LIWYUEN. 45 Chingshan * 190 li east of Yingchow. But he stayed there otily a short time, retiring to Jichung (Tsichung), which he made a capital. In the conyulsive anarchy within the Chinese empire and the distraction caused by the constant floods of the fierce Huns and the wild Hienbi from without, the Doodoo of Yowchow found himself compelled to form treaties of alliance on his own account He made an alliance with the Dwan Hienbi, by giving one of his daughters to wife to the chief ; and he gave another daughter to the chief of Yuwun. This was much as if a British (General were compelled to sell his daughter, for peace, to a New Zealand chief or the leader of a Kaffir tribe. He also nominated the Dwan chief, Duke (Ooong) of Liaosi The Hienbi must have had large accessions from the Huns prior to this date, for Liangchow was plundered by Yolobanung, a chief of an independent branch of Hienbi, whose following was so large, that when he was ulti^ mately driven back, over 100,000 of his people were taken captiva In this same year, 304, Liwyuen, whose surname was Hooyen, chief of the Huns, who had some time before been nominated Doodoo by the Tsin Emperor, assumed the more honourable title of Shanyii, the Hunnish equivalent of the Turkish Khan, or, more properly, Kokan. Shanyii, or Kokan, in Mongol is the same as " Whangdi " in China ; for the Shanyii is the " King of Kinga The emperors of the Han dynasty had for genera- tions been compelled, in order to save themselves, to give the most beauti|ul of their imperial daughters to be the wives of the wild Shanyiis of the Huna Hence this Liwyuen had in his veins not a little of the blood of the imperial house of Han. He therefore added to his native title the Chinese one of Han Wang (king, prince). He desired to attack the Hienbi, and desisted
- Cfaingiliaii was nortii-eaBt of Yingchow, and Jichnng must have been Mmth- |
west of Yingchow, though the Toongkien places it 170 11 soath-eoft; and the ! Gangkien, calling it also Dajichtmg, sites it in Honan, in the present Ninglinghien. , Bnt as Chinese geography is not always correct when treating of places outside China, we must grope our own way out of the darkness. (See note p. 47.)
