Traces of the Sogdians in the Western Liaoning Area from the 4th to 8th Centuries
Yingzhou in the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to the western Liaoning of today,and the Sogdian activities in this area can be traced back to the Sixteen Kingdoms period.In the Book of Wei,the Biography of An Tong records that his father An Qu,who was a royal guard in the court of For-mer Yan,should be the earliest Sogdian living in the western Liaoning.At the end of Sui dynasty,Tudiji,a chief of Mohe in Yingzhou,led a rebellion.And a suspected Sogdian general named Shi Shize took part in the rebellion.This situation was similar to the relationship between Li Gui and the An family of Wuwei,and reflected Sogdian people's participation in local society at the end of Sui Dynas-ty.During the Li Jinzhong's rebellion and the An Lushan's rebellion,He Axiao and Li Huaixian par-ticipated in the rebels,and they all had the deeds of serving the Khitan tribes.These characters,either serving Xianbei,or Mohe,or driven by the Khitan,should be the embodiment of the interaction between Sogdian people living in Yingzhou and the dominant local tribal forces.
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