Editing Jurchen people

{{Short description|Tungusic-speaking people in East Asia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}
{{Infobox transliteration
 | title    = Jurchen people
 | c        = [[wikt:女真|女真]]
 | t        = [[wikt:女真|女真]]/[[wikt:女眞|女眞]]
 | p        = Nǚzhēn
 | w        = Nü<sup>3</sup>-chên<sup>1</sup>
 | skhangul = 여진
 | skrr     = Yeojin
 | nkhangul = 녀진
 | nkmr     = Nyŏjin
 | rus      = Чжурчжэни
 | rusr     = Chzhurchzheni
 | lang1    = [[Khitan language|Khitan]]
 | lang1_content = ''dʒuuldʒi'' (女直)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apu.ac.jp/~yoshim/part2-4.pdf |title=遼朝國號非「哈喇契丹(遼契丹)」考 |language=zh |work=愛新覚羅烏拉熙春女真契丹学研究 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927124359/http://www.apu.ac.jp/~yoshim/part2-4.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2011 |trans-title=The State Name of the Liao Dynasty was not “Qara Khitai (Liao Khitai )”}}</ref>
 | lang2    = [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]]
 | lang2_content = Зүрчид, Зөрчид, Жүрчид{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}<br/>''Zürchid'', ''Zörchid'', ''Jürchid''<ref name=htt/>
 | lang3    = Middle Chinese
 | lang3_content = {{IPA|/ɳɨʌX t͡ɕiɪn/}}
 | ibox-order = zh, ko1, ko4, ko3, ru
}}

'''Jurchen''' ({{langx|mnc|ᠵᡠᡧᡝᠨ|translit=Jušen}}, {{IPA|mnc|dʒuʃən|}}; {{langx|zh|女真|translit=Nǚzhēn}}, {{IPAc-cmn|n|ü|3|.|zh|en|1}}) is a term used to collectively describe a number of [[East Asian people|East Asian]] [[Tungusic languages|Tungusic-speaking]] people.{{efn|In the past, scholars such as [[Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat]] (apud Viktorova, 1980)<ref name= "viktorova1980"/> Fan Zuoguai and Han Feimu (apud Zarrow, 2015) proposed that the Jurchens and other Tungusic peoples descended from the [[Donghu people]];<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zarrow|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sJ2NCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA191|title=Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937|date=2015-09-23|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-11547-7|pages=191|language=en|quote=Fan and Han noted that the Jurchens were of the Eastern Hu race (Donghuzu)}}</ref> this proposal has been critiqued by [[Ethnography|ethnographer]] Lydia Viktorova and [[Sinology|sinologist]]-[[linguist]] [[Edwin G. Pulleyblank]]as being based on merely phonetic similarity between Tungus and modern Mandarin pronunciation {{zh|p=Dōnghú|w=Tung-hu|labels=no}} ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPAc-cmn|d|ong|1|.|h|u|2}}) of {{zh|s=东胡|t=東胡|labels=no}}.<ref name= "viktorova1980">{{cite book|last= Viktorova|first= Lydia Leonidovna|title=Mongols: Origin of the People and Source of Culture|page= 183|year=1980|location= Moscow|publisher= Nauka|lang=ru|quote= Это отчасти связано с недостаточным количеством материалов, отчасти - с допущенными ошибками. Например, фонетическое отождествление древнего народа дунху (восточные ху) с тунгусами, сделанное в начале XIX в. Абелем Ремюса лишь на принципе звукового сходства дунху - тунгус, привело к тому, что всех потомков дунху долгое время считали предками тунгусов. (rough translation: 'This is due to the insufficient amount of materials and partly due to the mistakes made. For example, the phonetic identification of the ancient people of the Donghu (Eastern Hu) with the Tungus, made at the beginning of the 19th century by Abel-Rémusat only on the principle of sound similarity between Donghu and Tungus. This led to the fact that for a long time all the descendants of the Donghu were considered the ancestors of the Tungus.')}}</ref><ref>*Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1983). "The Chinese and Their Neighbors in Prehistoric and Early Historic China," in ''The Origins of Chinese Civilization'', University of California Press, pp. 411–466. quote ([https://books.google.com/books?id=GK1hEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA452 p. 452]): "The chance similarity in modern pronunciation of Tung Hu "Eastern Hu,' and Tungus led to the once widely held assumption that the Eastern Hu were Tungusic in language. This is a vulgar error with no real foundation."</ref>}} They lived in northeastern China, also known as [[Manchuria]], before the 18th century. The Jurchens were renamed [[Manchu people|Manchus]] in 1635 by [[Hong Taiji]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Lee|first1=Lily Xiao Hong|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cw0pAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA222|title=Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang Through Ming, 618-1644|last2=Wiles|first2=Sue|date=2014-03-13|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-4316-2|pages=222|language=en|quote=The Jin dynasty was established by the Jurchen people, ancestors of the Manchus who later founded the Qing dynasty.}}</ref> Different Jurchen groups lived as hunter-gatherers, pastoralist semi-nomads, or sedentary agriculturists. Generally lacking a central authority, and having little communication with each other, many Jurchen groups fell under the influence of neighbouring dynasties, their chiefs paying tribute and holding nominal posts as effectively hereditary commanders of border guards.{{sfn|Roth Li|2002|pp=11–13}}

[[Han Chinese|Han]] officials of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) classified them into three groups, reflecting relative proximity to the Ming:

#[[Jianzhou Jurchens|Jianzhou]] (Chinese: 建州) Jurchens, some of whom were mixed with Chinese populations,{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} lived in the proximity of the [[Mudan River|Mudan river]], the [[Changbai Mountains|Changbai mountains]], and [[Liaodong Peninsula|Liaodong]]. They were noted as able to sew clothes similar to the Chinese, and lived by hunting and fishing, sedentary agriculture, and trading in pearls and ginseng. 
#[[Haixi Jurchens|Haixi]] (Chinese: 海西) Jurchens, named after the Haixi or [[Songhua River|Songhua river]], included several populous and independent tribes, largely divided between semi-nomadic pastoralists in the west and sedentary agriculturalists in the east. They were the Jurchens most strongly influenced by the Mongols.
#[[Wild Jurchens|Yeren]] (Chinese: 野人, lit. 'Wild People,' or, 'savage,' 'barbarian'), a term sometimes used by Chinese and Korean commentators to refer to all Jurchens. It more specifically referred to the inhabitants of the sparsely populated north of Manchuria beyond the Liao and Songhua river valleys, supporting themselves by hunting, fishing, pig farming, and some migratory agriculture.{{sfn|Roth Li|2002|pp=11–13}} 
Many "Yeren Jurchens", like the [[Nivkh people|Nivkh]] (speaking a [[language isolate]]), [[Negidals|Negidai]], [[Nanai people|Nanai]], [[Oroqen people|Oroqen]] and many [[Evenks]], are today considered distinct ethnic groups.

The Jurchens are chiefly known for producing the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin]] (1115–1234) and [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] (1644–1912) [[Conquest dynasty|conquest dynasties]] on the Chinese territory. The latter dynasty, originally calling itself the [[Later Jin (1616–1636)|Later Jin]], was founded by a Jianzhou commander, [[Nurhaci]] (r. 1616–26), who unified most Jurchen tribes, incorporated their entire population into hereditary military regiments known as the [[Eight Banners]], and patronized the creation of an alphabet for their language based on the Mongolian script. The term [[Manchu people|Manchu]], already in official use by the Later Jin at that time,{{sfn|Roth Li|2002|p=27}} was in 1635 decreed to be the sole acceptable name for that people.

{{anchor|Etymology|Names}}

==Name==
[[File:CEM-36-Regno-di-Nivche-2429.jpg|thumb|A 1682 Italian map showing the "Kingdom of the Niuche" (i.e., Nǚzhēn) or the "Kin (Jin) Tartars", who "have occupied and are at present ruling China", north of [[Liaodong]] and [[Korea]]]]

The name Jurchen is derived from a long line of other variations of the same name.

The initial [[Khitan language|Khitan]] form of the name was said to be ''Lüzhen''. The variant ''Nrjo-tsyin'' (now {{zh|女真}} '''''Nüzhen''''', whence English '''Nurchen''') appeared in the 10th century under the [[Liao dynasty]].<ref name="came" /> The Jurchens were also interchangeably known as the ''Nrjo-drik'' (now {{zh|女直}} '''''Nüzhi'''''). This is traditionally explained as an effect of the [[Chinese naming taboo]], with the character {{lang|zh|{{linktext|真}}}} being removed after the 1031 enthronement of Zhigu, [[Emperor Xingzong of Liao]], because it appeared in the [[Transcription into Chinese characters|sinified]] form of his personal name, Zongzhen.<ref name="came" /> [[Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun]], however, argues that this was a later [[folk etymology]] and the original reason was uncertainty among dialects regarding the name's final ''-n'' (Nussin, Naisin).{{sfn|Aisin Gioro|Jin|2007|p=12}}

The form ''Niuche'' was introduced to the West by [[Martino Martini]] in his 1654 work ''De bello tartarico historia'', and it soon appeared, e.g., on the 1660 world map by [[Nicolas Sanson]].

