Tuoba Gui, pinyin: tuò fourth tone, bá second tone, ?guī first tone.

Tuoba Gui is a personal name, Tuoba is a compound surname.

Tuoba Gui (August 4, 371 - November 6, 409), also known as Tuoba Kai (拓跋開), Shibu Gui (渋珪), was a native of Shengle (present-day Helinger County, Inner Mongolia) in the Yunzhong area, and was of Xianbei ethnicity. He was the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty (reigned from 386 to 409), the grandson of Emperor Zhaocheng Tuoba Shiyigandan and the son of Emperor Xianming Tuoba Shi.

During the reign of Emperor Wencheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the monk Tanyao was ordered to be responsible for the excavation of five Great Buddhas to represent the five generations of Northern Wei emperors, which were known as the Tanyao Five Caves. It is generally believed that Cave 20 of the Yungang Grottoes is the statue of Tuanyao Gui, one of the most representative statues of the Yungang Grottoes.

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According to the historical book "Wei Shu - Preface to the Chronicle", the prelude to the history of the Xianbei Tuoba Department is from the late Western Han Dynasty Tuoba Mao began. After the Tuoba Mao, five pass to the Tuoba push Yin time, just in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tuoba clan began to migrate from their original residence to the south, "the south moved to Dazawa, square more than a thousand miles, the Turkic soil dusky depressed marshy".

Seven pass to the Tuoba neighbors, to the location of the desolate, and seek to move south, but because of old age, so passed on to the son Tuoba Jifen, the rate of the Department of the south, "the valley is deep, nine difficulties and eight obstacles, and then want to stop. There is a sacred beast, its shape like a horse, its voice like a cow, the first guide, for years was out, began to live in the Xiongnu's homeland." Divine Beast said, is the early myths and legends of the Tuoba clan.

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