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Dian Kingdom, the Glossary

Dian was an ancient kingdom established by the Dian people, a non-Han metalworking civilization that inhabited around the Dian Lake plateau of central northern Yunnan, China from the late Spring and Autumn period until the Eastern Han dynasty.^[1]

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2nd-century BC disestablishments in China
4th-century BC establishments in China
History of Yunnan
States and territories established in the 4th century BC

Casting

Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chu (state)

Chu (Old Chinese: &ast;s-r̥aʔ) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Daxia

Daxia, Ta-Hsia, or Ta-Hia (literally: 'Great Xia') was apparently the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Tukhara or Tokhara: the main part of Bactria, in what is now northern Afghanistan, and parts of southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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Di (Five Barbarians)

The Di (Schuessler, Axel. 2007. An Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. University of Hawaii Press. p. 209 Dorothy C. Wong:. University of Hawaii Press, 2004, page 44. though there is a widespread belief among Chinese scholars that the Di spoke a Turkic language. The Ba-Di (巴氐) were a branch of the Di that intermixed with another ethnic group known as the Cong people (賨). Dian Kingdom and Di (Five Barbarians) are ancient peoples of China.

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Dian Lake

Dian Lake, also known as Dianchi, Dianchi Lake, Lake Dian and Kunming Lake, is a fault lake located on the Puduhe-Xishan fault in Kunming, Yunnan, China at 24°23′–26°22′ N, 102°10′–103°40′ E. Its nickname is the "Sparkling Pearl Embedded in a Highland" (pinyin: Gāoyuánmíngzhū).

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Emperor Wu of Han

Emperor Wu of Han (156 – 29 March 87BC), born Liu Che and courtesy name Tong, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty from 141 to 87 BC. His reign lasted 54 years – a record not broken until the reign of the Kangxi Emperor more than 1,800 years later – and remains the record for ethnic Han emperors.

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Emperor Zhao of Han

Emperor Zhao of Han (94 – 5 June 74 BC), born Liu Fuling (劉弗陵), was the eighth emperor of the Han dynasty from 87 to 74 BC.

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Erhai Lake

Erhai or Er Lake, is an alpine fault lake in Dali City, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

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Fuxian Lake

Fuxian Lake is a body of water in Yunnan Province, China.

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Guizhou

Guizhou is an inland province in Southwestern China.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. Dian Kingdom and Han Chinese are ancient peoples of China.

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Han conquest of Dian

The Han conquest of Dian was a series of military campaigns and expeditions by the Western Han dynasty recorded in contemporary textual sources against the Dian Kingdom in modern-day Yunnan.

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Han conquest of Nanyue

The Han conquest of Nanyue was a military conflict between the Han Empire and the Nanyue kingdom in modern Guangdong, Guangxi, and Northern Vietnam.

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. Dian Kingdom and Han dynasty are former countries in Chinese history.

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Iaroslav Lebedynsky

Iaroslav Lebedynsky, born in Paris in 1960, is a French historian of Ukrainian origin, a specialist in ancient warrior cultures of the steppe and the Caucasus, and a prolific author in that field.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Jinning, Kunming

Jinning District is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, Southwest China.

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Journal of World History

The Journal of World History is a peer-reviewed academic journal that presents historical analysis from a global point of view, focusing especially on forces that cross the boundaries of cultures and civilizations, including large-scale population movements, economic fluctuations, transfers of technology, the spread of infectious diseases, long-distance trade, and the spread of religious faiths, ideas, and values.

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King Qingxiang of Chu

King Qingxiang of Chu (died 263 BC) was from 298 to 263 BC the king of the state of Chu during the Warring States period of ancient China.

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Kunming

Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China.

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Miao people

The Miao are a group of linguistically related peoples living in Southern China and Southeast Asia, who are recognized by the government of China as one of the 56 official ethnic groups.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Ox

An ox (oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.

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Qin (state)

Qin (or Ch'in) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Qin dynasty

The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China.

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Records of the Grand Historian

Records of the Grand Historian, also known by its Chinese name Shiji, is a monumental history of China that is the first of China's Twenty-Four Histories.

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Saka

The Saka were a group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who historically inhabited the northern and eastern Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin.

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Scytho-Siberian art

Scytho-Siberian art is the art associated with the cultures of the Scytho-Siberian world, primarily consisting of decorative objects such as jewellery, produced by the nomadic tribes of the Eurasian Steppe, with the western edges of the region vaguely defined by ancient Greeks.

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Seal script

Seal script or sigillary script is a style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.

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Shu (kingdom)

Shu (s; Pinyin: Shǔ; former romanization: Shuh), also known as Ancient Shu (s) in historiography, was an ancient kingdom in what is now Sichuan Province.

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Sima Qian

Sima Qian (司馬遷; was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years beginning from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and the formation of the first Chinese polity to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, during which Sima wrote.

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Spring and Autumn period

The Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history lasted approximately from 770 to 481 BCE which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period.

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Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia.

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Victor H. Mair

Victor Henry Mair (born March 25, 1943) is an American area studies scholar.

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Yelang

Yelang, also Zangke, was an ancient political entity first described in the 3rd century BC in what is now western Guizhou province, China. Dian Kingdom and Yelang are ancient peoples of China and former countries in Chinese history.

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Yuezhi

The Yuezhi were an ancient people first described in Chinese histories as nomadic pastoralists living in an arid grassland area in the western part of the modern Chinese province of Gansu, during the 1st millennium BC. After a major defeat at the hands of the Xiongnu in 176 BC, the Yuezhi split into two groups migrating in different directions: the Greater Yuezhi (Dà Yuèzhī 大月氏) and Lesser Yuezhi (Xiǎo Yuèzhī 小月氏). Dian Kingdom and Yuezhi are ancient peoples of China and former countries in Chinese history.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.

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Yunnan Provincial Museum

Yunnan Provincial Museum is a cultural heritage museum in Kunming, China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Kingdom

Also known as Dian (state), Dian culture, Dianyue, King of Dian gold seal, Kingdom of Dian, State of Dian.

Dian Kingdom, the Glossary

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2nd-century BC disestablishments in China

4th-century BC establishments in China

History of Yunnan

States and territories established in the 4th century BC

References