Was there a Manchu massacre?

The Manchu massacre refers to the policy of ethnic oppression adopted by the Manchu army during the demise of the Ming Dynasty and its invasion of China, forcing the vast number of Han Chinese and other ethnic groups to shave their hair and change clothes. It met with strong resistance, as did the original submissive areas. Then the Qing regime adopted a massacre policy, forced to shave and change clothes, and set up arrogance. Among them, Yangzhou 10th, Jiading 3rd Massacre, Jiangyin 81st Massacre and Guangzhou Massacre are the representatives, as well as Suzhou, Nanchang, Ganzhou, Changshu, Shazhen, Nanjing, Kunyu, Wuxi, Kunshan, Jiaxing, Haining, Jinan, Jinhua, Xiamen, Chaozhou, Tongan, Yuanjiang, Zhoushan, Xiangtan and Nanxiong.

Dourgen once issued a "massacre order", led an army to slaughter Jiangnan and Lingnan areas, and even colluded with Dutch colonists to attack Xiamen. At that time, the Qing army almost killed all the Sichuanese, and later had to "fill Sichuan with Huguang" and carry out large-scale immigration. Despite the destruction of the Manchu literary inquisition, these massacres still left a lot of real records. The Guangzhou Massacre was witnessed by western missionaries. Even the information of Datong Massacre can be found in the First Historical Archives. The massacre policy in the early Qing Dynasty reduced the population of China from nearly 1 100 million to1100 million.