460 the turkic tribes
907- 926: 7 Khitan 3
927- 946: 19 Khitan 10
947- 966: 17 Liao 2
967- 986: 5 Liao 3
987-1006: 9 Liao 17
1007-1026: 21 Liao 1
1027-1046: 2 Liao 1
1047-1066: 0 Liao 1
1067-1086: 2 Liao 3
1087-1106: Liao 4
1107-1126: Liao 1 Chin 1
1127-1146: Chin 5
1147-1166: Chin 2
1167-1186: Chin 2It can be seen that during the 7th and early 8th centuries, when
the Uighurs were a subject people of the Eastern Turks, their chiefs
were nevertheless able to send missions to the T’ang court, which the
Chinese encouraged by conferring posthumous titles and contribut-
ing toward funeral expenses. During the time of the Central Asian
empire of the Uighurs, 745-840, missions arrived in great numbers,
even as many as three times a year. Then followed a lull until the
missions, now chiefly from Kan chou, increased again during the
Five Dynasties and Sung. This is all the more remarkable, as the Kan
chou Uighurs became politically dependent first on Liao and then
from 1028 on Hsia.
Starting with the 10th century, the Uighurs also sent envoys to the
Liao court. After the fall of Liao in 1125, the Uighurs dealt with the
Chin court and not at all with the Southern Sung. This brings out
the fact that the Uighurs, good businessmen as they were, understood
how to profit from trade wherever they wished to go, even when they
were politically dominated by others.
The specified goods brought by Uighurs embassies to the Chinese
courts fall into the following categories:
Humans and Human Products822: 6 “bed women”.
835: 7 female mounted archers, 2 children of the Sha-t’o Turks.
965: one tooth of the Buddha.