China is a unified multi-ethnic country. People know that there are fifty-six ethnic groups in our country. The Dan people are not among these fifty-six ethnic groups, but they are a real ethnic group in the history of our country. nation that exists. The Dan tribe is also called the Egg tribe. The most distinctive feature of this nation is that they live on boats and rarely go ashore, so they are also called people on the water. The Dan people are mainly distributed in coastal cities such as Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian in my country. They rely on fishing at sea to make a living. There are no residential areas of the Dan people on land. 1. The origin of the Dan tribe.
There are two theories about the origin of the Dan tribe. The first theory is the theory of Qin Shihuang's southern expedition. During the reign of Qin Shihuang, in order to eliminate the Nanyue Kingdom in Lingnan, he launched a 500,000-strong army to march southward. Although the Nanyue Kingdom at that time was eliminated, it brought endless disasters to the people of the South Vietnam Kingdom. The country failed and the people were displaced. Some of the refugees were unwilling to surrender to the Qin Dynasty, so they were forced to go to the sea. From then on, they became a people on the sea. They never went ashore and made ships their home. 2. The theory of Mongolian exile.
There is also a saying that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols had no place to go, so they fled to the sea. However, due to the pressure of successive rulers, they had no place to go, let alone go ashore, and could not study. They are literate, have no land, and cannot marry the people on the shore. They are considered to be part of the people who have been abandoned by successive rulers. They can only live at sea. 3. The culture of the Dan people.
Life at sea is very miserable, which can be seen from their songs:
Going to the sea means three points of fate, but ashore, you keep your head down. There is a stream of firewood flowing from the house in Sha Tin, and bare feet are not allowed on the streets. The bitter water and salty tide make the boat rotten, and the vast sea buries the corpses.
Although the Dan people have existed for hundreds of years with their wisdom, after the founding of New China, the government encouraged the Dan people to settle ashore, so the lives of the Dan people gradually improved and they were gradually adopted by the Guangdong area. assimilated by people. Many dietary taboos in Guangdong are learned from the Dan people.