However, We Will Quit This Subject, And I Will Tell You Of Another City
Which Lies Towards The North-West At The Extremity Of The Desert.
NOTE 1.
- [The Natives of this country were called by the Chinese
T'ang-hiang, and by the Mongols T'angu or T'ang-wu, and with the
plural suffix Tangut. The kingdom of Tangut, or in Chinese, Si Hia
(Western Hia), or Ho si (West of the Yellow River), was declared
independent in 982 by Li Chi Ch'ien, who had the dynastic title or Miao
Hao of Tai Tsu. "The rulers of Tangut," says Dr. Bushell, "were scions of
the Toba race, who reigned over North China as the Wei Dynasty (A.D. 386-
557), as well as in some of the minor dynasties which succeeded. Claiming
descent from the ancient Chinese Hsia Dynasty of the second millennium
B.C., they adopted the title of Ta Hsia ('Great Hsia'), and the dynasty
is generally called by the Chinese Hsi Hsia, or Western Hsia." This is a
list of the Tangut sovereigns, with the date of their accession to the
throne: Tai Tsu (982), Tai Tsung (1002), Ching Tsung (1032), Yi Tsung
(1049), Hui Tsung (1068), Ch'ung Tsung (1087), Jen Tsung (1140), Huan Tsung
(1194), Hsiang Tsung (1206), Shen Tsung (1213), Hien Tsung (1223), Mo Chu
(1227). In fact, the real founder of the Dynasty was Li Yuan-hao, who
conquered in 1031, the cities of Kanchau and Suhchau from the Uighur Turks,
declaring himself independent in 1032, and who adopted in 1036 a special
script of which we spoke when mentioning the archway at Kiuyung Kwan.
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