Huyan

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Huyan

Pronunciation Hūyǎn (Pinyin)
Language(s) Chinese
Origin
Language(s) Xiongnu language
Derivation name of the earliest matrilineal ancestor of the Huyan clan
Other names
Variant(s) (Mandarin)
See also Ashina (clan)


The Huyan (Chinese: 呼衍、呼延; Wade–Giles: Huyen; Mongolian:Khiyad[1]) was a noble house that led the last remnants of the Northern Xiongnu, to Dzungaria during the 2nd century, after the Battle of Ikh Bayan. The noble clan of Huyan, is an earlier maternal lineage or last name, subsequently replaced by Suybu tribe, much as the Ashina (阿史那) and Yujiulu (郁久閭).[2][3][4]

By the 3rd century BCE, the upper stratum of the Xiongnu was made up of five aristocratic houses, the Luanti (攣鞮, house of Shanyu and the Tuqi of the east and west), Huyan (呼衍, Tr. Kuyan = Jack rabbit), Xubu (須卜, Tr. Suibu, Suybu = [s/h]Yui Tribe), Qiulin (丘林) and Lan (蘭, Tr. Lan = Orchard). Both noble houses of Huyan (Kuyan), and Xubu (Suybu), settled in the east, Qiulin and Lan in the west, while Luanti at the center of Mongolia.[2][3][5]

Prominent people with family name Huyan

  • Several empresses of the Sixteen Kingdoms Period
  • Huyan Zan (呼延贊), general of the Northern Song Dynasty
  • Huyan Zhuo (呼延灼), fictional character in the Chinese classical novel Water Margin and fictitious descendant of Huyan Zan

Notes

  1. ↑ History of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 2003
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lin (1986), p. 33–45, 114-119
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wang (2004), p. 132–147,
  4. ↑ Bichurin N.Ya., "Collection of information on peoples in Central Asia in ancient times", vol. 1, Sankt Petersburg, 1851, p. 15 ( note 1: Huyan and Suibu always were in marital relationship with Shanuy. Suibu had a post of the State Judge. The custom of taking for the Khan maidens only from the same houses also survived in the Chingis-khan's house.)
  5. ↑ Gumilev L.N., "Hunnu in China", Moscow, 'Science', 1974

References

  • Lin, Gan (1986). A Comprehensive History of Xiongnu. Beijing: People's Press. CN / K289.
  • Wang, Zhonghan (2004). Outlines of Ethnic Groups in China. Taiyuan: Shanxi Education Press. ISBN 7-5440-2660-4.
  • Gumilev L.N., "Hunnu in China", Moscow, 'Science', 1974, ISBN 5-85990-092-9


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