What is the significance of great ethnic integration in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties?

Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is an important period of great ethnic integration in China. This great national integration is one of the important contents of this history.

First, the emergence of national integration.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, a large number of Central Plains people moved south, covering a wide geographical area. Today, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, southern immigrants have the highest degree of acceptance, and many people from the Central Plains have settled in Sichuan and Hubei, which has objectively promoted ethnic integration.

1. Great ethnic integration in the Yellow River basin.

Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. Ethnic minorities such as Xianbei, Xiongnu, Jie, Di and Qiang have been moving inward, adding fresh blood to the Han nationality in the Central Plains. After more than 400 years, the original ethnic distribution was completely broken in the migration of population, and there was no longer geographical isolation between them; Some nomadic people also live a settled farming life and form an economic life with the same interests. The great ethnic integration of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties laid the foundation for the unification of Sui and Tang Dynasties and the high development of economy and culture, and played an important role in the national history of China.

2. Ethnic integration in the south and southwest.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Shu paid attention to improving the relationship with the southwest ethnic minorities and adopted the policy of appeasement, which accelerated the feudalization of the southwest ethnic minorities. During the Three Kingdoms period, there were still some Yue people scattered in Wu. They live a farming life in the southern mountainous areas and develop the south with the Han people. In addition, a large number of Central Plains people moved south, which objectively promoted the process of national integration. Due to the long-term ethnic integration, they are not much different from the Han nationality in production and lifestyle.