Whether there was a country in Kamchatka Peninsula in ancient times

The Kamchatka Peninsula is located in northeastern Asia and belongs to North Asia. At 372,300 square kilometers, it is the tenth largest peninsula in the world and the largest peninsula in Russia.

This is an area with a cold climate, complex and changeable climate, and many volcanoes and earthquakes.

The residents here have always been sparse in history. It was not until the arrival of Russian immigrants in modern times that the population grew to more than 300,000.

In ancient times, the indigenous people here were the Kamchatka, Koryak and Chukotka people of the Chukotka-Kamchatka language group of the Paleo-Siberian language group, as well as some Ayi people from the southwest islands. The Kamchatka Peninsula is the only place in mainland Asia where there are Ainu people.

There are differences between these ethnic groups and the Tungus people in the west. These ethnic groups do not attach great importance to shamanism, which is very popular among the Tungus people.

Chinese historical records say this is the country of wandering ghosts.

"New Book of Tang Dynasty. Biography of Dongyi":

Liugui Country Fifteen thousand miles to the capital. Directly to the northeast of Heishui Mohe. North of Shaohai. Blocking the sea on three sides. Much Juze. There are fish and salt benefits. The ground is cold early. After every solid ice. The width of the wood is six inches. Seven feet long. Shi is tied to it. To practice the layer of ice. Chasing the beast. There are many dogs. Its fur is brown. Ten thousand soldiers were victorious. It is adjacent to Moyi Mohe in the south. I haven't tried to hire China. The fourteenth year of Zhenguan. The king sent three translations to pay tribute. Awarded as a Cavalry Captain

Volume 195 of "Zizhi Tongjian":

Taizong, the Great Sage of Civil and Military Affairs, Da Guangxiao, Emperor Zhongshang, in the 14th year of Zhenguan (Gengzi , 640 AD)

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Xin Chou, the ghost country sent envoys to pay tribute. Traveling 15,000 miles to the capital, it is by the North Sea and adjacent to Mohe in the south. It has not yet reached China, so it was translated again and again. His envoy She Zhi was appointed as the Cavalry Commander.

In the Tang Dynasty, She Zhi, the envoy of the Liugui Kingdom who came to pay tribute, was awarded the title of Cavalry Captain. This is the most reliable record that Kamchatka is China’s sphere of influence. Japanese historical researchers believe that the Ruki Kingdom is more likely to be a country on the Kamchatka Peninsula farther than Sakhalin Island. It was the Ainu people of Kamchatka who paid tribute to the Tang government.

There is no clear record in subsequent dynasties that the Kamchatka Peninsula is Chinese territory. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Kuwu, Kuyi, and Guwei mostly referred to Sakhalin Island.

Sakhalin Island is more than 1,400 kilometers away from the Kamchatka Peninsula, separated by the Sea of ??Okhotsk. Apart from the Ainu, there are still some differences between the indigenous peoples of the two places. Page Island is obviously similar to the Tunguska people, but the Kamchatka Peninsula is quite different. The Kamchatka nation is even close to the Inuit people in the polar regions.

The Qing Dynasty did not control the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Manchus are the most important ethnic group among the Tungus people. Their national cultural traditions have important influence in East Asia and North Asia. However, among the Chukotka-Kamchatka ethnic groups, The impact is far less than that of the Heilongjiang Basin and Sakhalin Island. The national culture of reindeer driving is popular among the aborigines in the northernmost parts of Eurasia and America, which is different from the Manchu riding and shooting culture. Linguistically speaking, the Manchu language can communicate with many of the indigenous peoples in the Heilongjiang Basin and Sakhalin Island, except the Ainu, and understand the meaning of the language. But there is no direct communication with the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Kamchatka Peninsula has paid tribute to China in history, but it was also short-lived and had no actual control. When the Treaty of Nerchinsk was signed in 1689, in order to further enter the Heilongjiang River Basin in the future, Russian Minister Plenipotentiary Golovin must regard a piece of land south of the Udy River as an area to be discussed, thus sealing off China's border along Hubei. The passage from the Hotsk coastline to the Bering Strait, and the Kamchatka Peninsula more than a thousand kilometers to the east, has nothing to do with China. /p-1146349882708.html

The Qing Dynasty did not control the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, and its control over Sakhalin Island was also very weak. As a result, Sakhalin Island was actually lost at the end of the 18th century. The Opium War of 1840 was still half a century away.