Sorry, but thats an incorrect assumption.
The variety of Rou names were based on the pronounciation in names those tribes called themselves. To the Chinese it was how it sounded; it had nothing to do with the meaning of the characters. The reason there were several varieties of 'Rou,Rui,Ruan' names was because this grouping including many tribes and spanned for centuries.
Second, the Rouruans were not Mongolians, this is a misunderstanding because the Ruru were active before and for much longer than the Donghu (ancestors of early Mongolian tribes). They were also located in the north and west of the Chinese, while the Donghu (Eastern Hu) occupied the eastern regions of Mongolia.
By the fact that the Rou's were not called Hu implies that they belonged to a seperate ethnicity. The Rouruan's spoke a Turkic language and among there there might be other extinct languages that might have existed near the Altay regions but were replaced by the much later Mongolian expansion.
This imformation is very important to the identity of the pazaryk because it shows the actual identity of the tribes that were living in these areas for centuries.
This website explains the misunderstanding. And informs us that the only appearence of Indo-Aryans occured much later after the Rouruan's themselves were expanding out west.
http://www.republicanchina.org/Turk_Uygur.html
Alternatively speaking, it is no strange to see non-Chinese websites advocating
a school of thought stating that Ruruan [Zhuzhan], like Toba, were people of
Eastern Mongolia and Western Manchuria and that "from the IInd and up to the
IVth centuries, Altai lived under the influence of Syanbiy tribes. From the end
of the IVth century the Altaian tribes were subjugated by the Zhuzhans ... and
were to pay tribute to them [by ironware]." Also see
http://www.altai-republic.com/history/altai_history_eng.htm for
details.)
But after the Ruruan founder fled to the Altai Mountains, he
conquered and absorbed remnant Hunnic tribes and Gao-che people there. Ruruans
and Gao-che people warred with each other as well as allied with each other.
Hence, the
Ruruans were more Hunnic than anyone else.
History Of Toba
Wei Dynasty further commented that "Ruruans, though the descendants of the
Huns, could not have their exact ancestry traced."
Western history books stated that "in c. 370, the so-called Huns were pressured
by the Ruruans into invading Europe from the Central Asian steppe." We could say
that the Ruruans were more Hunnic than the Western Huns they drove away towards
the Europe, especially so after the Ruruans subjugated the remaining Hunnic
tribes in the area. Western history recorded that the Attila Huns were so savage
and barbaric that they ate raw meat. This life style was totally different from
those eastern Huns who were semi-sinicized and civilized. A brief discussion of
the relationship between the Ruruans and the remnant Hunnic statelets to the
west and northwest is needed. To the west and northwest of Ruruans will be
Hunnic tribes such as
Nie-ban [Nirvana],
Jian-kun [Kirghisz] and Su-te [Sogdiana] etc.
Edited by CiegaSordomud - 07-Oct-2008 at 00:53