What nationality are the ancient Huns today?

The territory of the ancient Xiongnu centered on the Mongolian Plateau and extended to the eastern part of Inner Mongolia. The Great Wall of the South is adjacent to the Qin and Han Dynasties and once controlled the Hetao and Ordos regions. Crossing Altai Mountain to the west until Qingji and Fergana Valley, and reaching the periphery of Lake Baikal to the north. Known as the "country of hundred barbarians".

According to historical records, the ancestors of Huns were adherents of the Xia Dynasty, and in the process of westward migration, people from Yueshi, Loulan, Wusun, Hu Jie and 26 neighboring countries were integrated. "Huns, the earliest descendants of Xia Houshi, called Chunwei (embarrassing smoked). Above Tang Yu, there are Shanrong, Yao Yun and Zhou Xun, who live in the north and move with the grass. "

In 2 15 BC, Xiongnu was expelled from Hetao and Hexi Corridor by Meng Tian. Xiongnu became strong in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and invaded the border many times, posing a powerful threat to the Western Han regime and controlling the western regions. Later defeated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he retreated to Mobei and split into five parts. In 65438 BC+065438 BC+09 BC, surrounded by the Han army and the surrendered Xiongnu, General Huo Qubing "sealed the wolf in Xushan, meditated in Gu Yan and boarded the Han Sea (now Lake Baikal)".

Modern books in China sometimes moved westward to Eastern Europe in the 4th century, and the Huns who invaded the Eastern and Western Roman empires were translated as "Huns". There are some descriptions of this nation and its deeds in Europe in ancient European documents. However, whether the Huns in ancient China and the Hungarians in Europe are related by blood or belong to the same nation is still inconclusive. In recent years, DNA and other detection methods have failed to answer this question. The most important evidence of the homology between the two ethnic groups is that the time when the northern Xiongnu moved westward coincided with the time when the Hungarians appeared in Europe 300 years later. The race and language family of these two Huns have not been verified so far. Modern archaeology only knows the history of this ancient nation through the cultural relics unearthed in the grasslands of Eurasia and northern China. In 2006, French and Hungarian geneticists analyzed the Y chromosome, mitochondria and autosomal DNA with the bodies of ancient Xiongnu aristocrats 2,300 years ago and the bodies of Mongolians, Yakutians and Turks in modern Anatolia. The results show that ancient Huns and contemporary Mongolians are descendants, while modern Turks and Mongolians have more cultural and linguistic exchanges than genetic exchanges. The Huns in Siberia are not related to Yakutia.