''Jurchen'' (Jyrkin) is an [[anglicization]] of '''Jurčen''',<ref name=htt>{{harvnb|Hoong Teik Toh|2005|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSNMGosP0cAC&pg=PA28 28]}}</ref><ref name=pella>{{harvp|Pelliot|1959|p=[http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/III-2-F-c-104/V-1/page/0382.html.en 366]}}.</ref> an attempted [[linguistic reconstruction|reconstruction]] of this unattested original form of the native name,<ref name=pellb/> which has been [[Transcription into Chinese characters|transcribed]] into [[Middle Chinese]] as ''Trjuwk-li-tsyin'' ({{lang|zh|{{linktext|竹|里|真}}}}){{efn|The Japanese government and Franke give the modern Mandarin pronunciation ''Zhulizhen''(Sylissäin).<ref name=came>{{harvp|Franke|1994|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=iN9Tdfdap5MC&pg=PA216 216]}}.</ref>}} and into [[Khitan small script]] as ''Julisen''(sulaisin).{{sfn|Aisin Gioro|Jin|2007|p=12}} The ethnonyms ''[[Sushen]]'' {{nowrap|([[Old Chinese]]: */siwk-[d]i[n]-s/)}} and ''Jizhen'' ({{lang|zh|{{linktext|稷真}}}}, {{nowrap|Old Chinese: */tsək-ti[n]/)}}<ref>[http://ocbaxtersagart.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/BaxterSagartOCbyMandarinMC2014-09-20.pdf Baxter-Sagart].</ref> recorded in geographical works like the ''[[Classic of Mountains and Seas]]'' and the ''[[Book of Wei]]'' are possibly cognates.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031025054135/http://www.jianbo.org/Jwcw/Zhoushu2.htm 《汲冢周书》].</ref> It was the source of [[Fra Mauro]]'s ''{{lang|la|Zorça}}''<ref name=pella/> and [[Marco Polo]]'s ''{{lang|it|Ciorcia}}'',<ref name=cont/> reflecting the [[Persian language|Persian]] form of their name.<ref name=pella/> [[Edward J. Vajda|Vajda]] considers that the Jurchens' name probably derives from the Tungusic words for "[[reindeer]] people" and is cognate with the names of the [[Oroch people|Orochs]] (urakka, uroot, urhot) of [[Khabarovsk Krai|Khabarovsk]] [[Provinces of Russia|Province]] and the [[Orok people|Oroks]] of [[Sakhalin]].{{sfn|Vajda|2000}} ("Horse Tungus" and "Reindeer Tungus" are still the primary divisions among the Tungusic cultures.){{sfn|Stolberg|2015}}

[[Juha Janhunen|Janhunen]] argues that these records already reflect the [[Classical Mongolian language|Classical Mongolian]] plural form of the name, recorded in the ''[[Secret History of the Mongols|Secret History]]'' as ''J̌ürčät'' (Jyrkät),<ref name=pellb>{{harvp|Pelliot|1959|p=[http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/III-2-F-c-104/V-1/page/0383.html.en 367]}}.</ref> and further reconstructed as *''Jörcid'',<ref name=cont>{{harvnb|Janhunen|2004|pp=67 ff.}}</ref> The [[Mongolian language|modern Mongolian]] form is ''Зүрчид'' (Zürčid, Suurseita)) whose medial {{nowrap|''-r-''}} does not appear in the later [[Jurchen language|Jurchen]] ''Jucen''<ref name=cont/> or ''Jušen'' (Jussin)([[Jurchen language|Jurchen]]:[[File:Jurchen.png|35px]]){{sfn|Kane|1997|p=232}}{{efn|First attested in a late 15th-century glossary for the [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] Bureau of Translators.{{sfn|Kane|1997|p=232}}}} or [[Manchu language|Manchu]] ''Jushen''(Jussin).<ref name=cont/> In Manchu, this word was more often used to describe the [[serfdom|serfs]]{{sfn|Kane|1997|p=232}}—though not [[slavery in China|slaves]]{{sfn|Elliott|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_qtgoTIAiKUC&pg=PA51 51]}}—of the free Manchu people,{{sfn|Kane|1997|p=232}} who were themselves mostly the former Jurchens. To describe the historical people who founded the Jin dynasty, they reborrowed the Mongolian name as ''Jurcit''(Jyrkät).<ref name=cont/><ref name=came/>

In the dictionary of [[Ivan Zakharov|I. I. Zakharov]] “Complete Manchu-Russian dictionary” the word ''чжурчэнь'' (Jurchen’) is defined as ''resistance'', ''disobedience'', ''insubordination'' (сопротивление, непослушание, непокорность). <ref>{{cite book |author = [[Ivan Zakharov|Захаров И. И.]] |title = Полный Маньчжурско-Русский словарь (Complete Manchu-Russian dictionary) |location = [[Saint Petersburg|СПб.]] |publisher = [[Nauka (publisher)|Наука]] |year = 1875 |pages = 1014 |isbn =  |url = https://altaica.ru/LIBRARY/MANCHU/zakharov.pdf |archivedate = 2022-08-29 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220829224307/https://altaica.ru/LIBRARY/MANCHU/zakharov.pdf }}</ref>

==Appearance==
{{See also|Fashion in the Jurchen Jin dynasty|Qizhuang|label 2=Manchu clothing}}
According to [[William of Rubruck]], the Jurchens were "swarthy like Spaniards."{{sfn|Rockhill|1967|p=153}}

Sin Chung-il, a Korean emissary who in 1595 had visited the Jurchen living north-west of the [[Yalu River]], notes that during his visit to Fe Ala all those who served [[Nurhaci]] were uniform in their dress and hairstyle. They all shaved a portion of their scalp and kept the remaining hair in a [[queue (hairstyle)|long plaited braid]]. All men wore leather boots, breeches, and tunics.{{sfn|Crossley|1997|p=46}}

==History==
{{see also|Timeline of the Jurchens}}

===Origin===
[[File:Poimali olenia.jpg|thumb|right|[[Siberia]]ns capturing a [[reindeer]]]]

====Mohe origin====
When the Jurchens first entered Chinese records in 748, they inhabited the forests and river valleys of the land which is now divided between [[China]]'s [[Heilongjiang]] [[provinces of China|Province]] and [[Russia]]'s [[Primorsky Krai]]. In earlier records, this area was known as the home of the [[Sushen]] ({{circa|lk=no|1100}}&nbsp;BC), the [[Yilou people|Yilou]] (around AD&nbsp;200), the [[Wuji people|Wuji]] ({{circa|lk=no|500}}), and the [[Mohe people|Mohe]] ({{circa|lk=no|700}}).{{sfn|Elliott|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_qtgoTIAiKUC&pg=PA47 47–48]}} Scholarship since the Qing period traces the origin of the Jurchens to the "Wanyen tribe of the Mohos" around Mt&nbsp;Xiaobai, or to the Heishui or [[Heishui Mohe|Blackwater Mohe]],{{sfn|Huang|1990|pp=239–282}} and some sources stress the continuity between these earlier peoples with the Jurchen{{sfn|Elliott|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_qtgoTIAiKUC&pg=PA47 47]}} but this remains conjectural.{{sfn|Elliott|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_qtgoTIAiKUC&pg=PA48 48]}}

The tentative ancestors of the Jurchens, the [[Tungusic peoples|Tungusic]] Mohe tribes, were people of the multi-ethnic kingdom of [[Balhae]]. The Mohe enjoyed eating pork, practiced pig farming extensively, and were mainly sedentary. They used both pig and dog skins for coats. They were predominantly farmers and grew soybean, wheat, [[millet]], and rice in addition to hunting.{{sfn|Gorelova|2002|pp=13–14}} Like all [[Tungus people]], the Mohe practiced slavery. Horses were rare in the region they inhabited until the 10th century under the domination of the [[Khitan people|Khitans]]. The Mohe rode reindeer.{{sfn|Crossley|1997|p=17}}

