Dusuliu was a younger brother of Tulan Khan and a prince of the house of Ashina, which ruled the Göktürks.[1] In 599 Tulan and Tardush drove out Yami. Dusuliu left his wife and children and went over with Yami to the Sui.[2]

The attack of 599, in the last years of the civil war, killed Yami’s brothers, sons and nephews. Yami fled to the Sui court with five horsemen.[1] Dusuliu, whom the Sui Shu calls a younger brother of Yongyulü, that is Tulan, came over with him.[1] The emperor praised him.[1] He ordered Yami to play chupu with Dusuliu. Yami was to lose treasures to him little by little, to console him.[1] The Bei Shi gives the purpose as winning his heart.[3] In the Zizhi tongjian the emperor simply has Yami give him many treasures.[4] One translation has the emperor himself play dice with Yami and let him win.[5]

Zhangsun Sheng was the Sui envoy at Yami’s side. His biography in the Sui Shu names a Dusu among the Göktürks who later submitted to Yami. They were some ten thousand men and women in all.[6] Zhangsun Sheng found them land to live on.[6] The translator takes this Dusu for Dusuliu.[7] The histories record nothing more of him.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Sui Shu (Book of Sui), juan 84
  2. ^ Sui Shu (Book of Sui), juan 84; Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance), juan 178
  3. ^ Bei Shi (History of the Northern Dynasties), juan 99
  4. ^ Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance), juan 178
  5. ^ Mau-tsai 1958, Turkish edition, p. 86
  6. ^ a b Sui Shu (Book of Sui); Mau-tsai 1958, Turkish edition, p. 143
  7. ^ Mau-tsai 1958, Turkish edition, p. 143

Sources

Literature

  • Liu Mau-tsai, Çin Kaynaklarına Göre Doğu Türkleri (1958, Turkish edition)

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Cite this article

Yavuz, Emre-E. “Dusuliu.” Turkic Atlas, revised 22 October 2026. https://turkicatlas.org/persons/dusuliu/

Last revised: 22 October 2026