The Wild Jurchens, the northernmost group of the Jurchen people inhabiting the northernmost part of Manchuria from the western side of the Greater Khingan mountains to the Ussuri River and the lower Amur River bordered by the Tatar Strait and the Sea of Japan, were generally called Yeren (which means "Savages" or "Wild People" in Chinese) before the rise of Jianzhou Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens.
The Wild Jurchens (Chinese: ) or Haidong Jurchens (Chinese: ) were a grouping of the Jurchens as identified by the Chinese of the Ming Dynasty. They were the northernmost group of the Jurchen people (the other being the Jianzhou Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens) in the fourteenth century, inhabiting the northernmost part of Manchuria from the western side of the Greater Khingan mountains to the Ussuri River and the lower Amur River bordered by the Tatar Strait and the Sea of Japan. The word Yeren () in Chinese means "Savages" or "Wild people". The Yeren had been a general name for all Jurchens before the rise of Jianzhou Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens. 
