Ashina Xichun

Ashina Xichun is presented in the sources as a member of the Ashina clan and the second son of Yami Qaghan who became khagan of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate after his elder brother Shibi Qaghan, succeeding because Shibi's son Ashina Shibobi was still a minor. The sources treat him as a temporal, dynastic political actor rather than a mythic or supernatural origin figure.

No physical or visual description is provided in the available sources.

Descriptions in the sources attribute to Ashina Xichun political and military capacities: succession to the khaganate, appointment of subordinate shads (for example assigning territories to Ashina Shibobi's Nipu shad), termination of a military campaign after receipt of large tribute from the Tang dynasty, creation of Yang Zhengdao as a puppet king of Sui, alliance formation with Chinese warlords (Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande) and planning of major military operations on counsel (e.g., Liang Shidu). He is not described as possessing any supernatural abilities.