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The
Xianbei were a significant nomadic people residing in
Manchuria and eastern
Mongolia, or
Xianbei Shan. They were descendants of
Donghu, a historic term for
Greater Khingan, before migrating into areas of the modern Chinese provinces of
Shanxi,
Shaanxi,
Gansu,
Qinghai,
Hebei,
Inner Mongolia, and
Liaoning. Possibly some tribes of these people also lived in ancient Eastern
Heilongjiang or
Hulun Manchu Imperial province, currently
Khabarovsk and
Amur regions in the
Russian Far East.
The Xianbei people actually consisted of a federation of sizeable non-Han groups of which the most important was the
Tuoba (拓跋). They first became a significant part of
Chinese culture during the
Han Dynasty, where they occupied the steppes in Mongolia,
Hebei and
Liaodong. After the fall of the Han dynasty, the Xianbei formed a number of empires of their own, including the
Yan Dynasty,
Western Qin,
Southern Liang and most significantly, the
Northern Wei (see
Sixteen Kingdoms). By the time of the
Tang dynasty they'd largely merged with
Han populace by adopting its customs, administration and language. The emperors
Yang Guang of the
Sui Dynasty and
Li Yuan of the
Tang Dynasty were born of Xianbei mothers and therefore half-Xianbei.
A Xianbei ruler was recorded as having had fair hair as were later some
Tatars from the same area, as well as some other
Tungusic peoples.
Mongol and
Khitan may have descended from Xianbei according to Chinese historical records.
The
Xibe people is believed themselves to be descendants of the Xianbei. The name of
Russia's
Siberia is a direct phonetic translation to the ancient tribe of "Xianbei". There is a city wall in Siberia today that remains from the Xianbei tribe.
Historical sources
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