Manchu Origins revealed (The barbarians who conquered China)#youtubeshorts #china #manchurian

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Well, one thing is certain.
Henry Puyi of the 20th century was nothing
at all like the early rulers of this dynasty that
developed Manchu power outside the Great Wall, conquered the Ming,
and made the Great Qing Empire, the Da Qing Guo,
the greatest in the world for a time, and perhaps
the greatest in Chinese history.
Puyi's ancestors came with fury, cunning,
and rather more in the way of organizational administrative talent
than had their Mongol predecessors.
Though the Manchus were not of the Steppe themselves,
the Manchu conquest of 1644 was the culmination
of the struggle between Steppe and Song that Professor Bol
has discussed, between the marauding, conquering tribes
north of the Wall and the farmers and bureaucrats south of it, at least
from a Chinese perspective.
The Manchus succeeded over the long haul because they
embodied parts of both traditions.
They were a nomadic or quasi-nomadic people descended from the Jurchen.
They also practiced agriculture.
The Manchus had already established a rather effective militarized state
in the frontier zone between the Wall and what, from a Chinese perspective,
would be outer barbarism, a place where Chinese and foreigners traded,
intermarried, and where Chinese organizational skills might be brought
together with nomadic military power.
The Manchus themselves were incredible horsemen and archers.
But they had also begun to incorporate Chinese administrators
and to make alliances with Chinese generals.
They made significant gains of their own on the Manchurian frontier
and adopted the dynastic name of the Qing in 1636.
Let's stop for a moment and ask, what else happened in 1636?
That's right.
Harvard University was founded in 1636, the same year
that the Qing dynasty was proclaimed, although the Qing would not seize power
until 1644.
This is a coincidence, as far as I can tell,
of absolutely no significance whatsoever.
The Manchus were extraordinarily well-organized for a frontier people,
and could be considered barbarians only in the sense that they were in no way
literarily distinguished.
They had their own writing, but had not fully
embraced the written canon of Confucian culture.
Manchu warriors and their families were organized
in what were called banners, eight different colors and design variations,
as a means of subdividing and controlling this armed population.
In the years before the conquest, they created
banners of allied Mongols and Chinese, too.
It's been written that the banner system was
a kind of movable, militarized society led by Manchus,
but with important Chinese participation and support.
And while the Manchus were organizing outside the Wall, the Ming, in effect,
was collapsing all by itself, the result of misgovernance, greed, and stupidity
on the part of the court of truly historic dimensions.
Its demise was speeded by a whole bunch of rebellions and incursions,
of which the Manchus were only one.
And indeed it wasn't really, at first, the Manchus,
but rather a demented bandit namely Li Zicheng,
who first took Beijing, leading to the emperor's suicide.
Now this guy, Li Zicheng, wanted to establish his own dynasty.
There's a story about him.
He was said to have been fine archer, and he wanted to-- in some sense,
testing his fate-- shot an arrow at the character zhong, central,
for Central Kingdom, with the assumption that if he hits it on,
the throne is his to be had.
And to everyone's surprise and unease, he missed it, a very bad omen for what
would be the first and last emperor of what he called the Shun dynasty.
Li did himself no good in his brief rule in the capital.
He asked Ming officials there to swear their allegiance to him.
And then he executed 46 of the highest of them on the grounds
that they were being disloyal to the Ming by siding with him, so how could
he possibly trust them?
His troops pillaged, whipped, raped the people of Beijing in April of 1644.
And one month later the Manchus rode through the Shanhaiguan, the open gate
in the Great Wall, in a dust storm, joined the Ming general Wu Sangui
to defeat Li ZIcheng, the bandit in Beijing.
And they entered Beijing.
Now this is an interesting story about how dynasties rise and fall.
They were aided very much by this Ming general Wu
Sangui, who was physically in between the Manchus
on the outside and Li Zicheng in Beijing,
literally and figuratively with his back up against the Great Wall.
And the key question for him-- this would come around again
in the early 20th century when the question would
be asked of whom Yuan Shikai would side with in the Republican Revolution--
whom would this general side with?
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were not nomadic(save for a few tribes) the reason people mistaken them for nomadic was due to their horsemanships and archery like the mongolic and turkic neighbors but the Jurchens/manchus themselves were mostly settled people who live in villages and towns and were farmers who also hunted. They did not live in tents or roam with the seasons.

teovu
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The third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Yongle, once conquered Manchuria, but when his grandson inherited the throne and believed that Manchuria had no economic value, he withdrew his troops stationed there, only allowing Manchuria to maintain a nominal subordinate relationship, which left a hidden danger for the subsequent Ming and Qing wars. To be precise, the establishment of the Qing Dynasty belonged to the rebel forces of the Ming Dynasty

linshitaolst
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Qing is the the way Chinese pronouns name of the empire . Manchu call the name of the nation “dacing gurun “ means the warrior nation .

