A Non-Chinese people roaming the area of modern. The ethnological affiliation, Turkish, Mongolian, or Tungusian, is not clear. This people is named after a mountain range called Wuhuan, belonged to the so-called “eastern barbarians” (Donghu 東胡) and after being defeated by the Xiongnu 匈奴 in the late 3rd century BC they had to move to the area between the rivers Xilamulun 西拉木倫 and Guilali 歸喇里/Inner Mongolia. Chinese historians have handed down a lot of ethnological knowledge about the Wuhuan. The Wuhuan were a nomadic people living in a yurt (Chinese: qionglu 穹廬), exerting riding and shooting sports, eating meat and wearing leather clothes. Some tribes already used to cultivate some crops. The Wuhuan brewed liquors but did not know how to use yeast. Unlike among the Chinese, youth and force were highly estimated, and the father was not as important as the blood line of the mother. The deceased were buried along with their horse and precious items. Their religion was centered on spirits, demons and the celestial bodies. The mighty federation of the Xiongnu expected the Wuhuan to offer tributes, but after the Chinese general Huo Qubing 霍去病 defeated the Xiongnu in 119 the Wuhuan were scattered all over the north of China, from Inner Mongolia to Liaodong 遼東 (modern Liaoning). After a revival of the Xiongnu power around the mid-Han period, the Wuhuan again submitted to the Han Dynasty 漢. Wuhuan troops were often employed by both sides the Xiongnu and the Han to enforce their armies. During these war contests of the 2nd and 3rd century the Wuhuan even reached the areas of modern Shandong and Jiangsu. At the same time, Xianbei 鮮卑 gradually occupied the territory of the Wuhuan in the north and northeast.