乾隆六十年(1795),湘黔边界爆发了轰轰烈烈的苗民起义。朝廷调动20万兵勇夫役前往苗疆镇压。在朝廷大军将苗民的最后大本营平垅团团围住,务必将起事之苗人“俾净根株”之际,身为一代宗师的湖广总督毕沅,给嘉庆帝上了一道密折。毕沅提出,从种类上来说,苗族是“五溪别种”,是与中原汉人等不一样的“他族”。但从人性来说,这个“他族”又与中原汉人等一样“具有天良、亦晓大义”。因此,建议朝廷以“存其种类”为目标,立即“撤营罢兵”,以便给苗族人腾出相对独立的足够的生存空间,保证苗族人这个特殊种类能够繁衍生息。这个密折中所表达的民族思想是对中国传统的“非我族类、其心必异”的民族思想一个重大突破。在当时及其后都产生了一定的影响。对我们今天如何解决面临的诸多民族问题也有着重要的借鉴价值。本文对毕沅这个思想的形成过程、内容、影响及其意义,进行了详细爬梳,以期使这个闪烁着人文光辉的民族思想重新得到认识与评价。
<<During the six decades of QianLong (1795),there was a vigorous uprising of Miao people on the border of Hunan and Guizhou. The government mobilized two hundred thousand soldiers to go the Miao Region to suppress them. When the imperial army surrounded the last camp of the Miao people and decided to eradicate the Miao people,BiYuan,as the master of HuGuang,sent a document to JiaQing. BiYuan proposed that in terms of species,the Miao is a “WuXiBieZhong” and It is a “Others” that is different from the Han people in the Central Plains and other people. However,from the human nature,this “Others” is similar to the Han Chinese in the Central Plains,and “with a good nature and a great sense of righteousness.” Therefore,Bi suggested that the court,with the goal of “Protecting the Independence and Integrity of Miao’s Survival”,The Court should immediately withdraw its troops and return,in order to give the Miao people relatively independent living space,so as to ensure that the Miao people which is a special nation can reproduce. The national ideology expressed in this document is a major breakthrough in the national thought of Chinese traditional “not my group,its strength must be different”. It had a certain effect on the time and the later ages. It also has important and referential value to many ethnic problems that we face today. This article details the formation process,content,influence and significance of this thought of Bi Yuan,in order to make this glittering and glorious national ideology can regain its consciousness and evaluation.
<<Keywords: | National IdeologyThe Uprising of the Miao People During the QianLong EraBiYuanProtecting the Independence and Integrity of Miao’s Survival |