Carpet depicting man hunting deer from Xiongnu site of Noin Ula 1st C. CE

"In the vol. 107 of the Jinshu (the official dynastic history of the Jin dynasty 265-420 CE) said that Ran Min 冉閔, a military leader during the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms in China (304-439 CE) and the only emperor of the short-lived state Ran Wei 冉魏 (350-352 CE) state, committed the genocide in 350 CE against the Jie people under the Later Zhao, who were considered the descendants of the Xiongnu. As a result, more than half of those with “high noses and full beards” were slaughtered. According to this description, Chinese historian Wang Guowei deduced that the Xiongnu as the ancestors of Jie people should be correspondingly recognized as “deep eye orbit, high nose, and full beard” with no distinctions from the “west barbarians” dwelling in modern Xinjiang, China."

-Xumeng Sun, Identifying the Huns and the Xiongnu (or Not): Multi-Faceted Implications and Difficulties. University of Calgary 2020. 

Source:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1407475029319437&type=3

https://scfh.ru/en/papers/faces-from-the-past/

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Xumeng Sun, Identifying the Huns and the Xiongnu (or Not): Multi-Faceted Implications and Difficulties. University of Calgary 2020.