Hi everyone, this is Klaus.
There have been protests in Inner Mongolia recently.
The CCP has cancelled Mongolian language teaching in Inner Mongolia.
That is one of the Chinese characteristics we have talked about before.
And then in our fans group,
someone was against praising the Mongols' protests,
saying that the Mongols once slaughtered the Han,
so now he supports the CCP's massacre of Mongolians.
Today,
let’s talk about massacres in Chinese history
and how to read history correctly and spread the truth.
I hope you enjoy this video.
The history of China has been bloody since ancient times.
There was a massacre, big or small, in almost every era,
something a Chinese history textbook glorifying 5,000 years of ancient civilization will never tell you.
We don't enough time to talk about all the massacres,
so let's look at massacres with over 100,000 victims.
The Qin Dynasty unified the six neighboring states, but lost two-thirds of the total population.
In 260 BC, during the Changping Battle,
under Bai Qi's command, the Qin army massacred 400,000 captives.
During the peasant uprising at the end of Qin, Xiang Yu alone launched six massacres.
At one time, 200,000 Qin troops were massacred.
By the beginning of Han, the population had decreased by 70%.
Wang Mang usurped of Han and was in power for over ten years,
during which the population was reduced by 70% again.
From the end of Han to the Three Kingdoms, warlords fought for supremacy for a century,
and 85% of the population died.
In 193 AD, Cao Cao occupied Xuzhou,
and massacred hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians there.
Nearly 100,000 soldiers were killed in the battle of Guandu in AD 200.
After the end of Western Jin, the war of eight kings,
the Han and Hu peoples slaughtered each other, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.
In 350 AD, Ran Min slaughtered more than 200,000 Hu people.
From the end of Sui to the beginning of Tang, the land was ruled by a succession of 50 emperors,
resulting in the deaths of over 70% of the population.
At the end of Tang, there was a peasant army uprising,
and 8 million people were killed by the Huang Chao Army, according to unofficial records.
Wang Xianzhi's army massacred 400,000 people in Jiangling City in 878 AD.
In 879 AD, Huang Chaojun killed hundreds of thousands of Hu merchants in Guangzhou.
The population was reduced by 76% at the end of Tang.
Then came the Mongolian Yuan period,
and the population of the land fell by 91%.
The Mongolian army massacred 5 million Jurchens, and 1.5 million to 3 million Xixia people.
The Hans in the North were almost extinct.
Sichuan had 13-20 million people before the Mongolian massacre.
There were less than 800,000 left after the massacre.
The genocide committed by the Mongolian Empire in China became a Guinness world record in 1985.
The Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of killing Mongols from the very beginning.
In the process of banishing the Mongols to the north, tens of millions of Mongols were slaughtered,
even though less than half of them were real Mongols.
During those chaotic 50 years from the end of Ming to the start of Qing, from Li Zicheng to Wu Sangui,
the population fell from 100 million to 14 million.
90% of the population had been lost by the time Shunzhi Emperor took power.
Records show that the peasant rebel army led by Li Zicheng carried out a total of 13 massacres.
In order to take Kaifeng, he excavated the Yellow River, causing countless deaths.
Zhang Xianzhong, another peasant uprising leader, almost wiped out Sichuanese.
By the end of 1681, there were only a little over 18,000 people left in Sichuan.
Qing's massacres with over 100,000 victims include
the Massacre of Jinan, Yangzhou 10th, the Three Massacres in Jiading, the Massacre of Guangzhou...
The Qing army also committed genocides and massacred over 500,000 Mongols.
The White Lotus Uprising from 1796 to 1804 AD
saw the deaths of 110 million people.
During the Taiping Rebellion,
in 1857 when Nanjing was captured, 2 million Manchurian people were massacred;
in 1860 when Hangzhou was captured, hundreds of thousands of people were massacred.
A similar massacre took place in Hunan in the same year.
The Taiping Rebellion lasted for decades,
in which the Taiping Army and the Qing Army slaughtered each other.
Cities taken by the Taiping Army would be burned to the ground again upon the arrival of the Qing Army.
Many cities have been slaughtered multiple times.
In 1864, the Hunan Army invaded Nanjing and massacred 1 million soldiers and civilians.
Over 100 million people died during the Taiping Rebellion.
Even in modern times, there were massacres with over 1 million victims,
such as the Land Reform, Anti-Rebellion Movement, the three-year famine, and the Cultural Revolution.
So, the entire Chinese history is a history of mass murders.
But you can't read about any of these in a history textbook,
because those massacres could hurt the glorious image of the great ancient Chinese civilization.
