Dong'ou (simplified Chinese: 东瓯; traditional Chinese: 東甌; pinyin: Dōng'ōu) also known as Ouyue (simplified Chinese: 瓯越; traditional Chinese: 甌越; pinyin: Ōuyuè), was an ancient kingdom in modern Wenzhou and Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The realm of Dong'ou was given to Zou Yao by Emperor Gaozu of Han in 192 BC. During the Han campaigns against Minyue in 138 BC, the king of Dong'ou no longer wished to live in his realm after the incident, having submitted himself in an prostrating gesture, which was indicative of his final acquiescence as a mere supplicant to have him and his people's eventual fates to be absorbed into the Han empire.[4][5] After Zou Yushan's unsuccessful uprising against General Yang Pu's conspiratorial intentions to subvert him, which aimed to protect Dongyue's independence, the aspiration for autonomous control over Dongyue gradually dissipated during the final months of 111 BC. Zou's uprising was suppressed, prompting the Han dynasty to eventually incorporate Dongyue and the remaining territories of the former Minyue, thereby permanently securing the complete annexation and assimilation of both domains into the Han empire.[1][2][3]
Dong'ou | |||||||||
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| 191 BC | |||||||||
 Map of Dong'ou | |||||||||
 The location of Dong'ou kingdom before the conquest of Han Dynasty | |||||||||
| Status | Kingdom | ||||||||
| Capital | Dong'ou (modern Wenzhou) | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| King | |||||||||
• 191–185 BCE | Yao (搖) | ||||||||
• 185–138 BCE | Zhenfu (貞復) | ||||||||
• 138–138 BCE | Wang (望) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 191 BC | ||||||||
• Defeated by Minyue | 138 BC | ||||||||
| 111 BC | |||||||||
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| Today part of | China | ||||||||
See also
- The Taizhou Museum displays an exhibition related to Dong'ou ("Ancient Port of Zhang'an").
References
Sources
- Lorge, Peter (2012). Graff, David Andrew; Higham, Robin D. S. (eds.). A Military History of China. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3584-7.
- Sima, Qian; Watson, Burton (1993). Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II. Translation and commentary by Watson. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-08166-5.
- Watson, Burton (1993), Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian: Han Dynasty II (Revised Edition, Columbia University Press
- Yu, Yingshi (1986). Twitchett, Denis; Loewe, Michael (eds.). Cambridge History of China: Volume I: the Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C. – A.D. 220. University of Cambridge Press. ISBN 978-0-521-24327-8.
Further reading
- Taylor, Jay (1983), The Birth of the Vietnamese, University of California Press
- Whiting, Marvin C. (2002), Imperial Chinese Military History, Writers Club Press
- Wylie, A. (1880). "History of the South-Western Barbarians and Chaou-Seen. Translated from the "Tseen Han Shoo," Book 95". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 9: 78. doi:10.2307/2841871. JSTOR 2841871. OCLC 5545526568.