Different Jurchen people groups lived as hunter-gatherers, pastoralist semi-nomads, or sedentary agriculturists.
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12 Facts About Jurchen people
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Name Jurchen people is derived from a long line of other variations of the same name.
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Jurchen people is an anglicization of Jurcen, an attempted reconstruction of this unattested original form of the native name, which has been transcribed into Middle Chinese as Trjuwk-li-tsyin and into Khitan small script as Julisen.
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Sin Chung-il, a Korean emissary who in 1595 had visited the Jurchen people living north-west of the Yalu River, notes that during his visit to Fe Ala all those who served Nurhaci were uniform in their dress and hairstyle.
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The Jurchen people pirates slaughtered Japanese men while seizing Japanese women as prisoners.
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Jurchen people bestowed titles and surnames to various Jurchen chiefs and expected them to send periodic tribute.
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The Jurchen people tribes presented tribute to the Ming dynasty in succession.
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Jurchen people's fleet sailed down the Songhua into the Amur, and set up the Nurgan Command at Telin near the mouth of the Amur River.
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Jurchen people households lived as families consisting of five to seven blood-related family members and a number of slaves.
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Early Jurchen people script was invented in 1120 by Wanyan Xiyin, acting on the orders of Wanyan Aguda.
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The written Jurchen people language died out soon after the fall of the Jin dynasty.
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The pioneering work on studies of the Jurchen people script was done by Wilhelm Grube at the end of the 19th century.
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