====Wanyan origin====
There is no dated evidence of the Jurchens before the time of [[Wugunai]] (1021-74), when the Jurchens began to coalesce into a nation-like federation. According to tradition passed down via oral transmission, Wugunai was the 6th generation descendant of [[Hanpu]], the founder of the Wanyan clan, who therefore must have lived around the year 900.{{sfn|Franke|1994|p=219-220}} Hanpu originally came from the [[Heishui Mohe]] tribe of Balhae. According to the ''[[History of Jin]]'', when he came to the Wanyan tribe, it was for the repayment of a murder and a form of compensation. He had two brothers, one who stayed in [[Goryeo]] and the other in [[Balhae]] when he left. By the time he arrived and settled among the Wanyan, he was already 60 years old and accepted as a "wise man". He succeeded in settling a dispute between two families without resorting to violence, and as a reward, was betrothed to a worthy unmarried maiden also 60 years old. The marriage was blessed with the gift of a dark ox, which was revered in Jurchen culture, and from this union came one daughter and three sons. With this, Hanpu became the chief of the Wanyan and his descendants became formal members of the Wanyan clan.{{sfn|Kim|2011b|p=173}}{{sfn|Franke|1990|p=414-415}}{{sfn|Mote|1999|p=212-213}}

Because Hanpu arrived from Goryeo, some South Korean scholars have claimed that Hanpu hailed from Goryeo. According to Alexander Kim, this cannot be easily identified as him being Korean because many Balhae people lived in Goryeo at that time. Later when [[Wanyan Aguda|Aguda]] appealed to the Balhae people in the [[Liao dynasty]] for support by emphasizing their common origin, he only mentioned those who descended from the "seven Wuji tribes", which the Goguryeo people were not a part of. It seems by that point, the Jurchens saw only the [[Mohe people|Mohe]] tribes as a related people.{{sfn|Kim|2011b|p=173}} Some western scholars consider the origin of Hanpu to be legendary in nature. Herbert Franke described the narrative provided in the ''History of Jin'' as an "ancestral legend" with a historical basis in that the Wanyan clan had absorbed immigrants from Goryeo and Balhae during the 10th century.{{sfn|Franke|1990|p=414-415}} [[Frederick W. Mote]] described it as a "tribal legend" that may have born the tribe's memories. The two brothers remaining in Goryeo and Balhae may represent ancestral ties to those two peoples while Hanpu's marriage may represent the tribe's transformation from a matrilineal to patrilineal society.{{sfn|Mote|1999|p=212-213}}

====Qing origin====
[[Hongtaiji]], the [[Qing dynasty]] emperor of the Aisin Gioro clan,  claimed that their progenitor, [[Bukūri Yongšon]]<ref name="Crossley2000">{{cite book|author=Pamela Kyle Crossley|title=A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn4iv_RJv8oC&pg=PA198|date=15 February 2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-92884-8|pages=198–}}</ref> (布庫里雍順), was conceived from a virgin birth. According to the legend, three heavenly maidens, namely Enggulen (恩古倫), Jenggulen (正古倫) and Fekulen (佛庫倫), were bathing at a lake called Bulhūri Omo near the [[Changbai Mountains]]. A magpie dropped a piece of red fruit near Fekulen, who ate it. She then became pregnant with Bukūri Yongšon. However, another older version of the story by the Hurha (Hurka) tribe member Muksike recorded in 1635 contradicts Hongtaiji's version on location, claiming that it was in [[Heilongjiang]] province close to the [[Amur river]] where Bulhuri lake was located where the "heavenly maidens" took their bath. This was recorded in the [[Jiu Manzhou Dang]] and is much shorter and simpler in addition to being older. This is believed to be the original version and Hongtaiji changed it to the Changbai mountains. It shows that the Aisin Gioro clan originated in the Amur area and the Heje ([[Hezhen]]) and other Amur valley Jurchen tribes had an oral version of the same tale. It also fits with Jurchen history since some ancestors of the Manchus originated north before the 14th-15th centuries in the Amur and only later moved south.{{sfn|Huang|1990|p=245}}

===Liao vassals===

By the 11th century, the Jurchens had become vassals of the [[Khitan people|Khitan]] rulers of the [[Liao dynasty]]. The Jurchens in the [[Yalu River]] region had been tributaries of [[Goryeo]] since the reign of [[Wang Geon]], who called upon them during the wars of the [[Later Three Kingdoms]] period, but the Jurchens opportunistically switched allegiance between Liao and Goryeo multiple times. They offered tribute to both courts out of political necessity and the desire for material benefits.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|pp=220–221}}

In 1019, Jurchen pirates [[Toi invasion|raided Japan]] for slaves. The Jurchen pirates slaughtered Japanese men while seizing Japanese women as prisoners. Fujiwara Notada, the Japanese governor was killed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Takekoshi |first1=Yosaburō |author-link=Takekoshi Yosaburō |title=The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, Volume 1 |date=2004 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=0415323797 |page=134 |edition=reprint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ujfVq9v4zoC&q=japanese+woman+1019+toi&pg=PA134}}</ref> In total, 1,280 Japanese were taken prisoner, 374 Japanese were killed and 380 Japanese owned livestock were killed for food.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Batten |first1=Bruce L. |title=Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300 |date=31 January 2006 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=9780824842925 |pages=102, 101, 100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5YBEAAAQBAJ&q=japanese+woman+1019+toi&pg=PA102}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kang |first=Jae-eun |translator-last=Lee |translator-first=Suzanne |title=The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism |date=2006 |publisher=Homa & Sekey Books |isbn=9781931907309 |page=75 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XB4UYXNQK1wC&pg=PA75 |chapter=5: Goryeo, the Land of Buddhism}}</ref> Only 259 or 270 were returned by Koreans from the eight ships.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Shively |editor1-first=Donald H. |editor2-last=McCullough |editor2-first=William H. |title=The Cambridge History of Japan |date=1988 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0521223539 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eiTWWfoyuyAC&pg=PA95 |edition=illustrated, reprint |series=Volume 2: Heian Japan}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Adolphson |editor-first1=Mikael S. |editor-last2=Kamens |editor-first2=Edward |editor-last3=Matsumoto |editor-first3=Stacie |title=Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries |date=2007 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |isbn=9780824830137 |page=376 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjB8yiiGDykC&q=japanese+woman+1019+toi&pg=PA376}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Volume 2 |date=1983 |publisher=Kodansha |isbn=0870116223 |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbFuAAAAMAAJ&q=japanese+woman+1019+toi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Embree |editor1-first=Ainslie Thomas |title=Encyclopedia of Asian History, Volume 1 |date=1988 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=0684188988 |page=371 |edition=2nd, illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFIYAAAAIAAJ&q=japanese+woman+1019+toi}}</ref> The woman Uchikura no Ishime's report was copied down.<ref>{{cite book |title=朝鮮學報, Issues 198-201 |year=2006 |publisher=朝鮮學會 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJdMAQAAIAAJ&q=japanese+woman+1019+toi}}</ref>

One of the causes of the Jurchen rebellion and the fall of the Liao was the [[Droit du seigneur#Europe|custom]] of raping married Jurchen women and Jurchen girls by Khitan envoys, which caused resentment from the Jurchens.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tillman |first1=Hoyt Cleveland |editor1-last=Tillman |editor1-first=Hoyt Cleveland |editor2-last=West |editor2-first=Stephen H. |title=China Under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History |date=1995 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=0791422739 |page=27 |edition=illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdYGiGan4o8C&pg=PA27}}</ref> The custom of having sex with unmarried girls by Khitan was itself not a problem, since the practice of guest prostitution - giving female companions, food and shelter to guests - was common among Jurchens. Unmarried daughters of Jurchen families of lower and middle classes in Jurchen villages were provided to Khitan messengers for sex, as recorded by Hong Hao.<ref name="L. S. Olschki">{{harvnb|Lanciotti|1980|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cQAqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22guest+prostitution+means+that+the+host+provides%22 32]}}</ref> Song envoys among the Jin were similarly entertained by singing girls in Guide, Henan.<ref name="University of California Press">{{cite book |last1=Franke |first1=Herbert |editor1-last=Rossabi |editor1-first=Moris |title=China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, 10th-14th Centuries |date=1983 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0520043839 |edition=illustrated |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onbiqV5iqVAC&pg=PA136 |chapter=FIVE Sung Embassies: Some General Observations}}</ref> There is no evidence that guest prostitution of unmarried Jurchen girls to Khitan men was resented by the Jurchens. It was only when the Khitans forced aristocratic Jurchen families to give up their beautiful wives as guest prostitutes to Khitan messengers that the Jurchens became resentful. This suggests that in Jurchen upper classes, only a husband had the right to his married wife while among lower class Jurchens, the virginity of unmarried girls and sex with Khitan men did not impede their ability to marry later.<ref>{{harvnb|Lanciotti|1980|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cQAqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22particularly+of+the+upper+classes%22 33]}}</ref> The Jurchens and their Manchu descendants had Khitan linguistic and grammatical elements in their personal names like suffixes.{{sfn|Hoong Teik Toh|2005|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSNMGosP0cAC&pg=PA34 34], 35, 36}} Many Khitan names had a "ju" suffix.{{sfn|Hoong Teik Toh|2005|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSNMGosP0cAC&pg=PA31 31]}}

