Why did black people come to the Tang Dynasty?

Many people don't know that there were many slaves and artists in China in the Tang Dynasty, and there were still blacks in the Tang Dynasty? "When I talked to many friends about Professor Ge's research results on the origin of blacks in the Tang Dynasty, they immediately showed their expressions of surprise and doubt. They don't seem to care about the main question that Professor Ge studied, "Where did it come from", but more about whether there were really many black people in China in the Tang Dynasty. When I talked to several Japanese people about this problem, they were even more unbelievable and repeatedly asked, "Is there any evidence? "

Professor Ge, deputy editor-in-chief of National Cultural Heritage Administration Cultural Relics Publishing House, said that few people really understand it, and even his colleagues raised the same question. It is no wonder that we have studied the history of the Tang Dynasty, watched movies and TV dramas about the Tang Dynasty, and read novels about the Tang Dynasty, but it seems that we have never found the shadow of the men in black in the Tang Dynasty. A line from Princess Taiping in the TV series "Da Gong Ming Ci": "What mask is this? Black as the bottom of a pot, with a wide nose. " However, an episode of the TV series "Da Gong Ming Ci" broadcast not long ago illustrates this fact: Princess Taiping and Webster are shopping in the street, and hawkers selling beside them attract them. Finally, Princess Taiping took Webster to a mask booth. Princess Taiping: What mask is this? It's as black as the bottom of a pot and its nose is so wide ... vendor: I don't know, miss. It's called Kunlun slave mask. Wang Shijie, the Great Pirate, has just sold back a batch of Kunlun slaves from the other side of the sea. They are as strong as cattle, but they are gentle and hardworking. As soon as they arrived in Chang 'an, they were divided up by nobles and giants. Now it is the most fashionable thing for a noble young master to take two Kunlun slave bodyguards to the streets! Miss, why don't you buy two masks during the holiday and follow the fashion? At that time, many people read this passage and asked Professor Ge about Kunlun slaves. It turned out that the Kunlun slaves referred to by people in the Tang Dynasty were black slaves. The word "Kunlun" was even used as an adjective to describe the black-faced China people in various historical books and note novels in the Tang Dynasty. The men in black climbed over the eaves in the Tang Dynasty, and the artists were bold and unrestrained. Among the legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty, Kunlun slave is a very famous one, and the Peking Opera "Stealing Red" is the story. Chinese Peking Opera performers and Li both performed the black "Kunlun slave". Cardinal is a singer in Guo Ziyi's family, a first-class official of Dali in Tang Dynasty. She looks handsome. Cui Sheng is the son of a high official and looks like jade. One day, Cui Sheng visited sick Guo Ziyi on behalf of his father and met Hong Lan. They fell in love at first sight. Later, Cui Sheng went home and was lovesick. After his slave Moller knew about it, he decided to contribute to this good thing. In the middle of the night, he took a chain hammer and killed Guo's fierce watchdog in a few minutes. Then Cui Sheng crossed the 10 high fence with his back and met Hong Kun. Later, the two decided to be together forever. The black man ran home behind their backs. Jin Yong thinks Kunlun Slave is one of the earliest martial arts novels in China. However, we seem to have overlooked that Moeller turned out to be a Darth Vader. Professor Ge said that in the historical materials of the Tang Dynasty and many legendary novels, blacks are heroes who can fly over the eaves and climb over the walls. Most of them are good at swimming, they can dive into the water to pick up things in the water, and they can climb the mast as fast as monkeys. I'm afraid it's hard for black people from Africa to have such kung fu, so it can also support his view that black people in the Tang Dynasty were not from Africa. Black figurines of the Tang Dynasty have been unearthed in many places in China. The black figurines of the Tang Dynasty unearthed in Xi 'an in the 1940s aroused widespread concern in academic circles, and were subsequently discovered continuously. In order to find out the origin of men in black in Tang Dynasty, Professor Ge searched all kinds of historical materials and carefully identified them in several historical museums and cultural relics warehouses in An, where there were the most men in black in Tang Dynasty. After discussion and consultation with his peers, he put forward a new explanation, that is, the origin of blacks in the Tang Dynasty was not Africa, but Southeast Asia and South Asia. This paper was published in the recently published academic journals of China Literature and History. Ge Yongcheng carefully analyzed the differences between African blacks and Nanhai blacks. Although they are all from black curls, they look different. Black people in the South China Sea, known as "Kunlun slaves", are not Negro people in Africa, but should be entrusted by nigri people, also known as short black people. Until now, these tribes and races similar to African blacks are still scattered on the islands south of the Malay Peninsula. Why did black people come to China at that time? Professor Ge said that one was sent to Chang 'an, the capital of China, as an annual tribute, the other was plundered and sold to the coast or inland as an indigenous "barbarian ghost", and the other was left by envoys from Southeast Asia or South Asia who entered China. Many people know that Zhang Ji, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem called Kunlun II: Kunlun lives in Haizhou, and barbarians will visit China in the future. Words have taught Ji Qin that the waves have just passed Zhou Yulin. The gold ring once pierced the ear when it was about to fall, and the long bun did not wrap the head. Self-love skin is as black as paint, and when you walk, you take off your kapok skin. From the clothing point of view, most of the black figurines unearthed later were tied with silk belts, banners or shorts. This is very consistent with the image of Kunlun people recorded in the biography of Nanhai to Neifa in the Book of Changes of the Tang Dynasty. "A man who dares to go barefoot" is Sanskrit, which refers to the clothes worn by his lower body. This is a very obvious feature of black people in the South China Sea, which has nothing to do with ancient African black costumes. Ge Yongcheng said that many authoritative scholars believe that the blacks in the Tang Dynasty came from Africa.