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Mofu Hechen was a Khitan Envoy.
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History of Liao, Chapter 63Volume 63 Tables 1: Lineage · 1 passage
契丹國在庫莫奚東，異族同類，東部鮮卑之別支也，至是始自號契丹。為慕容氏所破，俱竄松漠之間。道武帝登國間，大破之，遂與庫莫奚分背。經數十年，稍滋蔓，有部落於和龍之北數百里。太武帝太平真君以來，歲致名馬。獻文時，使莫弗紇何辰來獻，始班諸國末，欣服。始班諸國末欣服 按此源於魏書一００契丹傳：「得班饗於諸國之末」，「心皆忻慕」，「莫不思服」，欣服二字，語義不完。萬丹部、何大何部、伏弗郁部、羽陵部、日連部、匹絜部、黎部萬丹部（至）黎部 萬丹部，按營衞志中及魏書一００、新唐書二一九契丹傳並作悉萬丹部。日連部，連原誤「速」，據營衞志中及魏書、新唐書契丹傳改。伏弗郁、羽陵、匹絜、黎等部參卷三二校勘記[二][三]。吐六于部以名馬文皮來貢，得交市于和龍、密雲之間。太和三年，高句麗與蠕蠕謀取地豆于以分之，契丹懼，莫弗賀勿于率其部落車三千乘、眾萬餘口內附，止於白狼水東。
The Khitan lay east of the Kumoxi: a distinct people of the same stock, an offshoot of the eastern Xianbei, and only then did they first call themselves Khitan. Broken by the Murong, they all fled into the Songmo steppe. Emperor Daowu crushed them during his Dengguo campaigns, after which they parted from the Kumoxi. Within decades they spread again, with camps several hundred li north of Helong. From Taiping Zhenjun of Emperor Taiwu they sent tribute horses each year. Under Emperor Xianwen the envoy Mofu Hechen presented tribute and was seated last among the tributary states in delighted submission — the text's "delighted submission" is corrupt; Wei Shu 100 reads that they were feasted after all other states and came away admiring and willing to obey. Tribes named Wandan (properly Xiwandan), Hedah, Fufuyu, Yuling, Rilian (not Su), Pijie, and Li — see juan 32 collation notes — joined the Tuliuyu in offering horses and furs and trading near Helong and Miyun. In Taihe year 3, when Goguryeo and Rouran schemed to seize and partition Didouyu, the Khitan were alarmed; Mofu Hewuyu led three thousand carts and more than ten thousand people to submit and settled east of the Bailang River.