===Goryeo-Jurchen war===
The Jurchens in the [[Yalu River]] region were tributaries of Goryeo since the reign of [[Taejo of Goryeo]] (r. 918-943), who called upon them during the wars of the [[Later Three Kingdoms]] period. Taejo relied heavily on a large Jurchen cavalry force to defeat [[Later Baekje]]. The Jurchens switched allegiances between Liao and Goryeo multiple times depending on which they deemed the most appropriate. The Liao and Goryeo competed to gain the allegiance of Jurchen settlers who effectively controlled much of the border area beyond Goryeo and Liao fortifications.<ref name="Breuker 2010">{{harvnb|Breuker|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wZx0VvujPqcC&dq=jurchen+sedentary&pg=PA221 220–221]}}. "The Jurchen settlements in the Amnok River region had been tributaries of Koryŏ since the establishment of the dynasty, when T'aejo Wang Kŏn heavily relied on a large segment of Jurchen cavalry to defeat the armies of Later Paekche. The position and status of these Jurchen is hard to determine using the framework of the Koryŏ and Liao states as reference, since the Jurchen leaders generally took care to steer a middle course between Koryŏ and Liao, changing sides or absconding whenever that was deemed the best course. As mentioned above, Koryŏ and Liao competed quite fiercely to obtain the allegiance of the Jurchen settlers who in the absence of large armies effectively controlled much of the frontier area outside the Koryŏ and Liao fortifications. These Jurchen communities were expert in handling the tension between Liao and Koryŏ, playing out divide-and-rule policies backed up by threats of border violence. It seems that the relationship between the semi-nomadic Jurchen and their peninsular neighbours bore much resemblance to the relationship between Chinese states and their nomad neighbours, as described by Thomas Barfield."</ref> These Jurchens offered tribute but expected to be rewarded richly by the Goryeo court in return. However the Jurchens who offered tribute were often the same ones who raided Goryeo's borders. In one instance, the Goryeo court discovered that a Jurchen leader who had brought tribute had been behind the recent raids on their territory. The frontier was largely outside of direct control and lavish gifts were doled out as a means of controlling the Jurchens. Sometimes Jurchens submitted to Goryeo and were given citizenship.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|p=221-222}} Goryeo inhabitants were forbidden from trading with Jurchens.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|p=222}}

The tributary relations between Jurchens and Goryeo began to change under the reign of Jurchen leader [[Wuyashu]] (r. 1103–1113) of the [[Wanyan]] clan. The Wanyan clan was intimately aware of the Jurchens who had submitted to Goryeo and used their power to break the clans' allegiance to Goryeo, unifying the Jurchens. The resulting conflict between the two powers led to Goryeo's withdrawal from Jurchen territory and acknowledgment of Jurchen control over the contested region.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|p=223}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tillman|first1=Hoyt Cleveland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdYGiGan4o8C&pg=PA27|title=China Under Jurchen Rule|last2=West|first2=Stephen H|year=1995|publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-2273-1|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref>{{sfn|Twitchett|Fairbank|Franke|1994|p=221}}

As the geopolitical situation shifted, Goryeo unleashed a series of military campaigns in the early 12th century to regain control of its borderlands. Goryeo had already been in conflict with the Jurchens before. In 984, Goryeo failed to control the Yalu River basin due to conflict with the Jurchens.<ref name="거란의 고려침입">{{cite web |script-title=ko:거란의 고려침입 |url=http://contents.history.go.kr/front/kc/main.do?levelId=kc_i200300 |website=한국사 연대기 |publisher=[[National Institute of Korean History]] |access-date=22 April 2019 |language=ko}}</ref> In 1056, Goryeo repelled the Eastern Jurchens and afterward destroyed their stronghold of over 20 villages.<ref>{{cite web |last1=신천식 |script-title=ko:김단(金旦) |url=https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0008888 |website=[[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]] |language=ko}}</ref> In 1080, [[Munjong of Goryeo]] led a force of 30,000 to conquer ten villages. However by the rise of the Wanyan clan, the quality of Goryeo's army had degraded and it mostly consisted of infantry. There were several clashes with the Jurchens, usually resulting in Jurchen victory with their mounted cavalrymen. In 1104, the Wanyan Jurchens reached [[Chongju]] while pursuing tribes resisting them. Goryeo sent Lim Gan to confront the Jurchens, but his untrained army was defeated, and the Jurchens took Chongju castle. Lim Gan was dismissed from office and reinstated, dying as a civil servant in 1112. The war effort was taken up by [[Yun Kwan]], but the situation was unfavorable and he returned after making peace.<ref nam"여진정벌">{{Cite encyclopedia |script-entry=ko:여진정벌 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Korean Culture |entry-url=http://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Contents/Index?contents_id=E0066626}}</ref>{{sfn|Lee|1984|p=127}}

Yun Kwan believed that the loss was due to their inferior cavalry and proposed to the king that an elite force known as the [[Byeolmuban]] (別武班; "Special Warfare Army") be created. it existed apart from the main army and was made up of cavalry, infantry, and a ''Hangmagun'' ("Subdue Demon Corps"). In December 1107, Yun Kwan and O Yŏnch’on set out with 170,000 soldiers to conquer the Jurchens. The army won against the Jurchens and built Nine Fortresses over a wide area on the frontier encompassing Jurchen tribal lands, and erected a monument to mark the boundary. However due to unceasing Jurchen attacks, diplomatic appeals, and court intrigue, the Nine Fortresses were handed back to the Jurchens. In 1108, Yun Kwan was removed from office and the Nine Fortresses were turned over to the Wanyan clan.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|p=224}}{{sfn|Brown|2014|p=793}}{{sfn|Lee|1984|p=127-128}} It is plausible that the Jurchens and Goryeo had some sort of implicit understanding where the Jurchens would cease their attacks while Goryeo took advantage of the conflict between the Jurchens and Khitans to gain territory. According to Breuker, Goryeo never really had control of the region occupied by the Nine Fortresses in the first place and maintaining hegemony would have meant a prolonged conflict with militarily superior Jurchen troops that would prove very costly. The Nine Fortresses were exchanged for Poju ([[Uiju County|Uiju]]), a region the Jurchens later contested when Goryeo hesitated to recognize them as their suzerain.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|p=225-226}}

Later, Wuyashu's younger brother [[Emperor Taizu of Jin|Aguda]] founded the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)]]. When the Jin was founded, the Jurchens called Goryeo their "parent country" or "father and mother" country. This was because it had traditionally been part of their system of tributary relations, its rhetoric, advanced culture, as well as the idea that it was "bastard offspring of Koryŏ".{{sfn|Breuker|2010|p=137}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Yi|first1=Ki-baek|title=A New History of Korea|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-61576-2|page=126|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2mdVwXpMzwC&q=%22they+looked+upon+Koryo+in+particular+as+their+parent+country%22|access-date=30 July 2016|language=en|year=1984}}</ref> The Jin also believed that they shared a common ancestry with the [[Balhae]] people in the [[Liao dynasty]].{{sfn|Kim|2011b|p=173}} The Jin went on to conquer the Liao dynasty in 1125 and capture the Song capital of [[Kaifeng]] in 1127 ([[Jingkang incident]]). The Jin also put pressure on Goryeo and demanded that Goryeo become their subject. While many in Goryeo were against this, Yi Cha-gyöm was in power at the time and judged peaceful relations with the Jin to be beneficial to his own political power. He accepted the Jin demands and in 1126, the king of Goryeo declared himself a Jin vassal (tributary).{{sfn|Lee|1984|p=128}}<ref name="Franke">{{harvnb|Twitchett|Fairbank|Franke|1994|p=229}}: "the king of Koryŏ declared himself a vassal of Chin in the summer of 1126."</ref><ref name="EWJ">{{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|2014}}, {{Google books|6F2XLmIVAaYC||page=171}}: "In the case of the Jurchen Jin, the [Goryeo] court decided to transfer its tributary relationship from the Liao to Jin before serious violence broke out." Also p.172: "Koryŏ enrolled as a Jin tributary".</ref> However the Goryeo king retained his position as "Son of Heaven" within Goryeo. By incorporating Jurchen history into that of Goryeo and emphasizing the Jin emperors as bastard offspring of Goryeo, and placing the Jin within the template of a "northern dynasty", the imposition of Jin suzerainty became more acceptable.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|p=229-230}}

=== Jin dynasty ===
{{Main|Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin–Song Wars}}
[[File:Jin Dynasty 1141 (no borders).png|thumb|China in {{Circa|1141}}.]]

