Why do Hungarians speak with a similar accent to people in northern Shaanxi? Are they descendants of Xiongnu?

Hungarians are not descendants of Huns. The westward movement of the northern Xiongnu is just a guess. In 1 century BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dealt a heavy blow to the Xiongnu and eventually split into the Northern Xiongnu and the Southern Xiongnu. From 89 to 9 1 year, the northern Xiongnu suffered a series of failures under the joint attack of the southern Xiongnu and the Han army, and the main force of the northern Xiongnu later disappeared. Since then, the Northern Xiongnu has disappeared from China's history books. In 374 AD, a powerful cavalry team named Hungarians suddenly appeared in Eastern Europe. They are brave and invincible. In the following decades, they swept across most of Europe and established a powerful country in the Hungarian Plain. Are they Huns who moved westward from northern China? Recently, some Hungarians claimed to be "descendants of Xiongnu", and they demanded official recognition of their minority status. So, were their ancestors really Huns in northern China? Whether there is a relationship between Hungarians and Huns has long been a controversial issue between the two factions. Yu Taishan, a researcher and doctoral supervisor in the Chinese-foreign Relations Research Office of the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters that whether Hungarians and Huns are related by blood is actually a very interesting academic question. Westerners are very interested in this, because the heavy blow of Hungarians contributed to the demise of the Western Roman Empire. /kloc-In the late 8th century, French scholar De Tani pointed out that Hungarians were Huns in the history of China according to the historical records of China. Later, the British historian Ji Peng wrote this sentence of De Tani into his masterpiece The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. However, they failed to verify the specific process of the Huns' westward migration, so the statement that Hungarians are Huns has aroused many people's opposition. British scholar Burleigh even said that this statement by Detani and Gibbon was "based on fantasy, not on historical facts". Since then, two factions have been formed on this issue and have been arguing for a long time. Until now, some people still insist that Hungarians are Huns, while others think that Hungarians are not Huns, and the origin of Hungarians is unknown. Was the Xiongnu in western historical materials moved to the west by the northern Xiongnu in northern China? 1937, China scholar Mr. He Zhenya wrote an article about Huns and Hungarians. He thinks Huns have nothing to do with Hungary, so why are there so many misunderstandings now? Yu Taishan said that after the Huns were defeated by the Han people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was said that some Huns moved westward. Some scholars even suggested that the completion of the Great Wall of Qin Shihuang doomed the demise of the Western Roman Empire, because the Huns could not go south, but only went west, which eventually led to the demise of the Roman Empire. In fact, this statement is unfounded. Those who defeated the Western Roman Empire are called Huns in western historical materials. It can be said that this name is Xiongnu, but it is hard to say whether it is actually Xiongnu living in the north of China. Nomads have a very strange phenomenon. Unlike Han people who have their own surnames, they often change their names. The Huns are strong, and everyone is willing to call themselves Huns. At that time, in the north of China, what the Huns were was confusing. When the Xiongnu was strong, its territory reached Northeast Asia in the east and the Western Regions in the west, and the whole northern China was its sphere of influence. Under their rule, there are many different ethnic groups, including white people, yellow people and many robbed Han people. It can be said to be a hodgepodge of different languages and customs of a nation. At that time, everyone was called Xiongnu, and there were not many real Xiongnu. After the demise of the Huns, these nomadic people were no longer called Huns. Yu Taishan said that there was indeed an oriental nomadic people who moved westward to Europe in history, but from the demise of the Xiongnu in the East to the prosperity of the Hungarians in the West. The time difference is hundreds of years. Although Hungarians borrowed the name of Xiongnu (they may call themselves Xiongnu or be called Xiongnu by others), there is no sufficient evidence whether they are Xiongnu or not. Now, some people try to prove the existence of the event that the northern Xiongnu moved westward, saying that they went there first and then, but it does not exist in the literature. Some historians have also demonstrated this point, but it is not reliable. Xiongnu in Europe is a genuine yellow race, while Xiongnu in northern China may be white. Yu Taishan said that "Xiongnu" is actually a general term for westerners. Anyone who goes to the East is called Xiongnu. According to his research, the Huns who moved west to Europe should be Xianbei people, but it does not rule out that some Huns are mixed in. These Xianbei people call themselves Huns, or they are called Huns by Europeans. Of course, saying that these people are Xianbei people is just speculation. There is no conclusive evidence yet, but it is more likely than saying that they are Huns. Yu Taishan believes that the so-called Huns who moved to Europe are genuine yellow people, and this view is no problem. Because according to Byzantine scholars' records about the Huns in Europe, Huns have short noses, small eyes and no beards, and the Huns who were active in northern China in ancient times were not yellow (this view is different from that of most scholars at present). As can be seen from the records of China documents, when referring to Huns, these documents all say that they are tall and handsome, which is totally different from Han people. At present, there is still a stone statue of "Horse Treading Xiongnu" in Han Dynasty in front of Huoqu's tomb in Shaanxi. The Xiongnu in the stone statue has a beard, while the typical Mongolian race has no beard. The customs and habits of Hungarians are similar to those of northern Shaanxi. Can it be used as evidence of Xiongnu? Gao Jianqun, a self-proclaimed "Xiongnu of Chang 'an" and famous for his novel The Last Xiongnu, said: "Hungarians play suona and cut paper in the same way as people in northern Shaanxi, China, and their endings are similar to those in northern Shaanxi. The Hungarian poet petofi once wrote in a poem: Our distant ancestors, how did you walk from Asia to the Danube and build a country? Many Hungarian scholars believe that this country is closely related to the descendants of Xiongnu. So, can these be used as evidence that Hungarians are Huns? Yu Taishan believes that the northwest was the hub of east-west transportation in ancient times, especially before the opening of sea routes, all exchanges were carried out by land. We don't know how many westerners will come, nor how many orientals will go. Customs and habits can be learned from each other. Therefore, we can't judge a nation completely according to customs and habits. Customs and habits can only be used as circumstantial evidence, as auxiliary evidence, but not as empirical evidence. Now the most reliable method is DNA identification, but it is difficult to find a Hun's remains. Because nomads are constantly moving, they don't have a fixed settlement like other ethnic groups. Huns have no writing. Judging only from customs, it is very similar to nomadic people, and there are too many similarities. Therefore, it is very difficult to judge the tomb of a Hun in archaeology. Yu Taishan said that Hungarians are the only group in Europe that does not belong to the Indo-European nation. Modern Hungarians are ruled by magyars. Views of Hungarian Historians1Before the 9th century, Hungarian historians generally believed that their nation was related to Xiongnu. /kloc-in the first half of the 9th century, Koros Chomoshandor, a famous Hungarian scholar, went to Central Asia and China to find his roots. However, the situation changed before and after the establishment of Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867). The view of "Finland-Hougail" historical school supported by Habsburg dynasty in Austria was formally adopted. According to the research results of linguistics, this historical school believes that Hungarian belongs to Finnish-Hugray family, and thus determines that the ancestors of Hungarians are closer to Finnish-Hugray nationality and have nothing to do with Huns. Now, the official historical conclusion supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences also believes that the ancestors of Hungarians first came from a nomadic people near the foothills of the Urals in the border area of Eurasia. They are neither Huns nor their relatives.