How did the country disappear and where is the country today

The Lost Civilization - "Yelang" What we now refer to as Yelang usually has two meanings: one refers to Yelang during the Warring States Qin and Han dynasties; The second refers to the coca related to it, and extends to the Han and Jin dynasties after Yelang destroyed the country until the present. Yelang is a state or tribal alliance established by ethnic minorities in the southwest region during the Qin and Han dynasties.

Before the Western Han Dynasty, the name of Yelang was named, and there was no literature to examine. The first time the name of Yelang came out, it was about the Warring States Period, when King Chu Xiang (298 BC to 262 BC) sent "General Zhuang Yue to sink back into the water, out of Jilan (now Fuhe County, Guizhou), to kill the King of Yelang", "and Lan both Ke, Yelang and descend." (Chang Qiong's "Huayang National Chronicles, Nanzhong Chronicles") At this time, people knew that there was a night of Lang in the southwest.

The upper limit of its existence seems difficult to determine, and the lower limit is thought to have been in the reign of Emperor Heping of the Han Dynasty (c. 27 BC). In this year, Yelang Wang Xingtong coerced the surrounding 22 yi to rebel against the Han Dynasty, and was killed by the Han envoy Chen Li, and Yelang was also destroyed. Although this wonder of ancient civilization has withered prematurely, its influence has endured.

During the peace period of Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty, Yelang Wang Xingtong coerced the surrounding 22 yi to rebel against the Han Dynasty, and was killed by the Han envoy Chen Li, and Yelang was also destroyed, about 300 years before and after.

Yelang is a country established by ethnic minorities in the southwest region during the Qin and Han dynasties of China. Before the Western Han Dynasty, the name of Yelang was named, and there was no literature to examine. The name of Yelang came out for the first time, about the Warring States Period, when King Chu Xiang (298 BC to 262 BC) sent "General Zhuang Yue to sink the water, out of Jilan (now Fuquan City, Guizhou), in order to kill the King of Yelang", "and Lan both Ke, Yelang and descend".

At this time, people knew that there was a night in the southwest. The history of Yelang Kingdom recorded by the Central Plains regime roughly began in the Warring States Period, to the peace period of Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty, Yelang Wang Xingtong coerced the surrounding 22 yi to rebel against the Han Dynasty, and was killed by the Han envoy Chen Li, and Yelang was also destroyed, about 300 years before and after.

Legend has it that it was carried away by a tsunami.

In China, the story of "Yelang arrogance" is well known to women and children, and the Yelang Kingdom was once a prosperous minority kingdom on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, but around 26 BC, it seemed to disappear without a trace overnight. Now, scholars are rediscovering the mysteries of the ancient world. However, researchers in Guizhou believe that the Yelang people are actually a humble and simple people, and the physical evidence excavated will help restore the true face of Yelang.

The written records about Yelang mainly include the "Historical Records" of Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty, the "Book of Han" of Bangu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Yi classic "The History of Yelang" of the Qing Dynasty. However, the number of written records and archaeological discoveries about Yoro is very small, adding up to only nearly 1,000 words. The Yoro people in the written records have the characteristics of liking witchcraft, tying their hair in a bun, cultivating the fields, and having a strong army.

However, Yelang's archaeological breakthrough was limited to two places: the excavation of the Kele Ancient Tombs in Hezhang County in 2000 and the excavation of the Tonggu Mountain site in 2001. The excavated bronze, pottery, stone and other distinctive features are obviously different from the Bashu culture, Yunnan culture and Han culture.

A large number of bronzes, especially bronze weapons, enrich the connotation of bronze culture in the Yelang area and add new information to the history of Yelang.

Experts have verified that Yelang is not a state in the strict sense of the word, it is composed of several tribal alliances, the main area of activity is the southwest of Guizhou, and the controlled area involves most of Guizhou Province and adjacent provinces, it already existed in the middle of the Warring States period and perished at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. Meng Liyun, an archaeologist in Guizhou, said, "As early as more than 2,200 years ago, the Yelang people were sowing the fire of civilization, and the arrival of external peoples accelerated the process of this history, but it also irrevocably interrupted the independent creation of history by the Yelang people, but this is the cold law of civilization evolution." ”

Yelang Kingdom is in the central and western parts of present-day Guizhou and parts of Sichuan and Yunnan.

