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.
In 2 15 BC, Xiongnu was expelled from Hetao and Hexi Corridor by Meng Tian. Xiongnu became strong in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and invaded the border many times, posing a powerful threat to the Western Han regime and controlling the western regions. Later defeated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he retreated to Mobei and split into five parts.
In 65438 BC+065438 BC+09 BC, surrounded by the Han army and the surrendered Xiongnu, General Huo Qubing "sealed the wolf in Xushan, meditated in Gu Yan and boarded the Han Sea (now Lake Baikal)". In 53 BC, Uhaanyehe, the leader of the southern Xiongnu, led his troops to surrender to the Western Han Dynasty.
In 33 BC, in the first year of Liu Shi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Uhaanyehe went to Han for the third time and invited himself as his husband. Wang Zhaojun married him. Since then, Han and Xiongnu have maintained peace for more than 60 years. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xiongnu was divided into South Xiongnu and North Xiongnu again. In 48 AD, the Southern Xiongnu surrendered to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu and was placed in Hetao area.
The uncertainty of the rebellion of the Northern Xiongnu made the Eastern Han Dynasty determined to destroy the Northern Xiongnu. In 89 AD, in the first year of Liu Yuannian, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, General Dou Xian attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and Ban Gu laid the foundation stone at the southern foot of the mountain (now Hang Ai Mountain in Mongolia), inscribed with an inscription to close the mountain. Southern Xiongnu established the former Zhao regime in the period of Five Hu and Sixteen States. Fox Summer was founded by the Huns, descendants of Xianbei, and the iron rich.
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The peak period of Xiongnu Xiongnu Kingdom in the Maodun period was from 209 BC to 128 BC (***8 1 year), that is, the period of Maodun, Laoshang, monarch and minister, which was equivalent to China's period from the first year of Qin Ershi to the first year of Han Yuanshuo. During the Khan period, the national strength was hit by the Han army and turned from prosperity to decline.
By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after nearly 70 years of recuperation, the economy and national strength of the Western Han Dynasty were greatly enhanced, and three wars were launched against the Xiongnu from strategic defense to strategic attack: the battle of Henan (also known as the battle of Monan), the battle of Hexi and the battle of Mobei. At this time, it was the time when Khan was in office.
In 127 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Wei Qing to recover Henan. In BC 12 1 year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Huo Qubing to seize the Hexi Corridor, surrendered 100,000 Huns on the right, and set up four counties: Wuwei, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and Zhangye.
BC 1 19, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing led fifty thousand cavalry to attack in two ways, Wei Qing was defeated by Khan, and Huo Qubing left more than seventy thousand troops to seal the wolf in Xuzhou. The two armies annihilated more than 90,000 Huns, making it impossible to cross the desert south for a while.
The decline and fall of Xiongnu was from an oblique Khan to Uhaanyehe, and as Khan experienced 18, starting from Ding Yuan, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and ending from Zhao Jian, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (the first 36 years).
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