dá dá. tartar, definition: 1, ancient China's nomadic peoples of the north of the general name. 2, the Ming dynasty called a part of the Mongols, that is, the Eastern Mongols. They lived in the area around Lake Baikal in present-day Russia and in most of Mongolia. Tartar: a generalized name for the peoples of northern China with multiple meanings in ancient China. Also known as Datan and Datan, it first appeared in the Tang Dynasty in Turkic inscriptions and some Chinese records, referring to the Tatar tribe on the eastern side of the Mongolian Plateau. It was first recorded in Turkic inscriptions of the Tang Dynasty and in certain Chinese texts, referring to the Tatar tribe east of the Mongolian plateau. For a tribe under the rule of the Turkic, after the fall of the Turkic, Tatar gradually become a powerful tribe. The two Song, Liao and Jin dynasties, and the north of the Mongolia called the black Tartars, the south of the desert wanggu called the white Tartars. When Mongolia emerged, the Tartars were annihilated by Mongolia, but they were still called Tartars in general. After the death of Yuan, its clan went to the north of the desert, and the Ming Dynasty called the eastern Mongolian Genghis Khan's descendants Tartary. In a broader sense, Tartar is a general term for all minorities in northern China. See Ming Shi - Foreign Biographies VIII - Tartary.
The name Tatar began in the Tang Dynasty. But the word Tartar had already appeared in the North and South Dynasties, when it originated from the aliases Daitan and Tantan of Zoran, and Tartar was known to the Beiqi and Sui dynasties through the Room Wei. There were Tartars with nine surnames west of Yinshan, and thirty in Hulunbeier. It is believed that they are the remnants of the Zoran.
The rise of the Tatars preceded that of the Mongols. After the rule of the Khitans in the Liao Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty women, most of the Tatars were integrated into the forming Mongols and became one of the main sources of the Mongol nation.
Defeated by the Ming Dynasty returned to the desert north to maintain the regime of the Northern Yuan, 1402 Northern Yuan Kun Timur succeeded to the throne was also killed by the generals of the Kyrgyz people Ghost Lichi, the Northern Yuan to go to the country's demise, renamed Tatar.