Yelang Kingdom was the first country in southwest China founded by the ancestors of ethnic minorities. Xia Shang belonged to Baipu Land, "Chinese Zheng Yu" cloud: "Chu Han risked the beginning of Qipu", and "Historical Justice" contained:

Xubipu is in the southwest of Chu". Yelang became famous, about the Warring States Period, King Chu Xiang (298 BC - 262 BC) sent "the general Zhuang Yue to sink the water, out of and Lan (now Fuquan City, Guizhou Province), to kill the King of Yelang", "and Lan both Ke, Yelang and descend". At this time, people knew that there was a night in the southwest.

The history of Yelang Kingdom recorded by the Central Plains regime roughly began in the Warring States Period, to the peace period of Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty, Yelang Wang Xingtong coerced the surrounding 22 Yi to rebel against the Han Dynasty, and was killed by Chen Li, the Han Dynasty's Ke Taishou, and Yelang was also destroyed, about 300 years before and after.

The origin of the story

Yelang is arrogant" This idiom comes from "Historical Records: The Biography of Southwest Yilie": "The King of Dian and the Han envoy said: 'Who is the Han and me?'

And the same is true of Yelanghou. The road is not passable, so they think that they are the lord of a state, and they don't know the vast Han Dynasty.

It is said that in 122 B.C., Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the Dian Kingdom in present-day Yunnan in order to find a foolish passage to Shenfu (present-day India). During this period, the king of Dian asked the Han envoy: "Who is the eldest between Han and me?"

Later, the Han envoy passed through Yelang, and the monarch of Yelang also asked the same question. Therefore, the world uses this metaphor to refer to the arrogant, ignorant, and arrogant people.

The Yelang Kingdom was mainly in the western and southern parts of present-day Guizhou.

The ancient Yelang country has a very brief historical record, only saying: "Linqi River", and its west is the Dian country.

The Qiqi River was the name of the water before the Han Dynasty, and according to the record that it reached Panyu (now Guangzhou), the capital of Nanyue, it was determined to be the Beipan River and the Nanpan River in Guizhou.

Most people believe that the territory of Yelang Kingdom was mainly in the western and southern parts of present-day Guizhou, and may also include some areas in northeastern Yunnan, southern Sichuan, and northwestern Guangxi.

Until archaeological excavations provide reliable evidence, this debate is bound to continue.

The ancient Yelang Kingdom has a long history of humanities, mainly in the west and south of present-day Guizhou.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, it belonged to the Yelang country, and the Tang and Song dynasties had twice placed Yelang County.

This is the most intact area of Chinese rice farming, drum tower and Wuwu culture, and the unique ethnic customs such as "bamboo worship", "cow totem" and bullfighting and dog fighting that continue to this day thousands of years ago constitute a rich and confusing Yelang culture.

Yelang Kingdom is a small country in the southwest of ancient China, because Yelang King wanted to compare the size with the Han Dynasty, leaving the idiom "Yelang arrogant". Although it has disappeared for a thousand years, the country of Yelang still remains in people's memories. However, not many people know how the Yelang Kingdom fell.

Recently, I saw such a story, it is said that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a Han envoy named Tang Meng, who came to South Vietnam. For South Vietnam, which seized Lingnan, although the Han Dynasty intended to destroy it, it was helpless because of the separation of the mountains. In South Vietnam, Tang Mong was warmly and warily received.

Knowing that it was not easy to attack South Vietnam, Tang Meng did not make any small moves, mainly eating, drinking, and ......

I didn't expect that it didn't matter if I ate and drank, Tang Meng found that there was a sour sauce that was very delicious, especially delicious. Tang Meng began to want to bring this sauce back to Chang'an, so he asked around about the origin of this sauce. It didn't matter if he inquired, Tang Meng found that this kind of sauce made of leaves and wolfberry fruit was actually not produced in Lingnan, but came from the distant country of Yelang in Shuzhong, called Shu wolfberry sauce.

The road to Shu is difficult, how can the wolf sauce of Yelang Kingdom enter the South Yue Kingdom, where the road is also inconvenient? Tang was overwhelmed and continued to inquire carefully. Now it is clear that there is a Qike River in the northwest of Panyu, the capital of South Vietnam.

Yelang Country is on the Ke River, and along the river, you can send goji paste and other goods to South Vietnam.

Tang Meng smiled at this time, the river can transport goods, and it can also transport troops, and it will destroy South Vietnam along this waterway. A few years later, civil strife broke out in South Vietnam, and the Han army followed the route designed by Tang Meng and went down the Ke River to destroy South Vietnam. After that, the Han army returned and destroyed the Yelang Kingdom that produced wolf sauce.

