Hūlun gurun (Manchu: ᡥᡡᠯᡠᠨᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨᡳ, simplified Chinese: 扈伦国; traditional Chinese: 扈倫國; pinyin: hùlúnguó) was a powerful confederacy of Haixi Jurchens tribes in the late 16th century, based primarily in modern Jilin province of China.
The Hūlun confederacy was formed by Hada-nara Wang-tai (d. 1582), the leader of the Hada tribe, which had drawn its importance from the control of commerce between the late-Ming Liaodong and Jurchen tribes to the east via Guangshun Pass (east of Kaiyuan, which is located near the northern tip of today's Liaoning Province).
Therefore, were viewed by their southern neighbors – Jianzhou Jurchens, which were in the late 16th century led by Nurhaci – as Monggo ("Mongols").
[2] The Hūlun khan Wang-tai aspired to paramount leadership in the region, establishing a network of political and business relations with Jurchen and Mongol leaders, as well as with the Ming governor of Liaodong, Li Chengliang.
Eventually, all four tribes were fully incorporated into Nurhaci's empire (Hada 1601, Hoifa 1607, Ula 1613, Yehe 1619).