Qiulin

{{Short description|Xiongnu royal tribe}} {{about|the Xiongnu royal tribe|the Chinese food company|Churin and Qiulin}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2021}} '''Qiulin''' ({{zh|c=丘林}} < LHC: *''kʰu-lim'' < *''khwə-rəm''<ref>Schuessler, Axel (2014) "Phonological Notes on Hàn Period Transcriptions of Foreign Names and Words" in ''Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text''. Series: Language and Linguistics Monograph. Issue 53. p. 274 of 249-292</ref>) was the name of a royal tribe in Xiongnu from the Han dynasty to Northern Wei.

==History== Xiongnu contained five tribes: Luandi, Xubu, Huyan, Lan and Qiulin. Luandi produced the rulers of Xiongnu, while other tribes produced empresses.

During the Northern Wei, the Qiulin emigrated to Luyang, Henan. Following the Chinese assimilation policy of Emperor Xiaowen, the Xiongnu of Qiulin took the surname Lin (林). The family became a branch of Liu family of Han Zhao.

==See also== *Han-Zhao *Later Tang *Xueyantuo

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Category:Xiongnu Category:Ancient peoples of China