The territory of the ancient Xiongnu centered on the Mongolian Plateau and extended to the eastern part of Inner Mongolia. South along the Great Wall and adjacent to Qin and Han Dynasties, it once controlled the Hetao Plain and Ordos area.
Xiongnu is an ancient nomadic people in northern China, rising at the foot of Yinshan Mountain in Inner Mongolia. Xiongnu in ancient books in China is a powerful nomadic people who ruled the north of the Central Plains in the late Qin Dynasty and early Han Dynasty. The heyday of the Xiongnu Empire was from 176 BC to 128 BC, mainly distributed in the Ordos Plateau east of Altai Mountain.
Although the Huns in history have always lived on the grassland north of the Great Wall, they basically collapsed under the attack of the Han Dynasty. Some of them have established political power in Eastern Europe, it is said that they are in Hungary, while a small number of them no longer exist in the Central Plains.
Historical origin
A "Xiongnu" was first seen in Yizhoushu Wang Hui, Shanhaijing Hainei Nanjing and Zhanguoce Yance III during the Warring States Period. According to historical records, 3 18 BC (three years in Liang Wang, Shen Zhou, and seven years in Yuan Geng, the king of Qin).
From Maodun at the beginning of the 2nd century BC to the westward migration of the northern Xiongnu at the end of 1 A.D., the Xiongnu slavery regime existed in the north and south of the desert and lasted for 300 years. Since then, the discrete Huns have been active in the history of China for nearly two hundred years. It was not until the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties that Xiongnu gradually disappeared from China's historical records.
The book Historical Records not only refers to China people as descendants of the Chinese people, but also refers to Qin people, Chu people, Wu people, Yue people, Shu people, Southwest Yi people, Xiongnu people and ancient Korea as descendants of the Chinese people. Sima Qian thinks that "Huns, descendants of their ancestor Xia Houshi, are also called Chunwei. Above Tang Yu, there are mountain glory, stubbornness and meat porridge, which live in Beiman and move with the grazing. "
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiongnu