Dong'ou

For other uses, see Dong'ou (disambiguation).
Dong'ou
东瓯
東甌
191 BC
The location of Dong'ou kingdom before the conquest of Han Dynasty
The location of Dong'ou kingdom before the conquest of Han Dynasty
StatusKingdom
CapitalDong'ou (modern Wenzhou)
GovernmentMonarchy
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
• Annexed by the Han dynasty[1][2][3]
111 BC
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
State of Yue
Han dynasty
Today part ofChina

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, submitted himself in an prostrating gesture, 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] In the last months of 111 BC following Zou Yushan's failed rebellion in fending off general Yang Pu's plot against him, the dream for Dongyue's autonomy ultimately faded. Zou's mutiny was quashed, leading the Han dynasty to ultimately annex Donyue and vanquish the remaining domains of the former Minyue, bringing the entirety of both domains into the Han empire for good.[1][2][3]

See also

  • The Taizhou Museum displays an exhibition related to Dong'ou ("Ancient Port of Zhang'an").

References

  1. ^ a b Yu 1986, p. 456.
  2. ^ a b Lorge 2012, p. 85.
  3. ^ a b Sima & Watson 1993, p. 223.
  4. ^ Whiting 2002, p. 145.
  5. ^ Watson 1993, p. 222.

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