The influence of Liao people entering Shu

"The entry of Liao people into Shu" increased the population of Shu, but the backward Liao people still maintained the characteristics of clan society, with low productivity and backward production relations. The Liao people liked fighting and were accustomed to living in the mountains. After the Liao people entered Shu, mountain bandits that were rarely seen before became rampant in Shu, so that in the later Tang and Song Dynasties, the central government needed to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to eradicate them.

Shu was first plundered by refugees from six counties, and then occupied by immigrants from Liao people. Its destructive power was even greater than Qin's destruction of Shu, because the immigrants in Qin still came from the Central Plains, although scientific and cultural The level is not as good as that of the Shu people, but they are relatively civilized after all; the overall quality of immigrants during the Qin Dynasty is still relatively high. Although there are some exiled prisoners, there are also many wealthy businessmen from the six countries. Princes, emperors and grandsons actively requested to move to Shu. They believed that in the prosperous Shu land, the Qin people's jurisdiction was relatively loose and they could do business freely. Among these immigrants were Zhuo Wenjun's ancestors, the Zhuo family of Zhao. At that time, the Shu people were more powerful and could assimilate the Qin people. By the time of the Han Dynasty, people like Zhuo Wenjun had fully integrated into Shu people's society. She not only inherited the unique tranquility and detachment of Shu people, but also inherited the stubbornness of Shu people, selling wine as a coward, regardless of fame.

It was different when the Liao people entered Shu. First of all, the Shu land was already empty of ten houses, and the Shu people had suffered all casualties. Secondly, the Liao people were basically still in the primitive society of slash-and-burn farming. They immigrated to the Shu land and became The owners of Shu were completely confused by the rich land and advanced lifestyle. They could only continue their primitive life, which was a huge setback for civilization.

Historians believe that the entry of Liao people into Shu brought the economic development of Shu to a halt for nearly three hundred years.

In the 4th century AD, during the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Han Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of Liao people from Guizhou went north to Shu, which profoundly affected the social development of the southwest region. Some studies believe that the Kunming people invaded Guizhou from the east and violently clashed with the indigenous Pu people, the Shu people of the Jin and Han Dynasties migrated out, the long-term war in the central and southern regions, and the oppression and plunder of the Jin and Han officials were all the reasons for the large-scale migration of the Liao people into Shu.

Because of the two major population losses in Sichuan in the late Southern Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty, the majority of Sichuan people today came from immigrants from Huguang in the early Qing Dynasty (Huguang filled in Sichuan), so the influence of the Liao people on the bloodline of today's Sichuan people Should not be overestimated.