Thousands of Vicissitudes

My father's work The Escape History of China's Ethnic Minorities - Shui Nationality: During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Guangxi was a remote area in the southwest and a multi-ethnic area. The so-called Baiyue settlement, local officers and soldiers imposed tyranny, and the Sui people (Shui people) and other ethnic minorities lived in dire straits—————————————————— As a result, peasant uprisings occurred frequently here. Among them, the most typical one that broke out on the 13th of the first lunar month in 1044 was the largest and most influential peasant uprising led by Meng Chen, Ou Xifan and others. It was assisted by the "Shui Shu", known as the living fossil of hieroglyphics———————————————————— On the day of the uprising, they succeeded in conquering the county town of Huanzhou, killing the county magistrate, and seizing the county seal. The rebel army won the hearts of the people, and the situation was improving. The number of troops increased sharply in a short period of time. Feng Shenji, the governor of Yizhou, frequently reported to Bianjing, and the imperial court sent large armies one after another to assist and annihilate him. Later, because the main leader of the rebel army was not firm in his revolutionary will and still held illusions about the government, he wavered and compromised under the deception of the imperial envoy Du Qi, which led to the final massacre———————————————————— The earliest official excavation in history was the "Ou Xifan Map of the Five Internal Organs". The failure of the uprising caused a life-and-death mass exodus of the Sui people, forming today's pattern of the Shui people living together along the Longjiang and Duliujiang rivers.