825. Chinese Civilization in the Ethnic Corridor

"The white clouds are floating in the sky, and the people on the earth are busy. For the sake of chivalrous tenderness, I wandered all over the world. I'm not afraid of wind and frost, I'm just afraid of the chaos of love, I want to let go of my children's private feelings, who knows that I can't let go, why I always have an unforgettable love for him. I'm not afraid of wind and frost, I'm just afraid of chaotic love, I want to let go of my children's private feelings, who knows that I can't let go, why do I always have an unforgettable love for him......"

"In that faraway place, there is a good girl. People walked past her tent and looked back with nostalgia.

Her pink smiling face was like a red sun. Her beautiful eyes were like the moon shining at night.

I would like to wander in the grassland and herd sheep for her. Every day, I look at the little pink face and the beautiful gold-edged clothes.

I would like to be a lamb and follow her. I would like her to take a leather whip every day and strike me lightly for the sake of the break. ”

After listening to the wandering love song of the Western Desert, let us return to the starry ancient tribal civilization on the Hexi Corridor on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The ancient Qiang civilization of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, like a starry sky over snow-capped mountains and grasslands, heralds a kind of convergence and integration. However, we must not forget its connecting belt, the Milky Way Chain that houses and creates the stars, which is the national corridor that stretches for thousands of kilometers.

The Ethnic Corridor stretches for thousands of miles from the Hexi Corridor in the north, through Qinghai, southern Gansu, northern and western Sichuan, southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region, western Yunnan, and southern to Myanmar and northern India. It has played a huge role in history, not only affecting the cultural characteristics of various ethnic groups in northwest and southwest China, but also directly affecting the formation and development of various ethnic groups in this region.

Today, the Tibetans, Naxi, Qiang, Jingpo, Yi, Bai, Hani, Lisu, Lahu, Tujia, Pumi, Nu, etc., who are distributed in the ethnic corridor area, are closely related to this corridor in terms of ethnic origin, language, customs, religious beliefs, etc., and even closely related to the activities of the ancient Qiang people who migrated south along the corridor.

The emergence of this ethnic corridor is the product of economic and cultural development and the expansion of exchanges, but the regional environment plays a decisive role. The ethnic corridor is between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau, the Western Sichuan Plateau and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The north-south running mountains and the river valleys that run through them form a natural exterior to the corridor. The river valley suitable for agriculture and the slopes suitable for pasture are intertwined, providing a good environment for the livelihood and reproduction of ethnic groups in the corridor and the spread of culture. The most prominent geographical features in the ethnic corridor area are the winding mountains and dense rivers.

At the northern end of the ethnic corridor, there are huge mountain ranges such as the winding and undulating Qilian Mountain, Animaqing Mountain, Bayan Kala Mountain, and in addition to the twists and turns of the Yellow River, there are also Datong River, Huangshui, Daxia River and Tao River. To the south is the Hengduan Mountains. The Hengduan Mountains are a general term for the north-south mountain ranges in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province. There is a proverb in the Hengduan Mountains: "The canyon is a line of sky, separating people on both sides, and the other side can talk, and it takes a day to meet." "This geographical environment has greatly affected the cultural exchanges between ethnic groups, and has even hindered direct exchanges between the mainland and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The peoples who traveled north and south along the corridor naturally acted as intermediaries in cultural exchanges. The valleys of various sizes along the corridor have supported the peoples who have settled or traveled through them with their fertile land. The space that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, blocking each other, gives the fleeing tribes a relatively peaceful home.

This is the complex and changeable ethnic tribe and geographical situation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Western Desert, and Murong Tianshui has a preliminary grasp and understanding of them. However, his understanding is only scratching the surface, and there are still many things to be explored by him. Especially the Tubo Dynasty, which has unified the western part of the country, he has not yet had time to explore its ins and outs, and hopes that one day, he can also discover the mysteries (secrets) of the history and culture of the Tubo Dynasty!

It's just that now, Murong Tianshui has woken up from the long history of the Western Regions Frontier, but he misses his homeland in the Central Plains a little......