When did the Jews enter China?

1. Several statements about the time when Jews first entered China in history:

(1) Historically, Jews first entered China, which can be traced back to the 7th and 8th centuries or even earlier. At present, there is no clear document or proof of site preparation.

(2) In 76 AD (Han Dynasty), the Roman emperor Titus occupied Jerusalem, and then the first Jews moved to China via Persia. 1900, a European priest mentioned a hypothesis that Jews may have come to China from the Indian coastal highway in the Song Dynasty.

(3) The discovery of three inscriptions in Kaifeng provides three hypotheses for people. The oldest one can be traced back to 1489, commemorating the construction of a synagogue, which recorded Jews from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD.

2. Later developments:

(1) From the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, Jews lived in a relatively isolated community, and most of them lived in Kaifeng. By the time 1949 People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, almost all Chinese Jews had given up their religious and cultural beliefs. However, at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 20th century, some international Jewish organizations began to help Chinese Jews restore their traditions.

(2)/kloc-In the 9th century and the early 20th century, as China opened its trading ports to the west and ceded its semi-colony, many Jews immigrated to commercial centers such as Shanghai and Hongkong in China. Then thousands of Jews came to China to escape the Russian Revolution and the Nazi Holocaust.

(3) In the first two thousand years after A.D., Jews fled their homes all over Eurasia, with Central Asia being the most concentrated. By the 9th century, a large number of Jewish businessmen came to China through various channels.

(4) After the First Opium War, China was forced to open its trading ports and cede its semi-colony. Many Jews came to China under the protection of Britain. Most of them came from the then British colonies of India or Iraq. In the early decades of the 20th century, many Jews came to the economic center of China.

(5) 19 17 After the Russian Revolution, more Jews fled to China as refugees. 1930s and1940s, Jews also flooded into China to escape the Nazi Holocaust in western Europe. Most of these refugees are Europeans. Among them, Shanghai and Harbin are world-famous for accepting the number of Jewish refugees.

(6) For centuries, because of intermarriage and cultural assimilation, Kaifeng Jews are no different from Han people, and China government does not recognize them as independent minorities. Unless these Jews who gave up their ancestral beliefs converted to Judaism again, they did not have the conditions to immigrate to Israel.

(7) Today, many descendants of Chinese Jews still live in Han and Hui communities.