Pirooz The Last Sassanid Shahanshah in China

Tang held sway over Samarkand and Tashkent briefly after putting an end to both east and western gok-turk khagnates and put garrisons all the way to the border of persia to protect trade routes.

Edited by MING-LOYALIST - 04-May-2007 at 00:27

yes if i am not wrong it was in han dynasty that they reach to that area. I am sure thay were there in tang dynasty era.

why made up by Arabs? whats the point?

what do you "could", he already tired to do so and Failed.

 

I made it Clear enough for you, any off topic posts will be deleted from my last replay to you onward.

you dont want to use PM, its your choice, iam not intersted in discussing with you anything related to our forum clasifications in this thread.

thanks.

azimuth.

 

 

 

Edited by azimuth

Sorry, but I've to go off topic. I said somthing here & I've to answer here

1. you didn't answer me, why do you love only Iran related topic??
why don't you go to other forum & move unrelated topic??

2.
I. Sassanid is under Greater Iran.
II. if you mean Geographically still it's under Greater Iran.
III. by the same reason it would be in east Asia forum.
IV. by the time, There is Overlap among Classical & Greater Iran.

3.

Originally posted by Azimuth moving alot of topic lately from ancient forums because it seems like people are confused with the naming i hope they change the name as Zagros suggested to avoid member being confused where to post.

Interesting, last time Iranian History forum had this problem, Which has been Deleted.
Now the Greater Iran name is problem
next Iran's name in subtitle would be problem

I wonder how active you are Azimuth.
especially on Iranian related topics.
If it's all mods task, why don't they perform it as you.
& if it's only you who stand for it, why don't you perform for other topics in other forums??stamble();

Anyway, as for your information Land of Aryan, "frank wong" is a cantonese, not from X'ian, as a glance at his name would have told you.

Edited by wefone90

Persians in China

This is a wonderful website. I enjoyed reading it. There is no mention of Persian Zoroastrian immigrants to China. I am Chinese from China. My family lives in Xuajiulan county, about 28 miles west of Xian (formerly Chang'an) city. Chang'an was the capital of many Chinese dynasties in the past. Many foreigners once lived there, especially from Iran. Some came as merchants, entertainers and religious missionaries.

In 651 A.D., King Yazdgerd III was captured by Muslim Arabs in today's Turkmenistan and beheaded. His son, Pirooz survived and fled east to China. He gathered and assembled other powerful Iranian clans: Garen, Suren, Spabad, Varazpor, etc.

They all passed through the snowy Pamir mountains in today's Tajikistan and made it into China to seek the emperor's help. The Chinese king had a wife who was the sister of Pirooz. So, the court of Pirooz was allowed to set up in exile in western China. Many villages today in northwestern China (Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan provinces) bear marks of Persian ancestry or influence.

For example, in my village, they found a 9th century A.D. tombstone of the daughter of a Chinese general. She is a descendant of the noble Persian Garen family clan and her tombstone has bilingual inscriptions on it (presumably ancient Persian). The village next to ours is entitled "Xi Wang Chuan." This means "village of a western king." The villagers look Chinese, but many have pretty big noses. They are Buddhists and some are Christian. Their Buddhism is different from local tradition.

On Chinese Spring Festival, we normally burn incense and paper money. This village only lights on fire the rest of the evening, which is strange to our tradition. They also often do not get along with Chinese Muslims for whatever reason. I heard that they claim to have the burial site of Pirooz, the son of Yazdgerd.

Anyways, there is a lot of Pre-Islamic Persian heritage in every Chinese region and families. It is probably in all of us. But, they made a commitment to become Chinese and forget their painful memories after they left Iran from Arabic invasions.

My village and people would welcome any Iranian visitors. Perhaps, we can bridge back the lost connections. I have the story of Peroz's family biography and story. I am just beginning to read it. It's in ancient Chinese language and may take some time. When finished, I want to share it with the Iranian people. Let them know and understand Pirooz was a good man too.

A Chinese friend and brother,

Frank Wong

http://www.iranian.com/Letters/2000/August/chinese.html