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Feng Ba was a native of Jizhou (an area of Jizhou in the southern Yan and Hebei circuits, Zhending Route; the commandery was called Xindu; one of the Nine Provinces in the 'Tribute of Yu'). He served the Later Yan. In the dingwei year (the third year of the Yixi reign era of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin), chaos broke out in the Later Yan state, and Feng Ba thereupon usurped and extinguished it. He then occupied Changli (now Pingluan Route; the commandery was called Beiping, within the territory of Ji) and named [his state] Northern Yan. In the jiyou year, [the era] was proclaimed the first year of Taiping. By this time, the eighth year of the Yuanjia era of the Song Emperor, Emperor Zhaodi Hong of the Northern Yan ascended the throne; the era was named Daya. In the sixth year of Daya, it was destroyed by the Northern Wei. It lasted a total of twenty-eight years.