Xiongnu is a nomadic people in the desert and grassland of ancient Mongolia. Most of them lived in the Gobi Desert, and initially established a country in Ordos, Mongolia Plateau. Xiongnu is a nomadic tribe that rose in the 3rd century BC. The heyday of Xiongnu was from 209 BC to 128 BC.
In the history of Mongolia, it was ruled by many nationalities such as Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, Turkic and Qidan. 1206, Genghis Khan established Great Mongolia. 127 1 year, his grandson Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty.
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Huns are mainly hunting, nomadic and animal husbandry, relying on horses, cattle and sheep, of which horses are the most important. In diet, meat and dairy products are particularly common, and sometimes fish is eaten. Its habitat often moves to other places with the change of seasons.
Huns make clothes out of animal clothes. They made trousers, boots, robes, pointed hats or hoods long ago, which are very suitable for local life in terms of weight and warmth. The place to live is called the vault. It is a tent made of felt tents, and the beams are made of wooden strips. And use all kinds of pottery and metal utensils.
Huns not only cultivated fields to produce grain, but also built warehouses to store grain. In addition to farming in the headquarters, there are horse riding fields in the western regions. Huns also attached great importance to commercial exchange, exchanging livestock for luxury goods. He often traded with * * * and resold * * goods to western countries, including the Roman Empire, especially when the passage to the western regions was interrupted in the Han Dynasty.
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Are Huns Mongols? Huns belong to Mongolian race.
Xiongnu, an ancient nomadic people in northern China, rose at the foot of Yinshan Mountain in Inner Mongolia today. They wore long hair. According to Historical Records Biography of Xiongnu, Xiongnu is a descendant of Xia Houshi, also known as Chunwei. Above Tang Yu, there are mountain glory, stubbornness and meat porridge, which live in Beiman and move with the grazing. Xiongnu in China ancient books is a powerful nomadic people who ruled the northern part of the Central Plains in the late Qin Dynasty and early Han Dynasty.
The users of slate tomb culture in central and eastern Mongolia may be the same clan of Xiongnu and Donghu. Xiongnu and Donghu belong to the North Asian type of Mongolian race. They are homologous in species, close in geographical scope and similar in cultural characteristics.
Xiongnu and Mongolia may be the same nation. Of course, it can't be said that Huns are the direct ancestors of Mongols, and they are far apart in time.
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Xiongnu territory
When the Xiongnu was strong, it broke the East Lake in the east, joined Loulan and Wang Di in Henan in the south, attacked Yueshi and other countries in the western regions in the west, served Dingling in the north and Jiankun in the northwest. The mountain range is centered on the Mongolian Plateau and extends eastward to the eastern part of Inner Mongolia.
The Great Wall of the South is adjacent to the Qin and Han Dynasties and once controlled the Hetao and Ordos regions. Crossing Altai Mountain to the west, reaching Qingji and Fergana Valley, and reaching the periphery of Lake Baikal to the north. Known as the "country of hundred barbarians".
Centered on the Great Gobi, it is divided into two parts: the south and the north. Different from today, in the mountainous areas south of the desert, such as Yinshan Mountain, there were a lot of trees at that time, while there were vast grasslands on the flat land.
During the Cao Wei period, Xiongnu was divided into five parts: left, right, south, north and middle. Zuo Shuai Liu Bao is in charge of more than 10 thousand households and lives in Taiyuan County (now Linfen, Shanxi Province). There are 6,000 households in the right, living in Qixian County (now Qixian County, Shanxi Province); There are more than 4,000 households in the north, living in Xinxing County (now Xinzhou, Shanxi); More than 3,000 households in the south, living in Baozi County (now Xixian County, Shanxi Province); There are 6,000 families living in Daling County (now Wenshui, Shanxi Province) in Central China. * * * More than 30,000 households with a population of nearly 200,000.