Uyghurs are not Turkic

Uyghurs are not Turkic

According to a Chinese author and historian Yi Ming, the Uyghurs are not Turkic but are descendents of the Hui He or the Hui Hu.

According to him, the Hui He are the ancestors of the Uyghurs. The Hui He originated in the areas of Lake Baikal and Selenga River and are unrelated to the Turkic peoples.

[Note] The Uyghurs are a mix of Han and Central Asian bloodlines with strong Middle Eastern facial features.

The Turkic people originated in the Altay Mountains and the foothills of Tian Shan.

In 600 A.D., the Turkic people established the Turkic Khanate. In 744 A.D., the Hui He Uyghurs founded the Hui He Khanate that extended from the upper reaches of Heilongjiang in the east to the Altay Mountains in the west. During the Tang dynasty, the Hui He people were bestowed the name Hui Hu. During the An Lushan Rebellion (755 A.D.-757 A.D.) and the Shi Siming Rebellion (758 A.D.-761 A.D.), referred to together as the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang court solicited the Hui Hu army to put down the rebellion.

In the mid 900s A.D., plague, natural disasters and raids by other tribes from the west forced the Hui He people to move to the south and west towards the Pamir Plateau, the He Xi Corridor, to Urumqi and the Ili areas. They were the predecessors of the Uyghur.

According to this historian, the Uyghurs are not the descendents of the Turkic people who originated in the Altay Mountains. They are descendents of the Hui He people from the Baikal Lake and the Selenga River valley areas.

[Note] There are two distinct groups of Muslims in China: The Uyghurs and the Hui or Hui Hui. Some Western references refer to the Hui as Han Muslims. The Uyghurs are not of Han ethnicity. They have Middle Eastern facial features. The Hui or Hui Hui are Chinese Muslims with distinctly Han or Mongolian facial features.

Many Uyghurs despise the Hui, saying that the Hui are not true Muslims. Chinese Uyghurs live mainly in Xinjiang while the Chinese Hui are found in the north in Beijing, the west in western Sichuan and in Xinjiang, and the southwest regions of Yunnan in China.

The name Hui or Hui Hui comes from the “Hui” of the Tang dynasty term “Hui He” and “Hui Hu”.

The Han Chinese also refer to the Chinese Muslims as “Hui jiao tu” or “followers of the religion of Hui”.

On August 16, 1981, Deng Xiaoping arrived in Xinjiang on an inspection tour. According to the “compilation of documents of work in Xinjiang 1949-2010”, Deng Xiaoping said:
“The fundamental problem in Xinjiang is the problem of establishing a republic or establishing an autonomous region. We must not engage in separatism.” On May 31, 1984, the second meeting of the Sixth National People’s Congress proclaimed the “law of autonomous regions of nationalities of the People’s Republic of China.”

[Master Chen says]

Quite some time ago, I wrote about the lost Roman Legion and the historical study of the arrival of Roman soldiers in China. The study mentioned a place called “da yue zhi” and “Xiao yue zhi”, or “big yue zhi” and “small yue zhi”. Historical records also refer to “yue zhi” as “rou zhi”.

Zhang Qian recorded in his travels in 138 B.C. about the Xiong Nu and a place “further west called ‘yue zhi'” (“rou zhi”). Zhang Qian left the capital city of Chang’an and went west towards the Tarim Basin.

A recent account about the Uyghurs mentioned that the ancestors of the Uyghurs might have come from the land known as “yue zhi” (“rou zhi”) in the west near the Tarim Basin. The land of “yue zhi” (“rou zhi”) was not found.

Mainstream historians still do not know where “yue zhi” (“rou zhi”) was and which land the name referred to.

Judging from the route the Roman legion would have taken, from Iran down along the established routes of the Persians into Afghanistan*, I have said that “yue zhi” (“rou zhi”) is where present day “Registan” is. Registan is the vast area extending from west to east in central Afghanistan.

*Farsi is the language of northern Afghanistan. Farsi is Persian.

The facial features of the Afghans, the non-Oriental faces of those in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and extending westward to northern Iran and northern Iraq, an area known as Kurdistan, indicate to me that the Uyghurs do not originate in the north near the Tarim Basin.

My conclusion is that the original Uyghurs came from the south and west and moved northeast into the Tarim Basin and western Xinjiang.

This would make the claim that the ancestors of the Uyghurs might have come from the land known as “yue zhi” (“rou zhi”) in the west much more plausible.

“Yue zhi” (“rou zhi”) is located in today’s Registan region of central Afghanistan and not near the Tarim Basin. The original Hui He may have come from the Baikal and Selenga River valley region. But, the facial features of the Baikal and Selenga River valley are Mongolian, not Caucasian (Russian or Slavic).

The Caucasian Chechen Man and the female Caucasian mummy found in the Gobi desert were 6 feet tall and the Chechen Man was buried with his horse. They date back to 6,000 years ago.

This indicates to me that the pure Caucasian features of the Chechen Man and the female Caucasian mummy mixed with Mongol features very early, maybe as far back as 5,000- 4,000 years ago in the area of the Indo-Europeans, through Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan when Alexander the Great and his soldiers went through Central Asia, northern Pakistan and northern Afghanistan when the Persians arrived before the Romans in Central Asia.

Furthermore, I say that some modern Uyghurs may also be from the offspring of the Caucasian Persians and the Roman soldiers and the natives with Mongolian facial features in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.