Chapter 122 Section 5 Direct Descendants

After the demise of Xiliao, many Khitan people integrated into the Mongolian or Han nationality.So can it be said that the Khitan, a once glorious nation, has now fully integrated with other nations?Are there any direct descendants of this ethnic group among the fifty-six ethnic groups today? Modern scholars cut off a piece of bone from an unearthed Khitan ancient corpse, conducted DNA testing, and compared it with other ethnic groups in China today, and found that the genes of the Daur people in Northeast China are most similar to the Khitan people.The last queen Wanrong is a Daur ethnicity.After the demise of the Jin Dynasty, this nation belonged to the wild Jurchen tribes in the Northeast Jurchen, and was also incorporated into the Eight Banners in the Qing Dynasty.In the Qing Dynasty, some people believed that the Daur people were descendants of the Khitan people, and the Qing people called the chiefs of Daur the Khitan chiefs.Because of their language, customs, and habits, many of them have striking similarities with the Khitan people.They worship the sun in the east, set fire to the sky, hunt and tame falcons, and their life and production are very similar to the Khitan people.The Daur people love to play Go, but their Go is not in the same form as ours today, but very similar to the Go unearthed from Liao tombs.Therefore, some scholars believe that the Daur people are probably the descendants of the Khitan people.

There is also evidence that the Daur people enshrine a god called Kuleer Buddha.In fact, Ku Lier is a person, the name of the leader who led the Khitan people to move north more than 800 years ago.Therefore, experts and scholars believe that in addition to integrating into other ethnic groups, some Khitan people may have returned to the Northeast and lived and multiplied from generation to generation.If the Khitan people have direct descendants, it should be the Daur people in Northeast China.This conclusion is generally accepted. Then came another startling discovery.Scholars have discovered the descendants of the Khitan people in Yunnan, thousands of miles away from the Khitan's hometown, and there are about 150,000 people.These people claim to be themselves, and their current ethnic composition is classified as Han nationality, but these people are likely to be descendants of the Khitan people who followed the Mongolian army to the south and stayed there. In 1990, researchers conducted a survey of today's Yunnan area and found that the local people have many surnames, but they all add two characters in front of their surnames - A Mang, such as A Mang Jiang, A Mang Li , A Mang Zhao, the word "A Mang" was only removed after the Ming and Qing Dynasties.My physical characteristics are also obviously different from those of the local Yunnan people, and I am taller.The investigation also found that there were small Khitan characters on my tombstone.A family tree was found in a family in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. The surname of this person was Jiang, who was the original Amang Jiang. This family tree was called "Mengban Jiang's Family Tree", which recorded the changes of this family. There are a few words: "Jiang's ancestors were surnamed Yelu and named Abaoji. They founded the Liao Dynasty and were destroyed by Jin. The descendants took A as their surname and changed it to Mang." After the death of Liao, they used Abaoji's name to The first character is the surname, A surname.Later, I thought it was too obvious, so I changed it to Mang's surname. "At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he was awarded the post of general of Wulue for his meritorious service with the Mongolian army in the southern expedition. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, because of his meritorious service in suppressing the Burmese rebellion in Luchuan, he was awarded the chief judge and hereditary native post. After several generations, it was changed to Chiang Kai-shek. surname." This genealogy clearly records the origin of the Jiang family: We are descendants of Yelu Abaoji. After the fall of the Liao Dynasty, we changed our surname to A, and then to Mang. In the early years, he helped the Ming Dynasty suppress the rebellion and served as a hereditary chieftain. Later, he changed his surname to Jiang.Experts also discovered an ancestral hall of the Chiang family. The main entrance of the ancestral hall was opened on the east wall, which fully conforms to the Khitan people’s tradition of worshiping the sun in the east. There are thousands of trees in front of Yelu Court, and a hall of spring in Mangjiang Temple." It clearly shows that these people are descendants of the Khitan tribe.Moreover, on the walls of the ancestral hall, paintings with a strong northern grassland style were found. The place is located in the subtropical zone, and it is absolutely impossible to have this kind of grassland scenery. The people there may have never seen the grassland, and it is impossible to depict it so vividly by imagination. To be precise, it must have been passed down from generation to generation by their ancestors.The ancestors told the descendants that when we lived in such a place, it was possible for them to preserve the grassland scenery in the murals.

Modern historians and anthropologists agree that in today's China, the Khitan people who retain the most complete genes, or if the Khitan people have direct descendants, should be the Daur people in Northeast China and Yunnan themselves.Such a nation, which has been established for 210 years, and Xiliao has been in the world for nearly 300 years, still has descendants among the 56 ethnic groups in China today. They are an important part of the big Chinese family today. Without exception, their history is the history of the Chinese nation and the splendid civilization of China.