Everything about Jie Ethnic Group totally explained
The
Jie were members of a small tribe in the
Xiongnu Confederation in the
4th and
5th centuries
CE. Their name literally means "wethers" or "castrated male sheep".
They were
Caucasoid in appearance, with full beards, deep-set eyes and high noses, and were probably related to the modern Pamir
Tajiks. In the period between 350 and 352, General
Ran Min ordered the complete extermination of this tribe, and their distinctive features led to large numbers being killed. However, the Jie continue to appear occasionally in history over the next 200 years.
Erzhu Rong and
Hou Jing, two famous warlords of the
Northern Dynasties, were identified as Qihu and Jiehu respectively, and modern scholars have suggested that they could have been be related to the Jie.
Some historians conjecture the Jie to have been be a medieval tribe related to the modern
Kets, living between the
Ob and
Yenisey tributaries—it is worth noting that the character 羯 (
jié) is pronounced
kit in
Cantonese and
katsu or
ketsu in
Japanese, implying that the ancient pronunciation may have been fairly close to
Ket. Others link the Jie with the
Sogdians, and suggest that the family name of Shi from Jie who ruled the
Later Zhao state originated in the Sogdian statelet of
Tashkent, which was later also known as the Kingdom of Shi.
An Lushan, the
Tang rebel general, had a Sogdian stepfather and was called a Jiehu. Yet others trace the Jie to those
Great Yuezhi or
Tocharians who had remained in Sogdiana.
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