Where is North Myanmar? Is it dangerous?

North Myanmar, also known as "Upper Myanmar", is mainly composed of Magway, Mandalay, Sagaing and other provinces and states such as Qin, Kai, Shan and Kachin. Shan State is the main migration place of Yunnan immigrants from China in history, and it is also a complex and sensitive area, mainly due to the influx of new immigrants from China in recent years.

The Shan nationality is the main ethnic group in Shan State, and it belongs to the Dai and Thai ethnic groups in China. There has been a long-standing contradiction between the Shan and Burmese ethnic groups. There are armed forces advocating independence in the south of Shan State, bordering Thailand and Laos in the west, which is a famous golden triangle area, and bordering China in the north.

nationalism

Myanmar has been a multi-ethnic country since ancient times, with complex ethnic relations. It was not until 1 1 century that a loosely centralized country was formed.

In the following eight centuries, until the end of the last dynasty, Yongjiya Dynasty, and in the middle of19th century, ethnic groups such as Meng, Shan and Rakhine established their own political power, and even once ruled Myanmar (such as Shan), but most of the time they were under the rule of Myanmar's political power. Kachin, Karen and Qin were ruled by tribes or ethnic leaders and became feudal territories or chiefs. During this period, the relationship between ethnic minorities and the feudal dynasty in Myanmar was mainly tribute or tax payment.

Before independence, Myanmar never formed a truly unified multi-ethnic dynasty throughout Myanmar. With the arrival of British colonists, the policy of "divide and rule" adopted by the colonists has brought more alienation and conflict to ethnic relations in Myanmar, resulting in greater differences between ethnic minorities and Myanmar in social and administrative systems.