The Incident Influence of Hehuang Uprising

This war has greatly changed the ethnic distribution in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. In the war, the Hui people slaughtered non-Muslim nationalities such as the Han nationality. According to the statistics in the book Population History of China, the total population of Gansu (now including Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Haidong District of Xining City, Qinghai Province) was about194.59 million in the eleventh year of Xianfeng before the Hui uprising (186 1), while in the sixth year of Guangxu after the war (1880). The loss rate is 74.5%. The population of Shaanxi was13.94 million in the eleventh year of Xianfeng (186 1), and it dropped sharply to more than 772 million in the first year of Tongzhi (1862) and the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), with a total population loss of 62.72 million. In 17, the population loss caused by the war was about 5.208 million, accounting for 83.7% of the total population loss, while the population lost in the famine period was only10/0.2 million, accounting for only 16.3% of the total population loss. The death rate of Hui people in Gansu province in the war is very low, but it still accounts for a certain proportion of the residents in the province. In order to escape the revenge of the Qing regime, some Hui people fled to Russia with Bai Yanhu and became the so-called Donggan people today.