- Hua (state)
Huáguó (滑国) referred to a vassal state of
Western Zhou that existed in what is nowHenan , whose ruling elites belonged to the royal family but which was destroyed by theState of Qin in627 BC Fact|date=February 2007. The population were the earlier Hua of theSpring and Autumn Period not the laterHuá (滑) of theHephthalites . The Huaguo in northernHenan was destroyed byQin Shi Huang , and the Hua tribe sought refuge inShanxi . They became part of theXiongnu atPingyang (平陽, in modernLinfen ,Shanxi ). WhenLiu Can was overthrown byJin Zhun , andShi Le established his state, many of theHuá (滑) around Pingyang fled west along theSilk Road causing theXionites to harass Persia -thoughPingyang remains the centre of the Huá (滑) clan even today. They later appear in the Qeshi region (Turpan area) under theRouran . :"This tribe came to Tocharistan and soon settled in the eastern regions of Khorasan at the beginning of the Vth century." [http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/Tezcan_Apar.pdf]The word "guo" can be interpret as state or tribe, which depend on different cases, some of the problem including, perhaps vague in meaning, taking for example the
Samhan which mentioned in the "Records of Three Kingdoms " consisted of seventy eight "guo", where "guo" here could have been translated differently. Thus (Zh-cp|c=滑国|p=Huáguó), the State ofHuá (滑) , can refer to the name of theHephthalites ' country or tribes mentioned in what is now northAfghanistan from the "Book of Liang " and "Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang". However, Malyavkin (1989) insists that the Hephthalite country was called Yeda by the Chinese, and only the polity was called Hua.ee also
*
Uar
*Khwarezm
*Hephthalites ources
*The
Book of Liang
*The LiangPortraits of Periodical Offering
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.