Guo (General Theory of National History) mentioned in his last article that China was of course annexed by other regimes for thousands of years, but the fundamental reason why China did not perish was the continuation of civilization. Since the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, our territory has been constantly changing, our nationalities have been continuously integrated, and even our language has been completely changed. But Chinese characters and ideas have continued, so history has not been cut off.
However, Liao country is different. The culture of Liao State and even the entire Qidan nationality disappeared with the demise of Liao State. One of the important reasons is that Liao adopted a closed policy in cultural policy. Shortly after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Abaoji in Lu Ye established the Confucius Temple, drawing on the political and cultural system of the Central Plains Dynasty and attaching great importance to the Han people. The reason why he did this is also a helpless move? At that time, Liao ruled a large area of the Tang Dynasty (especially sixteen states). These places are inhabited by highly civilized Han people, and the Khitan people are developed from nomadic people. They finally created the Khitan language, but there was no way to fully implement it. So the Khitan language can only be used by the Khitan nobles. This also calculate, the key is that the Liao country also stipulates that the words written in Qidan are not allowed to flow out of the Liao country.
This closed cultural policy is the fundamental reason for the complete demise of Liao State. After the Liao kingdom was destroyed by the Song and Jin allied forces, a large number of Khitans merged with Nuzhen and Mongolian ancients. Although Yeleshi crossed the desert and established the Western Liao Dynasty, he only took away 200 cavalry. Western Liao developed into tens of thousands of troops, relying on Islamists in Central Asia. Therefore, although the West Liao has the title of Liao, there are no Liao people, and of course there is no Liao culture.
In the face of culture, no territory or nation is so vulnerable. Culture is dead, everything is dead,