其至鞬 / Qizhijian (Xianbei)

Overview

Qizhijian is the Xianbei leader in Hanji 815 whose death is associated with a major reduction in raids into Han interior territory.

Current Profile

The source presents Qizhijian through a frontier outcome, not a biography. Xianbei forces raid Ma Cheng again, and the Daijun taishou leads commandery troops but cannot defeat them. After Qizhijian dies, raids into the interior become much rarer.

This makes Qizhijian a leadership-continuity marker: the Han military response in the notice is ineffective, while the enemy leader’s death changes raid frequency.

Key Characteristics

• Identified as a Xianbei leader active during the 133 CE Shun-era frontier notice.
• Associated with raids on Ma Cheng and pressure on the Dai commandery frontier.
• His death is linked to a decline in interior raids, suggesting leadership mattered to Xianbei operational intensity.

Evidence

• Frontier raid and failed response: Hanji 815 says Xianbei again raid Ma Cheng and the Daijun taishou cannot win with commandery troops.
• Leadership-death marker: Hanji 815 connects Qizhijian’s death with sharply reduced Xianbei incursions into the interior.

Qualifications

The page currently avoids broader migration of the legacy Xianbei page. Hanji 815 does not provide Qizhijian’s succession line, internal Xianbei politics, or exact death circumstances.

What Changed

• Created a narrow Xianbei leader page to capture the 133 CE leadership-death signal without rewriting the legacy Xianbei synthesis.
• Linked the Ma Cheng notice to later graph navigation through Xianbei and Emperor Shun.

Relationships

• 鲜卑 / Xianbei - people and frontier power led by Qizhijian in this source’s notice.
• 汉顺帝 / Emperor Shun of Han - Han ruler under whose reign this frontier pressure is recorded.