Hu (people)
Hu (Chinese: 胡; pinyin: Hú; Wade–Giles: Hu; IPA: [xǔ]), Huren (胡人, "Hu people") or Huzu (胡族, "Hu clans"), was a rather vague umbrella term used in imperial China to describe non-Sinitic peoples, particularly steppe nomads from Inner Asia. The Hu were usually tribal confederations from the great grasslands of the Mongolian Plateau and the Western Regions, with a nomadic pastoralist lifestyle and a strong militant horse culture specializing in mounted archery and light cavalry warfare.