Ba people from Pakistan

Ba people, the abbreviation of the Cuban people, are a branch of the ancient Qiang and have an inseparable relationship with the Shu people. The Ba language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Ba people are mainly distributed in today's Chongqing and eastern Sichuan area. Legend has it that before the Zhou Dynasty, they lived in southern Gansu Province, and later moved to Zhongli Mountain in Wuluo (now northwest of Changyang, Hubei Province), with Jun Lin (lǐn) as the leader. Originally there were Ba, Fan, Ling (shěn), Xiang, and Zheng Wu. surname. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed Ba, one branch of the Ba people moved to eastern Hubei. They were called Jiangxia Man in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Wushui Man in the Western Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. The other branch moved to western Hunan and formed part of the Wuling Man. Some of those who stayed in Chongqing and Sichuan were called Banzhen (sound dùn) barbarians. Due to large-scale migration during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, most of them assimilated with the Han people. The Ji (pronounced cónɡ) people, another name for the Banzhen Man, are one of the indigenous ethnic groups. Their center is in the area of ??Qu County, Sichuan Province today, and they are a branch of the ancient Ba people. The name Banzhenman comes from the fact that the Banzhen people are good at using a weapon called Banzhen, and the name of Banzhenman comes from the fact that Banzhenman "produces money every year." Banzhenman has seven surnames, consisting of Lu (or Luo), Pu (Hu), Da (sound dá. Or Zan), E, ??Du (or Du), Xi, and Gong. The chieftain's gang is called Jiguo. In ancient times, the Banzhen Man lived on both sides of the Jialing River and the Qujiang River, extending to the east of Hanzhong in the north and the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in the east, throughout Chongqing and eastern Sichuan. They were one of the most widely distributed ethnic groups among the various ethnic groups in Ba.

The ancient Ba people not only fought bravely and tenaciously, so much so that they were called "magic soldiers", they were also good at singing and dancing and were extremely optimistic. Surrounded by powerful tribes such as Shang, Zhou, Chu, and Qin, they fought continuously, and in the wild Daba Mountains and Qinling Mountains, under extremely difficult and difficult living conditions, they continued to strive for self-improvement and reproduced from generation to generation. They killed snakes and pythons, shot tigers and leopards, hunted, herded and fished, reclaimed wasteland for farming, built water conservancy projects, and developed agriculture. This has played a positive role in promoting the economic and cultural development of Chongqing and eastern Sichuan, especially the Daba Mountain area.

From the Qin Dynasty's defeat of Ba in 316 BC to the early years of the Qing Dynasty, immigrants moved into Chongqing and Sichuan five times in history. Due to wars, plagues, natural disasters and other reasons, there have been tragic scenes in history where there were famines and no one was around, corpses littered the fields, tigers roamed during the day, and humans were almost extinct. In order to fill the vacancies caused by deaths from wars, plagues, and natural disasters, immigrants immigrated to Sichuan five times during the Qin Dynasty, Western Jin Dynasty, Northern Song Dynasty, late Yuan Dynasty, early Ming Dynasty, and early Qing Dynasty. These five immigrations not only promoted the assimilation of the indigenous residents and the Han nationality, but also accelerated the pace of development in Chongqing and Sichuan.