1. Pronunciation: [dá dá]. The name Tartar began in the Tang Dynasty. But the word Tartar had already appeared in the North and South Dynasties, when it originated from the aliases of Zojiran, Daitan and Tan Tan, and the Northern Qi and Sui dynasties knew Tartar 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 Johan.

2. The rise of the Tatars was earlier than that of the Mongols. Tatars in the Liao Dynasty Khitan and Jin Dynasty female rule, most of the integration of the formation of the Mongols, becoming one of the main sources of the Mongolian nation. Defeated by the Ming Dynasty returned to the north of the desert to maintain the North Yuan regime, in 1402 after the succession of the North Yuan Kun Timur was also killed by the generals of the Kyrgyz people Ghost Lichi, the North Yuan to go to the country's demise, renamed Tatar.