How did Gansu Province immigrate to Turkey?

In BC, a Roman army came to China and took root here. A few years ago, CCTV did a program there. Did everyone watch it? I saw on TV that many villagers there were yellow-haired (Germanic mercenaries? Some children and adults dye their hair black to avoid being laughed at by others. Before, they refused to admit their ancestry and said they were Han people with big noses. Now they are curious about the ancestors of the villagers.

The village head is a red-faced blond man. He told reporters cheerfully that if China goes to war, he will definitely join the army. There is also a shy young man, black curls, with a high nose and deep eyes. Much like the statue of ancient Rome, he grabbed a bite of Shaanxi and asked reporters questions, which was very interesting.

The following is the textual research of the archaeological community.

Wuwei and Zhangye pass through Yongchang County in the north, and the former site of Li Gan is located in Jiaojiazhuang, which is15km southwest of Yongchang County, also known as Laizhai or Zazhaizi (Mongolian, meaning Treasury). This place was originally the residence of King Zheluo of Xiongnu. After the Han Dynasty recovered the Hexi Corridor, a county was established. In BC 104, Li Gan County was established, belonging to Zhangye County. Because of this, it was changed to Wuwei County after 220 years. According to the Book of Jin, in 355 AD, Liang Qian and Zhang Zuo sent Li Gan to invade Nanshan and were defeated. In the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties, the name of this place was Li Gan. In the 11th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (592), Li Gan was merged into Fan County. The ancient city of Li Gan is located at the mouth of Qilian Mountains, adjacent to Guzang (Wuwei) in the east and Zhangye in the west. Its terrain is vast and dangerous. During the Han Dynasty, merchants from Dawan, Daxia and Daqin (Rome) were stationed in Hexi Corridor, which played an important role in the history of economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.

The ancient city of Li Gan no longer exists today. There is only one ancient city wall about 1 0m long and1m high. It is rammed with clay and has a solid wall. According to the test, it was built in the Han Dynasty and is considered as the former site of Li Gan. Not far away, there is a European-style ivory dome memorial pavilion with a stone tablet, which records the history of the ancient city of Li Gan and people's speculation in detail.

There are three granite statues of ancient Romans in the south street of Yongchang County, which are memorial attractions built by the local government on 1994. Inscription records: In 53 BC, crassus, Consul General of the Roman Empire, led seven groups of troops to March eastward to rest in peace (Iran), and the result was disastrous. Publi uz, the eldest son, led the First Legion to break through, went to the eastern border to rest and emigrated to the western regions. After years of tossing and turning, the remaining troops followed Dayue and Xiongnu to the Western Han Dynasty around 36 BC. In 36 BC, he was captured by the Han army in the battle with Xiongnu Zhi Zhi Khan. Later, the Western Han Dynasty set Qilian Mountain, and now people from Yongchang County come to settle in the village. The Han dynasty called Rome Li, so the county was named, which made Rome have a life of farming and animal husbandry, turned hostilities into friendship and merged with the Chinese nation. At present, there is insufficient evidence about the relationship between Li Gancheng and Roman prisoners of war in the Western Han Dynasty, and historians and archaeologists are cautious about this. However, in terms of appearance and heredity, Yongchang County does have a large number of white descendants from Western Europe, and the subtle relationship among them needs further discussion.

1955, Homer Dubs, a professor of sinology at Oxford University, took the lead in putting forward the theory of Roman immigration in a lecture given by the Sinology Association in London. According to Homer H. Dubs, this journey began in 53 BC, when crassus, one of the three giants of Rome (the other two were Caesar and Pompeii), decided to go to war with the formidable Parthians to make up for his shortcomings. However, crassus's Roman legion lost to Parthia's agile experts in riding and shooting. In the Battle of Calais (located in present-day Turkey), among the 42,000 Roman troops, 20,000 were killed and 654.38+0,000 captured. This is one of the worst failures in Roman military history. According to Pliny, an ancient Roman historian, these Roman prisoners were used by the Parthians to guard the eastern border, which is now Turkmenistan. Therefore, Homer H. Dubs speculated that some people escaped and joined the Huns' mercenaries. In 36 BC, the Han army in China marched eastward and defeated the Hun Zhi Zhi Khan. When the Han army counted the prisoners, it found that there were 145 Roman soldiers in the Xiongnu army. Homer H. Dubs said that China people kept this unit and put it in Li? (Li Xi).

Homer H. Dubs's theory is mainly based on speculation about some clues in China's history books, which have no specific description of the Romans. One of the evidences is the "fish scale array" used by Zhi soldiers. Homer H. Dubs said that only Roman soldiers could use this method of overlapping shields to form a defensive formation. Another evidence is that there is a double wooden fence outside Zhi Zhi. This "heavy wooden city" fortification tactic was often adopted by the Romans, but not by the Huns. As for the name of this town-Li Gan, it was used to address the Roman Empire at that time. In the 6th century, Li Gan was no longer used as a place name.

Homer H. Dubs is not the only scholar who believes in the ancient Roman connection theory. In Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, Guan Yiquan, a scholar from China, also believed that Li Gan had a considerable relationship with ancient Rome. From 1978, in the last 20 years of his life, he painstakingly completed a 450,000-word book about Li Gan, but unfortunately, even his son admitted that there was no irrefutable evidence to prove the "Roman contact theory".

Thanks to the Australian writer and adventurer David Harris, China officials finally discovered the tourism resource potential of this Roman story. Despair and upset by the divorce, Mr Harris decided to visit Homer H Dubs's Rome, China. With the help of Guan Yiquan, he set the target of his search at Lai Zhai. He wrote his experience into a travel book-The Dark Horse Odyssey.