Where did the ancestors of Qinghai come from?

Han people in Qinghai, including Hehuang, began to move in from the mainland as early as the Western Han Dynasty, and developed Hehuang, a rich and beautiful land, together with local ethnic minorities (mainly Qiang people at that time). In the first year of Emperor Xuan Di, General Zhao Chongguo entered Hehuang Valley and reclaimed 2,000 hectares of land. At that time, a large number of Central Plains soldiers, their families, servants and businessmen moved to Qinghai. In order to avoid the chaos of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty, many Han people moved to Hehuang area in the west. When Yang Di completely incorporated Qinghai into the territory of state rule, the Central Plains began to immigrate to Qinghai on a large scale. After the An Shi Rebellion broke out in the Tang Dynasty, the number of Han people in Qinghai decreased greatly. After the establishment of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in order to fill the western frontier, immigrants from the Central Plains to Qinghai began to migrate continuously. Especially in the Qing dynasty, in order to reclaim the barren land of Qinghai, most Han people moved here.

It is the hometown complex of the Chinese nation that never forgets to seek roots and ask ancestors. Bamboo Lane in Nanjing is the place that the Han people in Qinghai dream of.

There is a widely circulated legend in Qinghai that the Han nationality in Qinghai moved from "Bamboo Lane in Nanjing". The general plot of the story is as follows: On the 15th day of the first month in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, people in Zhuzi Lane in Nanjing tied a macaw with big feet while performing a social fire. A minister thought it insulted Ma Huanghou (referring to Ma Huanghou's big and ugly feet, when women's feet were very small to look good), so Zhu Yuanzhang took all these people to the West Sea.

The descendants of the Han nationality who moved from Nanjing to Qinghai Plateau are now all over the eastern counties of Qinghai. In addition, there are immigrants from Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Shandong and Hunan.

(2) Hui nationality

In the feudal society of China, after hundreds of years of migration, settlement, reproduction and integration of many Muslim and non-Muslim nationalities at home and abroad, the Hui nationality was formally formed in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

At present, there are about 700,000 people in the province, mainly distributed in the east and northeast of the province. Xining, Menyuan, Hualong, Datong, Minhe, Xunhua, Huangzhong, Ping 'an, Guide, Qilian, Wulan and Jianzha are relatively concentrated, and other cities and counties are also distributed. They worked hard with their brothers and made important contributions to the development and construction of Qinghai and the maintenance of national unity.

(3) Mongolians

Qinghai Mongolians, also known as "Dedu Mongolians", are generally Hoxute Mongolians, but there are also tribes from Halka, Tumote and Ordos. /kloc-entered Qinghai in 0/320, and Genghis Khan led the army to capture the land of Xia and Jin and "traveled around Tibet". Qinghai began to infiltrate into Mongolian culture. Although Mongols entered Qinghai in the Yuan Dynasty, it was not until the Ming Dynasty that they entered Qinghai on a large scale. According to records, its ancestors were Heshuo ancient Mongols. /kloc-in the 5th century (the early years of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty), a large number of East Mongolians, namely Tatar tribes, moved to Qinghai grassland with Qinghai Lake as the center. The ancestors of the Mongols, whether from calka, East Mongolia or Ordos in Mobei, all began to live in the north and south of Qinghai Lake and the Yellow River.

At present, there are more than 90,000 Mongolian people in Qinghai, mainly distributed in Delingha, Golmud, Dulan and Wulan counties in Haixi, Henan Mongolian Autonomous County in the south of Huangnan, Qilian, Haiyan and Menyuan counties in Haibei, Xining, Haidong, Datong and some areas in Hainan. Ethnic autonomous areas include Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Henan Mongolian Autonomous County, mostly distributed in Haixi Prefecture and Henan County.

(4) Tibetans

Tibetans have lived on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau since ancient times. Qinghai is the largest Tibetan area in China after Tibet, and the population who believe in Tibetan Buddhism accounts for about a quarter of the total population in the province. There are six Tibetan autonomous prefectures in Qinghai Province, namely Huangnan Autonomous Prefecture, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Haixi Mongolian Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In terms of language, except Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which belongs to Tibetan Kangba dialect, others are Amdo dialect.