Goa̍t-chi

Yuezhi

Figures in the embroidered carpets of the Noin-Ula burial site, proposed to be Yuezhis (1st century BC - 1st century AD).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

The migrations of the Yuezhi through Central Asia, from around 176 BC to 30 AD

Chóng Jîn-kháu

Some 100,000 to 200,000 horse archers, according to the Shiji, Chapter 123.^[8] The Hanshu Chapter 96A records: 100,000 households, 400,000 people with 100,000 able to bear arms.^[9]

Hun-pò͘ Tē-khu

Western China	(pre-2nd century BC)^[8]
Central Asia	(2nd century BC-1st century AD)
Northern India	(1st century AD-4th century AD)

Gí-giân

Bactrian^[10] (in Bactria in the 1st century AD)

Chong-kàu Sìn-gióng

Buddhism
Hinduism^[11]
Jainism^[12]
Shamanism
Zoroastrianism
Manichaeism
Kushan deities

Goa̍t-chi (月氏) sī chi̍t ê kó͘-chá ê Se-he̍k kok-ka.

Tsù-kái

↑ Ín-iōng chhò-gō͘: Bû-hāu ê <ref> tag; chhōe bô chí-miâ ê ref bûn-jī CAY
↑ Francfort, Henri-Paul (1 January 2020). "Sur quelques vestiges et indices nouveaux de l'hellénisme dans les arts entre la Bactriane et le Gandhāra (130 av. J.-C.-100 apr. J.-C. environ)". Journal des Savants (ēng Eng-gí): 26–27, Fig.8 "Portrait royal diadémé Yuezhi" ("Diademed royal portrait of a Yuezhi").
↑ Considered as Yuezhi-Saka or simply Yuezhi in Polos'mak, Natalia V.; Francfort, Henri-Paul; Tsepova, Olga (2015). "Nouvelles découvertes de tentures polychromes brodées du début de notre ère dans les "tumuli" n o 20 et n o 31 de Noin-Ula (République de Mongolie)". Arts Asiatiques. 70: 3–32. doi:10.3406/arasi.2015.1881. ISSN 0004-3958. JSTOR 26358181. p.3: "These tapestries were apparently manufactured in Bactria or in Gandhara at the time of the Saka-Yuezhi rule, when these countries were connected with the Parthian empire and the "Hellenized East." They represent groups of men, warriors of high status, and kings and/ or princes, performing rituals of drinking, fighting or taking part in a religious ceremony, a procession leading to an altar with a fire burning on it, and two men engaged in a ritual."
↑ Nehru, Lolita (14 December 2020). "KHALCHAYAN". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online (ēng Eng-gí). Brill. About "Khalchayan", "site of a settlement and palace of the nomad Yuezhi": "Representations of figures with faces closely akin to those of the ruling clan at Khalchayan (PLATE I) have been found in recent times on woollen fragments recovered from a nomad burial site near Lake Baikal in Siberia, Noin Ula, supplementing an earlier discovery at the same site), the pieces dating from the time of Yuezhi/Kushan control of Bactria. Similar faces appeared on woollen fragments found recently in a nomad burial in south-eastern Xinjiang (Sampula), of about the same date, manufactured probably in Bactria, as were probably also the examples from Noin Ula."
↑ Yatsenko, Sergey A. (2012). "Yuezhi on Bactrian Embroidery from Textiles Found at Noyon uul, Mongolia" (PDF). The Silk Road. 10.
↑ Polosmak, Natalia V. (2012). "History Embroidered in Wool". SCIENCE First Hand (ēng Eng-gí). 31 (N1).
↑ Polosmak, Natalia V. (2010). "We Drank Soma, We Became Immortal…". SCIENCE First Hand (ēng Eng-gí). 26 (N2).
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Watson 1993, p. 234.
↑ Hulsewé, A.F.P. and Loewe, M.A.N. China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 B.C.-A.D. 23: An Annotated Translation of Chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. Leiden. E. J. Birll. 1979. ISBN 90-04-05884-2, pp. 119–120.
↑ Hansen 2012, p. 72.
↑ Bopearachchi 2007, p. 45.
↑ Wink, André (1997). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th–13th centuries. Oxford University Press. p. 57. ISBN 90-04-10236-1.

[CAY-1] Ín-iōng chhò-gō͘: Bû-hāu ê <ref> tag; chhōe bô chí-miâ ê ref bûn-jī CAY

[2] Francfort, Henri-Paul (1 January 2020). "Sur quelques vestiges et indices nouveaux de l'hellénisme dans les arts entre la Bactriane et le Gandhāra (130 av. J.-C.-100 apr. J.-C. environ)". Journal des Savants (ēng Eng-gí): 26–27, Fig.8 "Portrait royal diadémé Yuezhi" ("Diademed royal portrait of a Yuezhi").

[YUESA-3] Considered as Yuezhi-Saka or simply Yuezhi in Polos'mak, Natalia V.; Francfort, Henri-Paul; Tsepova, Olga (2015). "Nouvelles découvertes de tentures polychromes brodées du début de notre ère dans les "tumuli" n o 20 et n o 31 de Noin-Ula (République de Mongolie)". Arts Asiatiques. 70: 3–32. doi:10.3406/arasi.2015.1881. ISSN 0004-3958. JSTOR 26358181. p.3: "These tapestries were apparently manufactured in Bactria or in Gandhara at the time of the Saka-Yuezhi rule, when these countries were connected with the Parthian empire and the "Hellenized East." They represent groups of men, warriors of high status, and kings and/ or princes, performing rituals of drinking, fighting or taking part in a religious ceremony, a procession leading to an altar with a fire burning on it, and two men engaged in a ritual."

[LN-4] Nehru, Lolita (14 December 2020). "KHALCHAYAN". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online (ēng Eng-gí). Brill. About "Khalchayan", "site of a settlement and palace of the nomad Yuezhi": "Representations of figures with faces closely akin to those of the ruling clan at Khalchayan (PLATE I) have been found in recent times on woollen fragments recovered from a nomad burial site near Lake Baikal in Siberia, Noin Ula, supplementing an earlier discovery at the same site), the pieces dating from the time of Yuezhi/Kushan control of Bactria. Similar faces appeared on woollen fragments found recently in a nomad burial in south-eastern Xinjiang (Sampula), of about the same date, manufactured probably in Bactria, as were probably also the examples from Noin Ula."

[5] Yatsenko, Sergey A. (2012). "Yuezhi on Bactrian Embroidery from Textiles Found at Noyon uul, Mongolia" (PDF). The Silk Road. 10.

[History_Embroidered_in_Wool-6] Polosmak, Natalia V. (2012). "History Embroidered in Wool". SCIENCE First Hand (ēng Eng-gí). 31 (N1).

[We_Drank_Soma,_We_Became_Immortal…-7] Polosmak, Natalia V. (2010). "We Drank Soma, We Became Immortal…". SCIENCE First Hand (ēng Eng-gí). 26 (N2).

[FOOTNOTEWatson1993234-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Watson 1993, p. 234.

[9] Hulsewé, A.F.P. and Loewe, M.A.N. China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 B.C.-A.D. 23: An Annotated Translation of Chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. Leiden. E. J. Birll. 1979. ISBN 90-04-05884-2, pp. 119–120.

[FOOTNOTEHansen201272-10] Hansen 2012, p. 72.

[FOOTNOTEBopearachchi200745-11] Bopearachchi 2007, p. 45.

[Wink-12] Wink, André (1997). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th–13th centuries. Oxford University Press. p. 57. ISBN 90-04-10236-1.

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