Jujian Tegin was a tegin of the eastern Göktürks whom Chula Khan left at Bingzhou in 620.[1] His task, in the words of the Xin Tang Shu, was to help hold the garrison.[1]

Chula came to Bingzhou while the Tang prince Li Shimin was campaigning against the rebel Liu Wuzhou.[1] His brother Buli Shad had brought two thousand horsemen to help the Tang.[1] For three days the Göktürks stayed at the city and carried off many of its women. The Tang governor Li Zhongwen could not stop them.[1] Chula then left Jujian Tegin there to help with the garrison.[1]

The Zizhi tongjian tells it under the sixth month of 620 with another name.[2] After Chula had reached Jinyang, it says, he left Lun Tegin, 倫特勒, with several hundred men. He claimed that they were there to help Li Zhongwen hold the town.[2] North of Shiling he left garrisons everywhere before he went away.[2] Some scholars note that the two names do not agree.[3] They leave open whether a copyist miswrote one character of the name. It also leaves open whether Lun and Jujian are the same tegin.[3] The histories record nothing more of him.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Xin Tangshu (New Book of Tang), juan 215
  2. ^ a b c Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance), juan 188
  3. ^ a b Mau-tsai 1958, Turkish edition, p. 257

Sources

Literature

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

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Cite this article

Yavuz, Emre-E. “Jujian Tegin.” Turkic Atlas, revised 8 November 2026. https://turkicatlas.org/persons/jujian-tegin/

Last revised: 8 November 2026