Gao Huan, who founded the Eastern Wei Dynasty, was of Han nationality

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Gao Huan once controlled the military power of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and was called the Prime Minister. He used Jinyang as his base , Conquer the East and the West. "Book of the Northern Qi Dynasty": "Bingzhou is flat. Shenwu built the prime minister's mansion in Yan with four fortresses in Jinyang." "Shenwu came to Jinyang from Jinyang, and it was forty years ago." "Shenwu stayed in Luoyang, and returned to Jinyang after the incident. "In the tenth month of the twelfth lunar month, Shenwu attacked the west and came from Pujin, and two hundred thousand of them died in Jinyang." His son Gao Yang established the Northern Qi Dynasty and succeeded him as Emperor Shenwu. His ancestor Gao Mi was a censor in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Later, his family moved to Huaishuo because of a crime, and the next three generations lived here. Huaishuo is where the Xianbei people live and move. Gao Huan grew up here. History says that he "lived in the north for many years, so he followed the customs and followed the Xianbei customs." Gao Huan not only had a Xianbei name of "He Liuhun", but he also married Lou Zhaojun, a Xianbei nobleman. He is a Han Chinese who has been transformed from Xianbei.

A powerful official in the Eastern Wei Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the actual founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the father of Gao Yang, the founding emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty. After his son Gao Yang became emperor, he was honored as Gaozu. Gao Huan's ancestors moved to Huaishuo Town (today's southwest of Guyang, Inner Mongolia) due to crime. They lived in the north for generations, and their living customs became Xianbei. After the Six Towns Uprising broke out, he defected to Du Luozhou and Ge Rong successively; later he left the rebel army and joined Er Zhu Rong, and was favored and appointed as the governor of Jinzhou. After Ge Rong's defeat, he recruited Ge Rong's remaining troops and took the Ji, Ding, and Xiang prefectures in Shandong (today's Hebei and northern Henan) as his stronghold. In the same year, after Erzhu Rong was killed by Emperor Xiaozhuang of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Erzhu clan took control of the court. In the first year of Putai (531), Gao Huan raised troops to denounce the Erzhu family, and supported Yuanlang as Emperor Wei in Xindu (now Jixian County, Hebei Province) (he was later deposed). In the first year of Yongxi (532), he captured Yecheng, defeated the internally discordant Erzhu clan's coalition forces, and entered Luoyang. He deposed the Erzhu clan and the two emperors he had established, and established another emperor, Xiaowu Emperor Yuanxiu. Gao Huan was appointed Prime Minister, Grand Master, and hereditary governor of Dingzhou. He then pacified Bingzhou and established the Prime Minister's Palace in Jinyang. He played a decisive role in the establishment of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Gao Huan is a deep man and full of tact. Make good use of people, regardless of their status, and only use their talents. The army is run with strict discipline, and the officers and soldiers are happy to die in service. Emperor Xiaowu wanted to rely on Yuwen Tai who controlled Guanlong to eliminate Gao Huan, but his plan failed and he fled to Chang'an in the third year of Yongxi. Gao Huan established Xiaojing Emperor Yuan Shanjian in Luoyang, which was the Eastern Wei Dynasty. In 535, Yuwentai killed Emperor Xiaowu and established Emperor Wen's Yuanbaoju, which was the Western Wei Dynasty. The emperors of Eastern and Western Wei were actually puppets controlled by Gao Huan and Yu Wentai respectively.

During his reign, although the Southern Liang Dynasty launched the Northern Expedition, its relationship with the Eastern Wei Dynasty was still dominated by frequent envoys. Gao Huan was afraid that the northern scholar-bureaucrats would defect to the south of the Yangtze River because of the Liang Dynasty where Zhengshuo was located, and he had no intention of expanding his territory southward. After Wei divided the east and west, they fought against each other. Rouran's tendency played a decisive role in the east and west Wei. Gao Huan married Princess Rouran (also known as Princess Weiwei) as a sign of friendship and peace with Rouran. After Emperor Xiaojing came to the throne, Gao Huan immediately decided to move the capital to Ye. He fought many battles with the Western Wei Dynasty, and both sides had their own victories and defeats. In the fourth year of Wuding (546), Gao Huanxu led his troops from Shandong to attack the Western Wei Dynasty and besieged Yubi (southwest of today's Jishan, Shanxi) for more than 50 days. The soldiers died of 70,000 diseases and illnesses in the battle and were forced to retreat. Gao Huan was mentally exhausted and fell ill. Gao Huan died the next year.