Jurchen people 女真
（重定向自Jurchens）
![China in circa 1141, superimposed on modern national borders.](/Images/godic/202501/21/Sung_Dynasty_11411719.png")
![Eurasia before the Mongol conquests, circa 1200](/Images/godic/202501/21/East-Hem_1200ad1719.jpg")
![Stone tortoise from the grave of a 12th-century Jurchen leader in today's Ussuriysk](/Images/godic/202501/21/Ussuriysk-Stone-Tortoise-38151719.jpg")
![A Jurchen man hunting from his horse, from a 15th-century ink and color painting on silk.](/Images/godic/202501/21/A_Tartar_Huntsmen_on_His_Horse1719.jpg")
The Jurchens or Jurcheds (Jurchen language: ![](/Images/godic/202501/21/Jurchen1720.png"){kind=small}
jušen) were a Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until the 17th century, at which point they began referring to themselves as the Manchu people.
The Jurchen established the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) (Ancun gurun in the older Jurchen language and Aisin gurun in standard Manchu), a state that conquered the Song dynasty in 1127 during the Jin–Song Wars, gaining control of most of North China.