Editing ReignWulin:Jin (section)

= Culture =

Includes the Jurchen tribe invaders, native Han people, and refugees from the remnants of former Xia and Khitai kingdoms.

At first, the Jurchen tribesmen were kept in readiness for warfare but decades of urban and settled life in China eroded their original hunting-gathering lifestyle in Manchurian tundra and marshes. Eventually intermarriage with other ethnicities in China was permitted and peace with the Southern Song confirmed. The Jin rulers themselves came to follow Confucian norms, developing the Taihe Code of law in 1201, which was based mostly on the Tang Code.

However, the Jurchen do make the Han, within the conquered territories, shave the tops of their heads and adopt Jurchen dress. This "bald-Head" fashion is known as tūfǎ (“Bald-Hair or Stripped-Hair”) to the Chinese. The early Jurchen script was invented in 1120 by Wanyan Xiyin, acting on the orders of Wanyan Aguda. It was based on the Khitan script, that was inspired in turn by Chinese characters.

They engaged in shamanic cults and believed in a supreme sky god (abka-i enduri, abka-i han). After conquering China, during the Jin Dynasty, the Jurchen adopted Buddhism as the state religion and Taoism was assimilated as well.

Language: Nuzhen