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Xiongnu art is harder to distinguish from Saka or Scythian art. There is a similarity present in stylistic execution, but Xiongnu art and Saka art often differ in terms of iconography. Saka art does not appear to have included predation scenes, especially with dead prey, or same-animal combat.
Anonymous painting of Cai Wenji and her Xiongnu husband (Zuoxianwang) dated from the Southern Song dynasty (文姬归汉图). They are riding their horses, each holding one of their sons. The expression on Wenji's face appears fulfilled, peaceful, and content, while the husband is turning his head back in farewell.
The Northern Liang (Chinese: 北涼; pinyin: Běi Liáng; 397–439) [3] was a dynastic state of China and one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history. It was ruled by the Juqu (沮渠) family of Lushuihu ethnicity, [3] though they are sometimes categorized as Xiongnu in some historiographies. [4]
The rulers of Xia came from the Tiefu tribe, who descended from the Southern Xiongnu leader, Qubei.Qubei was a member of the ruling-Luandi clan as the brother of the chanyu, Qiangqu, although a later and more dubious account alleged that he was the descendant of a Han dynasty prince-turned-Xiongnu noble, Liu Jinbo (劉進伯) instead.
Liu Yuan's father, Liu Bao, was a son of one of the last Southern Xiongnu chanyus, Yufuluo, and the nephew of the very last Southern Xiongnu chanyu Huchuquan (before Cao Cao abolished the office in 216 and divided the Xiongnu into Five Divisions (bu, 部)); Liu Bao had the command of the Left Tribe (左部). Liu Yuan's mother Lady Huyan (呼延 ...
The first significant contact the Xianbei had with the Han dynasty was in 41 and 45, when they joined the Wuhuan and Xiongnu in raiding Han territory. [ 46 ] In 49, the governor Ji Tong convinced the Xianbei chieftain Pianhe to turn on the Xiongnu with rewards for each Xiongnu head they collected. [ 46 ]
The art objects show that Xiongnu craftsmen used the Scythian "animal" style. A surviving portrait shows a low nose bridge, eyes with epicanthic fold , long wavy hair, divided in the middle, and a braid visibly tied and falling from the tip of the head over the right ear.
The Xiongnu are defeated by the Qin dynasty and retreat northwards into the Mongolian Plateau. ... Buddhist art c. 300 AD, depicting (left to right) ...