鲜卑,是我国北方古代的一个民族,属于东胡族的一支,西汉时期,东胡被匈奴击败,一支退居鲜卑山,称鲜卑。鲜卑族随着社会的发展,逐渐分裂为许多部,《魏书·序纪》称拓跋鲜卑的祖先:“国有大鲜卑山,因以为号。其后,世为君长,统幽州之北,广漠之野,畜牧迁徙,射猎为业。”多年以来,学术界认为,鲜卑族拓跋部原住大鲜卑山,地在今嫩江流域兴安岭附近。拓跋诘汾时南迁,“始居匈奴故地”,其子拓跋力微时发展到今内蒙古和林格尔一带。西晋末年,拓跋部在酋长猗卢的率领下,进居平城 Xianbei, an ancient nation in the north of our country, belongs to one of the East Hu tribes. During the Western Han Dynasty, the East Hu was defeated by the Huns, and one of them retreated to the Xianbei Mountain and called Xianbei. Xianbei with social development, gradually divided into many ministries, “Wei Shu sequence discipline,” said the ancestors of Tuoba Xianbei: “state-owned Xianbei, because of the number. North, the vast desert, animal husbandry migration, shooting for the industry. ”For many years, the academic community believes that Xianbei Tuoba Department of indigenous fresh Xianbei, in this Nen River near Xinganling. Tuoba 诘 Fen when the south move, “Habitat for the Habitat Hun”, its sub-Tuoba force developed to the present Inner Mongolia Helingeer area. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Tuoba Department, led by chieftain Lu Lu, settled in Pingcheng