Mysterious village in Gansu: China people with brown hair and blue eyes. Expert: They may be descendants of Roman legions. Is it so amazing?

We are in an era of exploration. One of the advantages of this era is that we don't believe in anything and focus on exploration. Now it's like hunting, walking through thorns, looking around and checking every bush; If you don't find the right target, throw it aside and look for it again. Strindberg

Mysterious village

Every corner of the world has its own characteristics. Whether at home or abroad, we can see different scenery. For example, we can see that there are many sheep on the Mongolian grassland, which look like piles of cotton, making the whole grassland very clean; In the south, we can see how people transplant rice seedlings. People rolled up their trouser legs and dipped in water almost knee deep. They bent down to look for the prepared seedlings in the underwater soil. Everyone wears a straw hat. In order to avoid the sun, they will straighten up and wipe their sweat. This is what people look like at work.

In Yongchang County, Gansu Province, China, there is a very mysterious village called Zhelaizhai Village, which is located next to the ancient Silk Road. It is a remote and poor village, but why does this small village attract so many people's attention? Why is he mysterious?

The mystery of zhe lai Zhai

There is nothing special about this village in appearance. Like most villages in the northwest, it is relatively backward, but even so, they still attract the attention of the outside world because of their appearance. They look very different from the locals. They are born with brown hair and blue eyes, which is obviously a characteristic of westerners.

This makes other locals regard the people in this village as monsters. They are often satirized by local people. They speak fluent Gansu dialect, but why are they not like locals at all? When everyone doubted whether they were westerners, some archaeologists began to notice here.

They deliberately asked Zhezhai people to take out their own household registration book, which clearly says that they are from Gansu. Why does it look different from the locals? This makes everyone unpredictable and makes this place more mysterious and difficult to understand. In this way, people think that there must be unknown secrets behind the people who come to Zhaizhai, so they launched a series of investigations.

The custom of coming to the village

Since the people who come to Zhaizhai are so special, there must be more special customs. Although the local area mainly cultivates land, unlike other villages, they prefer cows. People who come to Zhaizhai seem to have a special fate with cows. People in other areas may use cows to plow their fields, but they are not used to plow their fields.

Every one of them will be attached to cows from birth, and those who come to Zhaizhai will remember their ancestors. When commemorating ancestors, they will also put a lot of tributes, but unlike ordinary people, they will put a kind of steamed bread called "Niubi", which means that the shape of this steamed bread is particularly like Niubi, that is, insert a jujube into the steamed bread, then knead it and put it on the altar. People who come to Zhai also like to play games with cows, which is a bit like bullfighting now.

They often play bullfighting, which makes people wonder if their ancestors were bullfighters. If they are matadors, they must have come from the west. Besides these, they often kill cattle. People in other areas have a cow that they want to keep as a treasure because they want to farm, but unlike people who come to Zhazhai, they often kill cows. They like to smell the blood of freshly slaughtered cattle.

More importantly, their funeral customs. As long as people in their village are dead, they have to face west when they are buried, which makes people wonder whether their ancestors did this because they missed their hometown.

Guess like this

According to the custom that Laizhai people like bullfighting, archaeologists have such a guess. Could they have come from the Roman Empire? Such a guess is not unreasonable. Archaeologists excavated the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty near Zhelaizhai.

After verification by experts, it shows that the whole tomb is male, which reminds archaeologists of the "Roman Legion". Two thousand years ago, a Roman legion was defeated by Calais, cut off from the back road and unable to return to Rome. After that, this team disappeared, which is the "mystery of the disappearance of the Roman legion" that has not been solved for more than two thousand years.

However, it is such a coincidence that the ancestors of those who came to Zhaizhai were Xiongnu. Once in the battle between Han and Xiongnu, a group of Xiongnu used the fighting skills of ancient Rome. At that time, only the ancient Romans could use this fighting skill. Experts also began to infer, and finally concluded that this team may be the remnants of the Roman legion that broke out that year. They have been on the run and met the powerful Xiongnu, so they can only yield to the Xiongnu and join the Xiongnu team. Then those captured after the defeat of Xiongnu at that time were the ancestors of those who came to Zhaizhai now.

The truth gradually surfaced.

In addition to the Roman Legion's statement, experts speculated another reason, because Zhelai Village is located in the Hexi Corridor, which is the only place where the ancient Silk Road passes, and there will be western caravans passing by, so these couples may be stationed here, or they may die, but this statement was quickly overturned, because this tomb was in the Western Han Dynasty, when the Silk Road took shape, and there would not be many caravans passing by, so it was impossible to form such a large tomb.

With the permission of Laizhai people, experts specially tested the DNA of some Laizhai people, and indeed found western genes in them, but after so many years of marriage and integration with local people, it became elusive.

If you want to turn some inferences into reality, you must have evidence. If there is no evidence to prove it, it can only be inferred forever. Experts specialize in looking for records in history books. According to Hanshu, the Roman prisoners of war who were captured by the Western Han Dynasty were put on hold in the Western Han Dynasty shortly after they were brought back to the Western Han Dynasty, because the name of Ligeqian County was just established in Liangzhou Administrative Region. It is said that Tang Chen.

This discovery makes people begin to believe this statement. There are indeed a group of ancient Romans living here, and their descendants may come to Zhaizhai. So many years have passed like water, and the mystery of the disappearance of the Roman legion has gradually begun to take shape. Everything in those days disappeared, but they left behind their descendants, who will continue to write legends.