The Huns were a long-established group of northern ethnic groups whose ancestors lived at the junction of the boreal forests and steppes of Siberia in Eurasia. According to the "Chronicle of the Xiongnu", the Xiongnu, whose ancestor Xia Hou's Miao descendants were also known as Chunwei. Above Tang Yu, there were mountain rong, foxes, and meat porridge, which lived in the northern barbarians and moved with animal husbandry. The Xiongnu in ancient Chinese texts were powerful nomadic peoples who dominated the north of the Central Plains in the late Qin and early Han dynasties.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the counterattack against the Xiongnu killed about 150,000 Xiongnu people, and as the war continued, the Xiongnu were driven from the water-rich Hetao and the southern part of the desert to the bitter cold land in the north of the desert. At that time, some of them moved west to Europe, and many of the women and children who remained died in large numbers without enough food such as cattle, sheep and horses. As a result, the xiongnu's strength was greatly weakened, and since then the Xiongnu recovery has been particularly slow, and it is no longer a threat to the Han. However, during the Wuhu Chaohua period, the Xiongnu were rampant again for a while, and at that time, the Han people were slaughtered on a large scale.
In the long history, the Hun peoples have had a profound influence on the world, such as the Huns moving west to Europe, the Xiongnu influencing Central Asia, and the Xiongnu attacking India. As a nomadic people on horseback, the Huns themselves did not have the habit of writing records, nor did they have the conditions for the preservation of documents. They were ashamed of their fiasco in the East when they swept through Europe, and that tragic past affected their national pride and lowered their image of might in front of the Europeans, so they deliberately erased the memory of the Han-Hungarian war.
From 73 to 91 AD, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Southern Xiongnu continued to wage war against the Northern Xiongnu, expelling the Northern Xiongnu from the Desert Northern Plateau. The Northern Huns gradually retreated westwards to the Don and Danube valleys, and based on the southern Russian steppes, waged war against the Roman Empire, which was one of the main reasons for the eventual demise of the Roman Empire.
The Northern Xiongnu in Asia moved west after being defeated by Han Chinese armies and later became huns who invaded Europe. Those who affirm this idea believe that the Northern Huns traveled as far as Europe, partly in the Caucasus, partly in the Middle Volga region (today's Russian Tatars), partly on the Lower Danube (present-day Bulgaria), and partly on the Middle Danube (present-day Hungary). The Huns of Central Asia, partly integrated with the Lowlands of Turan (the Middle River region of Central Asia), partly in the mountains of Afghanistan (Tocharotstan), and partly in the Indian state of Punjab, i.e., the White Huns.
During the period when the Southern Xiongnu were annexed, as an independent people gradually faded from Chinese history. After the descendants of the Xiongnu became residents of China, they gradually changed their surname to Han. Most of his descendants lived in today's Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong and Fujian. For example, the Jin clan located in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, the Jin clan in Zhaoli Village, Saiqi Town, Fu'an City, Fujian Province, the Helian Clan in Hebi City, Henan Province, the Jin Clan in Nanxi Guzhai, Dongzhi County, Anhui Province, the Jin Clan in Yuzhong Jinya Town, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, the Jin Clan in Houlu Jin Village, Zhengzhai Town, Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province, and the Cong Clan in Wendeng City, Shandong Province - legend is that they are all descendants of the Xiongnu Jin Ribao.
But now to say that the most associated with the Huns is Hungary, there have been biologists have found a hun skeleton and successfully extracted its genes, and modern people have been carefully compared, found that the genes of the Hungarians are most similar to the Huns. This should also prove that some of the Huns fled to Europe, and after they multiplied, they became the hungarians they are now. There are also the aforementioned Southern Xiongnu, who surrendered to the Han Dynasty and became a member of the Han Dynasty, and have merged with the Han People.
Hungarian historians have confirmed that they first lived in the Volga Valley, in order to chase more fertile grasslands, and went to the southern Russian steppe. After living there for four centuries, they moved west again because of sharp conflicts with the local nomads. According to this statement, it coincides with the time and migration path of the Huns in Chinese history, so that it makes perfect sense that they are descendants of the Huns. Holding the same view as Hungarian scholars was the Republic of China master Zhang Taiyan, who clearly pointed out that Hungary was a descendant of the Huns. In the 1930s, Chinese scholars also argued from many aspects such as religious customs, language, and appearance.
No nation does not wish it to have been glorious, so Hungary prefers to accept that at the same time that the mighty Huns in Chinese history suddenly disappeared, a strong nation arose on the European continent, and they were the ancestors of the Hungarians.