What was the North under the rule of Jin people in the Southern Song Dynasty like?

Great ethnic integration. The northern Han nationality has a large number, advanced economy and culture, and occupies a comparative advantage position, so that the northeast nationalities who moved in eventually merged into the Central Plains Han nationality. The immigrants from Northeast China occupy a favorable position in the political arena, and their cultural influence cannot be underestimated.

Nuzhen, the ruling ethnic group in the Jin Dynasty, led a large number of ethnic groups such as Qidan, Bohai and Xi to move from the northeast to North China. With the immigration, the cultures of various nationalities in Northeast China, including costumes, music, dances, languages and social customs, began to spread into the Central Plains. Northeast national culture is the mother culture of rulers in Jin Dynasty. In order to assimilate the Han nationality, rulers in the early Jin Dynasty spared no effort to popularize their own culture in North China. In the early days of entering the Central Plains, they even forced the Han people to wear Jurchen clothes and keep their Jurchen hairstyles by force. The Jin Dynasty has repeatedly issued regulations prohibiting people in the Central Plains from wearing Hanfu and keeping their original hairstyles. Offenders will be executed. In this context, the unification of clothing and hairstyle will naturally be realized soon.

Jin Dynasty was an important period of ethnic integration in the history of northern China. This kind of integration is not only the process of absorbing the northern Han culture by the inner-migrating ethnic groups such as Jurchen, Bohai, Qidan and Xi, but also the process of absorbing the northern Han culture by these frontier ethnic groups. Because of its large number and relatively developed economy and culture, the northern Han nationality occupied a relatively dominant position in this round of ethnic integration, so that the northeast nationalities who moved in eventually merged into the Central Plains Han nationality. However, the number of ethnic groups in Northeast China still occupies a certain proportion, occupying a favorable position in the political arena, and its cultural influence cannot be underestimated. Therefore, the newly integrated culture of the Han nationality in the Central Plains can't be what it is, but it is mixed with the color of frontier national culture. If we say that in this process, the border nationalities who moved in have completed the sinicization, then the Han nationality in the Central Plains has also been Hu Huahua, the border nationality who moved in.