Who are the three white ethnic groups in China?

Russian, Tatar, Tajik.

The Russians in China are the descendants of Russian immigrants. After a hundred years of assimilation, their appearance, appearance, customs and habits have become different from the Russians in Russia, and they have gradually formed their own national characteristics.

The Tatar people are a Siberian type of Mongolian race. They have their own language, which belongs to the Western Hungarian branch of the Turkic language family of the Altaic language family. They have a script based on Arabic script, and their main belief is Islam.

The Tajik people belong to the Indo-Mediterranean type of the Europa race. Their national language is Tajik, which includes two major dialects, Selekul and Wakhi. It belongs to the Pamir branch of the Iranian language family of the Indo-European language family.

Ethnic name

The word "Russian" (Russian, Русские) comes from the name of the tribe of the ancient Slavs in Europe - Rus.

In the 1st century AD, they were called "Veledians" by Roman historians.

During the reign of Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan Dynasty, 10,000 Russian soldiers from the Golden Horde were recruited into the capital to serve as bodyguards and given land. They were called Semu people in history books.

In Qing Dynasty documents, it is called "Rakshasa", which is the transliteration of the Russian ancestors of the Rus tribe.

From the late 18th century to the end of the 19th century and around the Russian October Revolution, a large number of Russians poured into the northern Xinjiang region of China from Siberia and other places because they could not bear the brutal rule of Tsarist Russia. Sheng Shicai convened the First People's Congress of Xinjiang in 1934. Russians who had become Chinese nationals attended the meeting in the name of "naturalized ethnic groups."

In 1935, Xinjiang held the Second People’s Congress. The meeting made specific provisions on the classification and titles of various ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, and passed corresponding resolutions. Among them, Russians and other Europeans who have become Chinese nationals are called "naturalized ethnic groups."

After the founding of New China in 1949, it was renamed Russian.