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Yancai (Chinese: 奄蔡; pinyin:
Yǎncài; Wade–Giles: Yen-ts’ai; lit. 'Vast Steppe' < LHC *ʔɨamA-sɑC < OC (125 BCE) *ʔɨam-sɑs, a.k.a. 闔蘇 Hésū < *ĥa̱p-sa̱ĥ;...
- M****agetae.
Modern historians have
connected the
Alans with the
Central Asian Yancai of
Chinese sources and with the
Aorsi of
Roman sources.
Having migrated...
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often regarded as
connected to the
contemporaneous Eurasian steppe state of
Yancai (or Yentsai)
mentioned in
ancient Chinese records. The Alans,
first mentioned...
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strips of leather. To the west lies
Tiaozhi (Mesopotamia) and to the
north Yancai and
Lixuan (Hyrcania)." (Shiji, 123,
Zhang Qian quote, trans.
Burton Watson)...
- land
known to the
Chinese as
Yancai 奄蔡 (literally "vast steppe"),
which lay north-west of the Kangju. The
people of
Yancai were said to
resemble the Kangju...
- g. Vernadsky) have
tried to
connect the
Antes with a
tribe rendered as
Yancai 奄蔡 (< LHC *ʔɨamA-sɑC < OC (125 BCE) *ʔɨam-sɑs;
compare Latin Abzoae, identified...
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Seleucid Syria. Thus more emb****ies were
dispatched to Anxi [Parthia],
Yancai [who
later joined the
Alans ],
Lijian [Syria
under the Gr**** Seleucids]...
- Sun
Kuang (after 184-
before 210?),
courtesy name Jizuo, was a
younger brother of Sun Quan, a
Chinese warlord who
lived during the late
Eastern Han dynasty...
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Wusun and
their neighbours during the late 2nd
century BCE. The
Yancai did not
change their name to
Alans until the 1st century....
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steamed cured meat.
Guizhou cuisine features various pickled vegetable, or
yancai (腌菜; 醃菜; yān cài). The
pickled vegetables bring the sour sensation. Fresh...
