A Thousand Years Back: Yelang is neither "small" nor "crazy"

Speaking of "Yelang country", I believe many friends met through "Yelang arrogance". According to relevant documents, Yelang State was a small country in Guizhou during the Qin and Han Dynasties. As a small country in the history of China, Yelang was quietly submerged in the long river of history with the development of the times, leaving only the ironic "Yelang arrogance" for future generations.

Yelang county location

Due to the relative lack of historical records and archaeological materials, Yelang's "true face" has always been a mystery that puzzles scholars and even the general public. Through the available information, we can only know the face of Yelang at that time.

More than 2,000 years ago, Yelang State, located in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of China, had/kloc-0,000,000 elite soldiers. Yelang people cultivated land on the rugged mountain. They use stones, pottery, jade, bronze, iron, agate and other materials to make farm tools, daily necessities and weapons with different textures.

At the same time, they also learned to burn bricks and build city walls. With such a "high-ranking" civilization, Yelang country has enough confidence to stand out in the southwest. With a big fist, it is natural to hammer people. Yelang Wang has continuously expanded its territory by virtue of its "hard foundation" national strength, which is also the reason why Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other regions compete for Yelang's hometown today.

The allusion "Yelang is arrogant"

Among the existing history books, the earliest record about Yelang is Sima Qian's Historical Records: "What is the monarch of Southwest Yi, Yelang is the biggest." It can be seen that Yelang at that time was already a bully in the southwest. "Historical Records" also records: "Only Sichuan produces citric acid sauce, and most of them sneak out of the city."

The word "steal" in the sentence means "settle privately", which means that gourd sauce is a specialty of Sichuan and is often sold privately to Yelang. Selling citric acid sauce is a "smuggling" behavior. Smuggling is a great crime in ancient and modern times, so why do some businessmen smuggle citric acid sauce regardless and risk the felony of "decapitation"?

There is only one reason, that is, it is profitable and interest-oriented. Yelang, regarded as a wild land by the world, has developed economy, strong consumption level and ability, pays attention to the quality of life, and lives a "lever".

Unearthed Yelang bronzes

"Yelang's arrogance" is a "big" joke played by history on Yelang country, which completely "blacked out" Yelang. This will start with a historical document.

"Historical Records" records: "So the Emperor ordered Wang Ran, Bai Shichang, Lu Yue and so on. I want to go to Yunnan, and the king of Yunnan tried to stay in Qiang for more than ten generations in the southwest, and all of them accepted Kunming. " Actually, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent a group of envoys. After these messengers arrived in Yunnan, the king of Yunnan kept them and finally stayed in Kunming for a long time. There is a later story.

"Korea who is older than me? The same is true of Yelanghou. Road impassability, each thinks he is the owner of the state, I don't know the vast number of Han people. The messenger is close, because Yunnan is a big country. The son of heaven pays attention. "

King Yunnan chatted with Ambassador China and asked, "Who is bigger than Yunnan?"

Bronze sword unearthed in Yelang period (taken in Guizhou Provincial Museum)

The messenger passed Yelang on his way back to Chang 'an. King Yelang asked the same question, "Who is bigger than Yelang?"

The emissary returned to Chang 'an and made great efforts to turn Yunnan into a big country, worthy of being close to the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty listened to the messenger's report and took this matter to heart.

Therefore, the earliest source of Yelang's arrogance is Dian Wang, not Yelang. In other words, the origin of "arrogance" is Yunnan, but from "what is the length of a monarch in the southwest, Yelang is the biggest." We can also know that Yelang is really big. Although it is not as big as Han Dynasty, it is still a big country.

Yelang is "big", but it is precisely because of the Han envoy that Yelang was destroyed.

The geographical location of yelang

When Yelang Wang said, "Who is older, Han or me?" For Ambassador China from afar, we can't know the mentality of Yelang Wang at that time: Is it a problem? Is it pride? Still arrogant? However, it was such a sentence that brought great pain to himself after being brought back to Chang 'an by an angel of the Han Dynasty.

In the sixth year of Ding Yuan (BC 165438+ BC 0 1), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent troops through the jungle and invaded the southwest with many countries. Yelang became a county of the Han Empire-Ke Jun. Many of the blood and tears have turned into a few words in the history books, "Yelang Wang Shen, enter the DPRK, make him king, and decide Ke Jun with his land."

The surrender of Yelang Wang further stimulated the pace of the Han army. In the second year of Heping (27 BC), after the last struggle, the last Yelang Wang Xing was suppressed by the Han army, and the Yelang Kingdom perished. Since then, Yelang has only left a joke of "Yelang's arrogance" in the long river of history.

Yelangguo copper peacock

The heyday of Emperor Wudi wiped out the small southwest countries in one fell swoop because the Han Dynasty deliberately obliterated the "sense of existence" of the southwest countries. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, people had little knowledge of Yelang. Hanshu thinks Yelang's northern territory is in Chengdu, while Houhanshu thinks it is in Xichang and Panzhihua today.

300 years after Yelang's national subjugation, Yelang County was established in the upper reaches of Beipanjiang River in Guizhou in the Western Jin Dynasty, which lasted until the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

More than 300 years later, Yelang County was established in Shiqian, Zheng 'an and Xinhuang, Hunan, and Zhou Zhen (now Tongzi, Guizhou) was renamed Yelang County, which is why Yelang was mentioned many times in the poems of Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, especially in his later exile, but this "Yelang" was the "Yelang" of the Tang Dynasty.

Bronze sword unearthed in Yelang period (taken in Guizhou Provincial Museum)

Yelang County was established in Xinhuang, Hunan during the Northern Song Dynasty, but it only existed for more than 10 years, and it was the last Yelang place name in history. From then on, Yelang began to sink into the sea.

As time goes by, things have changed. Yelang country only left the allusion of "Yelang arrogance", which has to be said, is still a tragedy that spans thousands of years.