回鹘西迁后生产方式的转变及对后世的影响

The Transformation of Uyghur's Production Mode after Westward Migration and Impacts to History

回鹘是今天维吾尔族的先祖。公元840年,在蒙古高原称雄近百年的回鹘汗国在内忧外患中覆亡,其余众大部分西迁至西域和中亚一带。适应于当地新的生存环境和发达的农业文明,回鹘由一个以畜牧业为主的草原游牧民族,转化为一个具有鲜明特色的农耕民族。回鹘社会的成功转型对现代维吾尔族的形成和新疆的历史发展都产生了极为深远的影响。

Huihu is ancestor of present Uyghur. At 840A. D., Huihu Khanate, who reigned mongolia tableland for nearly one century, were overthrown in the internal disorder and foreign invasions. Most of the remaining people moved to the West region and Central Asia. Adapted to the local environment and high - developed agricultural civilization, Huihu transformed to a agrarian people of distinctive characteristics from a nomads mainly living on stock raising. The successful transformation of Huihu had far - reaching impacts on the formation of modem Uygur and the development of Xinjiang history.