What would King Yelang think if he knew the reason for the destruction of the kingdom? He's going to jump out of the ground in a fit of rage, right?

However, the wolf-sauce has been lost after the Western Han Dynasty, and modern archaeology believes that wolf-sauce is not a delicious sauce, but a delicious wine, which is a fruit wine made from the fruit of the tree and the flowers.

In addition, there is a saying that although Yelang Country is not as good as the Han Dynasty, it is also a big country in the southwest, and it is said that there are more than 100,000 elite soldiers. Tang Meng borrowed 100,000 troops from Yelang Kingdom, and destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom along the way, and the Han Dynasty also rewarded Yelang King at that time. It was not until the end of the Western Han Dynasty that King Yelang disobeyed the Han Dynasty and was destroyed.

According to Sima Qian's record in the "Historical Records of the Southwest Yizhi" more than 2,000 years ago, the history of Yelang Kingdom roughly began in the Warring States period and lasted about 300 years before and after the Western Han Dynasty Emperor Chengdi Heping. Later, the mighty and majestic kingdom of Koyoro mysteriously disappeared from the depths of history, leaving a lot of fog for today's archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and sociologists more than 2,000 years later.

So, what is the reason for the withdrawal of this once-powerful ancient country from the stage of history? According to the Yi document "Yelang Historical Biography", Yelang "came from the military branch of the Wu tribe of the ancient Yi people, and the ancestor Ameng, called 'Yelang Duo', began to build the country, and raised the monarchy system, known as Yelang Hook".

According to historical records, in 221 BC, after the Qin Dynasty unified China, it built the "Wuchi Road" leading to the center of the "Southwest Yi", and conquered the Yelang Kingdom by force, implemented the county system, and curbed the development and expansion of the Yelang Dynasty. After the fall of Qin, the local separatist regime in the "Southwest Yi" region revived, and the slave regime was gradually restored. In 135 BC (the sixth year of Emperor Wu's founding), the Han Dynasty sent Tang Meng as an envoy to Nanyue, and in the same year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Tang Meng to lead an army to Yelang with silk, craftsmen and currency, and ordered Yelang to join the Han Dynasty.

At this time, the once-prosperous kingdom of Yoro gradually declined. According to Long Zhengqing, a professor of the Yi translation group of the Hezhang County Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau, according to his research, the Qin and Han dynasties conquered the Yelang Kingdom and implemented the political, economic, and cultural development that restricted the Yelang Dynasty. And the most obvious is that in 27 BC, Yelang King "Xing" and the previous dynasties of the Qin and Han tribes had a war, in order to maintain the stability of the southwest, the Western Han Dynasty then sent Taizhong Doctor Shu County Zhang Kuang to preside over the mediation, Yelang Wang "Xing" not only did not from the mediation, but carved the wooden statue of the Han officials, as a target, shooting by the road, expressing hatred.

The court of the Western Han Dynasty believed that no amount of mediation would help. As a result, Taishou Chen Li went deep into Yelang's country and Tongting (now Zhenfeng, Caiheng, Wangmo, and Luodian areas) to summon "Xing". "Xing" led thousands of guards and standing troops, as well as dozens of small slave owners, to meet Chen Li in the same pavilion.

As soon as Yelang King "Xing" arrived at Chen Li's official residence, he was thrown to the ground by the guards hiding around, Chen Li accused "Xing" of the crime in front of him, and immediately executed "Xing", and the accompanying soldiers and slave owners saw that "Xing" was dead, and they all joined the Han court. After Xing's father-in-law "Weng" heard about it, he pointed out that "Xing's" son "Evil Affairs" collected the remaining remnants and coerced the 22 Yi to fight against the Han Dynasty. The ancient kingdom of Yelang has since perished.

In 27 years ago, Wang Feng, the general of the Han Dynasty, adopted Du Qin's strategy, and took advantage of the Yelang royal family's "crime has not been completed, and the Han family is not suspected of being punished", and sent Taishou Chen Li to behead the last Yelang King "Xing", and the Yelang country was destroyed.

Yelang Country was destroyed because of a jade knife, and countless unjust souls of the people who sealed it in this jade knife were released twice by those who knew the jade knife formula, and Yelang Kingdom disappeared from then on.