Qiang (historical people)
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Qiang was a Chinese exonym given to various groups of western semi-nomadic people at different periods in ancient China. The Qiang groups are generally thought to have mainly been of Tibeto-Burman ori
Depiction of an envoy of Dengzhi, a Qiang ethnic group, from a Portraits of Periodical Offering painting, 6th century CE
The "City of China's Ancient Qiang" (中国古羌城), a Qiang cultural complex in Mao County, Sichuan
The Later Qin dynasty, c. 400 CE.
The Silver Turtle Temple is a complex of Qiang temples dedicated to various gods consecrated in 2013–2014. Its three temples are dedicated to Yandi, Dayu and Li Yuanhao, the most important deities of the Qiang people. It is located on Qiangshan, in Qiang City, Mao County of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan.
Five Barbarians
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The Five Barbarians, or Wu Hu, is a Chinese historical exonym for five ancient non-Han "Hu" peoples who immigrated to northern China in the Eastern Han dynasty, and then overthrew the Western Jin dyna
Qiang (historical people)
…should be deported outside of the frontier, but the court did not heed his suggestion. The Qiang are commonly known in historiography as one of the "Five Barbarians" (along with the Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei and Di) who drove the Western Jin out of northern China and founded many of the Sixteen Kingdoms in the 4th and…
Distribution of the Five Barbarians during the Western Jin dynasty.