The massacres between different ethnic groups also damage the image of the so-called Chinese nation.
Only the massacre of the Chinese by the Japanese appears in history textbooks.
If Japan had taken over China like the Mongolians and Manchus did,
then today's history books would regard the Japanese regime as one of the dynasties in China,
Little Pinks would have a hard-on for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, like they do now for Yuan,
and the Chinese nation would welcome the the Yamato nation with open arms.
Then Japan’s massacre of the Chinese would not have appeared in history textbooks.
Let's go back to our original topic.
This netizen believes that since the Mongols slaughtered the Hans,
the Han people could slaughter the Mongols today.
First, why label an entire ethnic group?
Second, under the current legal framework, nobody should pay for the sins of their ancestors.
A father’s debt doesn't have to be paid by the son (unless the inheritance law is also applied).
In addition, if you really want to point fingers,
throughout Chinese history, Han people killed far more Han people than any other ethnic group did.
It is unclear which ethnic group suffered more casualties.
China's history is by nature a history of killing.
Who can guarantee that his ancestors were absolutely innocent?
Also, a detailed analysis of this netizen's family tree might show that he is a pure Han Chinese at all.
The Han people had been nearly exterminated many times by the minority groups in the north,
such as Qiang, Xiongnu, Khitan, Barbarians Dihu, who have all become Han people of today.
Also, during the Yuan Dynasty, Han newlyweds
were required to spend three days with the Mongolian security chief.
No one can claim to be a pure Han Chinese now.
Even if this netizen's bloodline could be traced back to the Qin Dynasty,
he cannot guarantee that his ancestors never married any foreign wives.
Even strict Muslim ethnic groups allowed intermarriages after baptism.
If this netizen could be found to have a tiny drop of Mongolian blood,
following his logic, should he commit suicide to pay for the sins of his ancestors?
Extremists often self-contradict.
While interpreting history, we need to respect reality.
If you look at a historical event, no matter how true it is,
without considering today's reality, you will go to extremes.
History is for us to learn and discover.
But when facing history and truth,
we must be cautious when drawing conclusions.
Every genocide in history
was committed by ideologies of unification and identity politics.
We cannot choose sides, label each other, and promote hatred.
Even though history and reality don't mix sometimes,
we can actually face history and respect reality at the same time.
For example, if you and your partner accidentally have a baby,
you both can learn a lesson and be careful next time.
At the same time, you must respect the reality that life has been created and nurture it.
You can't abuse the child because the child was unintended.
Many things in this world are self-contradictory,
and the truth is often hidden between the two polar extremes.
The art of rationality lies in that perfect balance.
As Lenin said, a fallacy is just one step away from truth.
He surely took a lot of steps himself.
Alright, time to hear your comments.
In our last episode, we talked about the origin of China and the Chinese nation.
Let me add here that the narrow "feudal system" is the divided land system.
Strictly speaking, it ended after Qin took over.
In our video, we referred to the CCP’s Red Dynasty as "feudal"
based on the Marxist definition of "feudal society".
It was meant as a slap in their face.
Netizen Xi Fan said that the term "Chinese nation" was used to kidnap people.
Zhao Lijian did just that when he said that the Chinese people were the shield of the CCP.
Netizen Jack Lam and netizen Karen200155 added that
the CCP used to treat the people as a shield literally.
Netizen Dr. Duden said,
"When bragging: ancient civilization, five thousand years, vast and abundant.
When talking about welfare: at the initial stage of socialism, only 70 years, and a large population.
The communists have no moral compass. They make up nonsense as they see fit."
Netizen Bu Hankui said that the CCP textbooks regarded Jurchens as part of the Chinese nation,
but regarded Yue Fei as a national hero at the same time.
Netizen Liao Renbin said, "Wu Sangui was a traitor.
But the Qing Dynasty was also China, so why was Wu Sangui a traitor?"
After all, the CCP likes to distort history.
So it’s not difficult to find things that make no sense in their history textbooks.
Netizen The fairness of the socialist results said,
"Every time I argue with little pinks, I say my ancestors were from the Ming Dynasty.
China is only 71 years old."
I've also refuted Little Pinks who claim that Communist China is their mother.
I said, "China has just celebrated its 70th birthday.
But my grandpa is over 80 years old.
For my grandfather, this mother might be a stepmother, right?"
The Little Pinks were stunned.
The netizen said, "Since all is from the void, where did the Chinese Nation come from?"
Alright, that's it for this video.
Thank you so much for your comments.
This is Klaus. See you next time.