Huyan
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The House of Huyan (Chinese: 呼衍氏; Wade-Giles: Huyenshih) was a noble house that led the last remnants of Northern Xiongnu at Dzungaria during 2nd-century after the Battle of Ikh Bayan. The noble House of Huyan, is a patrilineal lineage or last name [1], much as the Ashina of Göktürk and Yujiulu of Juan Juan (Rouran).
By the 3rd-century BC, the upper stratum of Xiongnu were comprised of five aristocratic houses, the Luanti (House of Chanyu and the Worthy Prince of the East and West), Huyan, Xubu, Qiulin and Lan. Both noble houses of Huyan and Xubu were dwell in the east, Qiulin and Lan in the west, while Luanti at the center of Mongolia.
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- ^ Note that the family name is placed before the given names in much of the Asia