[[Emperor Taizu of Jin|Wanyan Aguda]], chief of the [[Wanyan]] tribe, unified the various Jurchen tribes in 1115 and declared himself emperor. In 1120 he seized [[Chifeng|Shangjing]], also known as Linhuang Prefecture ({{zh|t=臨潢府|labels=no}}), the northern capital of the Liao dynasty.{{sfn|Mote|1999|p=195}} During the [[Jin–Song Wars]], the Jurchens invaded the [[Northern Song dynasty]] and overran most of northern China. The Jurchens initially created the puppet regimes of [[Da Qi]] and [[Da Chu]] but later adopted a dynastic name and became known as "[[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin]]" 金, which means "gold", not to be confused with the earlier Jin 晋 dynasties named after the region around [[Shanxi]] and [[Henan]] provinces. The name of the Jurchen dynasty in Chinese — meaning "[[gold]]"—is derived from the "Gold River" ([[Jurchen language|Jurchen]]:&nbsp;''antʃu-un''; [[Manchu language|Manchu]]:&nbsp;''Aisin'') in their ancestral homeland. The Jurchens who settled into urban communities eventually intermarried with other ethnicities in China. The Jin rulers themselves came to follow [[Confucianism|Confucian]] norms. The Jin dynasty captured the Northern Song dynasty's capital, [[Kaifeng|Bianjing]], in 1127. Their armies pushed the Song all the way south to the [[Yangtze River]] and eventually settled on a border with the [[Southern Song dynasty]] along the [[Huai River]].

Poor Jurchen families in the southern Routes (Daming and Shandong) Battalion and Company households tried to live the lifestyle of wealthy Jurchen families and avoid doing farming work by selling their own Jurchen daughters into slavery and renting their land to Han tenants. The Wealthy Jurchens feasted and drank and wore damask and silk. The [[History of Jin]] (Jinshi) says that [[Emperor Shizong of Jin]] took note and attempted to halt these things in 1181.<ref name="Schneider 2011">{{cite journal |last=Schneider |first=Julia |title=The Jin Revisited: New Assessment of Jurchen Emperors |journal=Journal of Song-Yuan Studies |volume=41 |date=2011 |issue=41 |page=389 |doi=10.1353/sys.2011.0030 |jstor=23496214|hdl=1854/LU-2045182 |s2cid=162237648 |url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2045182 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

After 1189, the Jin dynasty became increasingly involved in conflicts with the [[Mongols]]. By 1215, after losing much territory to the Mongols, the Jurchens moved their capital south from [[Beijing|Zhongdu]] to [[Kaifeng]]. The Jin emperor [[Wanyan Yongji]]'s daughter, Jurchen Princess Qiguo was married to Mongol leader [[Genghis Khan]] in exchange for relieving the [[Battle of Zhongdu|Mongol siege upon Zhongdu]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Broadbridge |first1=Anne F. |title=Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1108636629 |page=94 |edition=illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RHOFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94}}</ref> After [[Siege of Kaifeng (1232)|a siege]] lasting about a year, Kaifeng fell to the Mongols in 1233. [[Emperor Aizong of Jin|Emperor Aizong]] fled to Caizhou for shelter, but Caizhou also [[Siege of Caizhou|fell to the Mongols]] in 1234, marking the end of the Jin dynasty.

=== Ming dynasty ===
[[File:A Tartar Huntsmen on His Horse.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|A Jurchen man hunting from his horse, from a 15th-century ink and color painting on silk.]]
[[File:Jurchen woodblock print.png|thumb|upright=0.8|A late Ming era woodblock print of a Jurchen warrior.]]
{{main|Manchuria under Ming rule}}

Chinese chroniclers of the [[Ming dynasty]] distinguished three different groups of Jurchens: the [[Wild Jurchens]] ({{zh|c=野人女真|p=yěrén Nǚzhēn|labels=no}}) of what became [[Outer Manchuria]], the [[Haixi Jurchens]] ({{zh|c=海西女真|labels=no}}) of modern [[Heilongjiang|Heilongjiang Province]] and the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]] of modern [[Jilin|Jilin Province]]. They led a pastoral-agrarian lifestyle, hunting, fishing, and engaging in limited agriculture. In 1388, the [[Hongwu Emperor]] dispatched a mission to establish contact with the Odoli, Huligai and T'owen tribes.

The issue of controlling the Jurchens was a point of contention between Joseon Korea and the early Ming.{{sfn|Wang|2010|p=301}}

The [[Yongle Emperor]] (r. 1402–1424) found allies among the various Jurchen tribes against the Mongols. He bestowed titles and surnames to various Jurchen chiefs and expected them to send periodic tribute. One of the Yongle Emperor's consorts was a Jurchen princess, which resulted in some of the eunuchs serving him being of Jurchen origin.{{sfn|Mitamura|1970|p=54}}

Chinese [[Commandery (China)|commanderies]] were established over tribal military units under their own hereditary tribal leaders. In the Yongle period, 178 commanderies were set up in Manchuria. Later on, horse markets were established in the northern border towns of [[Liaodong Peninsula|Liaodong]]. Increased contact with the Chinese gave Jurchens the more complex and sophisticated organizational structures.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

The [[Koreans]] dealt with the Jurchen military through appeals to material benefits and launching punitive expeditions. To appease them the [[Joseon]] court handed out titles and degrees, trading with them, and sought to acculturate them by having Korean women marry Jurchens and integrating them into Korean culture. These measures were unsuccessful and fighting continued between the Jurchen and the Koreans.{{sfn|Seth|2006|p=138}}{{sfn|Seth|2010|p=144}} This relationship between the Jurchens and Koreans was ended by the Ming which envisioned the Jurchens as a form of protective border to the north.<ref name="剑桥15">{{harvnb|Peterson|2002|p=15}}</ref> In 1403, Ahacu, chieftain of Huligai, paid tribute to the [[Yongle Emperor]]. Soon after, [[Mentemu]], chieftain of Odoli clan of the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]], defected from paying tribute to Korea, becoming a tributary to China instead. [[Taejo of Joseon|Yi Seong-gye]], the first ruler of Joseon, asked the Ming dynasty to send Mentemu back but was refused.<ref>{{harvnb|Meng|2006|p=120}}</ref> The Yongle Emperor was determined to wrest the Jurchens out of Korean influence and have China dominate them instead.{{sfn|Zhang|2008|p=29}}{{sfn|Dardess|2012|p=18}} The Koreans tried to persuade Mentemu to reject the Ming dynasty's overtures but were unsuccessful.{{sfn|Goodrich|1976|p=1066}}{{sfn|Peterson|2002|p=13}}{{sfn|Clark|1998|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tVhvh6ibLJcC&pg=PA286 286-7]}}{{sfn|Zhang|2008|p=30}} The Jurchen tribes presented tribute to the Ming dynasty in succession.<ref name="开国史21">{{harvnb|Meng|2006|p=21}}</ref> They were divided in 384 guards by the Ming dynasty<ref name="剑桥15"/> and the Jurchen became vassals to the Ming emperors.{{sfn|Cosmo|2007|p=3}} The name given to the Jurchen land by the Ming dynasty was [[Nurgan]]. Later, a Korean army led by [[Yi-Il]] and [[Yi Sun-sin]] would expel them from Korea.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

In 1409, the Ming government created the Nurgan Command Post ({{zh|c=奴兒干都司|labels=no}}) at Telin (present-day [[Tyr, Russia]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Объекты туризма — Археологические. Тырские храмы |language=ru |trans-title=Tourism objects - Archaeological. Tyr temples |url=http://www.adm.khv.ru/invest2.nsf/Tourism/ArchaeologicalRus/A1BC40C4DD0B1605CA25730E00193997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903021101/http://www.adm.khv.ru/invest2.nsf/Tourism/ArchaeologicalRus/A1BC40C4DD0B1605CA25730E00193997 |archive-date=3 September 2009 |url-status=dead}} (Regional government site explaining the location of the Tyr (Telin) temples: just south of the Tyr village)</ref> about 100&nbsp;km upstream from [[Nikolayevsk-on-Amur]] in the [[Russian Far East]]) in the vicinity of Heilongjiang. The Jurchens came under the nominal administration of the Nurgan Command Post which lasted only 25 years and was abolished in 1434. Leaders of the Haixi and Jianzhou tribes did, however, accept the Ming titles.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

