Dafeichuan

Battle of the Dafei River

Dafeichuan ( Chinese  大 非 川 , Pinyin Dàfēichuān , Tib. རྡ་ སན་ ཅན་ rDa-san-can ) is a historic site of a battle between the Chinese Empire of the Tang Dynasty and the Tibetan Monarchy (Tubo) in the Chinese province of Qinghai .

It is located in the southwest of what is now Gonghe County in the Tibetan Autonomous District of Hainan on the Qieji Plain . According to one opinion, it is the Buha He River in the west of Lake Qinghai (Koko Nor). In the year 670, the 1st year of the Xianhe era of the Tang Dynasty , the Tang general Xue Rengui (614-683) and Ashina Daozhen suffered a heavy defeat against the Tibetans (Tubo) in the ancient area of ​​the Tuyuhun empire Lun Qinling .

literature

• David Andrew Graff: Medieval Chinese warfare, 300-900
• Tony Jaques: Dictionary of Battles and Sieges

reference books

• Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5

See also

• Xue Rengui
• Lun Qinling
• Mangsong Mangtsen
• Gar Tongtsen Yülsung
• Qin Long culture

Web links

• Xue Rengui he Dafeichuan zhi zhan - Chinese
• Biography of Xue Rengui - English
• A Survey of Tibetan History: Emperor Mangsong-mangtsen - English

References and comments

1. ↑ Qieji pingyuan 切吉 平原
2. ^ Cihai , p. 267.
3. ↑ Chinese 咸亨
4. ↑ Chinese Ashina Daozhen 阿 史 那 道 真
5. ↑ Chinese 论 钦陵