Jie people

The Jie (Chinese: 羯; pinyin: Jié; Wade–Giles: Chieh²; Middle Chinese: [ki̯at]^: 246) were a historical tribe of northern China in the fourth century. In historiography, they are regarded as one of the Five Barbarians during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Under Shi Le and his family, they established the Later Zhao dynasty which dominated northern China for most of its existence from 319 to 351. The Jie ceased to play a role in Chinese history after Ran Min's culling order and the wars that followed the collapse of Later Zhao, although some historians believe that certain prominent figures from later periods such as Hou Jing and Erzhu Rong may have been descendants of the Jie.