62 NOTES ON NAMES OF NON-CHINESE 



Ch'iang, and Nine Ti" -b ^, *z %, % fi. Moreover, we hear 

 how in the days of Han the Ti rebelled and were, as usual 

 "slaughtered and pacified." Later a barrier near Mao 

 Chow was the door of the Chiang and Ti who, even about 

 A.D. 250 were not bereft of power. But returning again to 

 the Ti Chiang (cf. Anglo-Saxon) we find the people of Lifan 

 who are descendants of this horde, inherit from them their 

 present uncouth and stupid dispositions. Mao Chow, from 

 the Tang and Song times, was again and again annoyed by the 

 unconciliatory tactics of the T'ufan ti: II and Ti Ch'iang. 

 This name during the Cheo JH Dynasty seems to have been 

 changed to Shuh Chiang; but from, the very early times, 

 when the Luan Bird M ,Hr was seen in Ti-Ch'iang, to the 

 days of the Tang and the Song, a people known as the Ti- 

 Ch'iang played an important part in Chinese politics. In 

 Klaproth's Ethnographical Tables — from earliest times to 

 A.D. 1000 — we are told the " Ti " are the same people as 

 the Ch'iang. The translator makes the Yueh Chi, also, a 

 cognate race. However, as he confuses the Shi and Ti A 

 and £ we may suspect an error. But if not, and admitting 

 the correctness of his classification, we shall be forced to 

 connect our Ti Ch'iang with one of the most picturesque of 

 non-Chinese peoples — the Yiieh Chi, who are, probably, 

 aiso the same as the Uigurs. 1 But even more interesting is 

 Schnyler's suggestion that the Yiieh Chi are the old Getae 

 or Goths. If this is so we should then be inclined to insist 

 on Ti (J£) not J£ as the correct reading. It is quite possible 

 that the old Ti 5 stock may still be found in the hills around 

 Wei Chow and Lifan. In any case the people on the left 

 bank of the Lifan river are known as " Ti or Tae mi ' ' — the 

 Ti or Tae people. 



(2) %. — The Ch'iang are well-known to readers of Chinese 

 History. The Chinese look upon them as a branch of the 

 San Miao HIS. Further, we are told " Ch'iang " is a name 

 for the Western Yi; "they are a tribe of the Hsi Yong ® $c, 

 and that even now in Kiai Chow PI? 'M and Mao Chow M jHi 

 there are Ch'iang people." In the Shi Chi Jfe f £ the Ch'iang 

 are mentioned as blocking the way to Ta Hsia ;fc 3£ (Graeco- 

 Bactria) and south of a line from Lob Nor to the Great 

 Wall was Ch'iang country closed to China; and Chang Chien 

 $k W would not risk crossing the territory of these " wander- 



4 The name of the Ch'iang ancestor was ^ ^ ;j£ ^ $;i[. The j^ 

 s also represented by :3£ and Wuko = slave. 



I^^^Later they were known as the }£ -jfe f^. The name -fa -^ by which 

 the territory of certain " ^g " is known may be related to the fig jfe jfc. 

 This is the division known to the Gyakuhg as Ti or Tae mi. 



