Tartary: a collective name for eastern Mongolia during the Ming dynasty.

Tartary was a term used by the Ming dynasty to refer to the Northern Yuan dynasty of Genghis Khan and the eastern steppe tribes of the Mongolian Plateau, in opposition to the Wara of the western part of the Mongolian Plateau.

Tartary: a collective name for eastern Mongolia by the Ming dynasty.

Tartary: a collective name for eastern Mongolia by the Ming dynasty.

The Tartars were a group of grassland tribes in the eastern part of the Mongolian Plateau, in opposition to the Wara in the western part of the Mongolian Plateau, and were divided into the Chahar, the Tumut, the Kerqin

(including the Yongxiebu), the Ordos, and the Aso (Ossetians).

Their people called themselves Mongols, the Ming Dynasty called them Tartars, and the people of Weilat called them Dayan. It has nothing to do with what Europeans call "Tartary".

It should be noted that the word Dayan is not a translation of Dayuan, and is not related to Dayuan, whose Mongolian meaning is disputed.

Historical Origins

Tartary's earliest recorded name came from the Song Dynasty, "Miscellaneous Records of the Dynasty and the Countryside since the Jianyan Period", which reads: "Tartary people are all brave and good at fighting, and those who are close to the Han land are called

Mature Tartary, who can grow broomcorn millet, and cook it in a flat-bottomed cauldron and eat it. Those who are far away are called raw Tartars, who live by shooting and hunting"'. Tartary is the self-proclaimed name of the descendants and tribes of Johan

Ran Khan Dadan. It was the collective name given by the Chinese to the nomadic steppe tribes.

Tartary is also divided into raw Tartary and ripe Tartary, raw Tartary refers to the Mongolian tribes in the north of the desert that were conquered by Genghis Khan, while ripe Tartary is White Tartary,

i.e. Wanggu tribe. The Wanggu tribe had already mastered the art of planting lapel, "eat its round-grained rice" indicates that it is the round-grained rice planted by Wanggu tribesmen themselves, and

and cooked in flat-bottomed kettles. At the beginning of March in 1221, when Changchun Zhenzhen passed through Yu'erbo, he saw the scene of "the beginning of human settlements, mostly

plowing and fishing".