Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Also written 鮮卑, xian1 bei1 or xian1-bei1 (in pinyin), or Hsien-Pi or Hsien Pi (in Wade-Giles). A significant tribe residing in modern Manchuria and eastern Mongolia before migrating into areas of the modern provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Liaoning. A Chinese ruler of Hsien-Pi origin was recorded as having had fair hair as were later some Tatars from the same area. See also: History of China Tribes in Chinese history Wu Hu Sixteen Kingdoms Wuhuan Northern Wei Dynasty Chinese sovereign This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.