The Population of the Huns in the Eastern Han Dynasty

This paper attempts to explore the Huns population and its distribution. According to the correlative records, we could infer that the Huns' population reached its maximum of 1,400,000 in the Eastern Han Dynasty during the Yongyuan years of Emperor He. In the first part of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Northern Huns resided in the north areas of the desert, while most of the Southern Huns lived in some counties on the border, such as Bingzhou, liangzhou, and Youzhou. The Huns gradually migrated to nowaday regions of mid-Shanxi province during middle and later years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, some Huns were migrated to Ye City in the Wei State during the later years in the Eastern Han Dynasty.