Who was called the Xiongnu by the Song Dynasty in the first place? Where are they from?

At the beginning, the Song Dynasty called the Xiongnu were the nomads of the north. They are from the Inner Mongolia region.

They were a nomadic people from the north, in the foothills of the Yinshan Mountains in present-day Inner Mongolia, and over time, they also migrated to the central part of Shanxi and lived with some Han Chinese.

Yue Fei was a person from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and at that time, Yue Fei was a person who made a lot of contributions to the nation, and the troops led by Yue Fei were also very capable.

If the Han represents the Chinese, the Xiongnu are the ancestors of the Mongols. It is the ancestor of the Inner Mongolian compatriots and the Mongolians, and it has nothing to do with the Chinese Han people. If it is hard, it is also the descendant of the Huns, Kublai Khan, who became the emperor of the Chinese territory, and he can barely be regarded as Chinese.

The Xiongnu always harassed the Central Plains, but never ruled the Central Plains, and were beaten by the Han Dynasty to move westward and establish Hungary in Eastern Europe.

Not to mention the occupation of the Central Plains by the Mongols, they also continued to expand in all directions, occupying an extremely vast land, far better than the Xiongnu.

Genghis Khan's grandson, Batu, led a large army into Poland and Hungary, all the way to Vienna. In a direct confrontation between the Mongols and the descendants of the Xiongnu, the Mongols won a great victory.

The Xiongnu were certainly not Chinese, and the Mongols were founded for a short time, and they were not Mongols, let alone Russians.

Xiongnu is only the name of an ethnic group, and does not belong to the nationals of the above-mentioned countries.

It's Chinese.

Mongolia was not originally an independent state, but an ordinary nomadic people in China. Not to mention that Russia moved eastward.

Chinese cannot be Russians.

None of them, the Xiongnu never really built a country that has been inherited to this day.

They were all ethnic minorities in northern China, but after thousands of years of evolution, the Xiongnu migrated west, the Mongols retreated to the steppes, and Manchuria further integrated with the Han Chinese.

To say that the Song Dynasty was "weak" is basically compared with the "strong" of the Han and Tang dynasties. Then let's compare the difference between the enemies faced by the Song Dynasty and the Han and Tang Dynasties. In the previous article, Guo Shi Jun (General Theory of National History) said that the reason why the Song Dynasty was "weak" had a lot to do with its congenital deficiencies in the establishment of the state, but the Song Dynasty's policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force and guarding the internal and external void also led to its great military limitations.

Among the several congenital "deficiencies", one is that the enemies faced by the two Song Dynasty were very different from the Xiongnu of the Han Dynasty and the Turks of the Tang Dynasty, which was manifested in the following aspects:

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The text of the Three Dynasties of Saibei.

The Xiongnu and Turks were relatively simple nomadic peoples, they lived by water and grass, and basically did not form cities and their own civilizations, but the Song Dynasty faced Liao, Jin, Western Xia, and Mongolian socks were very different. In previous articles, Guo Shi Jun (General Theory of National History) has repeatedly introduced the characters created by the "Three Dynasties of Saibei", although they are all based on Chinese characters, but they have all formed a mature system, and they have been used for hundreds of years. After the establishment of the Liao Dynasty, the Han scholar class was reused, such as Han Zhigu, Han Yanhui and others, using the political system of the Han people, imitating the Han people to establish the imperial city, and building Confucian temples, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples and so on in Shangjing, compared with the Xiongnu and Turkic, the Khitan is like an agricultural civilization society.

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Wei Huo drove straight in.

The Xiongnu, Turkic, and Uighur faced by the Han and Tang dynasties had few concepts of defense, and the areas they ruled did not have a fixed territory. Therefore, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, and Xue Rengui can drive straight in. There is no need to worry about attacking the city, and there is less baggage with the army, so once the main forces meet, they can fight quickly.

However, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia have been strengthening defensive measures for a long time, and the sixteen states of Yanyun are in their hands.

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The Southern Song Dynasty confronted Jin and Western Xia.

The Huns and Turks watched the sky and ate, and their reasons for going south were very simple and rude - I was hungry! In most cases, cattle and sheep production decreased, and they only came to China to plunder resources when they were hungry, and they never coveted the land of the Han and Tang dynasties, and they generally did not invade on a very large scale, and there were few leaders such as Mao Dunshan Yu. However, the "Three Dynasties of Saibei" and Mongolia are completely different, Liao mastered the sixteen states of Yanyun, and later Jin occupied the Central Plains north of the Yellow River, and Mongolia occupied the Central Plains for a hundred years, they never had the meaning of packing home after they were full, and among them also emerged Yelu Abaoji, Wanyan Aguta, Genghis Khan and other military geniuses.

The Southern Song Dynasty confronted the Mongols.

Therefore, although the military strength and pioneering spirit of the Song Dynasty were very "weak" compared to the Han and Tang Dynasties, it cannot be denied that the Song Dynasty was not easy, and the enemies faced were too strong to rent Chang, and these enemies coveted around the Song Dynasty almost at the same time.

I think that if the opponent of the Song Dynasty was the Xiongnu, then the Song Dynasty might have been destroyed more quickly, because the strength of the Xiongnu was stronger.

If the opponent of the Song Dynasty was the Xiongnu, then the Song Dynasty should have lost, because the Song Dynasty was too weak, and the Xiongnu were very strong.

The Song Dynasty would have suffered a crushing defeat, and the Xiongnu would have no room to fight back.