Chuban

Chuban (Chuy, Yueban Ch. 悅般, or Üeban, Urpen) "Weak Huns" was the name used by Chinese historians for the Chuy tribes: Chuyue, Chumi, Chumuhun, and Chuban. They were also collectively named Chuyue (Pinyin: Chuyue, Ch. 處月 Chuyue = 'abode of the Moon '). The present endoethnonym of the Chuy descendents is Chuy Kiji, Turkic for "Chuy People". The Chuy tribes gained their own visibility after disintegration of the Eastern Hun state, because unlike the main body of the Northern Huns, who escaped from the Chinese sphere of knowledge, the Chuy tribes remained closer to China.

Descended from the Dingling, the Chuban emerged after the disintegration of the Xiongnu confederation. They underwent a strong influence of the Sogdian culture.

The Chuy-descended Shato played an important role in Chines dynastic history. In the 10th c. the remaining Shato branch of the Chuy tribe joined Tatar confederation in the territory of the modern Mongolia, and became known as White Tatars branch of the Tatars.

Another Chuy-descendent tribe, Kimek was one of the Turkic tribes known from Arab and Persian Middle Age writers as one of the seven tribes in the Kimek Kaganate in the period of 743-1050 AD. The other six constituent tribes of the Kimek Kaganate per Abu Said Gardizi (d. 1061) were the Kipchaks, Imi, Tatars, Bayandur, Lanikaz, and Ajlad.