The Baidi people (白荻, lit. "The White Di"), an ancient tribe originally living nomadically in Shaanxi and later settled as the State of Zhongshan in Hebei
Di (狄), also called Beidi (北狄) or Northern Di: Zhou Dynasty ethnic groups living in northern China
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When the (c. 4th BCE) Classic of Rites recorded stereotypes about the Siyi "Four Barbarians" (Dongyi, Xirong, Nanman, and Beidi) in the four directions, Dongyi had acquired a clearly pejorative nuance.
The rebellion began in the winter of 184 with two groups of Qiang people causing disturbances in the outlying regions of northwestern China, with one group in the northwestern commanderies of Beidi (北地) and Anding, and another in at the counties of Fuhan (枹罕) and Heguan (河關) in the upper Yellow River valley.