Wengniute, also written as "Wenglibute" or "Onnuwude", is generally interpreted as "kings", and the root of this word comes from "Wangguwude". According to the record of "Mongolian Nomads": "The third brother of Yuan Taizu (Genghis Khan Temujin), Nuochuyin (Hechiwen), his descendant Mengkechahan Nuoyan had two sons, the eldest son Bayandai Qinghonggornuo Yan, the title of his department is Wengniute."
(The scenery of Wengniute)
"Qing History Manuscript" also records: "Wengniute is a descendant of Genghis Khan's brother He Chiwen. The names of the tribes they led." But they didn't say what they meant. They just said that the tribe led by Hechiwen's descendants was called "Wengniute tribe".
Later, with the need to trace the origin, some people began to interpret "Wengniute" as "the tribe of the kings" because everyone respected the descendants of the brothers of Genghis Khan, Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty, and then evolved it into "the kings". them".
However, what exactly does "Wengniute" mean?
Its true meaning should be "sacred mountain", which is also confirmed by the nomadic people of the Wengniute tribe who have believed in mountain gods for generations. Looking through historical materials, the custom of worshiping mountain gods can be traced back to the ancient Donghu people.
During the Warring States Period, the Donghu were defeated by the neighboring Huns, and their tribes were defeated. One of the remaining tribes came to the Xianbei Mountains (today's Zhelimu League) and evolved into the Xianbei tribe; the other tribe came to the Wuhuan Mountains. (in today's Arukorqin Banner, Chifeng City), evolved into the Wuhuan (Wuwan) tribe. Wuhuan is the "Ulan" in Mongolian reading, which means red. Wudan, the seat of the Wengniute Banner government today, actually It is the transliteration of Wuhuan (or Wulan), and it is definitely not interpreted literally as Purple City.
Many place names in Inner Mongolia are Chinese transliterations of Mongolian names. There are errors and transliterations of words in this process. They must not be misrepresented or misinformed to fool the people. Some so-called "experts" do it for "profit" rather than scholarship.
Yu Qian said in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Geographic Textual Research of Wuhuan Biography": "This mountain (referring to Wuhuan Mountain) is tall and serves as the main line of the southbound route of the Xing'an Mountains. Therefore, when the tribesmen walked eastward, they had to base themselves on the mountain. Bao, Yongshi is respected as a god, so the souls of people who have died have returned to this mountain."
Wuhuan moved south twice during the Han Dynasty.
One time was in the fourth year of Yuanshou (119 BC) of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty moved Wuhuan to Yuyang, Shanggu, Youbeiping (Youbeiping is the southern area of ??Chifeng and its surroundings), Liaoxi, The purpose of the five counties in Liaodong outside the fortress was to use Wuhuan to defend the Huns;
The other time was in the 25th year of Emperor Guangwu's founding in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 49). Some of the five counties outside the fortress settled in the fortress, and they were distributed in Liaodong, Liaoxi, Youbeiping, Yuyang, Guangyang, Shanggu, Dai, Yanmen, Taiyuan, and Shuofang were known as the ten counties of Wuwan in history. They were led by the "Huwuwan Xiaowei", which also brought Wuhuan to its peak.
However, the Wuhuan people have a custom of escorting the souls of the deceased back to Chishan (Chifeng Hongshan). This ancient custom has been continued by the Wengniute tribe, and the Xianbei Mountain of the Xianbei people has also been Interpreted as "auspicious mountain", judging from some customs, the Wengniute tribe was the one when Cao Cao defeated Tadun in the Three Kingdoms. Most of the Wuhuan ministers belonged to Cao Wei and were organized into cavalry. According to historical records, "Wuhuan in the three counties are famous cavalry in the world." , and the "Chishan Wuhuan" who were still active outside the Great Wall later were not found in historical data, and evolved into the main body of the Wengniu Special Tribe.
The Wuhuan people split from Donghu to Wuhuan in Cao Caoping County for more than 500 years. They have always been centered in the Laoha River and Xilamulun River basins. They may have disappeared completely and must have merged into the nomadic people that emerged later, most of which were classified as Xianbei, and the Wengniute people were most likely the descendants of Wuhuan in Chishan.