ihsan I heard there were ten or twelve tribes among the Tujue people but I could find out only two of them: the Ashina and the Ashide. What were the names of the other tribes? Does anyone know (I know it must be really hard to find out)? |
It's a post of friend Ihsan in his steppes forum, I have no an ID there, so i make a reply here, hope it helpful.
Chinese recorded 2 different stories in the book of zhou shu about origins of Tujue. one is that:
A boy rised up by a she-wolf, had 10 sons who became the leaders of 10 tribes later, one of them was Tujue. but no other tribes were mentioned in this book.
another one is that:
Tujue's ancestor Yizhi-nishidu, had 4 sons, one of them was white goose(I heard some scholars thought it's a tribe regarding white goose as their totem), its name and location was not mentioned; one was qi-gu whose territory located in fu river(one of Siberian river) and jian river(Yannise river), some thought Qi-gu was just Jian-Kun who were ancestors of the kirgiz. another son's territory located in Chuzhe river, not sure where is it, its tribe was not mention. The oldest sone named Naduliu, whose territory located in jiansichuzheshi mountain(not sure where it is too), was selected as leader of his tribe, and he claim that his tribename was Tujue. Naduliu had 10 wives who all had a son. The youngest wife's son was Ashina, who eventually became the soccessor of his father Naduliu. Other son's name weren't mentioned too.