The Xianbei (/ʃjɛnˈbeɪ/; simplified Chinese: 鲜卑; traditional Chinese: 鮮卑; pinyin: Xiānbēi) were an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern...

that Shanrong (山戎) and Beidi (北狄) are ancestors of the present-day Xianbei (鮮卑). Again in Inner Mongolia another closely connected core Mongolic Xianbei...

28 December 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015. Hou Hanshu vol. 90 "鮮卑者，亦東胡之支也，別依鮮卑山，故因號焉" "the Xianbei people branched off from the so-called 'Eastern...

"十一年，夏四月，王謂群臣曰：「鮮卑恃險，不我和親，利則出抄，不利則入守，為國之患。若有人能折此者，我將重賞之。」扶芬奴進曰：「鮮卑險固之國，人勇而愚，難以力鬪，易以謀屈。」王曰：「然則為之奈何？」答曰：「宜使人反間入彼，僞說：『我國小而兵弱，怯而難動。』則鮮卑...

(*serbi) is Shimunek's reconstruction for the historical ethnonym Xianbei (鮮卑). In Glottolog 4.4, the languages are referred to as Mongolic–Khitan. Below...

Hou Hanshu, vol.90 (靈帝立，幽、并、涼三州緣邊諸郡無歲不被鮮卑寇抄，殺略不可勝數。熹平三年冬，鮮卑入北地，太守夏育率休著屠各追擊破之。遷育為護烏桓校尉。五年，鮮卑寇幽州。六年夏，鮮卑寇三邊...遂遣夏育出高柳，田晏出雲中，匈奴中郎將臧旻率南單于出鴈門，各將萬騎，三道出塞...

*T'ak-buat. The name is also sometimes clarified as the Tuoba Xianbei (拓跋鮮卑, Tuòbá Xiānbēi). According to Hyacinth (Bichurin), an early 19th-century scholar...

Later Han "Vol. 90 Accounts of the Wuhuan & Xianbei - Xianbei" quote: "鮮卑者，亦東胡之支也，別依鮮卑山，故因號焉。其言語習俗與烏桓同。…… 漢初，亦為冒頓所破，遠竄遼東塞外，與烏桓相接，未常通中國焉。" Xu (2005)'s translation:...

Yuan (c. 340-278 BCE) compares beautiful women to the belt hooks xianbei (鮮卑). Belt hooks have also been found in Celtic archaeological sites. Kipfer,...

Huang also contends that, due to scribal error, in one copy 鮮牟 Xianmou became 鮮卑 Xianbei. Eastern Wu scholar Wei Zhao, who annotates Discourses of the States...