Huiba

Huiba, or Hoifa, was a Haixi Jurchen group named for the Hoifa River in present-day Jilin. In the fourteenth century its ancestors lived along the lower Songhua under the Yuan; the ruling Ikderi clan later took the Nara name.

After migrating south under the Ming, the first beile Wangginu built Hoifa city on Huerqi mountain during the Jiajing reign of 1522 to 1566. Hoifa joined the coalition defeated by Nurhaci at Gule Mountain in 1593. In 1607 Nurhaci took the city, killed beile Baindari and enrolled the people in the Eight Banners.