There is always something to do. Are Sichuanese descendants of Bashu people?

Sichuan has experienced many great upheavals in history, and its population has changed greatly, which is different from ancient times to modern times.

Give a few examples:

1. After Qin destroyed Shu, a large number of people and troops moved from Guanzhong, and some of the original Shu people were assimilated. Others fled to the southern mountainous areas and later merged with other ethnic groups in Yunnan and Southeast Asia. Sichuanese in the Qin and Han Dynasties were a mixture of Qin and Shu people.

2. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sixteen Kingdoms period, a large number of northern Qiang and Miao people flowed into Sichuan, and some of them even established a separatist regime in Sichuan (such as Te Li, a Bamiao people in the late Western Jin Dynasty).

3. After the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao and Tubo often plundered Sichuan, causing numerous casualties and many people were taken into slavery. On the other hand, due to more wars in the north, many Guanzhong people moved to Sichuan.

4. When Mongolia invaded, Sichuan became a battlefield, major cities and villages were slaughtered, Sichuan was empty, and the prosperity of the Song Dynasty was gone forever. (The population loss in Sichuan is estimated to be as high as 90%)

5. The rebellion at the end of Yuan Dynasty hit Sichuan population again, and the population lost half.

6. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Sichuan became a tug-of-war area between the peasant army and Manchuria. In the 30-year-long war, the population finally recovered by the Ming Dynasty lost more than 90% again.

—— Due to several wars after the Mongolian invasion, the population of Sichuan suffered a devastating blow, and the population supplement mainly came from neighboring Hunan and Hubei (plus a small number of people from Jiangxi, Guangdong and Shaanxi). Modern Sichuanese are basically from these two provinces and have little to do with ancient Shu people.