About Chapter 55 Story Synopsis: When the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian ordered the conquest of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, at the same time, Fu Jian sent the general Lü Guang to lead 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Western Regions at the request of the Western Regions, Liang Xi, the assassin of Liangzhou in the former Qin Empire, wanted to block the road of Lü Guang's class, and he followed the example of Zhang's former Liang regime to divide Liangzhou, and tried to call Wang Jianguo in the upcoming troubled times, but Liang Xi's intentions were detected by Lü Guang, and Lü Guang simply led the army to attack and advance, occupying Guzang, the capital of the Liangzhou region, in one fell swoop, and capturing and killing Liang Xi. At this time, Zhang Dayu, a descendant of the nobles of the former Liang regime, raised troops and stood on his own, supported by the tribes in the Liangzhou area, and the soldiers were up to Guzang, as a result, Zhang Dayu was arrogant and arrogant, did not listen to the advice, and was exterminated by Lu Guang, and soon after, the news of Fu Jian's killing came, Lu Guang sighed, set himself up as the king, set up the capital Guzang, established the regime, known as Hou Liang in history, Lu Guang went through the battle, subdued the various tribes of the nomads in the Liangzhou area, and completely controlled the Liangzhou area in his own hands.

In this story, after pacifying the Western Regions, the former Qin general Lü Guang took the opportunity of the chaos in the Central Plains after the Battle of Weishui to occupy most of the northwest and establish the Houliang regime. We said before that the Western Jin Dynasty Liangzhou Assassin History Zhang Liang and his descendants, after the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Central Plains, seized the Liangzhou region and established the Qianliang regime, but the former Liang regime of the Zhang family is only named by our descendants in order to facilitate the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the Zhang family only had the move of establishing themselves as kings in a short period of time, so I think the former Liang regime was cut out.

However, when we look at the process of Lü Guang's establishment of the Later Liang regime, in fact, there is also a sense of self-reliance as a last resort, that is, the former Qin Empire, which ruled the northern region, has collapsed, and the news that the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian was killed by Yao Chang spread to the Liangzhou region.

From this, we can also see that the people of all ethnic groups in the Liangzhou area have a strong sense of belonging to the Central Dynasty, the former Liang regime in the early period of the Sixteen Kingdoms was originally created by the ancestors of the Han nationality, and the sense of identity of the Central Plains Dynasty is needless to say, but it is not easy for the Houliang regime established by the Di people to maintain a sense of identity with the Central Dynasty, which just shows that the Di people have basically completed the sinicization in this period, only after the complete collapse of the Central Plains Dynasty and the complete demise of the Di people, However, at this time, the Di people should not be much different from the Han ancestors, so the pressure and threat faced by the Houliang regime in the northwest region where the nomadic tribes are lined up is huge, so it is difficult for the Houliang regime to survive for too long. In fact, the Houliang regime only maintained the stability of the northwest region for less than 20 years, and the entire northwest region began to have a chaotic situation of the three Liang countries coexisting.

Since the regional history of the northern region of our country entered the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Qianliang regime founded by the ancestors of the Han nationality, and later, the former Qin Empire that defeated the Qianliang regime, these two powerful regimes have maintained peace and stability in the northwest region for a long time, and the various nomadic tribes in the northwest have made great progress in this good environment, and under the infection of the Han ancestors and the Di people, the tribes of these nomads have also begun to embark on the road of sinicization. Therefore, these nomadic tribes also have to build a state through feudal states and completely complete the sinicization. At this time, the establishment of the Houliang regime of the Di people has basically completed the sinicization, so it is no longer possible to compete with these tribes of the nomads militarily, and the demise of the Houliang regime is only a matter of time, and in the process of the entire national integration, I always think that the establishment of the Houliang regime is a return to the extinction of the Di people, in the historical years after the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the Di people have never been able to have a feudal state, in contrast, The Qiuchi State that survived to the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms is only a fragment of history left by the Di people in the process of sinicization, and the scale and significance of its existence cannot be compared with the former Qin Empire and the Later Liang regime.

