Qubei

Qubei (; pinyin: Qùbēi, 195–216) was a leader of the Southern Xiongnu and supervisor of the Five Divisions who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty. An uncle to the last chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu, Huchuquan, Qubei was appointed by the Chinese court to supervise the Five Divisions of Xiongnu after his nephew was detained in Ye in 216. He was also the ancestor of two prominent non-Chinese clans; the Helian, who founded the Xia dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the Dugu.

== Life == According to the Book of Wei, Qubei was a member of the imperial Luandi clan of the Southern Xiongnu. The History of the Northern Dynasties specifies that he was the brother of the chanyu, Qiangqu, but a much later and dubious account from the New Book of Tang instead claims that he was the son of Wuli, a descendant of a Han dynasty prince-turned-Xiongnu noble, Liu Jinbo. When Huchuquan ascended as chanyu in 195, Qubei was bestowed the title of "Worthy Prince of the Right" (; known in the Book of Wei as the "Worthy Prince of the Left").