From 1411 to 1433, the Ming eunuch [[Yishiha]] (who himself was a [[Haixi Jurchens|Haixi Jurchen]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Shih-Shan Henry Tsai |year=2002 |title=Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=0295981245 |page=158}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=OuSsxBuALQYC Google Books].</ref>) led ten large missions to win over the allegiance of the Jurchen tribes along the [[Songhua River]] and [[Amur River]]. His fleet sailed down the Songhua into the Amur, and set up the Nurgan Command at Telin near the mouth of the Amur River. These missions are not well recorded in the Ming histories, but there exist two stone steles erected by Yishiha at the site of the Yongning Temple, a Guanyin temple commissioned by him at Telin.<ref>[http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/China/XV/1400-1420/Stela1410/text.htm Telin Stele] (from: "Политика Минской империи в отношении чжурчженей (1402 -1413 гг.)" (The Jurchen policy of the Ming Empire), in "Китай и его соседи в древности и средневековье" (China and its neighbors in antiquity and the Middle Ages), Moscow, 1970. {{in lang|ru}}</ref> The inscriptions on the steles are in four languages: Chinese, Jurchen, Mongol, and Tibetan. There is probably quite a lot of propaganda in the inscriptions, but they give a detailed record of the Ming court's efforts to assert suzerainty over the Jurchen. When Yishiha visited Nurgan for the 3rd time in 1413, he built a temple called Yongning Temple at Telin and erected the [[Yongning Temple Stele]] in front of it. Yishiha paid his 10th visit to Nurgan in 1432, during which he rebuilt the Yongning Temple and re-erected a stele in front of it. The stele bore the heading "Record of Re-building Yongning Temple". The setting up of the Nurgan Command Post and the repeated declarations to offer blessings to this region by Yishiha and others were all recorded in this and the first steles.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

In the ninth year of the Ming [[Xuande emperor]] the [[Jurchens]] in [[Manchuria under Ming rule]] suffered from famine forcing them to sell their daughters into slavery and moving to Liaodong to beg for help and relief from the Ming dynasty government.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.itsfun.com.tw/%E4%BA%A6%E5%A4%B1%E5%93%88/wiki-3774856-0311736 |title=亦失哈 |language=zh |trans-title=It's also lost |quote=宣德九年，女真地区灾荒，女真人被迫卖儿鬻女，四处流亡，逃向辽东的女真难民，希望得到官府的赈济。[In the ninth year of Xuande, the Jurchen region was famine, and the Jurchens were forced to sell their sons and wives and went into exile. They fled to the Jurchen refugees in Liaodong, hoping to get relief from the government.] |access-date=5 May 2020 |archive-date=12 March 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200312144319/https://www.itsfun.com.tw/%E4%BA%A6%E5%A4%B1%E5%93%88/wiki-3774856-0311736 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=亦失哈八下东洋|date=2014-07-08|work=[[Ifeng.com]] |url=http://hlj.ifeng.com/culture/history/detail_2014_07/08/2559681_0.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428053435/http://hlj.ifeng.com/culture/history/detail_2014_07/08/2559681_0.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-04-28}}</ref>

===Establishment of the Manchu===
[[File:Ming era northeast asian.png|thumb|upright=1.15|Ethnic map prior to [[Jurchen unification]]]]
{{main|Ethnic identity in the Eight Banners}}
Over a period of 30 years from 1586, [[Nurhaci]], a chieftain of the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]], united the Jurchen tribes. In 1635, his son and successor, [[Hong Taiji]], renamed his people the [[Manchu people|Manchus]] as a clear break from their past as Chinese vassals.<ref>{{cite ECCP|title=Abahai |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Grossnick |first1=Roy A. |year=1972 |title=Early Manchu Recruitment of Chinese Scholar-officials |publisher=University of Wisconsin—Madison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RpdRAAAAMAAJ&q=In+1635,+doubtless+on+the+advice+of+his+Chinese+councilors,+Abahai+forbade+the+use+of+the+names, |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Till |first1=Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUVJAQAAIAAJ&q=In+1635,+doubtless+on+the+advice+of+his+Chinese+councilors,+Abahai+forbade+the+use+of+the+names, |title=The Manchu era (1644–1912): arts of China's last imperial dynasty |year=2004 |publisher=Art Gallery of Greater Victoria |page=5 |isbn=9780888852168}}</ref> During the Ming dynasty, the Koreans of [[Joseon]] referred to the Jurchen-inhabited lands north of the Korean peninsula, above the rivers Yalu and Tumen as part of the "superior country" (sangguk) which they called Ming China.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Sun Joo |title=The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, and Culture |date=2011 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0295802176 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcYthUKyeS0C&pg=PA19}}</ref> The Qing deliberately excluded references and information that showed the Jurchens (Manchus) as subservient to the Ming dynasty, when composing the [[History of Ming]] to hide their former subservient relationship. The [[Veritable Records of Ming]] were not used to source content on Jurchens during Ming rule in the History of Ming because of this.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Richard J. |title=The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture |date=2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1442221949 |page=216 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RhmaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216}}</ref> The [[Yongzheng Emperor]] attempted to rewrite the historical record and claim that the Aisin Gioro were never subjects of past dynasties and empires trying to cast [[Nurhaci]]'s acceptance of Ming titles like Dragon Tiger General (longhu jiangjun 龍虎將軍) by claiming he accepted to "please Heaven".<ref>{{cite book |pages=303–304 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hbEwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303 |last=Crossley |first=Pamela Kyle |title=A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology |date=2002 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0520234243 |edition=illustrated, reprint}}</ref>

During the Qing dynasty, the two original editions of the books of the "''Qing Taizu Wu Huangdi Shilu''" and the "''Manzhou Shilu Tu''" (Taizu Shilu Tu) were kept in the palace, forbidden from public view because they showed that the Manchu Aisin Gioro family had been ruled by the Ming dynasty.<ref>{{cite ECCP |title=Nurhaci |page=598}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Augustan, Volumes 17-20 |date=1975 |publisher=Augustan Society |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh9ZAAAAMAAJ&q=They+reveal+the+real+origin+of+the+Aisin+Gioro+family}}</ref>

{{quotation|Our ''gurun'' (tribe, state) originally had the names Manju, Hada, Ula, Yehe, and Hoifa. Formerly ignorant persons have frequently called [us] ''jušen''. The term ''jušen'' refers to the Coo Mergen of Sibe barbarians and has nothing to do with our ''gurun''. Our ''gurun'' establishes the name Manju. Its rule will be long and transmitted over many generations. Henceforth persons should call our ''gurun'' its original name, Manju, and not use the previous demeaning name.|[[Hong Taiji]]}}

== Culture ==
[[File:Huang Qing Zhigong Tu, 1769, Qilang people (奇楞).jpg|thumb|[[Qilang people]] (奇楞). [[Huang Qing Zhigong Tu]], 1769]]
[[Image:Ussuriysk-Stone-Tortoise-3815.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Bixi]] from the grave of a 12th-century Jurchen leader in today's [[Ussuriysk]]]]

Jurchen culture shared many similarities with the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of Siberian-Manchurian tundra and coastal peoples. Like the [[Khitan people]] and [[Mongols]], they took pride in feats of strength, horsemanship, archery, and hunting. Both Mongols and Jurchens used the title ''[[Khan (title)|Khan]]'' for the leaders of a political entity, whether "emperor" or "chief". A particularly powerful chief was called ''[[beile]]'' ("prince, nobleman"), corresponding with the Mongolian ''[[beki]]'' and [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] ''[[baig]]'' or ''[[bey]]''. Also like the Mongols and the Turks, the Jurchens did not observe [[primogeniture]]. According to tradition, any capable son or nephew could be chosen to become leader.

