"Min Zhi Hu Zhi is not for his own use, the class orders the Zhao people inside and outside, beheads Hu and sends Fengyang Gate, the civilian official enters the third class, and the military position is worshiped by the Ya Gate." In one day, tens of thousands of beheadings were beheaded. Min Gong led the Zhao people to curse all the Hu Qi, and all the noble men, women, and young men and women were beheaded, and more than 200,000 people died, and the corpses were all eaten by wild dogs and jackals outside the city. Those who are in the four directions, where they are in the Chengmin Shu, have a high nose and more to half of the indiscriminate deaths. ”
As recorded in the Book of Jin, this should be the origin of the killing of Hu Ling.
It can be said that as soon as Ran Min's "order to kill Hu" came out, he directly erased the people from history and repaid his grievances with virtue, so why repay virtue? Repay virtue with virtue, and complain with directness. for tat, eye for eye. Wash the blood with blood, stop killing. As a result, many people say that this kind of "genocide" is seen by many people as a humanitarian challenge.
However, is this really the case?
In a sense, the Qiang people could not become a real nation, because it was only a branch or tribe of the Xiongnu at that time, and it was one of the nineteen qiangqu of the Jin Dynasty into the Sergeant Xiongnu. Before the Xiongnu entered the Cyprus, they belonged to the Xiongnu, that is, "the Xiongnu don't fall". The roots of its race are widely disputed, and most of them are not enough to be true, and they were captured by the Xiongnu at that time during the Han Dynasty in China and brought into China.
As a result, from the beginning of their appearance on the stage of history, the Karma people appeared as invaders. They had enough land for their people to live and work in peace, and they had a sound language system and a religious system. The karma people do not seek development in their own land, but run to the land of the Central Plains to burn and kill and plunder, which is itself unjust. Of course, the reason why the Karma people invaded the Central Plains was also partly bitter.
Because the Xiongnu refused to submit to the Xiongnu, they were retaliated against by the Xiongnu, and in order to survive, the Xiongnu had to develop to the south. However, this is only "part of the reason" and cannot be used as a pretext for exonerating karma. After the fall of the Xiongnu, the situation of the Xiongnu in the Central Plains was worrying. I have to say that the behavior of the Central Plains Dynasty at that time in buying and selling slaves was indeed inhumane.
This is the evil result of the long-term infringement of the Chinese ritual law by the Xiongnu and the loss of binding force. More and more People were betrayed to the Jin Dynasty, and the oppressed People finally took advantage of the chaos to rise up and rebel against the Central Plains Dynasty, which was beyond reproach. However, after the People regained their freedom, they did not choose to coexist in harmony with the Han People, but repaid each other for their wrongs and regarded the Han people as cattle and horses.
At that time, the situation faced by the Han people was no less than that of the people who were treated as slaves. If the Han people do not resist, then the Han people will not have any living space. The overthrow of the Han regime by the Han people is fundamentally an act of justice. After all, although the Karma people have been enslaved for a period of time, they are after all foreign invaders, if it were not for the Invasion of the Karma people from the south, how could the Han people have beaten the Old Nest of the Karma people to enslave them?
However, to be fair, it is correct to punish the murderers of the Qiang people, but in the process of revenge, it is inevitable that the slaughter of the Qiang people is inevitably a bit "over-defensive", which is not in line with traditional Chinese values. Therefore, future generations of historians will criticize this practice of indiscriminate genocide. The historians of our country have never covered up the sin of Ran Min slaughtering the Karma, and have also given praise to shi Le, the ruler of the Qiang.
It can be seen from this that the Chinese people do not have a narrow and racist ideology, and the so-called "Han chauvinism" cannot be discussed at all.
Re-examining that period of history, we will find that the background of the birth of the "Killing Hu Order" was in the Wuhu Chaohua, and the Han people were in a state of despair. In that era, the traditional values of the Central Plains were almost overthrown. People are not sages, and the value of their own lives is not respected, so how can they respect the value of others' lives? Therefore, the broken etiquette failed to protect the Han chinese, nor did it protect the innocents of foreign tribes.
However, after peace was restored in the Central Plains, posterity immediately reflected on the practices of its predecessors. The extinction of the Karmic people is a tragedy, and in order to avoid a recurrence of the tragedy, of course, it is necessary to summarize the reasons for the tragedy. The Wuhu Chaos and even the killing of Hu Ling are entirely due to the result of the Han people being infected by nomadic values and the loss of traditional values after the Xiongnu invasion. If we have to blame everything on one side, the author believes that the root cause lies in the nomadic tribes that invaded the Central Plains mainly with the Xiongnu as the mainstay.
However, in modern society, there are many history enthusiasts who have made a high-profile claim to "avenge the people", and they are the inheritors of nomadic ideas. After these people have exonerated the Qiang people, do they still want to exonerate the other nomadic peoples who invaded the south and legitimize their acts of aggression? They distort history and blame everything on so-called "Han chauvinism," saying how the Han Chinese viciously committed genocide. Almost everyone who holds this view consciously avoids such a fact.
In that tragedy, the Han chinese acted out of pure self-defense, rather than taking the initiative to provoke trouble like nomads, running to other people's territory to burn and kill and plunder. Throughout history, the Han people have never been an example of developing by plundering the wealth of ethnic minorities. Therefore, we cannot confuse "legitimate defense" with "active invasion". If we compare the two, wouldn't we be denying the self-defence the right to live? This kind of thinking lacks the most basic concept of right and wrong.
It can be said that the thinking of these people is very dangerous, and the evil intentions of creating national hatred are clearly revealed.
To this day, those inheritors of nomadic values use all kinds of false reasoning to regard the value of the Han people as worthless, and what is the difference between this concept of contempt for the value of human life and the racism of Karma Zhao? If not corrected, this thinking is highly likely to evolve into a new national hatred. There is only one way out to prevent the recurrence of tragedy, that is, to restore traditional values, to let the value of equal life be valued, to completely eliminate the radical and narrow nomadic thinking, and to completely eliminate this barbaric concept.
Because only in this way can we maintain the centripetal force of the Chinese nation for Chinese civilization, and all nationalities can develop harmoniously and live and work in peace and contentment.
Resources:
[Book of Jin, Volume 17, Zaiji No. 7, Book of Wei, Volume 95, Liechuan No. 83, Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 96, Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 98, Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Volume II, Later Zhao Lu]