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Xiongnu
3rd century BC–460s
Territory of the Xiongnu (green), circa 250BC
Capital
Longcheng (龙城/蘢城), nearKhoshoo Tsaidam (present-day inMongolia), was established as the annual meeting place andde facto capital.
TheXiongnu (Chinese:匈奴) were a group ofnomads who lived north ofChina from the 3rd century BC to the 460s AD. Their lands were infertile, so they often attacked China. To stop these attacks, the first emperor of China,Qin Shi Huang, built theGreat Wall of China between 214 and 206BC. SomeHan dynasty emperors tried to make peace with them, but the Xiongnu continued to attack Chineseborders.
Some people believe that the Xiongnu were related to theHuns, and this idea is still widely accepted today. In the past, different nomadic tribes often lived together, even if they spoke different languages. Around 60BC, a power struggle led to the Xiongnu breaking up into five smaller groups.
In 202AD, the leader of the Southern Xiongnu surrendered toCao Cao, the Prime Minister of the Han dynasty.
The Han dynasty sent unrelated women falsely labeled as princesses and members of the Han imperial family when they were practicing Heqin marriage alliances with the Xiongnu.[3][4][5][6][7]
The Xiongnu practiced marriage alliances with Han dynasty officers and officials. The older sister of the Chanyu (the Xiongnu ruler) was married to the Xiongnu GeneralZhao Xin, the Marquis of Xi who was serving the Han dynasty. The daughter of theQiedihou Chanyu was married to the Han Chinese GeneralLi Ling after he surrendered and defected.[8][9][10][11][12] TheYenisei Kirghiz Khagans claimed descent from Li Ling.[13][14] Another Han Chinese General who defected to the Xiongnu wasLi Guangli who also married a daughter of the Chanyu.[15] The Han Chinese diplomatSu Wu married a Xiongnu woman given by Li Ling when he was arrested and taken captive.[16] Han Chinese explorer Zhang Qian married a Xiongnu woman and had a child with her when he was taken captive by the Xiongnu.Han Emperor Wu dispatched the Han Chinese explorerZhang Qian to explore the mysterious kingdoms to the west and to form an alliance with the Yuezhi people in order to combat the Xiongnu. During this time Zhang married a Xiongnu wife, who bore him a son, and gained the trust of the Xiongnu leader.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
The Kyrgyzkhagans claimed descent from the Chinese generalLi Ling, grandson of the famousHan dynasty generalLi Guang.[24][25][26][27] Li Ling was captured by the Xiongnu and defected in the first century BCE.[28][29] And since the Tang royal Li family also claimed descent from Li Guang, the Kirghiz Khagan was therefore recognized as a member of the Tang Imperial family. This relationship soothed the relationship when Kyrgyz khaganAre (阿熱) invadedUyghur Khaganate and put Qasar Qaghan to the sword. The news brought toChang'an by Kyrgyz ambassador Zhuwu Hesu (註吾合素).
The Khitan rulerAbaoji did extend his influence onto the Mongolian Plateau in 924, but there is no indication whatsoever of any conflict with the Kyrgyz. The only information we have from Khitan (Liao) sources regarding the Kyrgyz indicates that the two powers maintained diplomatic relations. Scholars who write of a Kyrgyz "empire" from about 840 to about 924 are describing a fantasy. All available evidence suggests that despite some brief extensions of their power onto the Mongolian Plateau, the Kyrgyz did not maintain a significant political or military presence there after their victories in the 840s.
↑Lo, Ping-cheung (2015)."11 Legalism and offensive realism in the Chinese court debate on defending national security 81 BCE". In Lo, Ping-cheung; Twiss, Sumner B (eds.).Chinese Just War Ethics: Origin, Development, and Dissent. War, Conflict and Ethics (illustrateded.). Routledge. p.269.ISBN978-1317580973.There were altogether nine marriages of Han princesses (fake or real) to the Xiongnu during these roughly 60 years (for a complete list of details, see Cui 2007a, 555). We will call this policy Heqin Model One, and, as Ying-shih Yu ...
↑Chin, Tamara T. (2020).Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination. Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law. BRILL. p.225.ISBN978-1684170784.In the Han- Wusun alliance (unlike the Han- Xiongnu heqin agreements) the gifts flowed in the proper direction, ... Thus, while Empress Lü transgressed the heqin marriage in having a false princess sent, Liu Jing's original proposal ...
↑Chin, Tamara Ta Lun (2005).Savage Exchange: Figuring the Foreign in the Early Han Dynasty. University of California, Berkeley. p.66, 73, 74.Figuring the Foreign in the Early Han Dynasty Tamara Ta Lun Chin ... Emperor Han Wudi's military push to reverse the power relations between Xiongnu and Han stands in stark contrast to the original ... Xiongnu with a false princess .
↑Mosol, Lee (2013).Ancient History of the Manchuria. Xlibris Corporation. p.77.ISBN978-1483667676.... 孝文皇帝 sent a girl as a new wife for the Chanyu as a 'fake princess of Royal family' with a eunuch named '中行 ... The Han lured the Xiongnu chief deep into the China proper town called "馬邑," but Gunchen Chanyu realized the trap ...
↑Indian Society for Prehistoric & Quaternary Studies (1998).Man and environment, Volume 23, Issue 1. Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies. p.6. Retrieved2011-04-17.
↑Kyzlasov, Leonid R. (2010).The Urban Civilization of Northern and Innermost Asia Historical and Archaeological Research(PDF). Curatores seriei VICTOR SPINEI et IONEL CANDEÂ VII. Vol.The Urban Civilization of Northern and Innermost Asia Historical and Archaeological Research. ROMANIAN ACADEMY INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF IAȘI Editura Academiei Romane - Editura Istros. p.245.ISBN978-973-27-1962-6. Florilegium magistrorum historiae archaeologiaeque Antiqutatis et Medii Aevi.
↑Veit, Veronika-, ed. (2007).The role of women in the Altaic world: Permanent International Altaistic Conference, 44th meeting, Walberberg, 26-31 August 2001. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. p.61.ISBN978-3-447-05537-6.OCLC182731462.
↑Drompp, Michael R. (1999). "Breaking the Orkhon Tradition: Kirghiz Adherence to the Yenisei Region after A. D. 840".Journal of the American Oriental Society.119 (3):394–395.doi:10.2307/605932.JSTOR605932.