Pei Ziye
Pei Ziye (裴子野, 471-532) was a Chinese historian of the southern Liang dynasty. He was the son of another historian, Pei Yin (裴駰), a grandson of the famous historian Pei Songzhi. Pei Ziyi is, among other things, known for making a mistaken conjecture about the origin of the Hephthalites, who just sent an embassy at the Chinese court of the Liang dynasty in 516 CE, saying that they may be descendants of the Jushi based on a false etymology. This account appears in the "Liangshu" (): In effect, many foreign embassies visited the Chinese court at that time , and particularly three Hephthalite (Hua) ambassadors are known, who visited in 516–520 CE, and are described in the "Portraits of Periodical Offering". The Emperor then ordered Pei Ziye to write an illustrated account of foreign embassies, "Fangguoshitu" (方國使圖), which may have been the basis for the original "Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang", and the Hephthalites account of the "Liangshu" () , and this account again mentioned Pei Ziye's conjectural etymology.