YzKnox
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Who is the narrator here? Out of curiosity.

Rugged-Mongol
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The first map shown of Manchu China is wrong.

allenwong
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Manchus burned down Shaolin temples like the kung fu movies?

coburn_karma
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I’m very happy to hear the perspective of foreign/western people when it comes to Manchu or other ethnic groups, though some remarks are not necessarily accurate but it makes us understand how they view us a little more, thanks

thequeen
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The manchu turned out not to be barbarians at all since they adapted the Chinese language, religions and even learned to become scholars as the Han did.

bbr
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Looks like Asian origins have even more diverse origins than Europe.But, probably about the same.We all have been pushed or have pushed for thousands of years.But cultures, mannerisms & facial features seem to be forged by a recent climate & geological position.Also, of course the govt.social, education system etc.

coconuciferanuts
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No. Manchus were not a horsemen society. They adapted the horsemenship later from mongols. Without the political and military support of far eastern tribes of mongols such as Harchins, the manchus were not to be such powerful. (Europeans know little to nothing about the asian history)

chuluunsugarragchaa
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It makes me laugh to see this specialist saying that Manchu is an incredible horseman, since we all know Manchu are farmers and hunters who lived between the rivers and the mountains, and their place of origin is not where produce cavalry either, the Machu army is famous for heavy infantry, not cavalry, if you visit the forbidden city or any museum, you will realize that the muchus used much bigger and heavier bows than the Mongols or other nomadic tribes, because they are for heavy infantry!

珊暝灏
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The map is wrong, Amur, Sakhalin, and Tannu Tuva were also part of Qing dynasty.

XfromDarkHorse
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ᠮᡝᠨᡳ ᠰᠠᡳᡴᠠᠨ ᡤᡠᠯᡠ ᠯᠠᠮᡠᠨ ᡤᡡᠰᠠ ᠮᡠᠰᡝᡳᠩᡤᡝ ᡶᡠᠴᠠ ᡳ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ

nubreed
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💛 Our dear Manchu siblings are very good at management. While not necessarily brutal and "barbaric", capable of managing a Han -majority land which is 10x their population size. While the Hans were busily binding the feet of women, or making money somewhere, the Manchu women enjoyed much higher social status, and interested in higher things such as cultures or peace establishment with foreign states like Japan 🎌
Puyi's soul is alive and well. Now we both love the Republic of China (ROC), while I'm a spiritual relative of Sun YatSen, I appreciate most modern Manchurians, for the amazing intelligence & artistic contributions!
Yeah, some Westerner call Manchurians "barbarians", when it was some deep state illegal white merchants that destroyed the quiet Asian cultures, stole all the artifacts, put them into their own luxurious museums, and downgraded the newly established Republic of China into a Communist hell. Well, most internet users don't recall such a convenient way of using this "barbarian" term toward some "refugees" in North & West Europe. Simply how dare you L😂L
Yep, the Europeans fought against themselves, among Brits, French, Germanic, for simple reasons like religion or for more resources/control on foreign colonized lands.
Admittedly, the Manchurian social system until late 19th century is not the best. Corruption was prevalent, and science was not prioritized, but people are free to live as kids forever, and the country never used might to expand territory into the West.
Moreover, just like the Mongols, before assimilating into the Han kingdoms, Manchu women were often leaders, served as great Shamans and healers, although a bit superstitious but beliefs were tolerant, lgbt never persecuted and males consider it an honor to be able to wear women's attires 👭🎎unlike the tedious Confucian-r*ptilian doctrines that created all the stupidity by being obsessed with categorisation, segregation and calling the purple color "drifting away from red and blue" ⚛


Most Manchurians nowadays can speak English well (some even better than local Americans), some know Japanese 日本語, and for sure all know Mandarin (Putonghua 普通話) well, without hostility toward the Han-ethnic neighbors.
In our place in nowadays, race/origin/beliefs are something not to be politicized.
In the name of Heaven, let us carry out Virtues 🙏🙇🙇‍♂🙇‍♀🙏

multiverse-UFO
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First of all, Manchus are Chinese. Chinese is a nationality and not a ethnic group. Second we are as native to China, as the Hans. Hans are Chinese, but Han =/= Chinese. There are 56 of us in China, we are all native (except for maybe Russians and Koreans who were more recent immigrants).

flysmask
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manchus were led by silla descendants. qing emperor's last name is kim as the same as korean surname.

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