Fortunately, to this day, we can still find the descendants of the Di people, in our country's Gansu, Sichuan border area of the Minshan area lives a self-proclaimed Baima people, this group was classified as Tibetan at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and now after the study of our ethnologists, this ethnic group is completely different from the Tibetan people in terms of language and customs, through the query of historical materials and the comparison of modern DNA technology, This ethnic group, which calls itself the Baima Tibetans, has been identified by the vast majority of historians as the descendants of the Baima Tibetan people in China's ancient Di ethnic group. I think that the Baima Tibetans may be only a very weak tribe of the Di people during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms about 1700 years ago, and may even be just a few Di families living in the deep mountains and old forests, because the scale of the tribe is too small, the geographical location is too remote, they have not been able to follow the vast majority of the Di people into the Han ancestors and nomadic tribes, after nearly 2,000 years of baptism, this tribe has survived to this day, its population has reached more than 20,000 people. But in the early days of our founding of the People's Republic of China, it was mistakenly classified into the Tibetan people, which is not only the sorrow of the Di people, but also the luck of the Di people, the sad thing is that the Di people who were once prominent in the history of our country have been forgotten by the current people, fortunately, the cultural characteristics of the Di people have been retained after all, and are recognized by most of our scholars today, and we can now also explore the style of the Di people during the Sixteen Kingdoms period through the customs and language and culture of the Tibetan people in Baima.

Regarding the descendants of the Di people, there is also a view today that the Karen people living in Myanmar are also the descendants of the Di people, but I think this view is not accurate, although the Karen people are indeed derived from the ancient Di people in our country in terms of blood, but the ancestors of the Karen people have come to Southeast Asia in the Western Han Dynasty, and this part of the Di people has started a new life in Southeast Asia, you know, the geographical environment of Southeast Asia and the geographical environment of China's northwest region are very different. This part of the Di people who have migrated south have already changed greatly in terms of customs and habits, and we have not been able to find the living characteristics of the Di people through the customs and habits of the Karen people, so this part of the Di people living in Southeast Asia has formed a new national culture, which can not be compared with the Di people, so it is not rigorous to determine that the Karen people are the descendants of the Di people only through the distance of blood relations, but the Baima Tibetans have always lived in the traditional living area of the Di people. Its customs, language and culture are basically in the same vein as the Di people, so the descendants of the Di people are only the current Baima Tibetan people.

From the Houliang regime established by the Di people, we smell the breath of the Di people who are about to die, and from the various tribes of the nomads who conquered the northwest region after Lü Guang became the king, we also seem to hear the roar of these tribes who are about to send out the roar of independent statehood. In fact, from ancient times to the present, China's northwest region has always been a gathering area of ethnic minorities, which has a great relationship with the northwest region is the main arterial road connecting the east and west in terms of geographical location, when the nomads originating from the Mongolian steppe are blocked from moving south, these nomads need to migrate westward, and although the northwest region is not as superior to the Mongolian steppe geographical environment, but the geographical environment of some areas can be regarded as abundant water and grass. Therefore, the northwest region has become the best choice for some nomads who are unwilling to participate in the struggle for control of the Mongolian steppe to find a place to relocate, these nomads thrive in the vast northwest region, because there are fewer hostile forces, and often the tribes develop rapidly, although the strength of these tribes can not compete with the nomads who dominate the Mongolian steppe in the north, but in the northwest region, its strength can not be underestimated, we mentioned before dominating the Longxi region, The Xianbei Beggars, who established the Western Qin regime, were among the representatives of these nomadic tribes that had migrated to the northwest region.

Even today, the northwest region is still one of the areas with the largest concentration of ethnic minorities in various parts of our country, in fact, most of the ancestors of these ethnic minorities living in the northwest region are the tribes of nomadic tribes who migrated westward from the northern Mongolian steppe when the Xiongnu began to dominate the northern Mongolian steppe. These tribes developed and merged in the Northwest Territories, forming the ethnic minorities of the Northwest Territories that we have today. Among them, the great integration of ethnic groups in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms is an important period for these nomads living in the northwest region to begin to appear on the stage of China's history, since then, the nomadic feudal states in the northwest region have been in an endless stream, the more famous ones are, the Tuyuhun in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Turkic Khanate, the Uighur Khanate, the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty in the same period, the Western Liao, etc., these nomads in the northwest have always been in the war and peace with the Central Plains Dynasty, mutual exchange, mutual influence, mutual integration, until the Mongols went west, After thousands of years of nomadic activities, the ecological environment of the northwest region is getting worse and worse, and the strength of the nomads who have lived here for generations has begun to shrink, and it is gradually difficult to compete with the Central Plains Dynasty, and after thousands of years of ethnic integration, these nomads are not only deeply influenced by Chinese culture, but also most of them have accepted Chinese culture, and have willingly become an indispensable member of the big family of the Chinese nation.