Unlike the Mongols,{{sfn|Franke|1994|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=iN9Tdfdap5MC&pg=PA217 217]}}{{sfn|Rachewiltz|1993|p=112}} the Jurchens were a sedentary{{sfn|Vajda|2000}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williamson |first=Jeffrey G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QiDslL0o-hUC |title=Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-262-29518-5 |author-link=Jeffrey G. Williamson}}{{page needed|date=July 2021}}</ref> and agrarian society. They farmed grain and millet as their primary cereal crops, grew flax and raised oxen, pigs, sheep, and horses.{{sfn|Franke|1990|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ST6TRNuWmHsC&pg=PA416 416]}} "At the most", the Jurchen could only be described as "semi-nomadic" while the majority of them were sedentary.{{sfn|Breuker|2010|pp=220–221}}

Jurchen similarities and differences with the Mongols were emphasized to various degrees by [[Nurhaci]] out of political expediency.{{sfn|Perdue|2009|p=127}} Nurhaci once said to the Mongols that "the languages of the Chinese and Koreans are different, but their clothing and way of life is the same. It is the same with us Manchus (''Jušen'') and Mongols. Our languages are different, but our clothing and way of life is the same." Later, Nurhaci indicated that the bond with the Mongols was not based on any real shared culture, but rather on pragmatic reasons of "mutual opportunism". He said to the Mongols, "You Mongols raise livestock, eat meat and wear pelts. My people till the fields and live on grain. We two are not one country and we have different languages".{{sfn|Peterson|2002|p=31}}

During the [[Ming dynasty]], the Jurchens lived in sub-clans (''mukun'' or ''hala mukun'') of ancient clans (''hala''). Not all clan members were blood related, and division and integration of different clans was common. Jurchen households (''boo'') lived as families (''booigon'') consisting of five to seven blood-related family members and a number of slaves. Households formed squads (''tatan'') to engage in tasks related to hunting and food gathering and formed companies (''niru'') for larger activities, such as war.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

===Haixi, Jianzhou, Yeren===
The [[Haixi Jurchens]] were "semi-agricultural, the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]] and Maolian ({{zh|c=毛怜|labels=no}}) Jurchens were sedentary, while hunting and fishing was the way of life of the "Wild Jurchens".{{sfn|Chan|1988|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tyhT9SZRLS8C&pg=PA266 266]}} Hunting, horseback archery, horsemanship, livestock raising, and sedentary agriculture were all practiced by Jianzhou Jurchens.{{sfn|Rawski|1996|p=834}} The Jurchen way of life (economy) was described as agricultural. They farmed crops and [[Animal husbandry|raised animals]].{{sfn|Wurm|Mühlhäusler|Tyron|1996|p=828}} Jurchens practiced slash-and-burn agriculture in the areas north of [[Shenyang]].{{sfn|Reardon-Anderson|2000|p=504}}

{{quotation|"建州毛憐則渤海大氏遺孽，樂住種，善緝紡，飲食服用，皆如華人，自長白山迤南，可拊而治也。<br />The (people of) Jianzhou and Mao Lian are the descendants of the Ta family of Balhae. They love to be sedentary and sow, and they are skilled in spinning and weaving. As for food, clothing and utensils, they are the same as (those used by) the Chinese. (Those living) south of Changbai Mountain are apt to be soothed and governed."
| source= 据魏焕《皇明九边考》卷二《辽东镇边夷考》<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artx.cn/artx/lishi/20422.html |title=明代汉族与女真族的马市贸易 |author=萧国亮 |date=2007-01-24 |website=艺术中国(ARTX.cn) |page=1 |access-date=25 July 2014 |archive-date=29 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729230931/http://www.artx.cn/artx/lishi/20422.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Translation from ''Sino-J̌ürčed relations during the Yung-Lo period, 1403–1424'' by Henry Serruys.{{sfn|Serruys|1955|p=22}} }}

===Queue===
In 1126, the Jurchens initially ordered male [[Han Chinese]] within their conquered territories to adopt the Jurchen hairstyle by shaving the front of their heads and adopting Jurchen dress, but the order was later lifted.{{sfn|Zhang|1984|pp=97–8}} Jurchens were impersonated by Han rebels who wore their hair in the Jurchen [[queue (hairstyle)|queue]] to strike fear within their population.{{sfn|Franke|1990|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ST6TRNuWmHsC&pg=PA417]}} During the [[Qing dynasty]], the Manchus, who descended from the Jurchens, similarly made Han Chinese men shave the front of their head and wear the rest of their hair in a [[Queue (hairstyle)|queue]], or ''soncoho'' ({{ManchuSibeUnicode|ᠰᠣᠨᠴᠣᡥᠣ}}) ({{zh|c=辮子|p=biànzi|labels=no}}), the traditional Manchu hairstyle.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

===Dogs===
Although their [[Mohe people|Mohe]] ancestors did not revere dogs, the Jurchens began to revere dogs around the time of the Ming dynasty and passed this tradition on to the Manchus. It was prohibited in Jurchen culture to use dog skin, and forbidden for Jurchens to harm, kill, or eat dogs. The Jurchens believed that the "utmost evil" was the usage of dog skin by Koreans.{{sfn|Aisin Gioro|Jin|2007|p=18}}

===Sex and marriage===
Pre-marital sex was probably accepted in lower class Jurchen society since the practice of guest prostitution - providing visitors with sex - did not impede their ability to marry later. The Jurchens also allowed marriage with in-laws, a practice considered taboo in Chinese society.<ref name="L. S. Olschki"/><ref name="University of California Press"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Franke|first=Herbert|authorlink=Herbert Franke (sinologist)|title=Diplomatic Missions of the Sung State 960-1276|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRIwAQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University|isbn=978-0-909879-14-3|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Lanciotti|1980|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cQAqAAAAYAAJ] 33}}</ref> [[Bride kidnapping|Abduction marriages]] were common.<ref>{{Cite book |last=JOHNSON |first=LINDA COOKE |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqjst |title=Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China |date=2011 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |jstor=j.ctt6wqjst |isbn=978-0-8248-3404-3}}</ref>

===Burial===
Until recently, it was uncertain what kind of burial rites existed among the Jurchens. In July 2012, Russian archaeologists discovered a Jurchen burial ground in [[Partizansky District, Primorsky Krai|Partizansky District]] of [[Primorsky Krai|Primorye]] in Russia. Fifteen graves dating to the 12th or 13th century were found, consisting of the grave of a chieftain placed in the centre, with the graves of 14 servants nearby. All the graves contained pots with ashes, prompting the scientists to conclude that the Jurchens cremated the corpses of their dead. The grave of the chieftain also contained a quiver with arrows and a bent sword. The archaeologists propose that the sword was purposely bent, to signify that the owner would no longer need it in earthly life. The researchers planned to return to Primorye to establish whether this was a singular burial or a part of the larger burial ground.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://russia-ic.com/news/show/14426/ |title=A Large Burial Ground of the Jurchen People Has Been Found In Russia's Primorye: Russia-InfoCentre |publisher=Russia-ic.com |date=2012-07-27 |access-date=17 August 2012}}</ref>

===Agriculture===
Only the Mongols and the northern "wild" Jurchen were semi-nomadic, unlike the mainstream Jianzhou Jurchens descended from the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]], who were farmers that foraged, hunted, herded and harvested crops in the Liao and Yalu river basins. They gathered ginseng root, pine nuts, hunted for came pels in the uplands and forests, raised horses in their stables, and farmed millet and wheat in their fallow fields. They engaged in dances, wrestling and drinking strong liquor as noted during midwinter by the Korean Sin Chung-il when it was very cold. These Jurchens who lived in the northeast's harsh cold climate sometimes half sunk their houses in the ground which they constructed of brick or timber and surrounded their fortified villages with stone foundations on which they built wattle and mud walls to defend against attack. Village clusters were ruled by beile, hereditary leaders. They fought each other and dispensed weapons, wives, slaves and lands to their followers in them. This was how the Jurchens who founded the Qing lived and how their ancestors lived before the Jin. Alongside Mongols and Jurchen clans there were migrants from Liaodong provinces of Ming China and Korea living among these Jurchens in a cosmopolitan manner. Nurhaci, who was hosting Sin Chung-il, was uniting all of them into his own army, having them adopt the Jurchen hairstyle of a long queue and a shaved forecrown and wearing leather tunics. His armies had black, blue, red, white and yellow flags. These became the Eight Banners, initially capped to 4 then growing to 8 with three different types of ethnic banners as Han, Mongol and Jurchen were recruited into Nurhaci's forces. Jurchens like Nurhaci spoke both their native Tungusic language and Chinese, adopting the [[Mongolian script]] for their own language, unlike the Jin Jurchen's use of the [[Khitan large script]]. They adopted [[Confucianism|Confucian values]] and practiced [[shamanism in the Qing dynasty|shamanist traditions]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Keay |first1=John |title=China: A History |date=2011 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0465025183 |page=422 |edition=reprint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DfzQDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA422}}</ref> Most Jurchens raised pigs and stock animals and were farmers.<ref name="Schneider 2011"/>

The Qing stationed the "New Manchu" Warka foragers in [[Ning'an|Ningguta]] and attempted to turn them into normal agricultural farmers but then the Warka just reverted to hunter gathering and requested money to buy cattle for beef broth. The Qing wanted the Warka to become soldier-farmers and imposed this on them, but the Warka simply left their garrison at Ningguta and went back to the [[Sungari]] to their homes to herd, fish and hunt. The Qing accused them of desertion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bello |first1=David A. |editor1-last=Smith |editor1-first=Norman |title=Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria |date=2017 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0774832922 |page=68 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_PRJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 |series=Contemporary Chinese Studies |chapter=2 Rival Empires on the Hunt for Sable and People in Seventeenth-Century Manchuria}}</ref>

