Wu (state)
Wu ( Chinese 吳 / 吴 , Pinyin Wú ) was a powerful, semi-barbaric state in the Western Zhou Dynasty , the time of the spring and autumn annals and the time of the Warring States on the sea coast in the area of the Lower Yangtze , north of the state of Yue .
He was born in 473 BC. Conquered by Yue.
The sinologist Victor H. Mair calls these two states in his Zhuangzi translation "Ngwa" and "Viet" to draw attention to the fact that the populations of these areas - which were then in southern China - were not yet complete at the time of Zhuang Zhou were sinized.
The early Japanese , then called Wa people , claimed to be descendants of the Wu, especially the Wu king Taibo of Wu (姬 太 伯) .
literature
- Zhuangzi - The classic book of Daoist wisdom , published for the first time in full translation and commented by Victor H. Mair (from the American by Stephan Schuhmacher); Wolfgang Krüger Publishing House; ISBN 3-8105-1259-1
Individual evidence
- ^ Aston, William G. 1924. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD 697. Charles E. Tuttle reprint 1972.