Yelang
Yelang ( Chinese 夜郎 , Pinyin Yèláng ) is the name of an ancient people and ancient empire. In the Warring States Period to the time of the Han Dynasty , it was mainly in western and northern Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan , southern Sichuan and the north of Guangxi . It mainly operated in agriculture and had trade relations with the states of Nan-Yue , Ba and Shu at the beginning of the Han Dynasty . Under Han Emperor Wu it became 111 BC. Chr. In the prefecture Zangke incorporated (牂柯郡).
In China, the empire is known to this day because of a proverb ( chengyu ): 夜郎自大, Yèláng zì dà (literally: "Yelang considers himself great"), in the sense of "having a limited horizon and yet being arrogant; ignorant but haughty ; presumptuous and inflated ".
An important recent archaeological discovery is that of Kele-site ( Kele Yizhi ,可乐遗址) from the Warring States Period to the Western Han Dynasty - tombs of the Kingdom of Yelang - in the community Kele the circle Hezhang of the district of Bijie in the Chinese province of Guizhou . The Kele site has been on the List of Monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-108) since 2001 .
literature
- Geoff Wade: The Polity of Yelang (夜郎) and the Origins of the Name 'China' (PDF; 689 kB), Sino-Platonic Papers Number 188, May 2009
- Ancient graves in Hezhang / Guizhou and the search for the Kingdom of Yelang
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, p. 1993, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5
- ↑ According to the Xin Han-De cidian .
- ↑ Guizhou Hezhang Kele yizhi muzang 贵州 赫章 可乐 遗址 墓葬 Kele Cemetery in Hezhang , Guizhou Province, from the Warring States Period to the Western Han Dynasty, 贵州 省 赫章 地区, Guizhou Province, 贵州 省 文物 考古 研究所
- ↑ Chinese 赫章 县; Pinyin : Hèzhāng Xiàn
Coordinates: 27 ° 31 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 108 ° 29 ′ 37 ″ E