What was the history of the Xiongnu like?

According to the "Historical Records", the ancestors of the Xiongnu were the remnants of the Xia Dynasty, and in the process of migrating westward, they integrated the Caucasian people of Yueshi, Loulan, Wusun, Hujie and the 26 countries next to them. "Historical Records: The Biography of the Huns" recorded: "The Xiongnu, the descendants of the descendants of the Xia Hou clan, are called Chunwei.

Above Tang Yu, there are Shanrong, Qianyun, and Xun porridge, which live in the north and move with grass and animal husbandry." "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the North" says: The dog Rong and the Xia people have the same ancestor, both from the Yellow Emperor.

Historical Records Suoyin quoted Zhang Yan as saying: "Chunwei ran to the north with Yin. It means that Chunwei, a descendant of Xia, fled to the north during the Shang Dynasty, and his descendants multiplied into the Xiongnu.

There is also a theory that the descendants of Xia who moved to the north are the sons of Xia Wei. Xia Wei died in exile for three years, and his son Xiong Hu, with his father's wife and concubine, took refuge in the northern wilderness, migrating with livestock, which is called the Xiongnu in China. According to the second half of the text recorded in the "Historical Records", some scholars believe that the Xiongnu were originally Shanrong, Qiang, and meat porridge.

Wang Guowei made a systematic summary of the evolution of the name of the Xiongnu in "Ghost Fang Kunyi Monkey Examination", and believed that the ghost Fang, Chaoyi, and Qiangqi in the Shang Dynasty, the Qiang in the Zhou Dynasty, the Rong and Di in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Hu in the Warring States Period were all the so-called Xiongnu in later generations. "To destroy the Yue clan, kill and decide. Loulan, Wusun, Hujie and the 26 countries next to them have all been Xiongnu.

The people of the bow are one family, and the northern state is determined. [3] There is also a saying that the different ethnic groups seen in historical books such as Guirong, Yiqu, Yanjing, Yuwu, Loufu, and Dali are collectively referred to as the Xiongnu. By the Han Dynasty, "the Xiongnu were slightly stronger, encroaching on the princes, so they broke the Yueshi, because of the military might, migrated to a small country, led the people of the bow, and became a family,"[4] that is, the Xiongnu unified the nomads in the north.

From then on, the Xiongnu also called themselves Hu people, or "the proud son of the sky", and sent an envoy to the Han Shuyun: "There is a great Han in the south, and there is a strong Hu in the north." Hu, the pride of the sky, does not bother himself with small gifts. 」

The entire history of the Xiongnu, if you want to write it, is too much. I recommend taking a look at the "History of the Huns" written by Lin Gan, which is very well written.

The ancient Xiongnu were the present-day Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ningxia Autonomous Region, Mongolia, Xinjiang Autonomous Region and other regions.

When the Xiongnu were strong, the range was centered on the Mongolian Plateau and extended to the eastern part of Inner Mongolia in the east. It was adjacent to the Qin and Han dynasties along the Great Wall in the south, and once controlled the Hetao and Ordos areas. To the west it crosses the Altai Mountains to the Green Mountains and the Fergana Basin, and to the north to the periphery of Lake Baikal.

The word "Xiongnu" first appeared in China's history, according to the "Historical Records" recorded in 318 BC (the third year of King Shenliang of Zhou, the seventh year of King Huiwen of Qin). From Maodunshan (209-174 B.C.) to the westward migration of the Xiongnu (91 A.D., Yongyuan 3), the Xiongnu slave regime existed in the north and south of the desert for a full 300 years, and then the scattered Xiongnu were active in the history of our country for nearly 200 years. It was not until the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties that the Xiongnu gradually disappeared in the historical books of our country.

The Xiongnu were an ethnic minority in the north of the ancient Chinese regime and had not yet been incorporated into China. They are not called Xiongnu, the Xiongnu is the name given by our country to foreign ethnic minorities.

The Xiongnu are the descendants of the Xia Hou clan. From the Central Plains to the grassland. In the stage of continuous development of agricultural civilization in the Central Plains, some tribes that had been abandoned because of the defeat in the war gradually developed the grassland civilization.

The historical process of continuous conflict and integration between the northern nomads and the Central Plains peoples has been formed. It is not accurate to simply use non-ethnic groups to summarize the Xiongnu and other ethnic groups.

The Xiongnu came from the prince of the Xia Dynasty to build a continuation of the dynasty Xiongnu, and both the Xiongnu and the Xia Dynasty were built by the Yellow Emperor.

The Xiongnu were actually differentiated from the Xia descendants of Beiye, and in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were different names that were collectively referred to as the ancient Xiongnu.

What is there to ask about the things that are used in the historical records, is it interesting to provoke discussions, and what do you want to do?

The Northeast did not belong to the Xiongnu in ancient times. In ancient times, the Northeast did not belong to the territory of the Xiongnu, and the territory occupied by the Xiongnu in history was the present-day Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ningxia Autonomous Region, Mongolia and other regions. This ethnic group was once so strong that it directly threatened the territory of the Qin and Han dynasties.

In 215 BC, the Xiongnu were driven out of the Hetao region by the Qin general Meng Tian.

History of the XiongnuThe earliest record of the Xiongnu appeared in the "Historical Records", at the end of the Warring States period, the Xiongnu increasingly became the most powerful tribal group in northern Xinjiang, during the Qin and Han dynasties, Mao Dun killed his father and established himself as Shan Yu, and conquered Donghu, establishing the first nomadic state power in the history of northern Xinjiang. The people of the bow were one country, and they fought against the Han Dynasty, sometimes as "enemy states", sometimes as "vassal states", and sometimes as ethnic minorities under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.

As a tribal group, the origin of the Xiongnu can be traced back to the Xia Shang; As a nomadic regime, it is generally consistent with the two Han Dynasty; As a nomadic people, the Xiongnu were the source of the nomadic peoples who arose later, and their economic lifestyle, military and political system, religious and cultural customs were basically inherited by the later nomads.