There is a Shaanxi village in Russia, isolated from the world for 128 years, how is it today?

When war breaks out, there are always people running away from home, and this was a common occurrence during the late Ming Dynasty. In 1776, a man named Luo Fangbo and Chen Lanbo went to Borneo in the South China Sea, just to make a living. They established a state in Borneo, and at the height of their power, the whole of Borneo was owned by Lanfang, which was twice as big as Japan. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a group of Qing Dynasty people went to Russia and built a "Shaanxi Village", which was isolated from the world for more than a hundred years. All the systems of the Qing Dynasty were still in place, and at one time it was thought that the Qing Dynasty had not yet died out.

Shaanxi Village is located in Central Asia on the border of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, where the yellow-skinned, black-haired people speak an authentic Shaanxi dialect. These people are also known as the Donggans, which refers to the descendants of the Chinese people from Shaanxi and Gansu who traveled to Central Asia. The history of their arrival begins with a man named Bai Yanhu.

He was a native of Jingyang in Shaanxi province, and because of his bad deeds, he was crushed by Zuo Zongtang, whom he could not defeat. He had to run to Central Asia with his men and died in Russia in 1882, while his descendants continued to live there with his men. These people became known as the Dongguan people, and in 1881, for fear of the Qing Dynasty to settle scores, once again fled a group of people, and the last time was the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

By this point, the ancestors of the Shaanxi village had been identified. They did not change their habits after they came here, 128 years had passed when they were first discovered, and due to the long time they were in a closed state, some of the old people would still ask how the Qing Dynasty was doing. And they use mostly the old Shaanxi dialect, which was handed down to them by their ancestors. And their government departments are still called yamen, and their cadres are called yamen, which are the old names of the Qing Dynasty, and they are still stuck in that period of time.

The traditions of their hometown have been preserved very well, and the pure Qin opera has been sung for hundreds of years and is still their traditional program. From all their experiences, they can still see the trauma they suffered back then, and the war years are always out of their control, if not war, they may not want to leave their homeland. Some people even know whether their hometown is in Baoji or Xi'an, but because the old dialect is passed down from mouth to mouth, they just know how to speak it, but they don't have the words.

Even the cooking customs are similar to those in the northwest, with noodles and the use of chopsticks. The structure of the houses is also similar, and the way of storing breeding grass is also used in the Northwest.More than 100 years have passed, and the fact that they still maintain their customs is actually related to the long period of closure. The people of Shaanxi Village have grown from thousands in the beginning to 120,000 now. Back in 1979 a human history graduate student named Wang Guojie was curious about how the Dongguan people were doing, so he spent a short time studying abroad to visit these old Shaanxi fathers and mothers.

They were doing well, and would have wondered why Wang Guojie even spoke their language. To a certain extent, the preservation of Shaanxi and Gansu customs here is the most original from a hundred years ago, and their lives are also of great academic significance to the study of Northwest historical customs. Now nearly forty years have passed, Dongguan people also gradually keep up with the development of society, but also appeared some famous Dongguan linguists, historians, writers and so on.