==Religion==
Jurchens practiced [[Shamanism in the Qing dynasty|shamanic rituals]] and believed in a supreme sky goddess (''abka hehe'', literally sky woman). The Jurchens of the Jin dynasty practiced [[Buddhism]], which became the prevalent religion of the Jurchens, and [[Daoism]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Ulrich Theobald |url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Song/jinn-religion.html |title=Chinese History – Jin Dynasty (Jurchen) 金 religion and customs |publisher=www.chinaknowledge.de |access-date=17 August 2012}}</ref> The Jurchen word for "sorceress" was ''shanman''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ST6TRNuWmHsC&dq=jurchen+religion&pg=PA419|isbn = 9780521243049|title = The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia|date = March 1990|publisher = Cambridge University Press}}</ref> Under [[Confucianism|Confucian]] influence during the [[Qing dynasty]] the gender of the female sky deity was switched to a male sky father, Abka Enduri (''abka-i enduri'', ''abka-i han'').<ref>{{cite book |author=Judika Illes |title=Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses |year=2009}}{{page needed|date=July 2021}}</ref>

==Language==
The early [[Jurchen script]] was invented in 1120 by [[Wanyan Xiyin]], acting on the orders of [[Emperor Taizu of Jin|Wanyan Aguda]]. It was based on the [[Khitan small script|Khitan script]] that was inspired in turn by [[Chinese character]]s. The written Jurchen language died out soon after the fall of the Jin dynasty. The Translators' Bureau of the Ming tributary bureaucracy received a communication from the Jurchens in 1444 stating that nobody among them understood the Jurchen script, so all letters sent to them should be written in [[Mongolian script|Mongolian]].{{sfn|Crossley|1997|p=38}}

Until the end of the 16th century, when [[Manchu language|Manchu]] became the new literary language, the Jurchens used a combination of Mongolian and Chinese. The pioneering work on studies of the Jurchen script was done by [[Wilhelm Grube]] at the end of the 19th century.

==Genetics==
[[Haplogroup C-M217|Haplogroup C3b2b1*-M401(xF5483)]]<ref name=WeiYanYuHuang>{{cite journal |last1=Wei |first1=Ryan Lan-Hai |last2=Yan |first2=Shi |last3=Yu |first3=Ge |last4=Huang |first4=Yun-Zhi |title=Genetic trail for the early migrations of Aisin Gioro, the imperial house of the Qing dynasty |journal=Journal of Human Genetics |date=November 2016 |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=407–411 |publisher=The Japan Society of Human Genetics |doi=10.1038/jhg.2016.142 |pmid=27853133 |s2cid=7685248 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310477623}}</ref><ref name=YanTachibanaWeiYu>{{cite journal |last1=Yan |first1=Shi |last2=Tachibana |first2=Harumasa |last3=Wei |first3=Lan-Hai |last4=Yu |first4=Ge |last5=Wen |first5=Shao-Qing |last6=Wang |first6=Chuan-Chao |title=Y chromosome of Aisin Gioro, the imperial house of the Qing dynasty. |journal=Journal of Human Genetics |date=June 2015 |volume=60 |issue=6 |pages=295–8 |doi=10.1038/jhg.2015.28 |pmid=25833470 |arxiv=1412.6274 |s2cid=7505563 }}</ref><ref name="DidYouKnowDNA">{{cite web |title=Did you know DNA was used to uncover the origin of the House of Aisin Gioro? |website=Did You Know DNA... |date=14 November 2016 |url=https://www.didyouknowdna.com/famous-dna/aisin-gioro-dna/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001081333/https://www.didyouknowdna.com/famous-dna/aisin-gioro-dna/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> has been identified as a possible marker of the Aisin Gioro and is found in ten different ethnic minorities in northern China, but completely absent from Han Chinese.<ref name="DidYouKnowDNA"/><ref>{{cite journal |title=Recent Spread of a Y-Chromosomal Lineage in Northern China and Mongolia |doi=10.1086/498583 |volume=77 |issue=6 |journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics |pages=1112–1116 |pmid=16380921 |pmc=1285168 |year=2005 |last1=Xue |first1=Yali |last2=Zerjal |first2=Tatiana |last3=Bao |first3=Weidong |last4=Zhu |first4=Suling |last5=Lim |first5=Si-Keun |last6=Shu |first6=Qunfang |last7=Xu |first7=Jiujin |last8=Du |first8=Ruofu |last9=Fu |first9=Songbin |last10=Li |first10=Pu |last11=Yang |first11=Huanming |last12=Tyler-Smith |first12=Chris}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Asian Ancestry based on Studies of Y-DNA Variation: Part 3. Recent demographics and ancestry of the male East Asians – Empires and Dynasties |work=Genebase Tutorials |url=http://www.genebase.com/learning/article/23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125053101/http://www.genebase.com/learning/article/23 |archive-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref>

[[Genetic testing]] also showed that the haplogroup C3b1a3a2-F8951 of the Aisin Gioro family came to southeastern Manchuria after migrating from their place of origin in the Amur river's middle reaches, originating from ancestors related to [[Daur people|Daurs]] in the [[Transbaikal]] area. The [[Tungusic languages|Tungusic]] speaking peoples mostly have C3c-M48 as their subclade of C3 which drastically differs from the C3b1a3a2-F8951 haplogroup of the Aisin Gioro which originates from Mongolic speaking populations like the Daur. Jurchen (Manchus) are a Tungusic people. The Mongol Genghis Khan's haplogroup C3b1a3a1-F3796 (C3*-Star Cluster) is a fraternal "brother" branch of C3b1a3a2-F8951 haplogroup of the Aisin Gioro.<ref name=WeiYanYuHuang/> A genetic test was conducted on 7 men who claimed Aisin Gioro descent with 3 of them showing documented genealogical information of all their ancestors up to Nurhaci. 3 of them turned out to share the C3b2b1*-M401(xF5483) haplogroup, out of them, 2 of them were the ones who provided their documented family trees. The other 4 tested were unrelated.<ref name=YanTachibanaWeiYu/> The Daur Ao clan carries the unique haplogroup subclade C2b1a3a2-F8951, the same haplogroup as Aisin Gioro and both Ao and Aisin Gioro only diverged merely a couple of centuries ago from a shared common ancestor. Other members of the Ao clan carry haplogroups like N1c-M178, C2a1b-F845, C2b1a3a1-F3796 and C2b1a2-M48. People from northeast China, the Daur Ao clan and Aisin Gioro clan are the main carriers of haplogroup C2b1a3a2-F8951. The Mongolic C2*-Star Cluster (C2b1a3a1-F3796) haplogroup is a fraternal branch to Aisin Gioro's C2b1a3a2-F8951 haplogroup.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Chi-Zao |last2=Wei |first2=Lan-Hai |last3=Wang |first3=Ling-Xiang |last4=Wen |first4=Shao-Qing |last5=Yu |first5=Xue-Er |last6=Shi |first6=Mei-Sen |last7=Li |first7=Hui |title=Relating Clans Ao and Aisin Gioro from northeast China by whole Y-chromosome sequencing |journal=Journal of Human Genetics |date=August 2019 |volume=64 |issue=8 |pages=775–780 |doi=10.1038/s10038-019-0622-4 |publisher=Japan Society of Human Genetics |pmid=31148597 |s2cid=171094135}}</ref>

==In fiction==

In the [[Alternative History]] timeline of [[Harry Turtledove]]'s novel ''[[Agent of Byzantium]]'', the Jurchens migrate westwards, reach Europe and become a serious threat to the [[Byzantine Empire]].

They are a playable civilization in the video game Age of Empires II.

==See also==
* [[Ethnic groups in Chinese history]]
* [[Korean–Jurchen border conflicts]]
* [[List of Jurchen chieftains]]
* [[Nanai people]]
* [[Jaegaseung]]
* [[Toi invasion]]
* [[Researches on Manchu Origins]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
=== Citations ===
{{Reflist}}

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== External links ==
* [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/jurchen.htm Jurchen script]
* {{in lang|zh}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20050404083447/http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/twain/1279/indexeng.htm The Jurchen language and Script Website] (Chinese Traditional Big5 code page) via [[Internet Archive]]
* [http://www.ria.ru/science/20120727/710417211.html The Russian news about the discovery of the Jurchen burial ground, July 2012]

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