Min-Yue

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The Min-Yue ( Chinese  閩越  /  闽越 , Pinyin Mǐnyuè , Jyutping Man 5 jyut 6 , also 閩粵  /  闽粤 ) were an important subgroup of the " Hundred Yue tribes ", the word Yue being a collective term used by Chinese chroniclers for represented a non-Chinese cultural community in what is now southern China. The settlement area of ​​the Min-Yue was around the Min River in what is now Fujian Province . In the south, the similarly important Nan-Yue ( 南越 , Nányuè , Jyutping Naam 4 jyut 6 , also 南粵  /  南粤 ) were their neighbors.

The chiefs of Fujian, who were titled as king, derived their origin from King Goujian (Kou-Chien, reign 496 - 465 BC), a well-known ruler of the old Yue .

During the Han period , the kingdoms of Min-Yue ( 閩越  /  闽越 , Mǐnyuè , 202 BC) and Dong'ou ( 東 甌  /  东 瓯 , Dōng'ōu , 192 BC) emerged in Fujian . The southern neighbor of the two was the kingdom of Nan-Yue. The king of Min-Yue, Yingxing ( 郢 興  /  郢 兴 ) attacked around 138 to 135 BC. Both Dong'ou and Nan-Yue , so that both states turned to Han-China for help. This successfully sent troops against Min-Yue while Ying Xing was murdered by his younger brother Yushan ( 餘 善  /  余 善 ), who submitted to China. Han-China then restored the Donghai Kingdom, this time under the reign of a younger brother of the Min-Yue King.

As Donghai 112 BC BC killed some Han officials, China (Emperor Wudi ) sent armed forces over land and sea to Fujian. The Han generals killed the king and subjugated the country. Their government decided to deport the population to the area between the Huai He and the Yangtze River because of its unreliability . Nevertheless, until the end of the 1st century there was apparently only a single Chinese colony at the mouth of the Min.

literature

  • Twitchett, Denis and Loewe, Michael : The Cambridge History of China. Volume I. The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC - AD 220, Cambridge University Press.