Forest and river peoples of the Ussuri and the Sikhote-Alin ridge.
The Chinese name for the forest hunters of the east is Wudigai (Udege in later usage). They trade furs and ginseng to the Jin forts of the Suifun plain.
Who holds it
- Title
- Village and clan headmen; no chief named
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
None named.
How things stand that morning
Quiet; nothing recorded for the winter of 1199-1200 in what we could read.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Thin; the modern ethnic names are later.
On the map: Rough outline; Jin prefecture boundaries are not fixed on any map we could use.
Primary sources for Amur and Ussuri peoples
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia: Jurchen people (read this session)
- Russian archaeology of the Jurchen fortresses of Primorye (Shaiga, Nikolaevskoye, Krasnoyarovskoye; E. V. Shavkunov, N. G. Artemyeva): from memory, ru.wikipedia pages were blocked this session
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.