and everyone held heavy things in their arms.One of Chen Youliang's officers saw Yu Que's child laying on the ground. He may have received some education. When he saw this child, he sighed and said, "This must be Yu Que's political class, and I will support him."This must be the child of Yu Canzheng, such a loyal minister, if there is an orphan left behind, I have to raise him.The officer threw away the things he had snatched from his arms and took the child away. The child lived until the Ming Dynasty.Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, and vigorously praised Yu Que's act of martyrdom, and built a temple for Yu Que to worship. Yu Que was equivalent to Wen Tianxiang in the Yuan Dynasty.Although Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, all dynasties and generations highly praised this kind of integrity and loyalty.This group of party members settled in today's Anhui, but they have completely evolved into the Han nationality.Except for the elders of the clan, or those who have been educated and understand a little history, most people probably don't know that they are descendants of Dangxiang people.

Another group of Dangxiang adherents was found in Henan.They also followed the Mongolian army into the Central Plains, and then guarded Henan, and there were many officials.They all changed their Han surnames later, and they were kind and charitable in their hometown, building bridges and paving roads, building schools, and opening porridge fields, which won the love of the people.But the descendants of this party member, no matter whether it is in the historical records or in the county annals, can no longer be found, and it is estimated that they have been completely sinicized. In addition, as mentioned earlier, Xixia script is used in a very wide range. In addition to the hometown of Xixia, Xixia script has been found in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Baoding.Inside the tower hole of the Juyongguan crossing tower in Beijing, there are six kinds of stone carvings, one of which is the Xixia script, which proves that the descendants of Xixia once lived in Beijing.In a temple in Baoding, Hebei Province, there is a stone scripture building with Xixia characters engraved on it, indicating that there are descendants of Xixia here.This sutra building was engraved in the fifteenth year of Ming Hongzhi, 1502 A.D., and Xixia perished in 1227. That is to say, nearly three hundred years after the demise of Xixia, there are still descendants of Dangxiang who use Dangxiangwen.Baoding, Hebei is a place where the Han people live together. From this point of view, there should be descendants of Dangxiang in Hebei.

In the Hehuang area of ​​Qinghai, where Dangxiang and Tubo have been competing, the descendant of the original chieftain was named Li. In the 1990s, he handed over his family tree to the state, from the Qianlong era to the Republic of China era.According to him, the direct ancestor of their family is Li Shangge, the son of the last emperor of Xixia, and their family belongs to the royal family of Xixia.After some research, the experts felt that it was not true, because the Xixia royal family had been killed.However, it can be determined that he may have some relationship with the Tangxiang people. For example, he may be a descendant of the Shatuo people, or he may be a descendant of Tuyuhun, but it cannot be concluded that he is a descendant of the Tangxiang people.