Textual research on people who come to Zhai Zhai

The villagers in Zhelaizhai speak Chinese, and their nationality is Han. * * * There are more than 400 people, among whom more than 200 people have the appearance characteristics of Europeans. Not long ago, researchers from the Institute of Paleoanthropology of China Academy of Sciences analyzed the DNA of more than 300 people in Zhelaizhai, and thought that the villagers here did have European ancestry. The research team of Dr. Xie Xiaodong from the School of Life Sciences of Lanzhou University collected blood tests on a large scale in Zhelaizhai, which proved that many people living here were "descendants of Roman prisoners of war".

Xie Xiaodong, Ph.D., School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, cited by the research group: Battle of Zhi Zhi City: The Han army won a total victory, beheaded 1, 5 18 people, captured 1, 450 people alive, and surrendered 1, more than 1,000 people. Gan Yanshou and monk Chen took the prisoners back to China. At the same time, the setting of "Li Gan County" suddenly appeared on the map of Hexi area in the Western Han Dynasty, and Li Gan Castle was also built. There seems to be some connection between these two things. A passage in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty says: "Li County was established in the early Han Dynasty, with the name of the country as the county." "Li" was exactly what China called Rome at that time. Since it is a "named county", this new county must be set up to settle the Romans.

De Xiao Gan, a famous American sinologist, wrote "Li Gan City in Ancient China" in 1947, and made it clear at the beginning that China called the Roman Empire "Li Gan" in ancient times and later renamed it "Daqin". The Biography of Daqin in the later Han Dynasty began with this sentence. The article goes on to point out that the only cities named after foreign countries in ancient China are Kuqa and Wensu in Xinjiang, which are the old names of immigrants. The emergence of "Li Gan" city will naturally be related to the existence of foreign nationals. Homer H. Dubs believes that Li Gancheng first appeared in the territory of the Western Han Dynasty in China in 20 BC, when the Roman Empire demanded the repatriation of prisoners of war to rest in peace. This is by no means a historical coincidence. It shows that the Roman Expeditionary Force, which broke through in the Battle of Calais, came to China by strange coincidence when they were looking for them in their old country, and those who were at the foot of Qilian Mountain also came to stay in the village. The fleeing army led by Publi Uzzi, under the condition that the rest army was under siege and there was no way to return home, turned to the rest plateau and waited for an opportunity to move eastward. After resting on the lax eastern defence, he tore a hole, migrated to Central Asia, defected to Zhi Zhi, and was brought back to China by Shang Chen. Therefore, Emperor Han Yuan placed them in Yongchang County and Liguan County. Until 592 ad.