greco - roman was an influential religion to enter china along the silk route during the han dynasty.
an influential religion to enter china along the silk route during the han dynasty was?
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some modern scholars have been trying to ascribe a foreign origin to the liu of southern han and attack the traditional historical records and the claims of the liu clan themselves that said their ancestors were han chinese from northern china who migrated south. historical texts like the old history of the five dynasties and the new book of tang record that this liu family said they themselves originated in northern china, from shangcai in henan and pengcheng in jiangsu until their ancestor liu anren (劉安仁) migrated south to fujian and guangdong and the southern han liu emperors claimed to be han chinese descended from the han dynasty royal family who shared the same surname, liu. liu zhiqian was of low class and rank and because of this the aristocratic wei family said he was "not of our kind" (非我族类) but despite liu's low rank, the military governor wei zhou married his niece to liu zhiqian over his family's objections. the japanese scholar fujita toyohachi in 1910 tried claiming that the liu family of southern han were descendants of arabs who came to fujian and guangdong by sea by pointing to an arab from the later song dynasty who used the surname liu and claiming it sounded similar to arabic names like ali or alaa, and claimed that the liu family tried to for han ancestry from northern china. his claims of the liu being of arab or foreign descent were rubbished and attacked by another japanese scholar, masahiro kawahara who pointed out it was a custom for reigning chinese emperors to grant the usage of their surnames to foreign merchants like the tang dynasty which granted the imperial family's surname li to foreigners, and that the foreign arab merchant likely received his liu surname from the reigning liu emperors of southern han and not the other way around, and he pointed out that the southern han did not believe in islam but practiced buddhism. masahiro suggested instead that the liu were from a local non-han native ethnic minority of guangdong from fengzhou who then forged han descent from northern china to claim descent from the han dynasty. both fujita and masahiro's theories were attacked by another historian because both of their theories are based on their own pure conjecture and opinions and have no solid evidence or historical data or texts to support their claims, saying that the phrase "not of our kind" "非我族类" referred to the socially stratified tang dynasty aristocracy in china since 族 means clan the liu were not a clan of the wei's social status ("not of our clan") and not referring to the modern meaning of 族 which means ethnicity or race, and using this statement "not of our kind" to suddenly jump to the conclusion that they were "arab" is massively inappropriate for a historian. the aristocratic wei family would have looked down and despised people of low rank like the liu. masahiro's suggestion that the liu were native non-han ethnic minority also has no evidence based in any historical texts and there is nothing to suggest that the existing historical texts like new history of the five dynasties are false. both are seen as theories with no proof. the southern han did not believe in islam and were not sultans. arabs referred to the southern han as the "chinese rose" monarchy because that rose originated from china, guangzhou was known as the flower city and southern han planted lots of roses. statues of two of he last southern han emperor's liu chang's sons were described as looking like "barbarian devils". the two sons may have come from a persian woman who was liu chang's concubine. a large number of han chinese moved to southern china like southern han as the tang dynasty was collapsing and helped build southern han when it became independent.the arguments over the origin of the liu family who ruled southern han again were looked at and determined that they were han chinese.
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