Did the ancient Sichuanese become extinct?

It is undoubtedly one of the biggest tragic events in the history of world civilization that the ancient Sichuanese were completely slaughtered by Meng Yuan and Manchu Qing.

Sichuan history and culture appeared in the late Homo sapiens-"Ziyang people" 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. And formed a highly developed ancient Shu civilization represented by Sanxingdui civilization.

After the Qin Dynasty ruled Sichuan, Sichuan gradually merged into the Central Plains culture and became an important part of China's history.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were many large-scale peasant uprisings in Sichuan, such as Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun. Nevertheless, compared with other parts of the country, Sichuan is relatively stable, which makes the social economy develop continuously and becomes the rear area of resisting gold and Mongolia in Song Dynasty. The half-century-long war in Sichuan at the beginning of Yuan Dynasty caused huge economic losses. ?

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In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (137 1), the Ming Dynasty sent troops to bring Sichuan into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to today's Sichuan and Chongqing, the jurisdiction also includes Zunyi, northeastern Yunnan and northwestern Guizhou. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang, a soldier of the peasant uprising, established the "Daxi" regime in Sichuan (1644 ~ 1646), taking Chengdu as Xijing, then the Eight Banners of the Qing army slaughtered Sichuan, and Huguang filled Sichuan in the 24th year of Kangxi.

For more than 30 years in the early Qing Dynasty, Sichuan was in a state of war until the twentieth year of Kangxi (168 1). In the first year of Jiaqing (1796), An Baili Uprising broke out in Sichuan, and it took the Qing court nine years to suppress it.

From the end of Song Dynasty to the beginning of Qing Dynasty, under the unprecedented war, the population of Sichuan dropped sharply and the economy was depressed. As a result, the imperial court carried out two large-scale immigration movements in the early Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, which was called "Huguang filling Sichuan". The two migration movements have enabled Sichuan, which is sparsely populated, to acquire a large number of laborers, and its social economy has been rapidly restored.

The above content comes from Baidu Encyclopedia-Sichuan History.