Chouchi Kingdom

Chouchi (), or Qiuchi (), was a polity in China ruled by the Yang clan of Di ethnicity in modern-day Gansu Province. Its existence spanned both the Sixteen Kingdoms and Northern and Southern dynasties periods, but it is not listed among one of these regimes in historiography.

==History== At the beginning of the 3rd century CE, Yang Teng (), chieftain of the White Neck Di (), had occupied the southeast area of modern Gansu province, at the upper course of the Han River. His followers Yang Ju () and Yang Qianwan () paid tribute to the emperors of the Cao-Wei Dynasty and were rewarded with the title of prince ( ). Yang Feilong () shifted the center of the Chouchi realm back to Lüeyang, where his successor Yang Maosou reigned as an independent king at the beginning of the 4th century. The Chouchi troops often plundered territories in the Central Plains to the east and abducted people there, but the troops of Eastern Jin and Han-Zhao deprived the Chouchi empire of some of its people. In 322, Yang Nandi suffered a defeat at the hands of Han-Zhao and was degraded to prince of Wudu () and duke of Chouchi (). The following years were characterized by numerous internal struggles among the Yang clan and several usurpations of the throne. The rulers were not seen as mere regional inspectors ( ) or governors ( ) of their region under the government of Jin.